{"id":5329,"date":"2012-12-09T00:30:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T04:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2012-12-09T00:30:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T04:30:19","slug":"saturday-night-scatterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/12\/09\/saturday-night-scatterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night &#8211; Scatterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>11PM and just sitting down after a long , fun and amazingly scattered day..after a fun night last night. We went over to our friends Andy and Jen&#8217;s house for a great dinner then went to the Flynn to see Menopause , The Musical. It was pretty funny.. 4 very talented actresses of a certain age singing parodies of popular songs around the topic of menopause..\u00a0\u00a0 (:cha &#8211; cha &#8211; changeeee !) very funny. Funnier still was that Andy and I were in the tiny minority of men at the show.. The girls had even taken over the mens room !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0812\/IMG_7479.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0812\/IMG_7481.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a definitely geeky sort of day.. it began with a one hour virtual meetup between our Vermont makers and a sister maker organization in Malmo Sweden.. I&#8217;ve met these guys through my friends Henrik. Michael .. and David C.\u00a0 one of the Arduino founders. My friend Jenn and I did a presentation on the Vermont Makers and how the maker movement has been effecting our small state. The Swedes told us about their organization and some of their projects. I got some good ideas from the conversation. They were great creative folks over there.. i&#8217;m hoping that we can arrange some sort of face to face meeting at some time. More than anything the event reminded me how world wide this maker revolution truly is&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0812\/IMG_7487.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From there I went to burlington to work with freind Jarrod on a musical instrument project. We made great progress today.. by the time i left my little arduino touch circuit\u00a0 was talking to his midi drum synthesizer.. a minor triumph. Still much to do on that project..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0812\/IMG_7488.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m eager to get this project done and out in the world first beczause its goign to be very cool.. and second because I&#8217;m limiting the number of projects I take on now to make sure I get then done&#8230; and new cool things to work on keep appearing on my plate.. like this one<\/p>\n<p>My buddy ben has this crazy idea for a way to call attention to the lunacy of &#8216;Citizens United&#8217;.. the insane law that makes corporations people too in the eyes of the law.\u00a0\u00a0 His idea is to build a contraption in the back of truck that takes a persons money, runs it through a maze of ramps, ladders, gongs and chutes. Then it stamps the dollar and gives it back..\u00a0 It illustrates how big finance adds little value to the real economy<\/p>\n<p>Ben got the device made&#8230; and its beautiful.. but it needs some work.Gabe and I spent about an hour over there today looking it over. . i&#8217;m going to be helping him get the thing running smoothly..\u00a0\u00a0 which I think I&#8217;ll enjoy.. it will be karmically good to help on this cause. i&#8217;ll post pictures as things get going.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0812\/IMG_7496.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0812\/IMG_7495.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0812\/IMG_7494.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Form there I dropped by the FabLab to cut out a plaque. Tonight was an IEEE Green Moutnain Chapter meeting.\u00a0 I wanted to make a short presentation thanking the IEEE for sponsoring my last Tesla coil build\u00a0 . In late 2010\u00a0 the chapter treasurer Jim Monzel gave me money to build the coil. Sadly, Jim died shortly after giving em the grant. Over the last year and a half,\u00a0 Friend scott and I have built and rebuilt that thing to the point its running well.. .. I made a small plaque this afternoon on the laser cutter that\u00a0 that dedicatse the machine to Jims memory<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0812\/IMG_7501.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0812\/IMG_7505.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0812\/IMG_7507.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also had a great talk by my freind Eric from NRG on the hidden failure models of wind turbines.. interesting and somewhat disturbing..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/dec0812\/IMG_7503.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK.. I&#8217;m exhausted.. gotta sleep\/ More tomorrow !<\/p>\n<p>nite all. nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11PM and just sitting down after a long , fun and amazingly scattered day..after a fun night last night. We went over to our friends Andy and Jen&#8217;s house for a great dinner then went to the Flynn to see Menopause , The Musical. It was pretty funny.. 4 very talented actresses of a certain &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/12\/09\/saturday-night-scatterday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday night &#8211; Scatterday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[640],"class_list":["post-5329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-scatterday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5330,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions\/5330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}