{"id":569,"date":"2009-09-17T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/09\/17\/wednesday-night-temporarily-shy\/"},"modified":"2009-09-17T03:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T07:58:00","slug":"wednesday-night-temporarily-shy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/09\/17\/wednesday-night-temporarily-shy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night – temporarily shy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Greetings from the CUSP conference in Chicago.\u00a0 I flew out this morning after a late night yeasterday watching the 9th and penultimate episode of the colony at Jen and Jim’s.. Amy our favorite tree hugger was with us.. actually.. Amy’s holding on to this tree so she doesn’t fall off a cliff into Triple Buckets gorge. <\/p>\n

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It was quite a night..\u00a0\u00a0 first the laovies dyed my wine blue…<\/p>\n

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Then we watched last nights episode which was intense !.. There was lots to see:.. the smoking truck, Andre returns, son of gasifier , the traders return,\u00a0\u00a0 ND the big fight between Amy and Joey . Man things were getting stressful by that point..Even as drama filled\u00a0 as the show was last night.. I have to tell you the situation in the Colony was even tougher than it came across.. I remember, for example.. that the day the truck was smoking.. it hit over 97 degrees inside the building.. it was 105 outside. I also remember being light headed for lack of food.. and never dirtier in my life. We were down to 18 gallons of water that we knew we had to make last a week !!!!!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was really tough times.. The TV freaked out in the last minute of the show.. but we turned it back on just as we saw Mike being pulled from the wreckage.. I don’t know what was shown last night.. but I can tell you that it was a scary scene.. I did see the pool of blood as the closing scene.. let me tell you.. that was real.. as was the battery acid and sparks around the wreck. I can’t wait to see what happens next !<\/div>\n

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We got home last night around 11:30.. then I had to pack.in time to leave home at 5:15 AM.. Yawnnnnnnn\u00a0 to fly to Chicago to attend this conference. I actually am splitting my time.. I’m putting in a full day of IBM work suring the day .. then attending the two days of conferences in the evening. it’s like being in two places at once.. but not really being in either.. <\/p>\n

I’m here at the request of some friends at IBM headquarters who volunteered me to speak at this eclectic design conference. The conference approached IBM looking for a ‘quirky’ speaker…\u00a0\u00a0 and, they told me , I came to mind. I think they meant ‘quirky’ in a nice way.. but I’m not too sure.. Anyway, the conference is amazing.. though it’s nominally about ‘design’ . it’s got folks from all sorts of disciplines.. It’s being held in the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. which is a beautiful setting. <\/p>\n

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\u00a0Today we heard form a doctor, an ex priest wrapped in chains and bubble wrap (I missed that one). a cartoonist\/writer\/ an Islamic cleric, a twitter geek. a pilates teacher and a 150 piece student orchestra. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The company is fascinating.. though I’m finding<\/p>\n

myself suddenly shy.. So shy that I can’t muster the guts to go up and<\/p>\n

talk to anyone. though I find I’m good if someone engages me first.\u00a0 I<\/p>\n

cant figure out where this shyness is coming from.. normally I’d be<\/p>\n

bouncing around working the room. I think I’ve had so little privacy<\/p>\n

over the last few months.. that I’m looking for a little space.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Even so I did have some great conversations with a few folks at dinner..\u00a0\u00a0 One of my favorites was with Lynda Barry.. a cartoonist and writer who does the Marly comic strip we get in Funny Times<\/p>\n

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She gave a wonderful talk today. One thing she said that If the voice in your head that was always criticizing you and holding you back was another person.. you wouldn’t listen to them.. you’d dismiss them as a jerk.. so she asks,\u00a0 why do we listen to those voices ?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Good advise..<\/p>\n

She also said everyone in the audience was an artist.. and challenged us to go off and make a traced hand turkey to re-prove to ourselves that we were artistic.\u00a0\u00a0 I maintain that she’s a bit overoptimistic there.. and offer the attached sample of my own work as proof. <\/p>\n

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She also lead the folks at our dinner table through an exercise of drawing straight lines with Chinese brushes..\u00a0\u00a0 It was an amazing exercise in patience.. and was hugely fun to see how different folks approached the task. here’s a sampling\u00a0 form our table.. Can you guess which one is mine ? If so. please tell me .. I have forgotten which one it is \ud83d\ude42 <\/div>\n

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OK.. all those wavy lines remind me just how sleepy I am.. I’m going to try and get a good nights sleep tonight.\u00a0 SO More tomorrow..<\/p>\n

Goodnight my friends.. Good night Sam <\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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