{"id":758,"date":"2009-09-29T03:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/09\/29\/monday-night-everything-going-to-be-allright\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T03:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T07:06:00","slug":"monday-night-everything-going-to-be-allright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/09\/29\/monday-night-everything-going-to-be-allright\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night &#8211; everything going to be allright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"pBlogBody_512183525\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<center><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Just came in from a night out.. I sat in the car listening to the rest of Bob Marley&#8217;s &#8216;no woman, no cry&#8217;.. &#8220;everythign gonna be alright, everythign gonna be alright.&#8221;. and somehow I believe it. <br \/>It was a good day.. Yom Kippur which begins our year 5770 .. As I said last night I shifted my observance, such as it was, to yesterday.&gt; TO day I ended up working.. but it was an interesting days work. I spent the day with a film crew from headquarters doidn a movie showing how ocmputers can lead to a greener, cleaner more sustainable world. I like to think this is the best thing that technology can do to help the planet. <br \/>I can&#8217;t go into the storyline here.. but the days filming took us into the inner sanctum of IBM Burlington.. I got to peer into places that I&#8217;d driven by for 28 years without an idea what was going inside.. It was very cool. The whole day gave me a new appreciation for how complex the business we&#8217;re in is. I saw Reverse osmosis filters<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/sep2809\/sep2809001.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">huge heat exchangers&#8230; <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/sep2809\/sep2809002.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">giant vats of dangerous chemicals<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/sep2809\/sep2809003.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">huge compressors <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/sep2809\/sep2809029.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">sophisticated instruments.. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/sep2809\/sep2809006.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">miles and miles of plumbing <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/sep2809\/sep2809008.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">and giant noisy and dangerous devices<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/sep2809\/sep2809009.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/sep2809\/sep2809024.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">The crew was great and fun to work with.. it felt eerily familiar to be back n camera again.. I still don&#8217;t like it.. but it doesn&#8217;t bother me nearly as much as before the Colony. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/sep2809\/sep2809011.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/sep2809\/sep2809016.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">We got to hang out in the control center that makes all of this stuff work.. it was much cooler than it sounds !<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/sep2809\/sep2809026.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">what a great group of guys&#8230; !.. I loved making these movies because they&#8217;re targeted to make folks more interested in technology&#8230; especially green technology. it&#8217;s all part of my kharmic path.. <\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/sep2809\/sep2809032.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">It was a long day.. we worked from 8 til 6.. then had a meeting over dinner. We have more shooting rto do tomorrow. should be fun..<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of fun.. i just got an email from my new friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msplinks.com\/MDFodHRwOi8vZGlyLnNhbG9uLmNvbS90b3BpY3MvbHluZGFfYmFycnkv\">Lynda Barry<\/a>. Shes a writer, cartoonist and amazing person\u00a0 met at the CUSP conference last week She sent me this self portrait.. Is&#8217;nt that cooooooool ?!<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/sep2809\/NSMhasagoodtime013.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Yikes.. I&#8217;m fighting sleep here.. I need to go to bed.. more tomorrow !\u00a0 Nite folks !<br \/>Nite Sam &#8230;<br \/>-me<\/div>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just came in from a night out.. I sat in the car listening to the rest of Bob Marley&#8217;s &#8216;no woman, no cry&#8217;.. &#8220;everythign gonna be alright, everythign gonna be alright.&#8221;. and somehow I believe it. It was a good day.. Yom Kippur which begins our year 5770 .. As I said last night I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/09\/29\/monday-night-everything-going-to-be-allright\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday night &#8211; everything going to be allright<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}