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Wednesday 10/7/2015

The True Size of Africa

Stumbled on this on Zite. Wrote blog posting and put it on Facebook: ”

“The True Size of Africa” – immappancy revisited”

UTM

10072015-BagelTyme-Met with Seth at 11am – updated various projects: CMH, Deepankr, Belvedere. Came up with alternative proposal for them. Will see if they are interested. Lunch at Bagel Tyme. Had not been in there in five or six years. Peanut butter on whole wheat bagel.

Met with David Ackerman. Typical short meeting. Reviewed Randy Johnston mtg in Chicago. Need to find out about Ole’s project??

Worked on office project for rest of afternoon.

Played tennis at Total Tennis from 6:45 to 9pm.

 

Thursday – 10/1/2015

Work Decision

Woke up at 4:30 am. Decided that today was a good day to tell UTM, David and Seth, that my days with them are over at the end of the year. Got to bring this engagement to an end.

When I signed on formally with UTM in March 2014 you were aware of my involvement as a founder with my brother Ed in a start up medical devices company, Prescient Medical Devices, LLC (PrescientMedicalDevices.com). For a number of reasons we had put the development of the company on pause while we addressed some IP issues. This made it possible to make a commitment to UTM for a year which was the time frame we talked about at that time.

PMD is now restarting. My brother is making presentations to investors and we expect that these will be fruitful. This means that I need to position myself to focus most of my energies on PMD by the latest January 2016.

I suggest that we move the project of finding a sales/marketing person on to the front burner. You may have other priorities. Lets talk about how I can be most helpful.

Thanks,

Felt immediate relief from taking this step despite the deceptive statements about PMD. Nothing new is happening as far as I know on that front.

Problems in Basement

Controller on boiler

Controller on boiler

No heat. Waiting on plumber Ihlenburg.

Went to Belvedere Home Healthcare in Albany for UTM meeting. Good meeting gathering requirements. They will conduct a survey of potential users.

Back to Hudson for HAL Exec Comm lunch at Mexican Radio. Followed by mtg with David Murphy, Betsy Miller and T Parsons about upcoming hard hat tours of Armory for high rollers. Then, at 3pm meeting with Ann Rosenthal about her role as Chair of Program Committee. Smart, energetic, engaged…. big plus for library.

While Karen taught her online course I went to Bell’s Pint Nite at The Spotty Dog. After chatting up the regional sales rep for Bells I was given a Bell’s Pint glass. Also had good chat with Sherrie Jo Williams and Pauline DeCarmo and a couple of their friends.IMG_0916

Friday – 4/17/2015

Busy day with clients. Reviewed materials from Mary Vaughn Williams at 6:30 am; talked with her at 8:30. Hopefully she got her application in to Martha Lane before leaving for her high school reunion.

Spoke with Alan Coon about the UTM website project again. He had a tough conversation with David Ackerman yesterday and is now doing the repair work on his own dime. Then, Matt Almeida. Spent time catching up on diary.More on this1Some company

Great meeting of HAL Marketing Committee at 4pm. Agi Clark presented her ideas and we had a lively discussion and brainstorming session. Left feeling very buoyant about this work. It is clear that we need to organize the messaging around the various classes of users, children, parents, teens, etc.

David Drake’s 64th Birthday

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Notes:
  1. Some company

Wednesday – 1/21/15 – back to UTM

Gym in the morning. Lasted only 15 minutes on bicycle. Very out of shape.

Met with Seth for first time since December. 2 hr history of last six weeks at UTM. More craziness because David continues to drop people into the mix with no consultation or plan. Latest is Angie Keefer who is another of David’s infatuations. She appeared at a meeting last December and claimed to know things about web design and user experience. No evident experience on mobile though. While I was away she caused a ruckus attacking the revised website as outdated before it was even launched.

 

December 2014

Monday 12/1/14

Worked on diary after breakfast. Found old Year-In-Pictures files from 2003 thru 2007. I used several different software tools. Will have to manually recreate the diary from this material. Then I can build further entries based on picture metadata and calendars.

Also set up Projects. Fire Connections, Ugly Buildings, Forensics movie 2003.

Lunch with David Drake, Lauren Schaeffer, & Karen at Relish across from train station. Lauren was much more relaxed though notice communicative than usual.

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Went up to Seth’s office to test CMH app. Still very buggy. Troy Web is not doings good job. Can’t reply to messages multiple attachments get lost.

Came me back home by 4:15. Richard Goldberg and Nancy Seymour had arrived. They had come from Baltimore after Thanksgiving in Philadelphia. Had drinks. Went to dinner at Wasabi.

Richard has finally retired from teaching. He is 69.


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November 2014

Sunday 11/30/14

IMG_8448Breakfast with Noah and Nyla. Waffles made from Joy of cooking. Blueberry sauce.

Conversation about photography, photobooks, Thanksgiving in Philadelphia with Stephanie’s extended family. John showed up at 11. Chat about Ackerman’s contact with Blake, Stephanie’s son, and farms in the area. He is a charming asshole.

Rest of day largely spent setting up this diary.

Evening of TV – Scandal, The Wire, …..
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