Lost Rhino Ian, Kalesh and Dave Who Buys Next Token

I have found that simply setting up a blog post with a token is the easiest way to track who buys next.  You just google it :-)

I always enjoy getting together with the leaders of the AMT's MTInsight group!

• I bought in December 2014
• Kalesh bought March 10th, 2015
• Ian bought on September 21st, 2015 
• I bought in January 2016 
• Kalesh bought in January 2017
• Ian bought on May 23rd, 2017 at Brambleton Lost Rhino
• I bought on November 29th, 2017 at Ocelot Brewing 

A 20 Minute Ride In a Tesla Roadster With Curt Harpold

After the Sun get together yesterday with Adrian Cockcroft, and other Sun folks -  Curt Harpold gave me a ride in his Tesla Roadster.  I really enjoyed the ride and learned a lot.  We went out for a 20 minute ride where Curt showed me the some of the (all legal, no speeding) acceleration of the Tesla.

An interesting historical note that came out during breakfast was that when Tesla was just starting to design the Roadster, they wanted to go for a ride in a Lotus Elise.  People in Silicon Valley knew Adrian had one so Tesla called up Adrian.  As I told Adrian at breakfast when I heard the story, "Tesla should have called it the "Adrian" :-)  I have been out with Adrian a few times in his Lotus and it also is a very fun car.

John Meyer and I tried to convince Curt and Adrian to see the light and get a Corvette, but we had no luck.  As I told both Adrian and Curt, "they don't write songs about Teslas, but they do Corvettes" :-)

I went for a test drive in a Tesla Model S in the fall of 2013 that was an absolute blast.

Please enjoy this 20 minute video in a Tesla Roadster.

Sun Get Together With Adrian Cockcroft

Adrian Cockcroft, former Sun Distinguished Engineer (DE), eBay DE, Chief Architect at Netflix (the guy who was responsible for the architecture that turned Netflix from just mailing out DVDs to be the leaders they are in on demand viewing) and currently with Battery Ventures was in town with his wife Laurel and we got together a few of the ole SUNWers for brunch in McLean.

From left to right is Laurel, David Sneed, Curt Harpold, Adrian, John Meyer, me and Bob Sneed. Behind us, from left to right, is Curt's Tesla Roadster, John's 2010 Corvette and my 2011 Grand Sport Corvette.

It was great getting together to tell a few Sun stories, talk technology, and cars.  We did talk a little about MTConnect and Memex Automation.  It is also interesting how many people have CNC experience at some point in their background.  Far and away the #1 topic was electric vehicles and Sun stories.

Above is Curt in front of his latest Tesla Roadster.  Curt took me for a fun ride that was a very educational.  I have to admit, there is nothing like the immediacy of an electric motor. I need to finish up editing my 20 minute video took when Curt gave me a ride and will post that.

I am now a professional blogger :-)

A couple of years ago I turned on monetization for this blog.  I just received my first payment.  I can now honestly say I am a professional blogger.  Of course, to work a few years for a very nice dinner out might now pay the bills, but it is still nice to get paid :-)