FW: Ting in Santa Fe Friday

[Nick Thompson]

Dear Santa Fe Friammers,

 

Ting Internet’s director of networks Adam Eisner is in town, meeting with city officials about a possible fiber build-out.  My friend and former student, Sean Moody, would like to bring him to Friam briefly for a handshake around 9.30.  The schedule is tight and it’s entirely possible they won’t make it, but it would be nice if some of us were there early enough to meet him, in case it happens.  Sean hopes to include us because he wants Eisner to grasp that Santa Fe is not like other places of its size and that Ting would be smart to invest in a fiber network here.  He thinks that a brief look at FRIAM might bolster that point.

 

Hope to see some of you a bit early on Friday. 

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: MOODY, SEAN [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 9:32 AM
To: Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]>; Thompson, Nicholas <[hidden email]>
Subject: RE: Ting in Santa Fe Friday

 

Thanks guys. I am going to try to stop by between 9:30 and 10 just to say hello and introduce Ting Internet’s director of networks Adam Eisner to the group. Unfortunately our schedule is crammed, so we will be en route between a 9AM breakfast with the head of the Chamber of Commerce and a 10AM sit down with Mayor Gonzales. But I want Adam to grasp that Santa Fe is not like other places, and that Ting would be smart to invest in a fiber network here. You fellows will prove my point.

 

That said, if our 9AM runs long we may not make it. Please know that I am am sincerely appreciative for your openness nevertheless. In any event I will keep you in the loop.

 

Thanks.

 

Sean

 

 

From: Frank Wimberly [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 5:37 PM
To: Thompson, Nicholas <[hidden email]>
Cc: MOODY, SEAN <[hidden email]>
Subject: RE: Ting in Santa Fe Friday

 

Nick's description of Friam is very accurate ( and clever ).  If Ting sits between Ed Angel and Nick I think that would be a good idea.  It is unlikely that the whole table could be coalesced into a single conversation after, say, 9:45.

Frank

Frank Wimberly
Phone
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On Feb 24, 2016 3:44 PM, "Nick Thompson" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Wow!  It might be wild.  So there we are all seated around that table.  Half of us are arguing about the Nature of Mind; the other half about what it would be like to surf the edge of a black hole.  In walks Ting.  I have warned them that Ting is coming so they all stand up to great Ting.  A chair is pulled in so that Ting can join us. A cup of bad coffee is brought for Ting.  So.  What happens next?   Is it good for you and for santa fe, or not.  That’s my only criterion. 

 

What do you think?  I am cc ing Frank Wimberley, who is closest to the soul of friam than anybody else, so he can join us in thinking about it. 

 

Remember it is not a meeting in the ordinary sense.  I generally get there early to get a central chair, so one of the things that I do in these situations is to get up, greet ting myself, and then give him my chair so he is in the middle.  

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: MOODY, SEAN [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 12:15 PM
To: Nick Thompson <[hidden email]>
Subject: Ting in Santa Fe Friday

 

Nick, the director of networks for Ting Internet is coming to Santa Fe on Friday to reconnoiter for a proprietary fiber-to-the-premise network build-out. This is a very exciting prospect, one of the central goals of the city broadband project.

 

We are meeting with the Mayor at 10 AM, lunching with some community leaders at noon, and generally driving around to look at the different areas of town.

 

What do you think about a FRIAM cameo appearance? Good or bad, welcome or unwelcome?

Thanks.

 

Sean

 

 

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