| In January of 1996, I took a photoshop class. I've never been quite the
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In October of 1996, I went to LISA in Chicago.
Larry,
Bevan,
Wendy and I
went to Gino's East, a restaurant next door to Larry's hotel. It was unique
in that writing on the walls (and just about anywhere else) was permitted if
not encouraged. While pondering the notion of leaving a REM on the table where
I sat, Larry noticed the phrase "LISA REM" on the wall behind us. Those
Chicagoans think of everything... |
| January 1998: My 30th birthday. Several of us went to a Japanese
restaurant called Tokyo Wakko. If I look a little odd, it's because the
restaurant dressed me up as a samurai, complete with a headpiece that provides
an appropos hairstyle. From left to right:
Heather,
myself,
Larry, and
Carolyn.
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| Halloween, 1998: Last year I came as the color purple -- either the
movie or the concept; your choice -- but alas I wasn't in the photo I thought I
had posed for, which is why you don't see anything here. I wore purple from
head to toe: glasses, t-shirt, sweater, socks, shoes (and laces!),
unmentionables and, ta da, a very lovely crushed velvet purple skirt. Did I
mention I like purple?
A week later, I thought back to the party and lamented that no other themes
remained that would allow me to do something like that again. Of course, as
soon as I thought that, the idea came to me: Devil with a Blue Dress.
Don't tell anyone, but I never read the book. The idea came from the movie
Repossessd, a parody of The Exorcist in which Linda Blair plays
a woman possessed as a child <wink wink> who is, many years later,
repossessed. As it happens, her character is wearing a blue dress
during the obligatory exorcism scene which is made even more amusing by
the background music: "Devil with a Blue Dress."
On the right is
Adele, who is dressed up as
Cassiopeia. Notice the constellation on her dress. |
| Birthday 1999: Having spent several minutes contemplating the variety of
methodologies available for extinguishing the pattern of discrete flames
illuminating the confections, I elect to just blow. That's
Heather watching me in the background. |
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February 1999: Several of us went on a hike. Amid the beautiful scenery, you
can see three patches of color. The blue one is myself, the black one is Dan
and the red one is Joe's backpack.
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December 1999: In preparation for replacing a Cisco Catalyst 5000 with a 5509
we moved the 5000 out of the way (hence the spaghetti) and Larry took this
photo.
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September 2002 - January 2003: My last two classes at APU were a software
engineering sequence. This is a picture of the team as it existed the
second term: Darren, Erin, Sherry, James, myself and Franz.
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