Post of Many Pictures
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rbandrewsThis may become a regular thing, I dunno.
My phone stopped working on Sunday, right after I watched Penguins. It still works, sorta, just only on speakerphone. So I ordered a new phone, and thus, must mail the old one back (it's still in warranty, they cross-ship). Anyway, this forced me to do something that I had been meaning to do anyway, specifically, pull all the pictures off my phone and make a post about them.
Behind the below cut is a large pile of pictures, not as thumbnails (although none are larger than 640x480), most taken poorly and the early ones of pretty banal subjects. They are in chronological order, and each has a little description of what it is.
This, and the nearly identical (but removed) picture after it, were the first two images I took that weren't covered by my thumb. Obviously they were taken when I was sitting at my desk.
This was taken as a possible background image, again that first day. As you can see from the speedometer, I wasn't actually driving when I took it.
This is the view down from the hill in front of Shadowlake. That first day I was taking pictures of anything that would hold still long enough.
A patch of flowers also on that same hill, that same day.
Tucker and Nathan playing Battletech, obviously. Taken at VirPack.
A picture of my desk, and very messy room.
This stuffed Goomba made a good subject when I was first playing with the camera. In the background you can see part of the pile of clutter that is always on the pool table. In the foreground, my laptop.
This was another shot that I made for a background image. I like how by just looking 30 degrees up, you can see hardly anything modern in the frame. There is the one guy with the red shirt, unfortunately.
I'm leaving this in even though it's small (apparently "zooming in" on this camera just makes the image smaller). It's an amusing moment from a game of Survive! on my birthday party: I am the blue pawn in the boat, and I'd like to get to the island, but if I hop to the adjacent boat the octopus destroys it immediately. So I must swim, even though there is a path of boats to my island. However, if I jump out of the boat, the shark eats me.
Here I took pictures of a couple weeks' worth of Battletech terrain. This is from when Tucker and Nathan and I used Heroscape terrain for the Battletech games.
This one is from the next game we played. This is two Heroscape sets, and setting them up took us about an hour. The masking tape is supposed to be a road.
Another shot of the same battle. Notice the four-leaf clover on the board; that's a downed 'Mech pilot.
These two linked rings are made of solid concrete, and have sat in the courtyard on top of Burchard hall for a couple years now in mute testimony to the boredom and cleverness of the Virginia Tech architecture department.
Another angle, same thing. This has been my background image for a while now.
Absolutely the worst Quiddler hand I've ever had. The arm in the background is Kay's; we were playing at Macado's after Spiel one Wednesday.
I honestly have no idea what this is. It looks like Amber, maybe, battling a plastic bag? The phone does not deal well with poor lighting.
I don't know when this got taken, but I know I didn't take it because I'm in the frame. The guy on the left with the white shirt is me, when I still had hair. I am pretty sure the game is Attika, and the people I'm playing with are Tucker, Chris and Mike.
This is from when Kay and I went to Wal-Mart after Spiel one time. I saw this entire rack of Virginia Tech wine... <shudder>
Same thing, closer so you can inspect the labels. I'm having nightmares tonight...
I thought this was a really amusing license plate so I took a picture of it. A few minutes later I found out it was Michelle's, and everyone had already been amused by it.
The game of Tiny Settlers at the 2005 student organization showcase.
This shirt was sitting in a glass case in Squires. I thought it was so stupid it had to be committed to "film".
Here's another mute-testimony thing, like the concrete rings, only this is mute testimony to how much more money than sense the Virginia Tech CS department has. The screen doesn't seem to do anything, it just sits there and shows a MacOS desktop to anyone who walks by. The clock on it is even wrong.
You can barely see Pixel's head peeking out of a shipping box on this table. I noticed it when the box started moving.
Here's a much better shot of the same thing. She seems to really like bubble wrap.
For some reason, this picture of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was posted on a bulletin board in the sixth floor of McBryde, next to a pamphlet on why you shouldn't register for the draft. I found it so odd I had to take a picture of it.
Finally, this is the view from the sixth floor of McBryde. You can see Torgerson Hall, and Squires in the background.
Anyway, that's all of them. I've removed the ones that were utter crap because they were obvious duplicates, or taken with the brightness too low, or zoomed in so they were tiny and grainy, or something. I haven't removed anything because it was too boring or not posed right, this is a real slice of life here. The dates, in case anyone wonders, are from 27 May (the day I got the new phone) to yesterday (when I found the Spaghetti Monster in McBryde, while waiting for an appointment).
My phone stopped working on Sunday, right after I watched Penguins. It still works, sorta, just only on speakerphone. So I ordered a new phone, and thus, must mail the old one back (it's still in warranty, they cross-ship). Anyway, this forced me to do something that I had been meaning to do anyway, specifically, pull all the pictures off my phone and make a post about them.
Behind the below cut is a large pile of pictures, not as thumbnails (although none are larger than 640x480), most taken poorly and the early ones of pretty banal subjects. They are in chronological order, and each has a little description of what it is.
This, and the nearly identical (but removed) picture after it, were the first two images I took that weren't covered by my thumb. Obviously they were taken when I was sitting at my desk.
This was taken as a possible background image, again that first day. As you can see from the speedometer, I wasn't actually driving when I took it.
This is the view down from the hill in front of Shadowlake. That first day I was taking pictures of anything that would hold still long enough.
A patch of flowers also on that same hill, that same day.
Tucker and Nathan playing Battletech, obviously. Taken at VirPack.
A picture of my desk, and very messy room.
This stuffed Goomba made a good subject when I was first playing with the camera. In the background you can see part of the pile of clutter that is always on the pool table. In the foreground, my laptop.
This was another shot that I made for a background image. I like how by just looking 30 degrees up, you can see hardly anything modern in the frame. There is the one guy with the red shirt, unfortunately.
I'm leaving this in even though it's small (apparently "zooming in" on this camera just makes the image smaller). It's an amusing moment from a game of Survive! on my birthday party: I am the blue pawn in the boat, and I'd like to get to the island, but if I hop to the adjacent boat the octopus destroys it immediately. So I must swim, even though there is a path of boats to my island. However, if I jump out of the boat, the shark eats me.
Here I took pictures of a couple weeks' worth of Battletech terrain. This is from when Tucker and Nathan and I used Heroscape terrain for the Battletech games.
This one is from the next game we played. This is two Heroscape sets, and setting them up took us about an hour. The masking tape is supposed to be a road.
Another shot of the same battle. Notice the four-leaf clover on the board; that's a downed 'Mech pilot.
These two linked rings are made of solid concrete, and have sat in the courtyard on top of Burchard hall for a couple years now in mute testimony to the boredom and cleverness of the Virginia Tech architecture department.
Another angle, same thing. This has been my background image for a while now.
Absolutely the worst Quiddler hand I've ever had. The arm in the background is Kay's; we were playing at Macado's after Spiel one Wednesday.
I honestly have no idea what this is. It looks like Amber, maybe, battling a plastic bag? The phone does not deal well with poor lighting.
I don't know when this got taken, but I know I didn't take it because I'm in the frame. The guy on the left with the white shirt is me, when I still had hair. I am pretty sure the game is Attika, and the people I'm playing with are Tucker, Chris and Mike.
This is from when Kay and I went to Wal-Mart after Spiel one time. I saw this entire rack of Virginia Tech wine... <shudder>
Same thing, closer so you can inspect the labels. I'm having nightmares tonight...
I thought this was a really amusing license plate so I took a picture of it. A few minutes later I found out it was Michelle's, and everyone had already been amused by it.
The game of Tiny Settlers at the 2005 student organization showcase.
This shirt was sitting in a glass case in Squires. I thought it was so stupid it had to be committed to "film".
Here's another mute-testimony thing, like the concrete rings, only this is mute testimony to how much more money than sense the Virginia Tech CS department has. The screen doesn't seem to do anything, it just sits there and shows a MacOS desktop to anyone who walks by. The clock on it is even wrong.
You can barely see Pixel's head peeking out of a shipping box on this table. I noticed it when the box started moving.
Here's a much better shot of the same thing. She seems to really like bubble wrap.
For some reason, this picture of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was posted on a bulletin board in the sixth floor of McBryde, next to a pamphlet on why you shouldn't register for the draft. I found it so odd I had to take a picture of it.
Finally, this is the view from the sixth floor of McBryde. You can see Torgerson Hall, and Squires in the background.
Anyway, that's all of them. I've removed the ones that were utter crap because they were obvious duplicates, or taken with the brightness too low, or zoomed in so they were tiny and grainy, or something. I haven't removed anything because it was too boring or not posed right, this is a real slice of life here. The dates, in case anyone wonders, are from 27 May (the day I got the new phone) to yesterday (when I found the Spaghetti Monster in McBryde, while waiting for an appointment).
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