SMILE!
Heading to Congress!
Race week 2008 in Whidbey Island; our boat got fourth place overall!
Inspecting the Madeline Angevine
As fancy as I got (actually my DC photo above is as good as it gets)
This was so rad I can't even describe it...
Mom at Glacier
Class IV rafting in Aspen, CO. We later flipped the raft; easily the closest I've gotten to drowning
This is how its done at Duck Dodge, one of the top 100 things to do in North America!
The title says it all; Spring 2007 Softball Champs!
My kickball team "The Poo". Feels just like the good ole days (i.e. 5th grade).
Beware the Croatian Sensation!
Snowboard trip up Ranier; the wind was like poltergeists, literally knocked me on my face!
More jumping off of things in Croatia - here the rocks outside of Dubrovnik
Jumping off a replica Galleon in Croatia - nice form until the splash! Or the animated GIF
Now that is a gas huffer...
My niece Emma Marie cracks me up...
Best ski trip EVER, New Years 2005 in Snowbird, UT. Hot tub on the roof!!!! Lookin mean after waiting in line for almost an hour...
And then the tide came in...
Marley Laws is hungry
My new drum set!
Welcome to the 21st Century, Y'all...
Fumando Cubanos en Whistler
Now this guy's got the right idea...
Mike's getting married, and me and mom are getting sauced...
Daryl tasting the Tahoe air...
This is how we rock it in NYC!
Vintner Chris Primus waiting to become one with the vines, if he stands there long enough...
There's always one guy at the wedding comes for the free stogies...
Um, thats NOT me...
In Cape May, JRZ
Winner of belly-flop competition on July 4!
Phantom WTC lights from Hoboken, NJ
Rockin in the Free World!
There be monsters in Chile...
And colossuses (colossi?)
And occasionally clouds...
After getting my PhD, I moved to Hoboken, NJ which is 1 mile from what is now left of the the World Trade Center towers. I would look at them every day on the way to the train station. It was impossible to miss them actually, which makes their absense all the more eerie now. The ruins still smoke, and glow at night from the accumulated rescue equipment. Here is the current view from Hoboken. It is 3 in the morning, and note people keep the candles lit... The towers would have reached about to the top of this picture.
My first day back I went down to ground zero, sneaking in past distracted police, to view and smell and encounter the site and the chaos around it. It was the grimmest experience I have had in my life, some parts eerily artistic and some parts utterly horrible. Chills went down my spine, and I had a tight panic feeling in my chest. The wind kicked up dust storms of the pulverized towers and people. Papers were still blowing off the roofs of nearby buildings - I was afraid to pick one up and take it home...
Union Square was as spectacularly beautiful as the ruins were unreal...
I took a job a Bell Labs, part of Lucent Technologies, just as our economy went to hell. As part of cost cutting measures, they are replacing us all with robotic simulacra.
Our qualifying exam takes its toll, and the Monkey Head takes advantage of Rory in his moment of weakness...
Trip out to Discovery Park with Chris Primus to see Puget Sound. Hey, there it is!
Its a birthday party!
Who is not the Tampa Bay Bucs fan here...?
WTO comes to Seattle, and out go our civil liberties...
"Whose Streets?" Ummmm...
This little girl was spared from a tear-gassing.
And me too!
Found myself on top of a mountain in Chile, Cerro Tololo.
And found the only lago in the middle of the desert!
I'm gonna climb this here Mt. Adams!
Smoking crater of Mt. St. Helens, backlit by sunset and viewed from our Adams camp.
Here I am feeling pain...
Knut Olsen proving Norsemen feel no fear.
Encountered a nasty looking ice cave on the way to the summit of Adams.
Made the Adams summit, and so did Luis! Mt. Ranier through the haze of a distant forest fire.
Yep, took down a tree today...
Mom won't like this one either. Correct! Not only is it "disgusting", its "unkempt." Go Mom!
100% Chillin' at Baker Lake.
Jamming in my Apartment with the Claw, Benni-haha, and Big Train.
MRI of my Evil Left Knee, currently preventing me from doing anything active. Will instead drink more beer.
Jay Montgomery lamenting his fate...
But we made it!
In the only rain-forest on the continental U.S., the Ho.
Boeing engineer Brandon Tuley salmon fishing in the Ho River.
Canoeing with the whales - Thar she blows!
It is damned white in Whistler, Canada!
This picture turned out pretty well!
Overly optimistic Joachim Stadel and Ben Williams on an ill-fated trip up Ranier...
Sunset from 10000 ft!
Heading back down Mt. Ranier, just below Camp Muir.
I did a lot of this in college...
One of those cool group of friends you hit upon only a couple times in your life.
Back in the good ole' days ('91) - Mom don't like my mohawk!
De-evolution of my driver's license picture (are they getting better or worse?). '99, '95, '94, '88 (!)
Macaulay who?
Things got better as I got older - my best Christmas present ever.
