{"id":889,"date":"2007-05-28T17:02:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T22:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/05\/28\/a-long-time-ago-in-a-dorm-room-far-far-away\/"},"modified":"2012-01-28T16:31:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T21:31:52","slug":"a-long-time-ago-in-a-dorm-room-far-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/05\/28\/a-long-time-ago-in-a-dorm-room-far-far-away\/","title":{"rendered":"A Long Time Ago, in a Dorm Room Far, Far Away&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/\">Picasa<\/a> has allowed me to &#8220;re-discover&#8221; a lot of old photos I had squirreled away on my hard drive from long, long before I started organizing them in any sensible manner.<\/p>\n<p>Take this one, for example (if it gets cropped by my blog&#8217;s narrow width, I&#8217;m sorry &#8211; click on the image for the full-size edition):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/keith-in-his-room.jpg\" title=\"Keith in his dorm room\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/keith-in-his-room.jpg\" alt=\"Keith in his dorm room\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is me, circa 1999 or somewhere around there. A few notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes, that is a paper calendar on the wall. I&#8217;ve since learned the error of my ways.<\/li>\n<li>My computer at the time was an IBM Aptiva. Forgive me!<\/li>\n<li>You can see a bunch of photos of Amanda, always close by so I could see her.<\/li>\n<li>That big chart on the wall is an early Java class hierarchy chart. Every programming geek needs one!<\/li>\n<li>The walls in dorm rooms were very bland, so I decorated them as best I could. For example, with pictures of Sailor Mercury. (My office at work carries on this tradition today, as Amanda won&#8217;t let me do this to our bedroom anymore&#8230; can&#8217;t imagine why&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>The Lord of the Rings trilogy (paperback edition) is always close by.<\/li>\n<li>My god, look at the size of that cordless phone! Ah, ancient technology!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not the most exciting picture, but ah boy, does it bring back memories!<\/p>\n<p>A few other gems:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/trucks-instrument-cluster-with-comments.jpg\" title=\"My Truck\u2019s Instrument Cluster - with comments\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/trucks-instrument-cluster-with-comments.jpg\" alt=\"My Truck\u2019s Instrument Cluster - with comments\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why yes, I am a geek. Why do you ask?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/keithmobile-d-exterior-with-comments.jpg\" title=\"The Keithmobile-D exterior - with comments\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/keithmobile-d-exterior-with-comments.jpg\" alt=\"The Keithmobile-D exterior - with comments\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, maybe this <em>is<\/em> taking it too far. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve &#8220;re-discovered&#8221; a lot of old photos I had squirreled away on my hard drive from long, long before I started organizing them in any sensible manner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[386],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-pictures","tag-personal","entry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-el","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":105,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/02\/14\/bitter-cranky-keithius\/","url_meta":{"origin":889,"position":0},"title":"Bitter, Cranky Keithius","author":"Keith Survell","date":"February 14, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Valentine's day always makes me bitter & cranky; probably because I often spend it alone. 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