Today is #ThrowBackThursday, so here's one from the past.. 40+ years back. While waiting on a weekly flight, I rented a van and drove to Karlsruhe. I had nothing to do for 6 days, Supertramp was playing in concert.. with Joe Cocker and Chris de Burgh.
33°C, they hosed the crowd to cool them. I was alone, and no one knew I was there. In retrospect, this was scary.
For #ThrowbackThursday here's me climbing a tree with my younger brother below and my mum engaged in sensible adult behaviour with a rhinoceros sculpture in Blackgang Chine on the Isle of Wight, probably somewhere around 1980.
Blackgang Chine is the oldest amusement park in the UK and literally every child who was raised in Hampshire in the 20th century has been there, I guarantee it.
Listen to the most recent #bonus episode of “Ninety For Chill: The Podcast with CatBusRuss: #TBT Bonus: Spaceballs with Jessica Kwazz & ThePoeticCritic
ThePoeticCritic discusses the making of #melbrooks last perfect #movie
A desk and shoe rack made with free boxes from Costco and two $5 shelves from Home Depot. Detergent and dishwasher-tab containers providing the weights for the desk's "legs". #tbt
Evidence I generally travel with my trusty MSFT Sculpt keyboard, and my 24" LED TV which was a monitor during day and served entertainment after hours. 😁
This was a temporary living arrangement I had for work and such.
This is groundbreaking botanist & cytogeneticist, E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897-1984).
She was the 10th of 19 children in a mixed race family in Kerala, India, with caste adding to the discrimination she faced in life. Ammal chose a life of science over a planned marriage.
"My work is what will survive", she said. She was right. Her achievements are awesome....
#TBT to this night a few years ago when I went out for coffee with my friend, death, and death paid the ultimate price (400 bells). #AnimalCrossing#ACNH#ShareYourGames
One of the things I've seen on social media lately has been "pics of when you were 24 for 2024." So, I dug deep to see what I could find, as I was 24 in 2007.
What I found was this. This is a picture of me as a graduate student. 16 years, 4 kids, and one big old beard ago.
I look back at this and think, "Wow, I looked young."