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kaasirpent:
Make a comment in this entry. I'll go to your profile, pick 3 userpics and interests, and then you explain them in your journal.
He chose these:
This is a picture I took last spring, while I was trying to figure out what the Macro setting on my camera would do. These are chive flowers growing in front of a stone wall. The biggest flower has a dewdrop in it, but that doesn't show up at icon size.
This is a picture of my first tattoo. It's on the back of my neck, and it's Japanese for "power". Tattoos are addictive, in my case, and I've gotten two more since this one.
The only really good thing about my apartment in Roxbury was the light in the bedroom in the morning. It was a first-floor apartment, so it had shutters on the windows instead of blinds. This is a picture of my legs in the light coming through the shutters, converted to black and white in Photoshop.
The three interests are:
atisa
That's an acronym for American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association. It was formed while I was in grad school, by the heads of the German and Russian translation programs at Kent State and various other academics at various other universities. The only time I've ever written a scholarly paper for fun was when I wrote one to present at the ATISA conference in San Diego. I like to go to their conferences if I can because they make me think, and I don't do nearly enough of that these days.
isshinryu
Isshinryu is a style of Okinawan karate, in which I got a brown belt in college. I haven't practiced it since, because New England seems to be a Shotokan (Japanese karate) region.
pogo possum
Pogo is a comic strip drawn by Walt Kelly. It involves a lot of messing around with the English language (which is partly where I got the propensity for inventing horrendous puns), and a lot of political satire (the strip absolutely skewered Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s). If Kelly hadn't died in the 1970s, he would've had a field day with the second Bush administration.
kaasirpent:Make a comment in this entry. I'll go to your profile, pick 3 userpics and interests, and then you explain them in your journal.
He chose these:
This is a picture I took last spring, while I was trying to figure out what the Macro setting on my camera would do. These are chive flowers growing in front of a stone wall. The biggest flower has a dewdrop in it, but that doesn't show up at icon size.
This is a picture of my first tattoo. It's on the back of my neck, and it's Japanese for "power". Tattoos are addictive, in my case, and I've gotten two more since this one.
The only really good thing about my apartment in Roxbury was the light in the bedroom in the morning. It was a first-floor apartment, so it had shutters on the windows instead of blinds. This is a picture of my legs in the light coming through the shutters, converted to black and white in Photoshop.
The three interests are:
atisa
That's an acronym for American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association. It was formed while I was in grad school, by the heads of the German and Russian translation programs at Kent State and various other academics at various other universities. The only time I've ever written a scholarly paper for fun was when I wrote one to present at the ATISA conference in San Diego. I like to go to their conferences if I can because they make me think, and I don't do nearly enough of that these days.
isshinryu
Isshinryu is a style of Okinawan karate, in which I got a brown belt in college. I haven't practiced it since, because New England seems to be a Shotokan (Japanese karate) region.
pogo possum
Pogo is a comic strip drawn by Walt Kelly. It involves a lot of messing around with the English language (which is partly where I got the propensity for inventing horrendous puns), and a lot of political satire (the strip absolutely skewered Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s). If Kelly hadn't died in the 1970s, he would've had a field day with the second Bush administration.
