00, 0A - me sitting in my office. Note muscular computer!
1A - Dana Rogoff, the nice tech in our lab. My age.
2A - All my present and possible future bosses in one shot - left to right, Tim, Jim, and Lynn (Tim and Jim are our collaborators at New Orleans, Lynn is my boss here in California)
3A - Orien Richmond, who also works in our lab, designing marine science courses for schools. Also my age.
5A - Bloody hell, look at the size of the cars round here! Not so much "Sports Utility Vehicle" as "Heinous Global Warmer"!
7A, 8A - a view out of the corner of my building to the awesome 1930s airship hanger elsewhere on base. I framed the photos with the bars there as an ironic comment on being stranded in the building with all those bloody delays with my security pass!
9A - my building, viewed from the access road outside
10A - Arrgghhhh! The electric blue shagpile chinz toilet!
11A to 16A - Views in San Jose. San Jose doesn't have much to recommend it, but at least the city centre is clean and modernist enough, with a couple of spanish-era buildings thrown in. 11A is a major IT firm HQ, Oracle or suchlike. 12A is the Tech Museum. 13A is the opera house. 14A and 15A are the fountains and park. 16A is the faux baroque cathedral.
17A - the song may say "Do you know the way to San Jose, LA is a great big freeway" but this is highly ironic now, seeing that San Jose is a horrible sprawl of freeways itself. Here you can see a freeway, with a shopping mall behind it, and through the smog-ridden air you may just be able to see the Santa Clara mountains in the background.
18A, 19A - chez moi. Who would every know that such a simple bungalow facade might hide a horror such as 10A inside?!
20A - I went to get my hair cut, and look what the barber did to me!!! Don't worry, I've managed to wash most of the slick gel out now...!!!
21A - more chinz nightmares in the living room
22A - my lab
23A - my office, with muscular computer!
25A - my room. The small stuffed gorilla is mine of course!
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