Graham’s Desktop

I was doing some routine maintenance on Graham’s computer this morning including freeing up some disk space since he had fallen below 1 Gb. His downloads go to his desktop so that was the first place I looked for extraneous and unused files. Here’s a picture of what I found:

Pictures 1-4 were all screenshots of completed games. This screenshot shows Picture 2 open. Other notable items are the Real Audio file (.ram) from a They Might Be Giants (his favorite band) stream and various downloads probably recommended by Thomas and me (darwinia, Redline, GoogleSketch, Pangea Arcade).

Faces in a crowd


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Originally uploaded by rcoder

Tina and the boys and I went to the Multnomah County Bike Fair on Saturday. We had fun and saw a lot of weird people. I didn’t get very many pictures but this guy happened to catch us watching the “pie jousting.”

Christensen


Christensen
Originally uploaded by rynosoft

Yesterday morning I was in the midst of making a movie of the Iraq Names Project when I was stopped dead in my tracks by this. It’s unlikely that it is someone that is related to me and even less likely it’s someone I know, but the name “Christensen” always draw my attention. Here, moreso than ever before.

Names of the dead


Names of the dead
Originally uploaded by rynosoft

A local university professor created a chalk tribute to the fallen soldiers of the Iraq war on the sidewalks of Portland’s Waterfront. I saw it for the first time in its completed form this morning on my ride to work. The names go on and on. Some have faded and been washed away by the rain, but it all works metaphorically, I think

An Oregonian article has more.