While I was visiting my parents earlier this month, I took some pictures around their house, shop, and driveway. Despite the hurricane and everything else, it was nice being around so much nature everyday.
This is the same place where I took photos of the night sky and easy to spot constellations back in January.
About a third of the way between Hortense and Jesup in Georgia is the Wayne County community of McKinnon, whose history includes the arrival of Finnish immigrants who wanted to develop this land after World War I. Their arrival was initiated by a group of Finns in Brooklyn, New York who advertised and convinced other Finns in the northeast USA to invest and move to this part of southeast Georgia.
Above is a picture of the old school house, and below are some street signs representing the community’s Finnish roots.
Looking back at my photos, I realize now that I forgot to take a photo of Finland Street, because that was where I was standing!
This is one of the most dynamic photos that I’ve ever taken, and I made it completely by accident. In 2006, I saw this juggler across the way from where I was walking with friends in England. I targeted the focus on the juggler with my old Panasonic LUMIX camera. Thankfully, the camera kept the shutter open long enough to capture the action of the crowd around the juggler doing his thing.
I saw this bust of Albert Einstein by Jacob Epstein in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England in 2006. There’s a total of six castings of this bust. Another is located in Cambridge at The Fitzwilliam Museum.
Last year, Pat Ruddin, a kind and tenacious colleague, passed away. Also a Macintosh aficionado, she kept this original Bondi Blue iMac in her office on a filing cabinet. When I came back from my sabbatical, it had made its way to my desk where I maintain the Retrocomputing at City Tech collection of vintage computers. It’s a prestigious addition to the collection, and a marvelous remembrance of Pat.
My first on-site job at NetlinkIP on St. Simons Island, Georgia was to go to a big, fancy house and setup their original iMac. Soon thereafter, my friend Chris Lee got an iMac, too. I think that I still had my Power Macintosh 8500 at that time. When I got a job at Mindspring in Atlanta, I upgraded to a Blue and White G3, which I later traded to Chris for a Dual G4 (this was a surprising and gracious offer that rekindled our friendship after drifting apart).
Pat’s iMac doesn’t boot up now, but I think it will make a great project for rejuvenation.
