An attendee at QED, Al Johnston, posted a pic of me doing my talk on my Facebook page today. It’s quite amusing and characteristic, so with his permission I made it my profile pic. (Note that it’s copyright, so don’t copy it anywhere without asking him – not that you’d want to, but you know.)
(C)2012 Al Johnston, all rights reserved
Anyway – that’s very me.
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Grendels Dad
March 14, 2012 at 11:47 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
If you have ever considered running a captioning contest this photo has to be the inspiration.
karmakin
March 14, 2012 at 12:03 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
As much as a picture can capture the essence of a person….
Yup. That’s you all right.
Aratina Cage
March 14, 2012 at 12:39 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I like it. And it is a little humorous being one of those shots that captures a fleeting facial expression that we normally wouldn’t notice.
Saikat Biswas
March 14, 2012 at 1:59 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
“Nah, this won’t do. Too less strident and shrill!”
skepticlawyer
March 14, 2012 at 2:23 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yes. Seriously awesome photo. They don’t emerge readily — for anyone — and often only when assisted by lots of fancy lighting, props and so forth. One to be treasured.
George W Thrush
March 14, 2012 at 5:38 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
“Who typed my talk up in fucking Aramaic?”
John Morales
March 14, 2012 at 5:57 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Ian MacDougall
March 14, 2012 at 6:48 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
“I’ve always liked these black jelly beans best of all. Specially with a gob of chewing gum. But where is it?
Must have swallowed it.”
'Tis Himself, OM
March 14, 2012 at 7:10 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
“It can’t be Col. Mustard, so it has to be Miss Scarlet in the kitchen with the lead pipe.”
Stacy
March 14, 2012 at 8:31 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
OK–which of you wise guys replaced my talk with several pages full of Alain de Botton’s tweets?
SAWells
March 15, 2012 at 2:16 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I recognise that expression. I think we’ve all worn that expression sometime.
Hypatia
March 15, 2012 at 2:43 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I find that photo utterly adorable. Love your specs!