Photo Firsts (Keith)

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Here’s my first photo of Keith: November 13, 2004

It was taken before I knew him.
I suppose it makes sense because our lives never intersected (he was a MechE at the time and lived in Morewood) until Tim introduced us at one point when he was walking in the hall as we were going to Tim’s for games… and also because this was the first Kiltie game that I went to.

Also, life has gotten a small update… I filled in the missing gaps in the “August 14 and earlier” dates. Probably not something you’re terribly interested in (although David at Michael’s surprise birthday party is rather awesome). I’ll try and work forward ASAP so there’s more CMU photos posted.

Photo Firsts (Al-Tim, Tim, Greg)

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I took a detour from tagging CMU today to get to the non-school (AKA not CMU nor PPA) folders. Since I’m now doing a chronological posting of things in life, there’s a chance I’ll miss dates that haven’t been tagged yet if there are photos outside the CMU folder. These would be annoying to go back to later, thus I’m going to finish up all the remaining folders before going to tag CMU junior year.

Got a lot of tagging done today though. Managed to tag 5001 photos, for a total of 60238. I’m up to “MsEarlSeniorParty” alphabetically. It was rather interesting going through folders of photos from middle school (most of which I probably haven’t looked at since then) and realizing how few names I remember now. I’ll have to pull out a yearbook at some point to tag them properly.

Since there are people actually following life, I’ll post on here the next time I make an update. With any luck, I’ll have updates to it again starting the end of this week.

In any case, today’s post is the first in a series of “first photos of X” where X is a person. Yay for tagging software making it easy to do random things with your photos! At some point when I’ve tagged everything I’ll post a graph of photos by month and then by camera, for curiosity’s sake.

My first photo of Al-Tim: September 2, 2004. Sitting outside the Physics I for Science Students room before recitation.

My first photo of Tim: September 10, 2004. Sitting next to me in 15200 lecture.

I love how I have a photo of Al-Tim 8 days before having a photo of Tim, despite not knowing Al-Tim for a long time after knowing Tim (which I believe would be after the CS halloween party when we went back to Tim’s room for games).

My first photo of Greg: September 9, 2005. During the KGB Underground Tour. Can you spot him?

Maybe you can spot him easier in this one… this would technically be my second photo of Greg.

Photo journal thing now up

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I reached my goal of 1/3 completion for tagging today (55237 tagged out of 164076) at around 4, so I had some time free.

life.alanv.org is the site mentioned in yesterday’s entry. I hacked it up in around an hour and it’s now up with the beginning of Freshman year. Feel free to view and enjoy.

Photo tagging

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If you’ve been following my status updates on Facebook, you’ll know that I’ve been going through and tagging every single photo that I’ve ever taken (all 164,076 of them) in Adobe Photoshop Album. I’m currently at 49,973 tagged. With some luck, tomorrow I’ll break 54,692 (not an unreasonable goal, given that I did around 3600 today) which would be the third-way point.

In any case, this averages out to approximately 50 photos a day, every day, for the past 9 years and 3 months, which is when I got my first digital camera. This means I have a good record of almost everything that’s happened to me since I was 13. All of this is making me feel extremely nostalgic.

I feel inspired to create a site that posts (at least) one photo from each day that I took photos from the past 9 years, along with a small description of the day. I would probably end up starting with CMU Freshman year (that way I don’t have to wait until I tag everything) and going through graduation before heading backward to high school and such. I guess this would be similar to Mark’s photo journal, except the photos would all be from the past.

I don’t know. It just occurs to me that the majority of my photos (large, large majority) have never been seen by anyone other than myself. Perhaps this would be a good way to share some number of them.

If I do end up doing this, there’s a good chance it will be password-protected (like the Student Wars site)… because having a public journal is one thing, but having documentation of your life public on the internet is much, much different. I guess the question then is if anyone would actually be interested in seeing such a thing. Right now the motivation is more personally wanting to have the photos laid out in some logical manner, but it’s probably not a worthwhile project just for that.

I also started tentative work on a board game today that constantly changes (both in terms of rules, goals, and the physical board itself). It was one of those random things that I thought of and was interested in trying. We’ll see how much of it gets done (most of my ideas end up dying in the creation process, unfortunately).