00664 km

[robotnik2004]

Originally published at Route 96. You can comment here or there.

This illustrates something about academia in the 1990s, I think: of the five people in that picture below, four eventually got PhDs. Yet only one (the handsome bearded gentleman on the far left) works in academia today. The others have all done very well for themselves, mind you, make more money than I do, and have no regrets. Just saying.

Joe and Renee are married now and just had a baby! There’s photographic evidence of this, and other ravages of time, at Joe’s website.

Comments

[head58.livejournal.com]

You know what's the best about all this? I'm living vicariously through you living vicariously through the telling of a trip you took a decade ago!

And you totally need to photoshop a picture of yourself from the trip wearing a shirt saying "IN TEN YEARS, I'LL BE BLOGGING THIS!"

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Man, I'm totally doing that.

(If I'd even known what blogs were in 1996, I wonder if that thought ("In ten years, I'll be blogging this!") would have made me happy or sad.)