Recent Pictures of Steve Jones

The Most Recent Photos

Towards the end of 1997 I decided a new look was in order. I had ditched my pony tail earlier in the year, after wearing it for over six years. But it wasn't enough. Besides, with the receding hair line I felt I just looked foolish no matter what I did. So I figured I might as well get a buzz cut.

You can click on the individual images to get larger, more detailed versions. All photos to this point were snapped casually by Michael Gwilliam. You can check out his real work here. These photos were taken January '98.

Let's see, what other recent photos are floating around. There have been a handful since January, but several were taken with other people's cameras, and I'm not sure where the others are just now. So, we'll have to make due with images from the past few years for now.

During 1994-95 there was almost constant construction where Columbus Avenue (Manhattan) was being ripped up, patched, ripped up again, et cetera, wash, rinse, repeat. Pretty good scam for the contractors: they installed substandard water pipes, so they were forced to do the work over again for more money. At any rate, in October of 96 the first Columbus Avenue Street Fair was held in several years and the turnout was great. Yes, I am listing to port in this picture, as we'd been out sampling the wares of the local brew pubs as we wandered up and down the avenue.

The image at left was created in August of '96, when Congress was starting to do some irritating things regulating cryptography and it looked like domestic crypto controls weren't far off. At any rate, I wasn't pleased that they were following the will of the FBI and Director of Intelligence in trying to compromise my right to privacy in the digital age. It seemed to me a little sarcasm might be in order, but after spending a lot of time creating that placard in Photoshop I never distributed it. Oh well.

For a period in 1994 I was living on David Spector's couch while moving from Cambridge to Manhattan. This would sometimes lead to minor conflicts as the futon/couch was the domain of David's feline overlord, Cinnabar. So Cinnabar would attempt to exert mind control over me in staring contests, and I would usually give in and begin scratching and cossetting her. That and opposable thumbs are, after all, the only reason they tolerate our presence.

This FaceSaver image taken at Usenix' LISA 8 conference in San Diego was the basis for the bitmap I've attached to my EMail for several years now. I spent a long time in late '94 with the Portable BitMap Toolkit and some image editors trying to figure out how to reduce the size and resolution of the image, and eventaully got it translated into the format used in EMail headers. And of course, most people never see it because Microsoft, AOL, and so forth don't support it. Sigh.

This image was taken while I was resuscitating an old Canon XapShot! digital camera at ICS in Cambridge. Not terribly imaginative, but there you have it.

And now the closer for this section. This image was also taken with the XapShot! at ICS. I took this image and printed out a greyscale copy blown up to cover an 8.5x11" page, and taped it up behind and just below the troublesome HP color printer. I didn't want people to forget me, and figured the best reminder would be when someone had to fiddle with the printers that had taken so much of my time while I was there.