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10 o'clock, April 22, 2003

I spent a couple of hours this evening trying to rustle up an author pic for Say... what time is it? and discovered that, one, I have almost no pictures of myself, and two, I like almost none of the ones I do have. (Anyone who’s studied psychology could probably have a field day with that information. Brandon, Susan: go nuts.)

I ransacked the apartment (unsuccessfully) for the original of this picture my mother took some time in ‘99 or ‘00, before Printers Inc. in Mountain View got bought out and started to suck. I dug through several boxes for my old Japanese ID, and couldn’t find that, either, though I probably wouldn’t have been able to scan it at high enough resolution.

But I did find this. It ought to do.

There are at least four lies in this picture. Among them:

David does not wear glasses.
David is not losing his hair.
David can juggle.

I ought to be too young to be playing this sort of game, but what the hell.

Comments

By any chance, is the fourth lie the careful Photoshopped removal of a UFO from the background?

—— Jon, 5:16 AM, Wednesday, April 23, 2003

There *is* a suspicious amount of white in the left half of the picture. I agree with Jon in that I suspect the image has been Photoshopped. To remove what, though? Much too much space for a UFO, wouldn't you think?

—— Scott Reilly, 5:32 AM, Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Perhaps Mothra, or Godzilla (or Gojira, if you want to get technical about it).

Yep. Tokyo burns while David pretends to juggle.

—— Jon, 6:06 AM, Wednesday, April 23, 2003

He has been to Japan, hasn't he? Is he to Tokyo burning what Nero was to Rome burning (substituting, or course, Nero's fiddling with David's juggling)?

Or, perhaps, is he responsible for calling forth Godzilla?

—— Scott Reilly, 6:47 AM, Wednesday, April 23, 2003

I was thinking more of Nero (although without the garland in his hair). But he could be summoning Godzilla, although I don't see how pretending to juggling would do it.

Pretending to be a mime, perhaps, but that would only make him a target for a well-placed atomic fire blast.

—— Jon, 8:32 AM, Wednesday, April 23, 2003

I went with this one, which depicts the following lies:
1. Greg does not wear glasses.
2. Greg is not over 4'8".
3. Greg is a gun nut.

—— Greg van Eekhout, 9:30 AM, Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Beautiful. I think you beat me in the Misrepresented Age category by a few years, too.

As for what’s in that white space, I ain’t sayin’ nothin’.

—— David Moles, 10:05 AM, Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Never too much space for a UFO. They're all about space.

As for Printers Inc. in Mountain View: the new Books Inc. was pretty bad for a couple months, but I actually rather like it now. A decent selection, at least one extremely knowledgeable salesclerk, and the cafe has reopened so there's even a place to sit and write.

—— Jed, 10:51 AM, Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Greg, what are you brandishing? Is it:

a) a water pistol,
b) a BB pistol,
c) a toy pistol, be it cap or not, or
d) an actual pistol?

—— Jon, 10:58 AM, Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Just a cap pistol, Jon. Wish I still had it. This was back in the days when they were allowed to look realistic.

—— Greg van Eekhout, 11:07 AM, Wednesday, April 23, 2003

My parents recently cleaned out their attic and brought over several boxes of my crap (read here: RPG stuff, chiefly but not exclusively). Mixed in with it was a toy UZI. Extremely realistic looking from about a distance of five feet. I had bought it for a Halloween costume one year in high school (which I wore to school, by the way).

Ah, simpler times.

Incidentally, I think you two misrepresenting your age is extremely appropriate for a theme of ...What time is it?.

—— Jon, 11:47 AM, Wednesday, April 23, 2003

Good point.

—— David Moles, 12:30 PM, Wednesday, April 23, 2003

I have one now and then. Congrats again, by the way. Now I'll have to be sure and buy the thing.

—— Jon, 1:10 PM, Wednesday, April 23, 2003