Nokia 3650 Self-Portraitathon

I got a new phone recently. This is both good news and bad news. Boomer has now given me a new Treo 700p from Sprint. It means that I can now drop my personal phone service, which is good since Terri and I wouldn't have been able to afford two phones soon. It's bad because I'm getting a phone because I'm now officially on call for after hours IT support every other week. That's a pretty reasonable trade, as far as I'm concerned. It's also bad because my old phone number will be going away.

However, as I was transfering my photos off my old phone I was struck by a couple things. First, I've had my old Nokia 3650 for a long time, since 2002. I'd forgotten I'd worked for K-State that long (since I bought the phone after getting the job as Systems Coordinator there). The second thing was that I have a Holy-Crap-Load of self-portraits on the phone. I really like taking self-portraits for some reason—the photo that's currently in the upper-right of this site is a self-portrait. Anyway, I had quite a chuckle looking through these, so please read-on and mock.

This is my rare chance to use this blog to create a MySpace, erm, "quality" post. Enjoy. :-D

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This was the first photo I took with my new phone. Exciting. Moving on...

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Okay... so this is me in our old apartment. I'm... what am I doing? I look like I'm feeling hungry and am about to stuff the phone into my mouth.

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Look at that guy. He's a thinker and he's totally filled his whiteboard with the stuff he's trying to convince his students is sooooo important. Poor schmucks...

By the way, given the location of where I'm sitting, my office must have still been in the sub-optimal configuration my predecessor preferred.

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Everything is OK. Wait a minute, am I wearing a T-shirt under that Henley?! What was I thinking. This must be before Terri started forcing me to watch "What Not to Wear."

See all those books on the shelves behind me. Those were manuals to computers the department got rid of sometime in the early 1990's (if not sooner). I set them all on a table in the foyer, wrote "FREE BOOKS" with a Sharpie on a piece of paper, and they were ALL GONE in two days. College students will pick up and carry away raw sewage if someone will just put a FREE sign on it.

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Yes, I'm in the bathroom and taking my self-portrait. I don't remember the reason for the thumbs up anymore, so we'll make this a Choose Your Own Adventure. Was I doing it because I'm Awesome? Turn to page 63. If it's because I'm just a dork, turn to page 7.

You choose page 7? Sorry, your time machine malfunctioned and you are now stranded sometime in the mid-Jurrasic Period. THE END.

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Poor guy. This was sent as a multimedia message to my wife to let her know that I forgot to go buy whatever it was that I was supposed to buy listed on that little yellow card.

By the way, have I mentioned how much I loved that whiteboard? Look at all the pretty stuff on it. I really hated having that table in front of it. I moved it soon after this was taken. Scarily, I still wear that shirt too...

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This was the image that somehow got configured for my phone startup. I never did figure out how to get it back off. I'd say I look cool in this photo, but if you look carefully, I actually look kind of constipated.

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Speaking of constipated. This is my constipated country-bumpkin impression.

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Oh, yeah. I am awesome. This is in the attic of Flint Hills Christian School. I believe this was taken during my tenure as head of the visuals team, which runs the PowerPoints at church.

Did I mention I'm awesome?

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Hehe. Okay, do I look like an axe murderer? That may be because when I was the Systems Coordinator for CIS, I occasionally had secret hopes of becoming one when folks came by my door and asked for the forty-second time during the day, "X is broken," so I can answer one more time, "I Know That! Leave Me Alone So I Can Fix It!"

Those were good days. Yep, good days.

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Oh yeah, baby. Look at that gorgeous head of hair. Actually, my barber, Phil, often comments how much he likes my hair. It's also the reason Terri married me.

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Next to Trumpy (that's the son I fathered that hasn't yet been born or given a real name yet), these are two of my three favorite short people in the world, the third had not yet entered the world.

My nephews are fascinated with digital cameras, as any real men should be.

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This is one of my favorite photos ever. Terri thought I was posing seriously for this shot. She also allowed a portrait when she wasn't all fancied up. This has been the wallpaper on my phone ever since we took that photo and it's still the wallpaper on my new phone.

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I hate shopping. Man, I really despise shopping. I'm bored. I don't like shopping. Is she out of the dressing room yet? How many things did she take in there? I don't like shopping. Is this place ever not having a sale? Is she coming out yet... hey, let's play with my phone! That will be at least slightly more exciting... right?

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Uh, oh. Here she comes. Look happy.

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Again with the bored. There are too many people and too much noise at a wedding reception for my introvertedness. Hey, let's get out the phone and take yet another self-portrait.

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Hey! There they are again. Those dudes are soooooo cool. Especially the one in the middle.

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I have no idea when I took this. It must have been during one of those black out periods after I got asked the two-hundred-eleventh time about the latest email outage.

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I believe I took this photo in a Hobby Lobby somewhere out there because Terri said something to me that deserved that face. What did she say...?

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Good morning! This was meant to be sent to my wife who was at a conference at the time. Man, I am so dorky.

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I'm evil. This was taken at the airport when I got to Jacksonville, Florida for my brother's graduation from TBC. I meant to send it to Terri, who was stuck at work in Kansas, while I was waiting for my folks to pick me up.

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Uh... I haven't the slightest clue where that was taken, but boy do I look happy about it.

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Again with the constipated coolness. I really should eat more prunes.

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And this brings us up to the present, or at least the present of three months ago when I was working my butt off at work. This was the latest night of all, where I stayed until well into the morning working on something for The Launch That Never Was, Part 1.

And yes, that is 21" x 2 of buttery, flat-screened goodness behind me. My workstation setup is about as awesome as I could ask—except for the speed of my workstation. Though, that will be remedied shortly.

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That concludes this year's tour of my phone self-portraits. I hope you've enjoyed the tour. Please don't forget to visit the gift shop on your way out.

Cheers.