**** PIC THREAD ***** Post a picture of yourself at work! Or if you don't work, wherever!

[SKKY]

Here I am, gettin' some kind of award. It's the only recent picture I have of me in uniform.

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[graywarrior]

1. *thud*

You studmuffin, you.

[SKKY]

2. Oh you! stop...

:blush:

[graywarrior]

3. I meant her!

:rofl:





I'm kidding. You're hot in white.

[SKKY]

4. You have no idea how much I, and pretty much everyone else in the Navy...

...hates that uniform. There is no way in hell you can wear it for more than 10 minutes and not stain it.

[graywarrior]

5. That means no coffee, no ice cream cones, no Cheezits, and no sneezing.

[SKKY]

6. No sitting. Only walking down very wide hallways, etc. They're horrible...

...they look good in formation, but that's about it.

[graywarrior]

7. I'll bet the white belt is a goner after one use.

[SKKY]

39. Damn near.

I get about 10 wears out of each one.

[Billy Ruffian]

87. Navy Whites; nothing has changed :-)

It's been a minor eon since I left the Navy, but I agree, the whites are a love/hate relationship. The Service Dress Whites for the officers is one of the sharpest uniform around, but you can't do ANYTHING but stand around and look pretty. I was on an ASR, and basically couldn't leave the main deck without getting it messed up.

[Orsino]

8. Hot off the presses.

Crappy cameraphone picture: me with a Windoze laptop and a Sun station.

[SKKY]

9. Cool. We just got rid of our Sun machines...

...they were our firewalls. Sun E250s to be exact. I kinda miss them. Now we use Sidewinders, which runs on Windows, and perhaps it's just familiarity but I was more comfortable with Sun. I even got to the point where I wouldn't even use the Gauntlet GUI to make changes, just edited the netperm-table text file.

[RetroLounge]

10. Just hanging around the bookstore

:hi:

RL

[lizziegrace]

12. Sigh...

You look very relaxed and happy. :hug:

[RetroLounge]

17. One of the few places I ever feel that way...

:hug:

RL

[lizziegrace]

23. My wish for you?

A chance to spend all your work time in the bookstore and leave the corporate world behind.

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

26. Yeah, that would be nice...

never happen. but a nice thought.

RL

[lizziegrace]

28. Never say never

Lelapin HATES when I say that...

:hug:

[SKKY]

13. Niiice! I was wondering when you were going to check it!

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

14. I'm not allowed to wear all white

for many reasons... :D

:hi:

RL

[SKKY]

21. As I posted with GrayWarrior earlier...

...the only time that uniform has been purely white and without stain was the day I purchased it. It's impossible to keep clean.

[lizziegrace]

11. *Swoon* ;-) A handsome man in uniform...

Me, before I played in a Christmas Eve service.

[SKKY]

19. Well, I am wearing a Uniform. That's true enough...

:hi:

[lizziegrace]

20. You *are* handsome

with a beautiful family. :hug:

:)

[SKKY]

22. Well thank you very much...

...yea, I think I'll keep 'em. :thumbsup:

[livetohike]

15. Very nice! Also, someplace warm.....I'm retired so here I am

trudging through the snow with my dogs.

[lizziegrace]

16. I love you signature line, and the photo

Beautiful scene. :hug:


:hi:

[livetohike]

24. Thank you!

:hi: That was taken last month, but we have nearly that much snow here today.

[SKKY]

18. I actually miss the snow...

for the past 7 years, I've lived in San Diego, California and Rota, Spain. I'm ready for some seasons.

[livetohike]

25. We moved back home here last year from Oceanside, CA

I missed the seasons while in CA and the trees :-).

[pengillian101]

55. That's Pennsyvania?

I never have been to PA, but it looks just like Minnesota. Just beautiful :-)

[livetohike]

79. Welcome to DU!

:hi: Yes it's north central PA. I lived in MN for several years and it is similar to the north country. There are lots of hemlock trees here and deciduous trees. We're kind of in a snow belt - we receive the lake effect snow to some extent.

[pengillian101]

109. Thanks for the welcome, livetohike

[DarkTirade]

27. I'm currently job-less, but I'll show pictures of me working on some things. :)

Me chugging away learning a song


Me doing some (de)construnction


Hard at work. Honest.


And the results of some of my work in the past
?Leatherwork Gothy bracer
I got tired of all those stupid little chrome plastic spikes trying to look tough. So when I made a pair of bracers, I wrapped each bracer up in five feet of black chain from Home Depot.

?leatherwork Armor bracer

?Geekery Geekery

?geekery More Geekery

?geekery And one more bit of geekery.

[SKKY]

29. Your website is pretty cool. I haven't downloaded any of the games yet...

...but I intend to. :thumbsup:

[DarkTirade]

30. I don't really have any finished products up there.

Mostly due to a harddrive crash a while back. :( I managed to recover the files for Break Invaders eventually... after I'd given up and had gotten most of the way done with Break Invaders 2. D'oh.

I'm pretty much done with Break Invaders 2 though, I'll probably end up putting the full version on my site. I just have to do an animation for the end. :) And then I'm probably gonna start Temple of Gloom over again, maybe with a different graphics style too. I wanted to do a bit of Prince of Persia style running/jumping/climbing originally, so I think I'll try and do a slightly larger, more articulated character style so it can do that.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

31. O.K., I'll try but you may have to click the link

This was from last summer. We were installing a copper roof on the new library at Santa Clara University. It was taken in response to my wife.

I was going to the roof of our three story condominium project to inspect the gutters and she didn't want me to get too close to the edge of the roof so I had a co-worker take this shot. The poor girl really has no idea what I do for a living.

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Proud member of Sheet Metal Workers Local 104

[DarkTirade]

32. Rock on.

There's nothing more metal than... err... metal. :headbang:

[SKKY]

33. Nice. Sometimes I wished I worked outdoors...

I'll go 12 hours easy and not see sunlight.

[av8rdave]

34. Work Pic

[SKKY]

35. Whatcha driving right there Dave?

Is it true that San Diego is one of the harder airports to land at?

[av8rdave]

36. No necessarily hard...just interesting

That's a 737-800

[SKKY]

38. A Marine Major I worked for said he hated it because there was a parking...

...garage right at the end of the runway, and it felt like he was flying right through Down Town San Diego. He's actually the one who turned me onto DU. He flew for FexEx before he got 'furloughed' during the first year of the war.

[av8rdave]

65. What he said is true...

The runway landing threshold is displaced a couple thousand feet for that very reason, and the visual glidepath clears the garage by the needed amount. The only result is that you have about 7000 feet of usable runway for landing, but we have that and less at a lot of stations.

[Aristus]

104. I rode a 737-800 out of Cancun to L.A. yesterday, and another one out of

L.A. to Seattle this morning. Were you driving either one, Dave?

[av8rdave]

120. I've done that one a lot, but that wasn't me on the one you were on

[lizziegrace]

37. Next time you have a layover here

We'll have a central OH meetup. VenusRising, ZodiacIronfist, Sallymander, IzaSparrow and others.

:hi:

[av8rdave]

66. Sounds like a lot of fun! I'll look forward to it

[Cannikin]

41. I'm so jealous! I've logged many hours in the -700...

On my pc of course! I think we use the same pens too! hehe

[Richardo]

40. Playin' with the cel phone cam at work...

Acting series.


Cubicle farm, large multinational company, project logistics.

It's a glamour profession.

[SKKY]

46. Yea...um...Ricardo...yea listen...

...I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in to work on Saturday. M'kay?

[Richardo]

51. That movie is not a comedy - it's a documentary

:D

[SKKY]

52. I know. I've worked in an environment just like that...

...except with no windows.

[fizzgig]

58. so true

i keep waiting for these guys to show up at my office

[Cannikin]

42. After an interview...

[Rhythm]

43. I work, but i spend most of my time at school...

My favorite place on the whole campus... love this sycamore tree!
It's about 200 yrs old, and is probably 70' high

[SKKY]

47. That's sweet...

...although, dude, you're a little bit too "friendly" with that tree, if you know what I'm saying! :P

[Rhythm]

57. Been called a 'tree-hugger' for decades...

Not a dude, though, dude :-)
Just a chick who's got it made in the shade... B-)

[SKKY]

62. I use "Dude" with everyone. I'll call my wife "Dude" sometimes...

...the word "Dude" can mean about 85,000 different things with me, depending on how I use it.

[Rhythm]

64. Gotcha, dude...

:hi:

[Ava]

44. the only picture i have of me at work was taken with my extremely crappy camera phone

not to mention that it's just a crappy pic of me


my real job is at home working on videos though ;)

[SKKY]

48. What program did you use to edit? What did you do "WWJD" on?

[Ava]

56. wwjd was done with a flash program

called swishpro... over the past two years though i've been making vids with a video editing program called powerdirector. i'm switching to final cut whenever i get my mac but that is because i'm going to be doing some heavy editing on my documentary.

[speedoo]

85. Umm, Ava, there is no camera crappy enough to make you look..

.... less than beautiful.:hi: :loveya:

[Ava]

93. aw shucks

:blush: thanks :pals:

[Shakespeare]

45. From a couple of weeks ago (but here I sit at work on a Saturday, too)

Bleah. Big, nasty appellate briefs to finish up. Double bleah.

[SKKY]

49. Sounds like a cure for insomnia if I've ever heard one...

...but, you look stunning doing it! :hi:

[SPKrazy]

50. 3 of me at work... well at the place i work...

none really working

So just another award, oh well, they use a lot of bleach I bet in the Navy...

:hi:

nice pic!

[SPKrazy]

112. ...

:shrug:

[shanine]

118. lookin good to me

:hug:

[SallyMander]

53. Who else could be at work in a swamp?

:D

[SKKY]

54. That's freakin' awesome!

Chicks in muddy hip-waders rock! :hi:

[SallyMander]

63. Thanks!

And you yourself are a cutie! :D

:hug:

[lizziegrace]

76. ...

:hug:

:hi:

[SallyMander]

78. ...

:loveya:

[Zephyrbird]

101. Cool!! Are you crawdaddin'??

Or doing research of some kind?

Zephyr

[SallyMander]

110. Research - i'm in grad school

in biology. My research focuses on salamanders (hence the name, hehee) and how habitat destruction affects them.

:hi:

[Zephyrbird]

111. Well, duhhhhh on me!!

SallyMander. I'm slapping my forehead here.

You reminded me of the Dirty Jobs when Mike Rowe was crawdaddin' down south, so that's the first thing I thought of.

Second, you notice, WAS research! Very cool.

Zephyr

[SallyMander]

121. LOL! No worries!

I saw many crayfish during my field work... guess i could have rounded some up if i'd thought of it! :D

Did you ever see the "Dirty Jobs" where Mike helped a biologist who studies water snakes up on Lake Erie? She is a good friend of mine!

[EstimatedProphet]

119. Me

I used to, but i don't have any pics any more.

[SallyMander]

122. Swamps are completely underappreciated

They are really such neat places. :D

What did you do?

:hi:

[EstimatedProphet]

123. Grad school

Pond work, stream work, wetlands, you name it. My own stuff and volunteering too, and coursework. Grad school in a nutshell.

[WCGreen]

59. At work with Pat and Dennis....

It's from a while back...

Back when I weighed in at about 250...

I think I'm twice DK's size...

Fatso Foggaly...

[JTG of the PRB]

60. This isn't really my job...

...and it's not technically me... But, here it is.

[truedelphi]

108. How do we know it is not you?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

61. Me in a tie. Take the rolaid now...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

67. Me on my last day at work...April 29, 2005...with my coworkers!

It feels very long ago now...

[SKKY]

71. You worked in the Medical Field???

I didn't see that one coming.

[jgraz]

84. I totally did

Peggy has that special style of deep kindness that you only seem to find in healthcare workers.

[SKKY]

86. I pictured her to more of an academic type...

...she's always so thoughtful and eloquent in her posts.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

90. My dear jgraz...

Wow, thank you...

That is really kind of you to say...:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

89. Yup, I was a nurse...

The last ten years I worked for the Red Cross in Blood Collections...

I loved working with healthy donors!

I still donate from time to time, and my coworkers take care of me!

:hi:

[SKKY]

91. My Dear CaliforniaPeggy...

...How interesting. I never would have figured. :hi:

[Generic Brad]

68. I cannot comply

I work in a secured area and am not allowed to post pictures. You'll have to use your imagination.

[appal_jack]

69. cuttin' brush!

I bet this will be the only 'work' photo of brush-cuttin posted in this thread. And I hope y'all will agree that I've got * beat in this department...

This was some Saturday work for a friend who wanted to expand her market garden, but she is working with only hand tools. I took one look at the field of briars and calculated that she would complete the project using a scythe around 2116 AD. When I got to her place with this brush mower, she kind of rolled her eyes and said "Boys and their toys..." An hour later when the acre was all mowed, she was less ironic. :hippie:

Anyway, my work clothes are filthy, and I've got that concentrating-too-hard blank look on my face, but, believe it or not, I am rather happy doing this kind of work.

-app

[SallyMander]

77. You!

We match! :D

(see upthread)


:loveya:

[appal_jack]

80. hooray mud!

Any chance to get outside and into the dirt is a good one, yes?

You look lovely and happy in your swamp gear there!

:loveya:

-app

[SallyMander]

95. Absolutely!

Wish i were playing in the mud now... alas, i am buried under a pile of exams i have to grade. x(

It's almost salamander season though! :bounce:


Hope you're having a great weekend app! :hug:

[mike_c]

70. I've posted this one before....

Me, hunting the wily ephedrid fly....




And here I am grading exams in the Saline Valley....

[SKKY]

72. All you people with outdoor jobs make me jealous...

...grading exams underneath a tarp! You just gotta love that.

[mike_c]

102. yeah well, on the downside I just spent the ENTIRE weekend...

...sitting in front of a computer doing class prep work of various kinds. My job is a mix of outdoor work and office/lab/classroom work. The latter can get REAL tedious.

[puerco-bellies]

73. Here is one of me and Alison before a little stroll last summer..

[SKKY]

74. The Grand Canyon is amazing...

...I wish ALiberalWife was more "outdoorsey". :sigh: As perfect as she is, it's the one thing I would change if I could.

[livetohike]

88. Nice! Both of you and the Grand Canyon

:-)

[jberryhill]

75. Yakking away, per usual

I got another speaking invitation the other day. My usual response is, "Speaking is not a problem. Getting me to shut up is the hard part."

[SKKY]

81. What were you discussing on that panel?

[jberryhill]

107. Really boring stuff

...internet domain names and trademark law.

Although I started by trying to figure out how to sing "The Name Game" with "Obama".

[SKKY]

117. Actually, I'm an IT, so I would probably find that interesting.

[greyl]

97. Hey, nice to meet ya! nt

[leftofthedial]

82. I recommend you reconsider your fashion choices

white is SO hard to keep clean . . .



congratulations. thanks for your service, both in the USN and at DU!

[SKKY]

83. Well, that particular uniform goes away at the end of this year...

...so I'm happy about that. My pleasure! :patriot:

[Bombero1956]

92. you can't see me but I was there

[SKKY]

94. Oh snap!

That's crazy. I admire you for the job you do. :thumbsup:

[Bombero1956]

96. the second picture was much hairier than the first

The first one was an old clothing factory where Carters made baby clothes. It went up on New Years Eve night. The second one the hydrant on the street was undermined and it took an extra 5 minutes to get water on the fire. Being balloon construction it got away from us and it was a total loss. Thanks for your service. My cousin just retired from the Navy last year after 21 years, 14 of them in subs and he couldn't stand wearing the whites either.

[SKKY]

98. I was on a Damage Control team on the Carl Vinson...

...so I know just a little bit about fighting fires. Enough to know, you guys don't get paid nearly enough to do what you do. My service is my pleasure. But I will say this, those "bubble heads" are a different breed of cat all together! :)

[Bombero1956]

99. ah

then you know what a screaming alpha is right?

[SKKY]

100. Oh yea!

They could use a smiley for that. A lot of people on here would certainly classify as screaming alphas!

[Aristus]

103. Looking good, Liberal Sailor! Navy whites sure are sharp! Here's me at work:

[SoxFan]

105. At City Hall

My desk in the aldermanic chambers. This was taken on Inauguration Day this past January, hence the flower in my lapel.

[HughBeaumont]

106. 2.2.08

[libnnc]

113. Well, here's me looking all pensive in NYC

on vacation couple of years ago

We were in the Lower East Side at a coffee shop -- waiting for a tour of the Tenement Museum to start.

[FlyingSquirrel]

114. My daughter just took one of me today... Not the bestest pic, that's for sure.

[Skittles]

116. oh it's a great pic!

:thumbsup:

[Skittles]

115. OOH you are HANDSOME

I've dated members of all branches of the military and sailors are the most fun - yes INDEED :thumbsup:

Did you go to Great Lakes?