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24 February 2012

Photo Friday: Time Machine. To honor the sixth anniversary of Photo Friday, post the photo you took closest to six years ago to the time of your post. Alternatively, post a photo embodying the idea of a time machine.
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posted by pjern 24 February | 01:06
Damn. Just occurred to me. Shoulda used it to go back and get a shot for today:

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Of course, then again....
posted by Kronos_to_Earth 24 February | 02:08
In February 2006 I was living in Fairbanks where the winters are super cold yet super gorgeous with the blue skies and hoarfrost. Plus there's Ice Alaska - the international ice carving championship.

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posted by rhapsodie 24 February | 03:00
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In Feb 2006 I hadn't got into photography in any big way, and so this was taken on my old 1.6MP Sony Cybershot.
posted by Senyar 24 February | 04:25
I don't have any photos that age, so here's a time machine: the Greenwich Time Ball, which drops at 13:00 every day so all the ships docked on the Thames at Greenwich can synchronize their clocks.

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posted by TheophileEscargot 24 February | 07:41
It looks like my closest photo is some book thongs I crocheted in early Mar 2006. I wonder where I stuck those ....

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posted by bluesapphires 24 February | 08:08
On February 24, 2006 I took the day off to shoot photos with my youngest for her high school photography class.

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posted by tommasz 24 February | 08:13
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Nothing between December 2005 and April 2006, for some reason. This one of Daughter seems to be closest.
posted by danf 24 February | 08:43
https://picasaweb.google.com/105139875914473208220/AliOnlinePics?authkey=Gv1sRgCOeOxreC7PzosAE#5712701828753142114

Here I am at the Biltmore in Asheville.

Why can't I inline my pictures?
posted by msali 24 February | 09:05
Kayla, six years ago tomorrow:

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She still looks basically the same.
posted by BoringPostcards 24 February | 09:14
msali, try copying the image's URL and then use the "Image" button under the comment window here on MeCha, like this (this is msali's pic that she linked to above):

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posted by BoringPostcards 24 February | 09:16
Fittingly enough, the picture I took on February 22, 2006, was more or less for Mecha & is titled OMG Bunnies.

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But I kind of like these two, from February 19, better.
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Still have the dog, still have the coffee table, the bookshelf, the paintings, the bowls but the couch and the rug are long since history.

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I really should get back into knitting. I'm so good at it. All my friends and family deserve to own one of my hats. *cackles evilly*
posted by mygothlaundry 24 February | 09:23
A vintage photo (well, 2006) of vintage stuff, at Wheels Through Time in Maggie Valley, NC.

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A 1928 BMW R62 in the collection at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Leeds, AL.

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And to complete the theme, a photo of me during my first season roadracing (2002). Shot at Barber Motorsports Park on Ektachrome.

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posted by workerant 24 February | 09:28
Here's my "Hello Dali" series, of my grandfather's 108-year-old pocket watch. It still runs!

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posted by pjern 24 February | 09:46
In early 2006, the house I was living in with two other guys in East Dallas was broken into during the day when nobody was home. Among the items pilfered (including a TV, my laptop, and a bunch of booze) was my digital camera, so the only stuff I have from Feb. of 2006 are rudimentary phonecam pics. Closest date I could find was Feb 21, this picture of a Llewellyn Spaniel puppy I'd recently acquired as a client:

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posted by ufez 24 February | 10:25
About six years ago I was doing bunny stuff for metachat:

Strange to think it was six years ago.

Grr. It will show up in preview but won't post.
I bet I have to add them all by hand.
posted by ethylene 24 February | 12:33
I'm impressed that everyone can come up with such killer photos for an arbitrary date.

My closest photo (2/22/2006) would be this one of the house:
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I took this one a bit earlier that morning. It was an unfortunate victim of photoshop experimentation, though I still like it.
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posted by DarkForest 24 February | 12:45
Round about that time we took a well-deserved vacation in Key West. Here are three:
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posted by plinth 24 February | 13:39
Um, uh... This is what I posted six years ago, heh:

Tigger actor acquitted of fondling teen

Jury takes less than an hour to decide case of Disney World worker
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:12 p.m. ET Aug. 4, 2004

ORLANDO, Fla. - A Walt Disney World worker who portrayed the character Tigger was acquitted Wednesday of charges he fondled a 13-year-old girl while posing for a photo with the teen and her mother.
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photo: George Skene/AP

Attorney Jeff Kaufmann, right, wears a Tigger costume
for his final arguments in the trial of Michael Chartrand...
Full story here.

Christopher Robin also came to Tigger's defence, saying the tiger was a bit randy ("It's all part of being 'bouncy bouncy bouncy'...") but never did anything more improprietous than goosing Robin's housecat Mrs Wiggles. However, in related news, Calvin's arch-nemesis Suzie is accusing Hobbes and Tony the Tiger of improper advances in a hotel the characters stayed at for a Children's Favorite Animals convention last Spring. "It was like the U.S. Navy Tailhook Scandal," Suzie said on an episode of the Jerry Springer show, "I had to run through a gauntlet of fuzzy animals to get to my room, and they were all pawing me, just ... pawing me ... with their paws ... " she said, breaking down in tears in Springer's arms. "The whole time I was screaming, 'I'm not a furry! I'm not into this! Leave me alone!'"

Hobbes denies all allegations on the basis of "Are you kidding? I don't want her cooties!" while Tony would only make the cryptic comment "Theeeeeey're greeeeeat!"

Calvin told reporters "Suzie is just still pissed off because of the bag of dogpoo Hobbes and I set fire to on her porch. Can you believe she stomped out the flames? Whatta moron."

Tigers the world over (including Simba and Kimba) are banding together to fight what they see as a smear campaign against their kind, like this photo originally presented as evidence against Tigger:

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The image turned out to be a crude photoshopping of two photo's found on the Internet, cobbled together by a weblogger and writer named Shane.

Shane could not be reached for comment, but his spokesperson Widget the Kitty told reporters "Get over it. It was just a joke. He's a total cat-lover. And the man has no time for conspiracies, he's always cleaning out five litter boxes. Besides, he's just not that smart."
posted by shane 24 February | 13:51
Six years ago I was between cameras - here's one of the last shots I took before that (dating from November '05):

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posted by misteraitch 24 February | 16:16
August 2006 at Flickr:
Raccoon posse in the park across from the condo I had just bought. A Polish girl used to go feed them rolls (there's a video here). Eventually, the Park Service people cracked down on her.
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February 2006 on the harddrive (I was making icons):
New boots, in my sister's bedroom:
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Old wig, in the bathroom at my parents' house:
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I actually think the picture in the wig is older than 06 because that is the digicam I had in 2001, not the one I had when I bought my place.
posted by crush-onastick 24 February | 18:07
From an ultimate frisbee world record attempt in college. April 2006.

The University Street tunnel station in Seattle always felt like a time machine to me.
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posted by shane 26 February | 23:31
Hm. I have a gap from 2003 to 2007. Kinda busy then.

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The kids, experimenting with water colors in the driveway.
posted by lysdexic 27 February | 10:18
So I want to have a web site. || Crazy time-lapse photos of fireflies

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