My Decade in Photos: 2000-2001

This decade is done, folks. Finito!

I would go so far as to say it’s been a pretty good one.

Maybe even the best one of my whole life :)

I thought I’d try to do the impossible and illustrate the decade in photos.  One photo per year would be ridiculously hard, but I’m still going to limit myself.  Four photos per year for a total of 40 photos to outline the past decade.

Here goes nothin’:

2000

To set the stage, I was beginning the second semester of my first year at Purdue University.  I was trying, and failing (literally) to succeed in the “Freshman Engineering” program.  I was not taking my classes very seriously and spent a majority of my time online, watching movies and not attending to my studies.  I broke up with my high school girlfriend Jessica, and was working for the Purdue Police department as a Student Security Patrol.

I met two new friends who lived in my dorm (McCutcheon Hall): Jacqui Cheng and Will Smith. People I still know today ;)

January 26, 2000: A hard drive in Jacqui’s Blue & White G3 goes bad but she can’t RMA it unless she runs a vendor provided application and generates an error code. This application only runs in DOS on a PC!  We install the disk in my computer, run the tool and get a code.  She left her screwdriver in my room.  This is the photo that launched 10 years of really, really great times:

May 19, 2000: I did really poorly my first year at college and was on academic suspension.  So I stayed over the summer and took summer classes. I stayed in Hawkings Hall.  I turned my academic and personal life around this summer.  This was also around the time that me and Jacqui began our pseudo-relationship:

June 28, 2000: So there was this weird misunderstanding and it was really funny.  We got that all cleared up eventually:

October 20, 2000: Sophomore year of college. I met so many fun people who were different in so many ways from people I’d known before:

2001

2001 was another pivotal year for me.  I abandoned my old major at Purdue and started—but ultimately failed—pursuing a new major, CPT (Computer Technology).  I met a lot of new friends and began my relationship with Jacqui in earnest.  This was also the year I became active in the Ars Technica forums, something that ultimately changed my life in ways I couldn’t even begin to understand in 2001.  I also began at job at the Entomology department as a “Graphics Specialist” and began doing a ton of web development.  Mostly horrible, horrible PHP and HTML in Dreamweaver!  Here’s the best four photos a I have (pics are sparse for this year).

February, 2001: I had gotten my first Mac.  A Graphite iBook SE.  It had a 466MHz G3 processor, 64MB of RAM (which I eventually took up to 320), and a 10GB hard drive.  I eventually got this baby setup with an airport card but we generally just used ethernet back then.  This photos is from the “Grill” in Harrison Hall.  We’d hang out here, do homework, talk, eat horrible food, and we’d work in the radio station across the hall.  Great times here:

Various dates throughout 2001: I seem to have a real dearth of photos from this time.  But here’s some good ones