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This is Harry, my father’s father. At 15, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, and in WWI he was bayoneted, bombed, and subjected to mustard gas. The war left him physically and emotionally disabled—violent, paranoid, condemned to a life in the shadows. He married eight times before disappearing in the 1970s. You can read more about Harry here.

This is the desktop image on my home iMac. I find it concentrates my mind wonderfully.

More desktop images are coming soon. Download them all, and enjoy. (P.S. Old desktop images are also available.)

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An Event Apart San Francisco: December 12–14, 2011
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Open Source Scotland: April 13–14, 2012
Interlink, Vancouver, BC: June 6–8, 2012
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