2008 in pictures

I hate a bad internet meme, but I love a good one, and Amber and Rusty have a good one. I was hoping to pick one picture per month and hit all twelve, but with 4 minutes left in the year, I’m going to just be a bit haphazard, especially since some of the pics I wanted to use aren’t on Flickr (and are trapped on a computer 600 miles north of my current location).

January

A trip I’ll never forget to the Iowa Caucus — last meal before the big day with some of Team Biden.

From Iowa almost directly to New York to join fellow YouTuber Erica America at MTV and become part of Choose or Lose Street Team ‘08, for what it was worth.

February

Super Tuesday — most special to me for getting my first taste of the Nokia N95, but enhanced by its coincidence with Fat Tuesday and one rather drunk McCain voter at the Vortex.

Prom photo — Broken Hearts & Bicycle Parts bike ride for SoPo Bike Collective.

March

Got Hope? Vine City gets mauled by an in-town tornado. Crazy times.

April

Cracked! Two years later than expected, I finally start generating mixed-mode fatigue cracks. Fat lot of good that did. Please kill me.

May

Hook up with New Media Strategies to cover ISEF ‘08.

July

I got older. And people came out for beers. And my mom didn’t even have to pay them this year.

August

Reconnected with a couple former summer camp-mates in Highlands, NC after, like, 20 years.

October

“Go big or go home,” as they say; I completely FUBAR my hair trying to achieve Greg House, M.D.’s mousey brown. Lauren buys a lab coat.

November

There’s like this historical election thing. I try to enjoy the moment as much as possible while pseudo-working.

December

My mom (right) gets me to march in the King Mango Strut Parade, our last as Miami residents.

We pop a little champagne in my dad’s chambers for one last Christmas amid burn barrels of confidential documents and moving boxes. The judge retires at 80 in January.