A couple years ago, I decided I needed an icon for LJ, so I pondered briefly (never considering a image of myself, mind you) and stacked some books on a chair at a shop where I was then teaching and could borrow a digicam. The titles selected were intended to convey some of my areas of interest, as well as books I'd recommend. The order was by size, with some minor aesthetic considerations. The original images were taken with a Sony Mavica digicam straight to floppy. The GIMP cropped and resized the best of them, and wrote this PNG. The images are gone, as that account caught a purge while I was between adric.com and adric.net.

Doctor Who Programme Guide, Volume Two

Schneier, Bruce. A C, 1994, Second Edition...

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

Schneier, Bruce. A C, 1994, Second Edition...

The Tipping Point

Schneier, Bruce. A C, 1994, Second Edition...

Satan Speaks

Schneier, Bruce. A C, 1994, Second Edition...

The Number of the Beast

Schneier, Bruce. A C, 1994, Second Edition...

Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls

Schneier, Bruce. A C, 1994, Second Edition...

Building Internet Firewalls

Schneier, Bruce. A C, 1994, Second Edition...

Essential System Administration, Second Edition

Schneier, Bruce. A C, 1994, Second Edition...

Applied Cryptography

Schneier, Bruce. A C, 1994, Second Edition...

The Codebreakers

Schneier, Bruce. A C, 1994, Second Edition...

Twenty Questions:

Schneier, Bruce. A C, 1994, Second Edition...

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