Welcome to adric's personal home page on the WWW ( updated Aug 02025 CE ).
Perhaps a simple personal web site is already an anachronism,
but we are increasingly fond of such symbols. We've been on Terrestrial data networks as adric
and adricnet for decades of Solar cycles in one guise or another.
It was long past time for another go at it.
Several 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 digital camera... Would you like to know more?
[Now many] years ago, I decided I needed an icon for LiveJournal (LJ), [my first social web home] 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 readily available and 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 JPEG on a 1.44 inch "floppy disk". The GIMP cropped and resized the best of them, and wrote this PNG. Other things in the icon include: "shades" (prescription spectacles with darkened lenses), "scrunchie" (velvet and elastic hair accessory)
This is not the professional profile with papers and presentations, but a personal site.
Made with $EDITOR and chocolate. Copyleft 2025 adric dot net, MIT License