Wendy Carlos won multiple Grammy awards for pioneering the use of synthesizers in her music. She composed the original soundtrack for Tron. She also happenes to be trans.
Trans people have always been around. Alan L Hart medically transitioned in 1917 and his experiences as a trans man influenced the novels that he wrote. He was a radiologist who made massive contributions to research on tuberculosis.
Pixie and Mr. Minx are the best of friends, they've been napping together for years now. In the beginning Pixie slept on Mr. Minx but roles have since been reversed.
It's been a hot summer already & we are just getting start. Thought you might appreciate a cool down. Even though it was a long cold winter, just a few minutes of this looks good. Winter in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico.
With all this talk of snow in the UK 🙄 here’s a snow-themed #ThrowbackThursday to March 2018 when we even had enough snow in Devon to make a snow #Totoro!
This is a part of the line of remembrance, where the Berlin Wall ran, in the middle of the city. It was 3.40m high and flanked by numerous other protective structures. As a child I was used to the Wall, and since 1990 it slowly disappeared, piece by piece. And yet - sometimes I am simply flabbergasted that today I can stand here with one foot on each side, just like that. Still an incredible feeling of happiness.
I saw an ad for this CD set at a very low price in a computer magazine. I decided to give it a try, enticed by the low cost and this 'alternative solution to Windows', and in late 1996 I ordered this set.
When it arrived, I was fascinated (having never used a Unix or Unix-like system before) but a bit daunted by the lack of support for the main applications I knew. A few months later, though, I decided to give it another go and from that point, I never looked back. Whether it was Linux, one of the BSDs, or something similar (but Unix or Unix-like), I was not going back to systems like Windows.
My #ThrowbackThursday today is probably one of the most significant in my computing life.
The 1889 Emigration Pass for my Great Great Grandmother who left India to become an indentured labourer on a sugar cane plantation on the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean.
Indians were recruited for plantation work after the British 1833 Slavery Abolition Act freed most slaves in the British Empire.
My ancestor stayed in Trinidad at the end of her tenure. Many others did too, giving Trinidad and Tobago its unique population mix.
22 years ago today I took this shot of #Manarola in the #CinqueTerre in #Italy. It's special to me because it was the first photo I took where everything really seemed to click -- I liked it, other people liked it, and I think I've been chasing that feeling ever since. Thanks also to my friend @Syncros who always encouraged me in those early days.
#ThrowBackThursday to 2008 when my friends mom had passed away a few months prior and we wanted to cheer him up so we arrived at his door dressed like Barry Gibb and Barbra Streisand from the Guilty album.
#ThrowbackThursday for this image from my garden a couple years ago, when I broadcast #sulfurcosmos into a bare patch of dirt and was rewarded with an incredible vibrant color show for months.
#OnThisDay, 27 July 2015, film-maker and activist Bree Newsome scaled a 30ft flagpole to remove the Confederate battle flag from South Carolina state grounds.
As well as leading to the permanent removal of the flag, her action ignited a wider debate about the impact of Confederate monuments in the States.
#ThrowbackThursday to a few years ago, pre-pandemic, when I was commuting 52 miles (84Km) roundtrip every day from our then home near downtown down to the Johnson Space Center (glad I don’t have to do that anymore). I took this photo while heading home on a #summer evening when the otherwise mundane drive in Houston freeway traffic was transformed by this dying #thunderstorm over the city, spectacularly lit up by the setting sun.