1. 5 Mar


    503 Lindsay is another member of our Bentley PhD cohort.  She’s an Accounting PhD student - which means that we Business PhD students dont’t get to see her in class any more; the divergence in courses the two groups take began last semester, and was completed this semester.  She’s like, all Accounting, all the time now.  When I shot this, she told me the Accounting students missed the rest of us.  She got married and moved into a new house right after we began our program, so she was planning all that while navigating through Philosophy of the Social Sciences class - no easy feat.  I think her dog has the same name as our school.

    503

    Lindsay is another member of our Bentley PhD cohort.  She’s an Accounting PhD student - which means that we Business PhD students dont’t get to see her in class any more; the divergence in courses the two groups take began last semester, and was completed this semester.  She’s like, all Accounting, all the time now.  When I shot this, she told me the Accounting students missed the rest of us.  She got married and moved into a new house right after we began our program, so she was planning all that while navigating through Philosophy of the Social Sciences class - no easy feat.  I think her dog has the same name as our school.

     

  2. 30 Dec


    502 My wife’s sister needed a change of scenery and pace, so she quit her job in Chicago and went on a traipse through southeast Asia.  While in Thailand, she met Chris.  They were married not too long after.  They live just outside of London now, which is where Chris is from.  He’s an electrician there.  I want to visit them and wander his neighborhood with him, so I can have a pint at his favorite pub, and do similar touristy things. I shot this on a wintry and cold winter morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    502

    My wife’s sister needed a change of scenery and pace, so she quit her job in Chicago and went on a traipse through southeast Asia.  While in Thailand, she met Chris.  They were married not too long after.  They live just outside of London now, which is where Chris is from.  He’s an electrician there.  I want to visit them and wander his neighborhood with him, so I can have a pint at his favorite pub, and do similar touristy things. I shot this on a wintry and cold winter morning in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

     

  3. 15 Sep


    501 Shana’s Tumblr name is an instruction on how to correctly pronounce her name - Shay-na, not Shah-na.  My guess is that she gets a fair share of people who say it wrong.  I met Shana in a small park outside Davis Square for this picture.  After we were done, we got to talking, and I found out that she had just graduated Level 6 in Boston’s Improv Asylum.  I had no idea improv theater had levels, much less six of them, so she educated me about what she had gone through over the last year or so.  I got the impression that making a serious go at theater is really what she wants to do.  

    501

    Shana’s Tumblr name is an instruction on how to correctly pronounce her name - Shay-na, not Shah-na.  My guess is that she gets a fair share of people who say it wrong.  I met Shana in a small park outside Davis Square for this picture.  After we were done, we got to talking, and I found out that she had just graduated Level 6 in Boston’s Improv Asylum.  I had no idea improv theater had levels, much less six of them, so she educated me about what she had gone through over the last year or so.  I got the impression that making a serious go at theater is really what she wants to do.  

     

  4. 27 Jul



    Things I Have Learned After 500 Faces (Halfway!)

    • The last 10 took about a year.  Apparently, going back to school can impinge on one’s ability to indulge in a hobby.
    • I started in April of 2010.  So, at this rate, I’ll be done around November 2014.  Right around the time I’ll be in dissertation hell.  So I wouldn’t count on it.
    • I think I’ve tapped almost everyone I know, which means I need to shoot more strangers. 
    • Shooting a picture of someone right after a crappy grade can make for really cool photos.
    • I require 500 more faces.  Who’s volunteering?

     

  5. 27 Jul


    500 Most Trinbagonians might recognize my 500th face.  He was Trinidad and Tobago’s national football team’s goalkeeper for many years, and represented T&T in the 2006 World Cup, in Germany (go Soca Warriors!)  He played professional football in England, for Reading, Newcastle, West Ham, and Portsmouth, between 1992 and 2006.  He retired from professional football in 2007, after a year in the MLS, playing for FC Dallas.  he now provides analysis and commentary for international football games - and for my money, does a helluva lot better that the Alexi Lalases and Mike Wynaldas of the world.  But then, I’m biased.  Because before he was the international goalkeeping star he became, he was the goalkeeper for my high school - St. Mary’s College - and I had the pleasure of seeing him lead the ‘Saints’ to many a victory ‘on de Grounds’ and ‘in de Stadium’.  I remember once - an opposing player committed a foul on him, and brought him down, and we on the sidelines started singing a well-known calypso: “Shaka Shaka, tell dem if dey lash my brudda/ Shaka Shaka, dey better hit all a’ we!”  Unbeknownst to me, he and his family had moved to the Boston suburbs a few years back, and he contacted me a few months ago.  We recently got together for beers, and some good  Trini ole talk.  We talked school, family, business, life, and football.  It was a good time.

    500

    Most Trinbagonians might recognize my 500th face.  He was Trinidad and Tobago’s national football team’s goalkeeper for many years, and represented T&T in the 2006 World Cup, in Germany (go Soca Warriors!)  He played professional football in England, for Reading, Newcastle, West Ham, and Portsmouth, between 1992 and 2006.  He retired from professional football in 2007, after a year in the MLS, playing for FC Dallas.  he now provides analysis and commentary for international football games - and for my money, does a helluva lot better that the Alexi Lalases and Mike Wynaldas of the world.  But then, I’m biased.  Because before he was the international goalkeeping star he became, he was the goalkeeper for my high school - St. Mary’s College - and I had the pleasure of seeing him lead the ‘Saints’ to many a victory ‘on de Grounds’ and ‘in de Stadium’.  I remember once - an opposing player committed a foul on him, and brought him down, and we on the sidelines started singing a well-known calypso: “Shaka Shaka, tell dem if dey lash my brudda/ Shaka Shaka, dey better hit all a’ we!”  Unbeknownst to me, he and his family had moved to the Boston suburbs a few years back, and he contacted me a few months ago.  We recently got together for beers, and some good  Trini ole talk.  We talked school, family, business, life, and football.  It was a good time.

     

  6. 27 Jul


    499 Jasper and our older daughter started day care at the same time, in the same class.  She used to call him ‘Jazzy’.  Upon meeting him once, my mother in law promptly decided that he should be in our family and decreed that they should get married someday.  When I took this, it was right before he bolted off - he saw his brother posing for my camera, so naturally, he had to do the total opposite, and not sit still.  I think he looks like Dustin Pedroia* in this picture.

    499

    Jasper and our older daughter started day care at the same time, in the same class.  She used to call him ‘Jazzy’.  Upon meeting him once, my mother in law promptly decided that he should be in our family and decreed that they should get married someday.  When I took this, it was right before he bolted off - he saw his brother posing for my camera, so naturally, he had to do the total opposite, and not sit still.  I think he looks like Dustin Pedroia* in this picture.

     

  7. 27 Jul


    498 This is Rory, Amanda (#496) and Patrick’s (#497) younger son.  The kid posed for me.  Posed!  Unlike his brother, who I couldn’t get to sit still for more than a half second.

    498

    This is Rory, Amanda (#496) and Patrick’s (#497) younger son.  The kid posed for me.  Posed!  Unlike his brother, who I couldn’t get to sit still for more than a half second.

     

  8. 27 Jul


    497 Patrick is Amanda’s husband, and dad to two boys (#498 and 499).  He met Amanda at Harvard, where he studied architecture after getting a philosophy degree.  He’s the co-owner of a building and construction firm called GreenEdge Builders.  He’s pretty quiet and soft-spoken - compared to me and my loud mouth, anyway - so it was a surprise to me to hear that he boxed.  To quote him, “in between reading Descartes and Nietzsche, I trained pretty seriously and my junior year I entered the Golden Gloves regional tournament in Lowell. I ended up being the 1999 novice division champion in the 200 lb. weight class.”  (I picked that up from housingzone.com, where he was once highlighted as one of the top ‘40 Professional Remodelers under 40’.  Which I also didn’t know about.  Google, man.)

    497

    Patrick is Amanda’s husband, and dad to two boys (#498 and 499).  He met Amanda at Harvard, where he studied architecture after getting a philosophy degree.  He’s the co-owner of a building and construction firm called GreenEdge Builders.  He’s pretty quiet and soft-spoken - compared to me and my loud mouth, anyway - so it was a surprise to me to hear that he boxed.  To quote him, “in between reading Descartes and Nietzsche, I trained pretty seriously and my junior year I entered the Golden Gloves regional tournament in Lowell. I ended up being the 1999 novice division champion in the 200 lb. weight class.”  (I picked that up from housingzone.com, where he was once highlighted as one of the top ‘40 Professional Remodelers under 40’.  Which I also didn’t know about.  Google, man.)

     

  9. 27 Jul


    496 As was probably inevitable, we, as parents of young kids, have met other parents of young kids as our respective kids have met and interacted.  Amanda’s first son is in our first daughter’s daycare class, and over the years we, along with a few other sets of parents (parent-sets?) have hung out.  We’ve been to their houses for kids’ parties, and they to ours.  Amanda’s a lawyer, who gets up early in the morning, before her kids wake up and before she has to go to work, and writes fiction.  It’s her true passion.  Which I think is really cool. 

    496

    As was probably inevitable, we, as parents of young kids, have met other parents of young kids as our respective kids have met and interacted.  Amanda’s first son is in our first daughter’s daycare class, and over the years we, along with a few other sets of parents (parent-sets?) have hung out.  We’ve been to their houses for kids’ parties, and they to ours.  Amanda’s a lawyer, who gets up early in the morning, before her kids wake up and before she has to go to work, and writes fiction.  It’s her true passion.  Which I think is really cool. 

     

  10. 27 Jul


    495 I met Bruce - Joanna (#492) fiance/husband - abut a half hour before they got married.  I say fiance/husband, because they had actually had a much larger ceremony in Chicago the weekend before their ceremony in Boston’s Public Garden.  He’s from Chicago originally - I picked up that he is a Cubs fan.  Their ceremony included her sons, and his two, older sons.  Four boys in the house now.  

    495

    I met Bruce - Joanna (#492) fiance/husband - abut a half hour before they got married.  I say fiance/husband, because they had actually had a much larger ceremony in Chicago the weekend before their ceremony in Boston’s Public Garden.  He’s from Chicago originally - I picked up that he is a Cubs fan.  Their ceremony included her sons, and his two, older sons.  Four boys in the house now.