Kurt Groetsch @ OldTasty.com

Surfer silhouette, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.
This is what the first week of March looks like in Northern California, a far cry from what my friends and family in Missouri and Illinois are dealing with right now.

Horse in QingHai, originally uploaded by Roy.
Hey, my friend Dongjia made the Flickr blog again! The first time was back in the early days of the site for this photo, which I really enjoy. I have to say, though, he’s really stepped it up since then: he’s bought several more cameras — a Seagull 4B-1 […]

At the Humble Administrator’s Garden, Suzhou, 2005, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.
Is it possible that this was only one year ago?

That Does It, I’m Leaving Beijing, originally uploaded by China Chas.
This is the photo I would point to if anyone were to ask why I don’t want to live in Beijing again. And to think, in two years the world’s finest athletes will be running a marathon in this.

Gateway Arch, St. Louis, Missouri, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.
The last 30 days’ travel:

Champaign -> Chicago -> Champaign
(picking Sheena up from the airport)
Champaign -> St. Louis
(meeting the folks)
St. Louis -> Champaign
(back for a night)
Champaign -> Kokomo, IN
(Sheena’s training seminar at Delphi)
Kokomo, IN -> Champaign
(Document Modeling final)
Champaign -> Kokomo, IN
Kokomo -> Indianapolis
(one night at The Villa Inn […]

Kurt’s back, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.
Back in St. Louis for Thanksgiving.

Even though I store all of my photos on Flickr, I sort of miss being able to display them on my own site like I used to (though I don’t miss the time I put in to hand-building those galleries). So I was intrigued when I stumbled across the FAlbum WordPress plugin, which uses the […]

My box, originally uploaded by allanli.
Well, I’m not sure if it’s really public domain material, but this guy took some of the images from my collections of Cultural Revolution clip art (this one for sure) at Flickr and created what looks like revolutionary gift box. Score one for fair use.

Home away from home, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.
Want to find me on campus this semester? More often than not I’ll be in the northwest corner of the UIUC reference room, tapping away on my computer or marking up one of my class readings. The engineering library may be open until three in the morning but […]