Cole in his birthday suit

Since it's my birthday today - I thought I should put a new photo on the masthead of Cole's Notes and View from the Plateau. The old Blogger photo is from 2002 - so here's the new one:



You know you're doing too much blogging when you start to look like John C. Dvorak

For those who don't know who he is:

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