The Wombat

Date:March 29, 2012
Location:Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Womby in Rotterdam; waiting for the Thalys.
[Rotterdam, NL]
[Leiden, The Netherlands]
Date:March 29, 2012
Location:Leiden, The Netherlands
Womby in Leiden, on the way home from a meeting.
Date:March 28, 2012
Location:Katwijk, The Netherlands
Womby in the beach town of Katwijk.
[Katwijk, NL]
[Reims, France]
Date:August 20, 2011
Location:Reims, France
Womby outside Reims Cathedral, where the Kings of France were crowned. Also where you can get the shittiest Ham sandwich you've ever tasted for only about 10 dollars.
Date:August 6, 2011
Location:Varengeville, France
Womby looking at the Church from the same location Monet used when painting "L'Eglise à Varengeville", while visiting Spencer, Tracey, Faith and Eve in Haute Normandy.
[Varengeville, France]
[St. Eulalie d'Olt, France]
Date:July 25, 2011
Location:St. Eulalie d'Olt, France
Womby in the picturesque village of St. Eulalie d'Olt.
Date:July 25, 2011
Location:Cruejouls, France
Womby in the land of my ancestors, Cruejouls, France.
[Cruejouls, France]
[Conques, France]
Date:July 23, 2011
Location:Conques, France
Womby in the picturesque village of Conques.
Date:July 9, 2011
Location:Roskilde, Denmark
Womby at Roskilde, near Copenhagen, Denmark.
[Roskilde]
[Cape of Good Hope]
Date:April 15, 2011
Location:Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Womby at the Cape of Good Hope.
Date:April 11, 2011
Location:Cape Town, South Africa
Womby with Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, the discoverer of pulsars.
[Bell-Burnell]
[Joe]
Date:February 22, 2011
Location:Princeton, NJ, USA
Womby with Fernando's thesis advisor. Joe also won the 1993 Nobel prize in physics.
Date:February 16, 2011
Location:Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Womby in Amsterdam.
[Womby in Amsterdam]
[David Secrest]
Date:January 6, 2011
Location:New York, NY, USA
Womby with David Secrest.
Date:December 17, 2010
Location:Princeton, NJ, USA
Womby at Jadwin Hall, the physics department at Princeton University.
[Womby at Jadwin]
[Ed Groth]
Date:December 17, 2010
Location:Princeton, NJ, USA
Womby with Ed Groth.
Date:October, 2010
Location:Seoul, South Korea
Womby at the Korea War Memorial.
[Womby in Seoul]
[La Palmyre]
Date:October 13, 2010
Location:La Palmyre, France
Womby at our lab's bi-annual retreat in La Palmyre, France.
Date:September 10, 2010
Location:Paris, France
Womby at Cecilia's wedding. No, Womby did not marry her. Actually, neither did the guy next to her, though the actual groom did have a suit like that.
[Cecilia]
[St. Sever]
Date:August 7, 2010
Location:St. Sever, France
Womby in a small town in Normandy, St. Sever. Spencer, Tracey, Faith and Eve were vacationing near there.
Date:July 24, 2010
Location:Paris, France
Womby with Uli's sisters, Anke und Ute.
[anke] [ute]
[Rodez]
Date:July 21, 2010
Location:Rodez, France
Womby in the southern town of Rodez.
Date:July 16, 2010
Location:Manchester, UK
Womby at the Manchester Cathedral
[Manchester]
[Delft]
Date:June 7, 2010
Location:Delft, The Netherlands
Womby in Delft, a nice town in Holland, where Ubli and Maarten are spending a year.
Date:May 15, 2010
Location:Menerbes, France
Womby with the Rutgers and Potters children.
[Kids]
[Dodger Stadium]
Date:May 9, 2010, 2010
Location:Los Angeles, CA, USA
Womby at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
Date:April 21, 2010
Location:Parkes, Australia
Womby at the Parkes Radio Telescope
[Parkes]
[Dubbo]
Date:April 19, 2010
Location:Dubbo, Australia
Womby at the Western Plains Zoo in Australia.
Date:April 16, 2010
Location:Sydney, Australia
From just outside the Sydney Observatory.
[Sydney]
[Melbourne]
Date:April 20, 2010
Location:Melbourne, Australia
Date:March 13, 2010
Location:La Thuile, IT
Womby in the Alps.
[Alpes]
[Geneva]
Date:March 13, 2010
Location:Geneva, Switzerland
Womby outside the "Our Lady of Geneva" Church (which also happens to be right outside the Geneva train station).
Date:February 16, 2010
Location:Luxembourg, Luxembourg
[Luxembourg]
[Charlottesville]
Date:December 20, 2009
Location:Charlottesville, VA
In Charlottesville, Virginia, during the "Blizzard of the Century", at the Free Speech Wall.
Date:November 14, 2009
Location:Madrid, Spain
In Madrid, Spain.
[Madrid]
[Nijmegen]
Date:August 23, 2009
Location:Nijmegen, Netherlands
In Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Date:August 10, 2009
Location:Menerbes, France
In Menerbes, France. The house in the background, right at Womby's nose, is a friend's.
[Menerbes]
[Avignon]
Date:August 15, 2009
Location:Avignon, France
At the Pope's Palace in Avignon.
Date:May 15, 2009
Location:Salvation Islands, French Guiana
Womby on St. Joseph's Island, overlooking Devil's Island, of prison fame.
[Devils Island]
[Planck/Herschel Launch]
Date:May 14, 2009
Location:Kourou, French Guiana
Womby awaiting the Herschel/Planck launch in an Ariane 5 rocket.
Date:May 13, 2009
Location:Cayenne, French Guiana
Womby in the hands of 2006 physics Nobel Prize winner George Smoot.
[Smoot]
[CSG]
Date:May 12, 2009
Location:Kourou, French Guiana
Womby at the Space Center of Guiana.
Date:April 11, 2009
Location:Beijing, CN
Womby in Beijing.
[Mao]
[Haute Savoie]
Date:March, 2009
Location:Haute Savoie, FR
Womby in the Haute Savoie.
Date:February 26, 2009
Location:Rome, IT
Womby in the Morconi building of the University of Rome, where Enrico Fermi worked.
[Fermi]
[VilSpa]
Date:February 25, 2009
Location:Villafranca, ES
Womby on a model of the ISO satellite (circled in red at the bottom of the photo) at the European Space Station's Villafranca station in Spain.
Date:February 24, 2009
Location:El Escorial, ES
Womby outside the big monastery in El Escorial, Spain.
[El Escorial]
[Lyon]
Date:January 19, 2009
Location:Lyon, FR
Womby in front of the train station in Lyon, France.
Date:September 28, 2008
Location:Brussels, BE
Womby with the Mannekin Pis.
[Brussels]
[Bell's Thesis]
Date:September 16, 2008
Location:Cambridge, UK
Womby in Cambridge. Click on the image to see a larger version. You tell me what this is.
Date:August 28, 2008
Location:London, UK
Womby on a double-decker bus in London.
[London]
[La Grand'Combe]
Date:August 19, 2008
Location:La Grand'Combe, France
Womby in La Grand'Combe, my French ancestral homeland.
Date:July 5, 2008
Location:Mountain View, CA; USA
Screw Stanford. This is Womby at the Computer History Museum
[Stanford]
[Muenster]
Date:May 15, 2008
Location:Muenster, Germany
Womby in Muenster.
Date:January 29, 2008
Location:Kinsale, Ireland
Womby in Kinsale, hovering like the ghost of the English over Fort George (left bank of the river) and Fort James (right).
[Kinsale]
[Eve]
Date:January 29, 2008
Location:Kinsale, Ireland
Womby with Eve.
Date:January 29, 2008
Location:Kinsale, Ireland
Womby with Pierre and Hannah.
[PierreHannah]
[Spen]
Date:January 27, 2008
Location:Kinsale, Ireland
Womby with Spen.
Date:January 27, 2008
Location:Kinsale, Ireland
Womby with Phil.
[Phil]
[Doug]
Date:January 27, 2008
Location:Kinsale, Ireland
Womby with Doug.
Date:January 17, 2008
Location:Darmstadt, DE
Womby in Darmstadt.
[Darmstadt.JPG]
[Montreal]
Date:January 2, 2008
Location:Montreal, CA
Womby in Montreal
Date:November 11, 2007
Location:Florence, IT
Womby in Florence.
[Florence.jpg]
[Bologna]
Date:November 10, 2007
Location:Bologna, IT
Womby in Bologna
Date:September 27, 2007
Location:Grenoble, FR
Womby in Grenoble.
[Grenoble.jpg]
[Big Ben]
Date:September 26, 2007
Location:London, UK
Womby in London
Date:September 25, 2007
Location:London, UK
S+T avoided me, but I got the photo anyway!
[ST.jpg]
[Lisbon]
Date:September, 2007
Location:Lisbon, PT
Womby at Uli and Gabriela's apartment in Lisbon
Date:August 13, 2007
Location:Guimarães, Portugal
Womby in Guimarães, Portugal. We hope you appreciate the fantastic special effects used to make the zoom-inset...
[Guimp.jpg]
[Pot]
Date:June 23, 2007
Location:Paris, FR
Womby with Marc and Stephanie in Paris at David and Isabel's wedding.
Date:June 23, 2007
Location:Paris, FR
Womby with Mark in Paris at David and Isabel's wedding.
[Wex]
[Michael]
Date:June 23, 2007
Location:Paris, FR
Womby with Michael in Paris at David and Isabel's wedding.
Date:June 23, 2007
Location:Paris, FR
Womby with Uli in Paris at David and Isabel's wedding.
[Julie]
[Graby]
Date:June 23, 2007
Location:Paris, FR
Womby with Gabriela in Paris at David and Isabel's wedding.
Date:June, 2007
Location:Toulouse, FR
Womby near the center of Toulouse.
[Toulouse]
[Cannes]
Date:April, 2007
Location:Cannes, FR
Womby in Cannes, France.
Date:April, 2007
Location:Pasadena, CA; USA
Womby with the statue of Millikan at Caltech.
[Millikan]
[McWombat]
Date:February 21, 2007
Location:Dublin, IR
Womby in Ireland. Notice the red hair. Okay, it's McDonalds at the Dublin airport.
Date:February, 2007
Location:Ballycastle, Northern Ireland
Womby looking over Raithlin Island from Ballycastle, Northern Ireland.
[NIreland]
[Louvre]
Date:January 20, 2007
Location:Paris, FR
Womby at the Louvre.
Date:January, 2007
Location:New York, US
Womby at the Rockefeller Center in New York.
[Rock]
Date:November 26, 2006
Location:Spontin, BE
Womby at the Spontin Chateau in Southern Belgium.
Date:November 19, 2006
Location:Paris, FR
Womby paying his respects at the grave of Urbain Le Verrier, the discoverer of Neptune, at his grave at the Cemetery Montparnasse, in Paris.
[Le Verrier]
Date:November, 2006
Location:Noordwijk, NL
Womby at the ESTEC, the European Space Agency installation.
Date:October 17, 2006
Location:Rome, IT
Womby looking out over Rome from the Villa Mondragone. It was at the the Villa Mondragone where Pope Gregory inaugurated what would ultimately be called the Gregorian Calendar.
[At Mondragone]
Date:September, 2006
Location:Ajaccio, Corsica, FR
Womby at the Ajaccio airport in Corsica.
Date:August 8, 2006
Location:Hanoi, Vietnam
Womby looking out over Hanoi from his hotel room.
[Karin]
Date:June 27, 2006
Location:London, UK
Taken at Faith's house in Clapham.
Date:June 4, 2006
Location:Paris, France
Womby with Karin. Taken at Ken's apartment in Paris.
[Karin]
Date:April, 2006
Location:Sicily, IT
Taken from a house we rented for a week near Lido de Noto. Note that the tiny building in the upper right side is the entrance to the Eloro site. See http://www.siracusa-sicilia.it/english/eloro.htm.
Date:February, 2006
Location:Paris, France
Womby with Conor. Taken at Ken's apartment in Paris.
[Conor]
Date:December, 2005
Location:East Norwalk, CT, USA
At the beach in East Norwalk, Connecticut, USA.
Date:December 21, 2005
Location:New York, NY, USA
Taken at Fern's apartment in New York.
[Chez Fern]
Date:February 2, 2005
Location:South Pole, Antarctica
Whatever.
Date:February 1, 2005
Location:South Pole, Antarctica
Taken at the South Pole. The marker Womby is standing on is the USGS estimation of the Geographic South Pole on January 1, 2005 (it moves slightly each year).
[At the South Pole]
Date:January 27, 2005
Location:Christchurch, New Zealand
Taken at the Antarctica Visitors' Center in Christchurch, New Zealand. I believe that the thing holding the Wombat is a cuddly seal.
Date:January 22, 2005
Location:Santa Monica, CA; USA
Taken at Sandor and Jenssen's wedding.
[Mounted]
Date:January 22, 2005
Location:Santa Monica, CA; USA
With the groom at the wedding of Sandor and Jenssen.
Date:January 22, 2005
Location:Santa Monica, CA; USA
With Steffen. Taken at Sandor and Jenssen's wedding.
[Steffen]
[Ubli]
Date:January 22, 2005
Location:Santa Monica, CA; USA
With a very pregnant Ubli. Taken at Sandor and Jenssen's wedding.
Date:January 22, 2005
Location:Santa Monica, CA; USA
With Maarten. Taken on the way Sandor and Jenssen's wedding.
[Maarten]
[At the AAS]
Date:January 22, 2005
Location:San Diego, CA; USA
Taken at the 205th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
Date:January 22, 2005
Location:San Diego, CA; USA
Taken at the 205th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
[At the AAS]