Killer Rabbit Redux
Long ago, in an Internet far, far, away -- sometime in the early 2000s -- there were no images of the infamous encounter between President Jimmy Carter and a "killer rabbit". The story was, at the time it occurred (1979), a bit of a Rorschach test of one's opinion of the president, but the image itself remained safely locked away in the Jimmy Carter Library, as Al Gore had not yet invented the Internet.
This was also very early days for blogs, and at the time I was doing my own crude blogging, which consisted of putting up pages on my own web site, narsil.org. The site was then hosted on a Dell computer in my basement, which has since gone Tango Uniform; the content does live on in the Internet Wayback Machine. The current site is a much less expansive site, as I've moved my blogging here.
Anyway - for some reason, in April of 2004, the "killer rabbit" incident came up, and I went searching for the infamous photo. It was unobtainium. With little hope, I contacted the Jimmy Carter Library and asked about the image.
To my great surprise, I received a prompt and very polite response, advising me that the photo was, in fact, in their archives, and they could send me a disk (remember CDs?) containing the image for a modest fee. A few days later, I had it.
See also my original web page about this.
Why bring this up now? Well, as we prepare to move out of our house, I came across the original disk.
