From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog at lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:32:21 +1100 Subject: [COFF] Bearded Fellows (was TUHS) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20210119013221.GN95151@eureka.lemis.com> On Monday, 18 January 2021 at 15:16:22 -0500, Clem Cole wrote: > > That said, 20 years later she and her mother both claim I would look > younger if I shaved it. Don't believe them. At linux.conf.au in Dunedin in 2006, Rusty Russell started a fundraiser for the John Lions chair of computer science at UNSW. By way of encouragement, he stated that if there were enough contributions, he would shave off his moustache. A number of us joined in (David Miller, Jeff Waugh and myself, but explicitly not Jon Hall), and he ended up raising $10,000. So the next day we were shaved. I was horrified: suddenly I looked like the old man that I was. The beard had greyed over the years, but it had hidden the change in my face. I let the beard grow again, and haven't seen my chin since. More at http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jan2006.php#27 Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 163 bytes Desc: not available URL: