Beard to the Future
A couple of weeks ago, I was at my computer late at night (you know, just to be different) when my friend Mike reported via Twitter that he had shaved his beard. The notification popped up on my screen, and he had clearly not yet changed his Twitter icon, as it consisted of a photo of his face, beard and all. This prompted the following conversation:
- @MyFault: And yet it remains in your twitter avatar, right next to your statement that you shaved it.
- @supergeek_mike: Once it’s gone, it starts to disappear from the pictures. It’s like Back to the Future. Or something. Check facebook next few days.
- @MyFault: Pretty mediocre photographic fake - they cut off your facial hair!
- @supergeek_mike: Uh… Doc, to me, that seems like a pretty sensational photographic fake, if they can cut off your facial hair!
Over the next couple of days, we amused ourselves by sending lines from Back to the Future to each other, modified to include something about beards. Because this took place over Twitter, a somewhat public forum, my sister and Adam joined in as well.
The story might end there, and if it had, it would surely have been a story of nerddom extraordinaire, however it did not. I then took it upon myself to register a domain name, create graphics, and transfer our quotes from the Twitter stream into a more static web-site form.
Therefore it is now my pleasure to present to you: BeardToTheFuture.com, a tribute to Back to the Future. And beards.
Originally published at myfaultgeek.com. Please leave any comments there.