I was going through my drawers and ran across some old passports; I thought that people who know what I look like now might find them amusing.
My passport photos from 1981 and 1988:
It’s a good thing that that last passport was only valid for five years, because towards the end of traveling on it, I didn’t look anything like that picture: I had glasses again, long hair, and a beard, though the beard perhaps wasn’t quite as bushy as it is now. For reference, here’s a 2006 picture of me that’s still pretty accurate. (It’s not a passport photo, passports have security measures that mean that they don’t scan well these days.)
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What is it about programmers that encourages beard growth? I suspect we require something to stroke while thinking. Either way I’m jealous, mine is rather wimpy.
2/14/2009 @ 4:47 pm
My reasoning on that matter was pretty simple: I just didn’t enjoy shaving, and didn’t see that it was bringing me any particular benefit. So I stopped, 20 years ago this summer. I am willing to believe that programmers are more willing than the norm to follow that reasoning…
2/14/2009 @ 4:51 pm
I never noticed until now that the look for which all indie rock men now strive is essentially you in 1988.
2/14/2009 @ 7:08 pm
Yeah, that 1988 look is actually kind of striking in its own way, isn’t it? (And that’s even without the blue of my eyes really coming through in the photo.) Though I can’t say I felt that way at the time, I was much more taken with my 1989 Jesus look.
2/14/2009 @ 9:09 pm
I definitely used to look like you did in 1988. I just got to that look in 1985.
2/18/2009 @ 4:29 pm