It’s beard-growing season in the northern hemisphere!
October already?
It’s beard-growing season in the northern hemisphere!
a month without a post?
Wow. I thought that things would get back to normal in September. Boy, was I wrong.
what’s goin’ on
This is just a quick note to let you know a little about what’s going on with the site lately. A series of difficult circumstances arose in the second half of July and still continue today. This has pretty much put the brakes on site development. New features were put on hold and the daily updates to the beards of the world gallery have been held up. Around mid-August, I had only a brief opportunity to resume work on the site. I am hoping now that the work on the site will slowly be coming back up to speed. Thanks for your patience.
And here is another preview photo of Brian:
beard!
These are more examples of original beard photography from beards.org. There is much more to come.
happy five million!
At 9:55 PM PDT tonight, the counter on the beards.org photo gallery hit five million views! Amazingly, it was on today’s date exactly one year ago that the gallery hit two million views. Tonight’s achievement of the five million mark is a symbolic milestone because of the counter reading. However, the actual count is already higher than that for a number of reasons. A server failure prior to hitting the two-million mark caused a rollback of the counter. Deleting photos from the gallery causes their view numbers to get subtracted from the count. Also, Salvatore’s videos had high numbers of views that no longer show in the count because I took them offline. I took them offline because they were consuming too much bandwidth.
So which photo was lucky number five million on the counter tonight? It was this photo of Jason:
Click on the thumbnail image to view the larger image in the gallery.
Congratulations, Jason! Happy five million!
Firefox 3 and beards.org
The Firefox 3 browser came out yesterday and it slightly breaks the beards.org page layout. It moves the image that’s supposed to be in the upper right-hand corner over next to the image in the upper left-hand corner. I’ve found a way to fix the problem. But it will take me a while to get the change made to all of the affected pages. I was already behind on stuff for the site, so this extra work isn’t exactly a welcome development. Some of the pages have already been fixed. I’ll fix the rest as soon as I can plow through them. Meanwhile, if the upper-right corner image is not in its rightful place as you view the site in Firefox 3, you’ll know why.
North American Beard and Moustache Championship
Bearded competitors are sought for the 2008 North American Beard and Moustache Championship. The competition takes place July 5, 2008 in beautiful, scenic Bremerton, Washington USA. The registration fee for competitors is $25.00 until June 5, when it increases to $35.00. So don’t delay. Register today! Please encourage as many bearded men as possible to register and make this event a rousing success. Proceeds from the event will benefit local mens’ homeless shelters. For full details and to register, go to: http://www.nabmc.whiskerclub.org/ .
trimming The World’s Greatest Beard™
Some guys humorously think of their beards like a pet. A great friend of mine put a whole different twist on that. Oh, and he just happens to have what I consider to be The World’s Greatest Beard™. He told me that he has always trimmed his beard himself and that he makes quick work of it. The results are always flawless. My friend further stated that he has always been pretty nonchalant about trimming his beard — so much so that for years he routinely did his speedy beard-trimming work with same electric pet clippers that he used for trimming his dog.
Despite a product warning “for animal use only” and despite using the clippers even on the dog’s rear end, he just grabbed the pet clippers whenever he was ready to trim his beard. Why bother with getting a fancy, highfalutin beard trimmer when the plain old dog clippers could do such a spiffy job? He did clarify, however, that he cleaned the clippers between the dog’s behind and beard trims.
Will using pet clippers develop your beard into one of the world’s greatest? No. Do not try this at home!
fear the beard — in a good way!
The fine tradition of the hockey playoff beard has yet to be properly addressed here at beards.org. But it’s that time of year again and a good friend tipped me off to a cool site for San José Sharks fans to grow and show off their own playoff beards: (defunct link removed).
Go there, Sharks fans, and start growing and showing off those playoff beards. Whatever team you support, you’re always welcome to show off your playoff beard here, too! Just email me.
red, blond, and brown Brian
Brown-haired Brian’s beard is a unique blend of red and blond. Today he graciously participated in an exclusive photo shoot for beards.org. Watch for him soon in the featured beards section.
