This is it. We’re about to change how we write the date again. And if experience is anything to go by, it’ll be February before I remember to write 2023 instead of 2022.
Continue readingAs the year turns…
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Confess to the crime skeleton!
After coming across a meme on the internet, I recently spend some time tracking down the patent for what I can only think of as the Crime Skeleton. It is a perfect example that the line between genius and insanity is blurry at best. I’m not quite sure which side of that line Helene Adalaide Shelby’s invention falls under, but I am inclined to go for “genius”. And a somewhat spooky and misguided genius at that.
So let’s take a short break from weird shaving patents and look at a plain weird patent.
Continue readingPSA: Razors.click now live at Razors.page
In the past I have referenced razors.click a fair bit, since it is a very handy reference and obviously a labour of love.
The site went dark1 for a while, but have now reappeared at razors.page. Which is great, because I’ve missed being able to access it.
So point your browsers over to razors.page, and enjoy a more serious take on old razor patents than what I provide – more facts, less snark. And bookmark his new address while you’re there.
- Or more correctly, my filters are blocking it.
The Untamable Whiskers
Something a bit on the side of what I usually do, but I found it interesting. And tangentially related to beards and moustaces.
Georges Méliès1 was a French illusionist, actor, and one of the first film directors. He led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. He is, perhaps, best known today for his epic science fiction movies Le Voyage dans la Lune and Le Voyage à travers l’impossible. Those were just two of many, many movies he made, some of which served little purpose other than to amaze and intrigue the audience.
Continue readingBook sale!
Starting on July 4th 2022 at 00:00GMT, there will be a countdown deal of the kindle versions of my first and second books!
Continue readingAn experiment, take three
There is an idiom in Norwegian, stating that “alle gode ting er tre”. The closest I know of in English is the phrase “third time is the charm”, which has a similar enough meaning.
So keep that in mind. This is, at this stage, a step by step process.
This follows up from an experiment I did earlier, and the second experiment too. I have tried to take into account the feedback y’all have been kind enough to give. And it is because I wanted to try something several of you mentioned, that this is coming a couple of weeks after the last try.
Continue readingNo shave of the day 1st June 2022
Because I got up and four and hit the ground running, that is why.
God Jul, Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Frohe Weihnachten, and so on and so forth
Norwegians, being a sensible people, have the big Yuletime celebration on Christmas Eve. So before I eat myself into a food coma and opens presents with my family, allow me to wish you all the very best for the midwinter holiday – or midsummer, for those south of the equator – with this Australian 1959 Gillette Christmas commercial:
Continue readingNo shave of the day 19th November 2021
While I’m feeling better, I still opted not to shave once I transitioned from horizontal to vertical.
No shave of the day 17th November 2021
Still feeling more than just a bit under the weather, so working on a caveman beard…