Comments on: Ten Things I won’t miss leaving SXSW http://ryancannon.com/2008/03/11/ten-things-i-wont-miss-leaving-sxsw Wordslinger, dissident, webwright Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:37:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Michel http://ryancannon.com/2008/03/11/ten-things-i-wont-miss-leaving-sxsw#comment-15566 Michel Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:22:18 +0000 http://ryancannon.com/2008/03/11/ten-things-i-wont-miss-leaving-sxsw#comment-15566 <p>LOL, never saw SXSW from <em>this</em> angle! :-D</p> <p>Actually, never been to SXSW (yet) but still my dream... Although I do Web design for living, the cost is too high for me, and the distance too long...</p> LOL, never saw SXSW from this angle! :-D

Actually, never been to SXSW (yet) but still my dream… Although I do Web design for living, the cost is too high for me, and the distance too long…

]]> By: Brendan http://ryancannon.com/2008/03/11/ten-things-i-wont-miss-leaving-sxsw#comment-15491 Brendan Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:34:36 +0000 http://ryancannon.com/2008/03/11/ten-things-i-wont-miss-leaving-sxsw#comment-15491 <p>The question that comes to my mind: If one person displayed all of the (applicable) traits at once, would you be disgusted... or impressed?</p> <p>Oddly enough, I started regularly shaving my face again after a long period of off-again/on-again bearding because I was informed that unshaven people very often equate beards (especially beards extending to the neck area) to sloppiness and "grossness." If this perception is indeed widely held, what does that mean for web developers and their pale cheeks? Lesson: shave before your big interview, or risk your promotion to the geek who couldn't grow facial hair if he tried.</p> The question that comes to my mind: If one person displayed all of the (applicable) traits at once, would you be disgusted… or impressed?

Oddly enough, I started regularly shaving my face again after a long period of off-again/on-again bearding because I was informed that unshaven people very often equate beards (especially beards extending to the neck area) to sloppiness and “grossness.” If this perception is indeed widely held, what does that mean for web developers and their pale cheeks? Lesson: shave before your big interview, or risk your promotion to the geek who couldn’t grow facial hair if he tried.

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