That’s why you own tractors, sir. Tractors.
Somewhere I had seen a photo of you prior to meeting up at OSH so I knew who I was looking for, but your hair didn’t really surprise me. I just darn near didn’t spot you because you were sitting very inconspicuously at that table with your co-workers/friends. I probably walked by three times before I spotted you there.
All sorts of people with hair like that in the engineering ranks in your age group at all the tech companies I’ve been at. And a few with long grey hair and beards.
Probably, now that I think about it, related to staying on the Unix side of things.
Most of my older mentors were either wildly one way (long grey hair and beards and tie-dye on casual Friday) or all the way the other way and felt uncomfortable when they saw someone in the building wearing shorts, and they gave in slowly to even wearing khakis. Haha. (I think
@Ravioli is still there. Shhhhhh. And I haven’t even met him yet!)
I was the annoying one who stuck with jeans and a polo nearly 90% of the time. The dresser-uppers hated the jeans, and the tie-dye figured I was The Man coming to get them from their dislike of polos from the yuppies of the 80s.
And then I just alternately shave off or grow the mega beard depending on annoyance level with shaving vs itching.