X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=blobdiff_plain;f=bdale%2Fblog%2Fposts%2FFacial_Dignity.mdwn;h=b92ba2d7a411b8e057dbbd2dc08211ad0f8be310;hp=10856781f82fb5255e24532dc8b646236406d0d7;hb=03cced7507eba8944638322ac69e98c03a669ed3;hpb=13888780f549f1f94f49135acc5d89ed21e70db1 diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/Facial_Dignity.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/Facial_Dignity.mdwn index 1085678..b92ba2d 100644 --- a/bdale/blog/posts/Facial_Dignity.mdwn +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/Facial_Dignity.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ [[!tag tags/misc]] +[[!tag tags/travel]] +[[!tag tags/debian]] People keep asking me about [the beard thing](http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22838/1090/)... Here's @@ -20,7 +22,7 @@ would become the centerpiece of the evening's fund-raising activities. The charity selected this year was an organization that is trying to [save the Tasmanian Devil](http://www.tassiedevil.com.au/) from extinction. Professor Hamish McCallum, the chief scientist with the -program gave a talk after dinner and before the auction began. +program, gave a talk after dinner and before the auction began. The native population is suffering from a fatal facial tumor disease that results in horrible lesions, and is likely to kill off all the Devils within a decade or three. My family and I all have a strong love of nature, and @@ -40,7 +42,7 @@ I relented and announced that if we hit a total of $25,000 going to the charity I would consent to a shave. The resulting frenzy, including the suggestion that if it went high enough [Linus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds) should do the -shaving, and the formation of a bidding consortium that kept raising more +shaving, and the formation of a [bidding consortium](http://www.flickr.com/photos/varrqnuht/3214594907/) that kept raising more money and bidding against itself, was completely unexpected! Others have tried to capture [details of the insanity](http://zarfmouse.livejournal.com/291848.html), but the bottom line is that by the end of the evening, the total had blown