Friday September 24, 2004

I just added a photo of myself to the blog. Don't I look spiffy after a new haircut? No comment necessary ... :)

On numerous occasions, I have been told I look like Linus Torvalds (pictured on the right). I even had Marc Fluery (JBoss) speaking at the LAJUG say the similarity was uncanny. At first, he said joking[heavily paraphrased], that he should bow down and say he's not worthy. I didn't try to stop him, of course, but he quickly realized it wasn't Linus when he saw the Sun logo'd shirt :)

At the OCJUG in the elavator up to the meeting room, after 15 seconds of staring they had to simply come out and ask.

The litmus test. In preparing this blog, I googled "torvalds.jpg" with my 4 year old daughter on my lap and even she asked "Daddy, is that you?". OK, after that I had to ask my wife in a jealous manner if she had ever been anywhere near Linus ...

A sales rep (heathen non-blogging type) posted a magazine page on a locker wall (we don't have dedicated offices, only lockers). Something like "Clingan?" written next to a picture of Linus.

My opinion? In some pictures I do look like Linus .. ahem ... Linus looks like me. In some we do not look alike. It's hard to match up any picture that I have with a picture of Linus in the same position at the same age. It's uncanny that we both seem to be gaining weight at exactly the same rate, though.