The Syndicate

Maaaaaaaattttttttt! I adore those picts!!! Thanks for posting them!!!

When we gonna go get lunch neighbor????

You are one of 4 long time internet friends who live in the same metro area as me and I still haven't had face to face time with yet. I'VE BEEN OUT HERE 5 YEARS!!! WHY DO YOU PEOPLE HATE ME??????? *cries* *wails*

I'm growing a playoff beard for the Stanley Cup Playoffs even though my team didn't even make the cut. Here are my pics so far:

April 10th- the last time I shaved (and the last day of the regular season). My daughter was baptized this day. April 17th- One week in... April 24th- Two weeks in and growing fast. May 1st- Three weeks in. I'm going for a 'Most Interesting Man in the World' look here. :P

Looking good sir! Beared and shorn!!

I'm not going to post a picture here until my beard is long enough to braid.

Wow, G-Man has got the authors dustcover look down.

Hello Syndicate, I have been absent for a while so I thought I'd share some pictures from my recent adventures to make up for it.

Here is Graduate Sloonei with Mrs Sloonei Here I am attempting to climb a frozen mountain: Here are my feet lounging near the top of said frozen mountain before finishing the climb Here I am climbing back down the mountain on a slightly less frozen but more cliffsidey path, after a successful hike to the top: And last but not least here's what my chin currently looks like after a recent biking accident (don't look if you're squeamish):

Awesome pictures, Sloonei!! (well, except the last one)

I like the first one best, personally. Very nice!!

MovingPictures07 wrote:Awesome pictures, Sloonei!! (well, except the last one)

But it's gonna look so rad once it scars over! I may have also suffered a slight concussion, but I can't get a definitive answer from anyone.

indiglo wrote: I like the first one best, personally. Very nice!!

Thanks! That was a very long day, but it was a good time.

Not quite as devastatingly handsome as I had imagined you, Sloonei, but close.

Sloonei wrote: But it's gonna look so rad once it scars over! I may have also suffered a slight concussion, but I can't get a definitive answer from anyone.

You did.

There, doesn't it feel better to finally know?


lol @ G-Man

They're handsome boots and that's all I really care about.

Here are a few more shots of my ongoing playoff beard for the NHL playoffs. Weeks 1-3 here.

May 8th- Almost a month in and going strong. May 15th- Why hello there. May 22nd- Watching hockey with Lilah May 29th- Starting to get a little scraggly

That third picture.

MAN what a stupid looking baby. I can't figure out if there are any marbles rolling around upstairs or not. The smile is dopey and the nose completely misshapen. Ghastly.

The kid on the right is adorable though.

awe - gman - adorable!!!!

Imma just drop this here....




It's big n stuff but you got the important bits so imma posting.

Yes kids, that is also BDH. My sweet hubby.

OMG. SPIKE AND ANYA???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Love it Bea! Your collection of these fab photos must be growing by now, right? Awesome!!!

A few more playoff beard pics:

June 5th- This was the only picture I got of myself that Sunday. We were on our way up to the Poconos for my cousin's graduation party. We stopped in Hazleton for a pit stop, a bottle, and a diaper change. June 12th- Back to bald and the Pens win the Cup! I didn't grow the beard for the Pens but it worked out that I grew the beard the year my #2 team won the Cup. Had they lost Game 6, this picture would have been me frowning. June 13th- Now for a little fun! It took me longer to ditch the facial hair but I had fun along the way. First up, a game of Dazzling Princess with Chloe. June 14th- I trimed it all back to a uniform-ish length of 1/2". Most of the beard grew somewhere between 5/8" and 3/4" because when I used the 5/8" clip I took a little off all over. June 16th- I wanted to get a picture of me with my dad while I still had the beard. I've only ever seen dad clean-shaven once in my whole life. To be fair, he wasn't wearing shoes in this picture but I was, so he's not as short as this picture makes him look. June 15th- One more with dad. This one is a better side-by-side comparison.
I have some amusing pics from today yet to post. I hit a couple different styles as I shaved off all the facial hair.

You are a pretty princess!! Love the photos with your dad. You share his smile. Thanks for sharing!!

I haven't posted a picture in a while, and I like this one... So here is me on Saturday!

I realized I never shared these pics from the end of my playoff beard experiment:


Goatee:
Walter White pose:
Horseshoe Mustache:
A look from the front of the Horseshoe:
Mustache (my inspector look):
Mustache (can't tell if this is more comical or creepy):

[Edited for privacy reasons]

Power Grid is awesome. And I won! We'll see what happens next time though.

Nice pictures everyone!

G-Man, I vote for the last of the 3 facial variations (if this is put to a vote).

MP, Power Grid is one of the best! I hope I can play that one with you guys someday. My winning percentage in that game is incredibly high.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Nice pictures everyone!

G-Man, I vote for the last of the 3 facial variations (if this is put to a vote).

MP, Power Grid is one of the best! I hope I can play that one with you guys someday. My winning percentage in that game is incredibly high.

Oh, YOU ARE ON. This must happen.

Just a reminder that I am undefeated at Power Grid.

DFaraday wrote:Just a reminder that I am undefeated at Power Grid.

I'm not undefeated, but I'm pretty dang close.

You're beautiful.

Found this yesterday when searching for a pic for the endgame post. Turns out, when I was 14, I was Mars Volta. Jesus H.



Also, 95% of the pic files in this thread are broken.

DFaraday wrote:Just a reminder that I am undefeated at Power Grid.

We could try and change that on New Year's Eve! And how is your moon stepping?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

DFaraday wrote:Just a reminder that I am undefeated at Power Grid.

I'm not undefeated, but I'm pretty dang close.

I won another game the other day. My record is somewhere around 11-1.

We've got to play sometime Alex and Annie.

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

DFaraday wrote:Just a reminder that I am undefeated at Power Grid.

I'm not undefeated, but I'm pretty dang close.

I won another game the other day. My record is somewhere around 11-1.

We've got to play sometime Alex and Annie.

That would be most welcome!

Here's this hilarious photo of me on my Florida Government Bar Association Executive Board Officer profile page. I look like a real grown up lawyer for once!

Nice beard from what I can see llama and Mongoose, good picture!

Aww thanks! The side turned angle is always weird, but I like it!

Here's a picture of me with a friend from a year or so back:
A more recent picture of me with Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey:
A picture from when I was involved in a production of Fiddler on the Roof:
As I don't have many pictures of myself, these were pretty much the best pictures that I could find.

This is my usual look.
Nice tag, bro.

Hey leetic, not sure if it's just me but the images aren't loading. You should try to re-upload them.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Hey leetic, not sure if it's just me but the images aren't loading. You should try to re-upload them.

Yeah I can't see them either.

I don't know, they seem to be working for me.

leetic wrote:I don't know, they seem to be working for me.

Apparently you have to be logged into the site where the images are uploaded in order to see them (i.e., Bulbagarden).

Oh well, I'm not a member there.

Can't seem to upload anything here, so Bulba was my best option...

leetic wrote:Can't seem to upload anything here, so Bulba was my best option...

Did you try imager?

Also 3J, love your picture!

I just realized I've never posted photos here!! So, for those of you that haven't seen me, some recent pictures:

This is me, before I did anything strange to my hair, on a really nice day in DC:


A short while later, after going purple, and all decked out for Chanukkah:


Next hair color, In Israel in Tel Aviv on a graffiti tour:


Also in Israel, at the post office, really proud of having successfully sent a package to Australia for the gift exchange (on New Years Day, because how often do you get to send mail on New Years Day)...also, accomplished while not entirely awake and somewhat hung over:


Final hair color, at the women's march:


The next day, having shaved my head (for childhood cancer. Feel free to donate: https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/rabbiisa5777 And you can still see some of the color on my scalp, which is amusing.


At the airport protest a week later (I just really like this picture of me and I love my sign):


And, to show that I don't just travel and go to protests, and that my hair is growing and is a normal color, a recent picture of me at brunch:

And some time when I have more energy, I'll put those photos somewhere in a place where you can see them (I thought google drive would work).

Update: And, fixed!!

The purple hair is a pretty badass look, will you go back to it when your hair returns?

Oh hey, this. I've got a year-old profile pic in here somewhere.
Oh, here we go.

Awesome pictures, LoRab! I agree with Sloonei, you were rocking the purple hair. I've seen most of those already due to FB, but glad to see you sharing them here.

And nice, good to fit a face to the name, speedchuck. Looking good.