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Post by whollygoats on Jun 5, 2016 21:15:46 GMT
I am subject to male pattern baldness. As a virile young man, I had a full head of russet colored hair of near straw-like consistency. I wore it long. From a vague understanding of male pattern baldness, I had always assumed that I would be subject to hair loss and I started with an expansive forehead, anyhoo. Sure enough, as my thirties progressed, my hairline receded. What it did it leave me with was a 'forelock'; a clump of hair fairly forward of where subsequent thinning had left a 'tuft' of hair. This tuft of hair came to annoy me when it got long enough for the ends to hang in to my eyes. I didn't like how it looked when cut shorter than the rest of my hair. In a fit of pique (and after my wife had died), I gave myself a 'Celtic tonsure', shaving my forehead forward of a line which continued the leading edges of both sideburns of my beard...making the balding on my forehead look total. I continued this through my fifties. During my recent semi-invalid period, I have ceased entirely shaving the necessary areas to maintain the tonsure...and keep the cheeks clean. I'm still unsure about the new 'super-hirsute' look. I look in the mirror and see what to me looks like a confidante of Karl Marx....some denizen of the deep orifices of the British Library. So...and here's the wind up....Should I show more skin, or not?
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Post by Moose on Jun 6, 2016 15:30:13 GMT
Need accurate pics to decide
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Jun 6, 2016 15:48:14 GMT
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Jun 6, 2016 15:49:10 GMT
Taken about six months ago, haven't had a haircut since January
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Post by Moose on Jun 6, 2016 16:06:29 GMT
But why are you upside down?!
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 6, 2016 16:33:56 GMT
I have a way to get pix, but I have no way to post pix here.
That I know of...I'm open to somebody teaching me how to turn one of my cache pics in to a .pdf file....
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Post by tangent on Jun 6, 2016 16:37:57 GMT
Dropbox?
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 6, 2016 16:38:58 GMT
But why are you upside down?! If you click on the pic, the enlarged result is upright. I would point out that while Alan has a beard of impressive standards (kudos!), from that photo, he is most definitely NOT visibly a victim of male pattern baldness. That, or he has a rillyrilly good rug.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 6, 2016 17:01:00 GMT
I know nothing. What is "Dropbox"?
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Jun 6, 2016 19:22:47 GMT
But why are you upside down?! I bought my camera in Australia
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 17, 2016 5:01:28 GMT
So far, the forelock proceeds apace.
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Post by tangent on Jun 17, 2016 11:06:35 GMT
I know nothing. What is "Dropbox"? Dropbox is an application on the Internet (like Facebook and Google). To use Dropbox: - Open www.dropbox.com/
- Create an account
- Create a folder in Dropbox
- Upload photos to that folder
- Create a link to the folder
- Share the link with friends
Like this: photos of church room. The files are held in cloud storage on the Internet and are available to all devices on which you have installed Dropbox. There's lots more you can do with Dropbox. You can install Dropbox on both your PC and your mobile and link it to a folder (on your PC). Then, whenever you copy a photo to the folder, it is immediately* available in your own private storage on the Internet and copied to your mobile. And vice versa. * within seconds
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Post by juju on Jun 17, 2016 11:18:48 GMT
My husband is not receding, but is developing quite a bald patch at the back.
This is surprising, since his father, his brother, and all his uncles on both sides still have thick hair. I wonder where it came from? Must have skipped a generation, although from the photos it looks like his mother's father was thin but definitely not bald. Hmmm.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 17, 2016 16:54:35 GMT
My husband is not receding, but is developing quite a bald patch at the back. This is surprising, since his father, his brother, and all his uncles on both sides still have thick hair. I wonder where it came from? Must have skipped a generation, although from the photos it looks like his mother's father was thin but definitely not bald. Hmmm. Nope...It doesn't come from the paternal side...the maternal line prevails in determining (but not dominating) the final dispensation of male pattern baldness in their progeny. He got it from his mother. This gave me some hope because my mother's father had a full head of thick white hair at the end of his life, but no such luck.
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Post by whollygoats on Jun 17, 2016 17:10:35 GMT
I know nothing. What is "Dropbox"? Dropbox is an application on the Internet (like Facebook and Google). To use Dropbox: - Open www.dropbox.com/
- Create an account
- Create a folder in Dropbox
- Upload photos to that folder
- Create a link to the folder
- Share the link with friends
Like this: photos of church room. The files are held in cloud storage on the Internet and are available to all devices on which you have installed Dropbox. There's lots more you can do with Dropbox. You can install Dropbox on both your PC and your mobile and link it to a folder (on your PC). Then, whenever you copy a photo to the folder, it is immediately* available in your own private storage on the Internet and copied to your mobile. And vice versa. * within seconds Heh...Steve, I pity you. You are dealing with a technological idiot. This has all been complicated by.... Misplacing my charger unit for my camera. Having had my operating system upgraded, against my wishes, during my stay in the hospital, from Windoze 7 to Winduzit 10. In that process, I had lost track of how to access even menus to things like my files of documents and pix. I finally have made some headway on that. But then, I spent ages trying to figure out how to 'open the Dropbox window' on my desktop. Then, I spent a second epoch trying to figure out how to display this Dropbox window at the same time my pix/docs lists were open and accessible for me to clck and drag... Right now, I'm presently flummoxed by how to 'create a file' in Dropbox. I am also now clueless as how to transfer the digital pix from my camera to my desktop, as the change to Winduzit 10 seems to have obliterated the process for downloading photographs. It just doesn't work the same was and I don't know the new protocol. But hey...I now have Dropbox app installed on my desktop, I have recharged my camera, and while I was waiting for Dropbox to download, I took a fistful of selfies....those are grim, but postable, if I ever figure out that process. The learning curve for me right at this point is exceedingly steep and I'm a mite resentful of my own shortcomings. Oh, and I don't own nor will I own, or even possess, any 'mobile' technology. Thanks for the lead, though, Steve. It was kind and thoughtful of you. Please stand by, we are experiencing technical difficulties....
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