Morning Hair This Fabulous MUST be Shared with Readers
My friend Karen at A Strange Life Revisited recently wrote a post in which she admitted to waking up with Grandpa Munster hair. I got after her for not sharing a photo of the incident with her readers. To me, this is instant blog material. But, I have to step back and realize that not everyone shares my total lack of shame.
I am not shy AT ALL and don’t mind looking like a dufus. So, when I rolled out of bed this morning and noticed my image in the mirror, I knew I had to capture it on film.
Unfortunately, the photo is not as funny as I thought it would be. What WOULD have been funny is if I had set up a secondary video camera to film my frustration at trying to get a photo with my image centered. I must have taken 50 shots and in each succeeding photo my charming smile melted more and more into the grimace you see in the picture.
What’s worse, is that THIS CAMERA HAS A SETTING FOR TAKING YOUR OWN PICTURE! I’ve used it many times and it has never failed. It automatically waits until your face is centered in the frame before it clicks. I didn’t even need to use a mirror! But, at 4:30 a.m. who thinks of these things.
IN OTHER NEWS
I am still sifting through my Hawaii photos–turns out I took over 400 of them. I want to use some of the best to illustrate my adventures, so stay tuned for that.
I upgraded to WordPress 2.7 this morning and I am totally lost. After reading about some of the features, I was seriously worried it would blow-up my blog. I was sure there would be a conflict in the comment system since I use a few plugins there. But, so far, so good. 
I am doing a little experiment to raise my pagerank (currently at 4). I think I can raise my pagerank, legitimately, without gaming the system, without adding any siginificant backlinks or changing my blog in any major way. Let’s see if it works; if it does, I’ll clue you in on the secret.
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Hahaha! You look like you just stepped off a roller-coaster! A real fast one (like you wrote about earlier).
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William McCamment
reply on December 12th, 2008 8:20 am:
Haha! Now THAT would’ve been a GREAT photo! I’m sure I looked MUCH worse!
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Alas, I lose out on such excellent material as I keep my hair safely in place with a hair-net at night.
What? Don’t look at me like that.
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William McCamment
reply on December 12th, 2008 11:45 am:
Lose the hair-net and embrace the wild morning!
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The picture was still funny, especially when I saw it on my front Google Reader page as a featured post. I thought what the hell is that? I’d like to say I can’t relate, but unfortunately, I can.
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William McCamment
reply on December 12th, 2008 11:46 am:
The next time you “relate” remember there’s a blog post in it for you…
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Well, the windblown look is so In right now, anyway.
Actually, it’s not a bad picture. You just have Concentrating Photographer Face on. 
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William McCamment
reply on December 12th, 2008 11:58 am:
I think this hairstyle exceeds the limits of “Windblown.”
However, “Concentrating Photographer Face” is exactly right. LOL
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Look at the bright side. You can always fire up the old FloBee. You lucky dawg you.
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William McCamment
reply on December 12th, 2008 4:13 pm:
Haha! Yup! I Flowbee’d today. LOL
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Dude! That’s rock star hair!
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William McCamment
reply on December 12th, 2008 5:48 pm:
Rock star, huh? Maybe I should cut it just a little shorter and mousse it up into spikes. Yeah! I kind of like that idea. Not to mention, I’m a pretty good blues guitarist…
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That camera of yours really does rock!
Eve
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William McCamment
reply on December 13th, 2008 8:54 pm:
Thanks! I love it!
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when skynet gains consciousness the cameras become the eyes …. beware.
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William McCamment
reply on December 13th, 2008 8:53 pm:
And then, all at once, every armed nuclear missile on earth will launch and destroy its preset target.
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So that is what you meant by “Dead Rooster”… Zing
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William McCamment
reply on December 14th, 2008 9:35 am:
Haha! I guess it is kinda “roosterish”
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Is that the revenge of the combover? Hehe sorry man I couldn’t resist.
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William McCamment
reply on December 14th, 2008 9:36 am:
You are treading on a dangerous ocean, Mr. AngrySeafood.
I’m not quite to the “combover” stage yet, but, you make me wonder if I should do a post where I review Rogane.
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I admire you for just doing it and enjoying the moment. I have changed so much since the picture I use I am totally cannot show me now. No one would know me and thats the truth.
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William McCamment
reply on December 14th, 2008 9:48 am:
The photo I use on most of my avatars is two years old, so, I decided to put up something new over at Humorbloggers. I used another of my morning pictures. It seems to be a big hit.
I would love to see a current photo of you, but it wouldn’t change my opinion of you–I would still think your writing is hilarious. But, even so, I believe your avatar is “who you are” online no matter how old the photo.
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“taken 50 shots”, ahhh, the beauty of digital photography!
I keep my hair very short now for reasons along the same lines
thick-set eyebrows all over the place are my only concern in the mornings now!
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William McCamment
reply on December 14th, 2008 3:59 pm:
Haha! Yeah, I took 50 shots because I couldn’t quite get my face in the frame–then, after I woke up I remembered this camera has a setting that ALWAYS works: Self Portrait. Duh.
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Dazz @ Murcia
reply on December 14th, 2008 4:08 pm:
a steady hand and good old “self portrait”!
you can’t beat it
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Dood. You look like a serial killer.
Awesome!
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William McCamment
reply on December 14th, 2008 8:14 pm:
Yeah, a GORGEOUS serial killer…
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Very Nick Nolte. I like it.
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William McCamment
reply on December 15th, 2008 6:54 am:
That Nick Nolte mugshot is a MASTERPIECE!
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How do you think of these things at 4:30 a.m.?
It is all I can do to pee and go back to bed.
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William McCamment
reply on December 15th, 2008 7:01 am:
For most everything on Dead Rooster, half dream-state is the golden moment of creation.
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Yes please do clue us in if you manage it – I thought Google only did updates on rank every couple of months.
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William McCamment
reply on December 16th, 2008 11:57 am:
Hi Michelle!
Yes, they only do it every few months, so we’ll have to wait and see what happens during the next update. No one knows when the next update will come, but you can be sure that if my pagerank jumps up a point or two I’ll clue you in on the simple setting I changed in order to achieve it.
I am purposely keeping my blog in suspended animation (aside from new posts) until the next update to assure (as much as possible) that any increase in pagerank is due to my single tweak.
Stay tuned.
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heh, yeah, nice hair man. lol
Please update us on your PR efforts. I’m starting to watch it now that I’ve reached PR2…finally from 0 to 1 now 2. Finally…
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William McCamment
reply on December 16th, 2008 2:58 pm:
I will definitely keep you updated on my PR efforts. The little trick I did is VERY simple and anyone can do it in a matter of seconds.
…of course, we have to wait until the next PR update to see if it worked.
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There can be no secrets between HUMORBLOGGERS. As for the rest of mankind, meh. screw’em.
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William McCamment
reply on December 16th, 2008 7:36 pm:
HumorBloggers… Masonic Lodge… same thing…
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I curse myself daily for not getting a picture of the Grandpa Munster Hair. In order to recreate it I will need a good heavy sinus infection and toss-turn night on the couch with two pillows, essential for that hard-to-get side hair. I’m thinking you’re looking a tad grumpy, but who wouldn’t at 4:30 am with I’m-Falling-Off-A-Building hair?
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William McCamment
reply on December 17th, 2008 1:59 pm:
When I saw my image in the mirror I immediately thought of your post and was FORCED to capture myself on film (otherwise, I’d be a hypocrite).
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Plus, thank you for the links! You rock Rooster!!
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William McCamment
reply on December 17th, 2008 2:00 pm:
You are welcome.
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Awww William, I just love your bed head! Seriously, I’ve seen a few now and you always remind me of how I look when I’ve been on a weekend bender — and you manage to do it over night. LOL
p.s. I love that you have no shame!
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William McCamment
reply on December 17th, 2008 2:40 pm:
Being shameless is extremely difficult, until you realize it requires nothing. LOL
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At least you HAVE hair.
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William McCamment
reply on December 19th, 2008 8:31 am:
At LEAST!
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Dude, I wake up and my hair stands completely on end. You totally have balls, I have rarely ever been seen with unbrushed hair in the a.m. hours!
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William McCamment
reply on December 19th, 2008 8:33 am:
Ooh! We want to see it! Come on, just do it!
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I usually call that look sex hair but well that is the only time my perfect hair is messed **innocent look**
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William McCamment
reply on December 19th, 2008 3:41 pm:
Sex hair! I love it!
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It is quite refreshing to see a man embrace his morning hair as you do here. Bear in mind I am surrounded at work by heavily gelled, highlighted and sprayed man hair that often looks more stylish than mine. That’s just not right.
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William McCamment
reply on December 20th, 2008 8:52 am:
The train-wreck you see before you is all I’ve got TO embrace! LOL
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Oh you are brave indeed. It would have been classic if you were holding up a sign with the numbers… Total Nick Nolte mug shot workin’ for ya.
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William McCamment
reply on December 24th, 2008 11:47 am:
I think this shot was number 49. LOL
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Nice
*LOL*
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William McCamment
reply on December 24th, 2008 11:47 am:
Thanks!
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If you slept on a silk covered pillow this would never happen to you but then, we wouldn’t have the post to enjoy now would we?
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William McCamment
reply on December 24th, 2008 11:49 am:
Silk pillows? What’d you do, win the lottery? LOL
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When I wake up I just look like Uncle Fester!
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William McCamment
reply on December 27th, 2008 10:06 pm:
I’m a big fan of Uncle Fester–loved the light bulb trick. LOL
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007 ain’t got shit on you, rock on dude
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William McCamment
reply on January 1st, 2009 8:03 pm:
Haha! Could you imagine dub-7 with hair like this? LOL
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