…since I shaved my hair away. [Please hold back on the Sinead O'Connor jokes.]

A shaved head was just the next step in the evolutionary hair process. The Mohawk was sort of a pain… and though it might have been fun for about 4 days, I found myself wearing a baseball hat most of the time.

I’ll end up growing my hair back but I must say, this certainly is easy to take care of. I’m not sure if the shaved head gives me an "edgier" look or if i look more like I’m about ready to be shipped off to Iraq. In any case, I asked my friend Val if he would snap some shots last night with his super 2992832832933293 mega-pixel camera and the two in this post are my favorites. [Thanks Val]

And so…I now get to add "Shaved Headed Bob" to the pile of "character shots"…I’m going for as many different looks as I can get.

Speaking of photographs…I was looking through this old box I carry around with me from place to place. It’s strange that since digital photography really gained speed, ALL of my photos are in a folder on an external hard drive. I don’t have many that are actually printed out. It’s as though the photo album is a total thing of the past and the online photo album has completely taken over.

The same thing seems to have happened with CDs. The only CDs I actually own these days are special editions. Everything else was converted to MP3 and backed up. I imagine film companies like Kodak are feeling the hurt, just like the record companies did back in the day when (old)Napster was running strong. 

I know this is going to make me sound like an "Old Timer" but thinking back to taking photography in school…none of us ever imagined that dark rooms, photo chemicals and film would become almost obsolete.

There are folks out there who still enjoy the art of film rather than digital[just as there are people who still like LPs], but I’d say in about 10 years…anyone still using film might be looked at the same way as someone who still uses a Ham Radio. We shall see.