Something’s been bugging me lately: While I’m not always on-top of my shaving (something I limit to two-to-three times a week), I’m by no means visually related to what seems to be the norm with Web professionals nowadays: The “Northwest look” of two to three weeks of unshaven faces.

I just got done looking at some SXSW footage (Shaun Inman, et all), and noticed the majority of people I’d call professionals (defined as “how many books I have on my desk that drop the names of the people found in the flickr stream”) all had quite scruffy faces.

I’d be interested in seeing how this compares to the 1998-2002 period. I worked for a daily newspaper in SW Florida at that time, where button-ups and dress pants were the norm (odd for SW Florida, actually) and never a day went by where I could have been confused for someone that eats granola and carries an REI membership in their back pocket, let alone have a carabiner on their keychain.

Are “Core Duo,” “TextMate,” “Free Trade Coffee,” and “XML-Bridge*” our new buzzwords?

* I’ll talk more about XML-Bridge in a coming post.

So I posted a couple days ago about some intelligent things I’ve read on the Internet lately - today I’m adding another as written by Kelly Smith (Curious Office and ImageKind.com fame).

Don’t confuse your online hobby with an online business. It could be a business. But may not be. It usually isn’t.

Valuable words from a larger post.

Tasia, the beautiful daughter of a family friend of Justines (yeah, a long connection, right?), just sent Justine and I a letter telling the both of us that Tasia will be happy to babysit the cat Justine and I have been babysitting ourselves the last month.

If you’re having a hard time reading the most adorable letter of the year, allow me to translate:

Deer Justeen and Chad. Tasia will be glad to baby sit Wicid Bidtey wall you are at ur weting. By Tasia. Happee. Weting

That girl slays me. I want to put this letter on my refrigerator.