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Driver’s License Photo

Ryan — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:02:47 +0000

The Power of the Moustache

Ryan — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:30:58 +0000

So the time has come to get my Virginia driver’s license. By an amazing stroke of luck it happened to coincide with Movember. Excellent … most excellent. If I’m going to get my picture taken, it’s not going to be half-ass – I’m going all the way. I got out the gel, slicked back my hair and put on my gold chain. Mr. Awesome, coming through! I’m all dressed up and head to my local DMV. A few people are in front of me getting licenses so I have to wait about 15 minutes. My number is called and I go up, the clerk checks my paperwork and then asks me to stand in front of the camera. Virginia has a new rule where you aren’t allowed to smile in your picture – I guess it screws up their facial recognition software (Big Brother is watching …). With a moustache, slicked back hair and a gold chain I wouldn’t want to smile anyway. I stand in front of the camera, they take the picture, then the system fails. The clerk asks me to sit down while he frantically types into the computer terminal. He runs into the back room. There is a bit of scrambling. After 20 minutes he asks me to come up again. They try to take the picture … again, nothing. I sit down again. There is more scrambling until the announce over the intercom that the license issuing system is down. Not only is it down at this location, it crashed over the entire state of Virginia. My moustache brought down the entire state of Virginia’s license issuing system. Can your moustache do that? Obviously my moustache is too awesome for Virginia to handle. It was down the whole rest of the day. By the time I went back two days later, the shock of my moustache had worn off and the system was able me. Rock on moustache! Stay tuned to that license picture …

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