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After having the damn thing, you may remember that Herself and I most noticed a large amount of hair loss some weeks or months later - I lost about 3/4 of the thickness of my ponytail and was debating shaving my head instead if it got any thinner (it's about the thickness of my finger, which is borderline for maintaining a pony really).
But ... I've got signs that it's coming back, and so does Herself!
Not a lot yet - just short little hairs are the front edge of the hairline for us both - but that's a good sign!
Turns out it causes something called "Telogen Effluvium" is to blame, and the first sign of recovery from that is - you guessed it - short little hairs appearing on the front edge of the hairline.
It'll probably take a few years to get the "full pony" back, but at least we can both be sure that it will eventually regrow.*
* Which means I'll be back to spending a small fortune on shampoo again. 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Hair..., hair serve no purpose.
-- Carlo the envious
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Which is a logical full circle - no hair increases the chances of brain damage and thus the inability to see the importance of hair.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: no hair increases the chances of brain damage and thus the inability to see the importance of hair.
This is a logical circle. 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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OriginalGriff wrote: Which means I'll be back to spending a small fortune on shampoo again
That's better than spending a small fortune on hair-restorer quacks... 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Wow - you've inspired a great topic for a weekly survey: scalp fur.
Mrs. doesn't approve, but I, too, have ponytail. Hair, between wavy and curly, makes it always appear thick.
I'm glad your furs' regrowing. Here, via the evidence of evolution, is why:
Humans have lost just about all of their body hair - but not on their heads. Why? Well, it's because hair is there to protect the brain from blazing sunshine and winter's frosty bite. In hotter (equatorial) climates, it even evolved to curly so as to increase the air content and be a better insulator. Dark, too: counterintutive? Not if you realize most of the suns heat is in the infrared range. It is absorbed rapidly by the darker hair on the outer layers whilst in very northern climates, it became possible for blond haired mutants to survive as the sun is never that intense.
So - and I suppose you'll agree there's some importance to this - your brains protective most-outer layer is repairing itself and the implication is that your body thinks it's worth it.
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There are very few perfect heads. So, the rest are covered with hair.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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theoldfool wrote: So, the rest are covered with hai
And the ones that are uncovered? They do seem to resemble a butt-cheek more than anything else. Especially when two hairless options sit close together.
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I haven't shaved my head since Thanksgiving. I wanted to if I was still blonde, and how much gray would be in there.
Still blonde. Not much gray.
But pretty much nothing growing on top. (Ever see an elephant up close? Hairs spread far, far from each other on its skin. That's me.)
So...$30/month on minoxidil forever, or $30/year on razor blades?
Easy decision. 
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Excellent news. Glad to hear it.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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OriginalGriff wrote: * Which means I'll be back to spending a small fortune on shampoo again.
and we'll be spending a fortune on stronger glasses to read your footnotes.
But we are pleased to read your good news
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I've adopted the brush cut look a few years ago and haven't looked back.
One of my cousins has owned her own salon since she was old enough to register a business. She shaves both my hair and beard at the same time, on the same length setting - I haven't bought a blade in years. I keep it short enough that it's extremely low maintenance...I haven't had a need for a comb or hairbrush in a long time either.
This year was an exception however...I hadn't seen her in roughly 5 months. My hair (and beard) both had never gotten that long. And I was reminded how much I hate having to use a brush every morning...
TBH I wouldn't have a care in the world if I went bald. But both sides of my parents' families are known for having full heads of hair. Some have thin hair (I certainly don't), but nobody's bald.
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As part of my ongoing drama at the arduino.cc forums, I just told the mods and rest of the arrogant half of the thread that responded to me that they aren't good enough at C++ development, troubleshooting, or arduino to be arrogant about anything, and if they wanted to be jerks, they should get good first, or they just look like low rent clowns who have a chip on their shoulder.
I'm done being nice. These people shouldn't have a forum. That site needs an e----
My pet peeve is not rudeness. It's arrogance mixed with incompetence. I hate hubris.
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Two things. It's OK to be a jerk so long as you're good? And what's wrong with spelling out enema? 
How did they get to be mods? Was it solely based on rep points? Does no one watch the watchers?
They probably need you a lot more than you need them, so they'd be the losers in this.
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Being a jerk isn't okay even if you're good, but when a competent person acts like an arrogrant clown it doesn't get my goat the way it does when an incompetent person does.
I'm not sure how they pick mods there.
And thanks for the vote of confidence. I may try out avrfreaks. I've heard they're arrogant too, but maybe they actually know what they're doing.
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Greg Utas wrote: It's OK to be a jerk so long as you're good?
Definitely not, in my opinion.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
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Quote: that they aren't good enough at C++ development, troubleshooting
That's a bold statement. Are you good enough at C++ to make it?
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Popcorn ... popcorn ... where did I leave the popcorn ...
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 I may or may not be decent at C++. I do know there are regulars on *this* forum who are much more seasoned at it than I am.
So I don't intend to be arrogant about it. Besides, humility is the foundation of wisdom. It's impossible to learn anything without it.
So maybe I suck at C++ but I won't berate other people because they write code I can't write.
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There's some things in life that are constant; there's always someone thats bigger and meaner than you that can kick your butt, people that know more than you do so why be an arrogant ass?
Always told my kids; if you keep your mouth shut and your mind open you'll learn something every day of your life.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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Yeah. I was upset when I wrote that because I had been accused of lying about my code running on 8-bit and 32-bit devices both. I don't like being called a liar just because the person doing the accusing doesn't know that something's possible.
I try not to be arrogant about coding. I know there are plenty of better C++ devs who post in the lounge regularly. I've been schooled by some of them.
Humility is a precursor to wisdom, and also the antithesis of anger, so we all can slip in that regard from time to time.
But like, if your forum is just toxic you have a cultural problem with your forum, and whether it's the mods there, or just an unfortunate community it's deeper than any one person's behavior because it creates a feedback loop - toxicity breeds toxicity.
Somehow, CP (excepting soapbox) has largely managed to distance itself from that. Even the QA here isn't so bad as say, SO. It would be nice if there was an Arduino forum here as someone else suggested (sorry, i forget who now)
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honey the codewitch wrote: It would be nice if there was an Arduino forum
agreed.
There are many Arduino based articles here on this site to warrant a designated forum, as such.
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honey the codewitch wrote: It would be nice if there was an Arduino forum here as someone else suggested (sorry, i forget who now)
I don't remember who asked it, but I remember answering to it.
And...
Let's see what happens[^]
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Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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