A mess o' dorks...

So Michelle was gifted a bunch of records a while back from a previous coworker. And there's some really dorky album covers in the mix (See "Vinyl Motherload" from NQB v0.1).

There are levels of dorkiness, even. From just dorky enough to catch your attention, to enough to drive you hysterical. On the attractively dorky end, there are albums like this classical record entitled Pops Caviar (Arthur Fiedler leads the Boston Pops Orchestra) which seems to depict a model with a fluffy russian hat and an armful of faberge eggs. Wait, it gets better...

Of course, it is difficult to imagine dorkiness much dorkier than this. This is some British chap named Mick Ronson ... and he seems to think that playing guitar will cure your ailments. What the hell is he wearing? It looks home-made. His necklace seems to be a strip of leather tied to a bathroom fixture and he's got more strips of leather wrapped around (only) his right arm. The fact that he doesn't seem to be wearing pants leads us to believe that he's wearing a leotard (slightly disturbing). Wow ... super dorky. You would think that it's hard to get much dorkier than this... and you'd be wrong.

This is some Berkeley student waiting in line, like myself, for his AC Transit Class Pass (which allows Berkeley students to ride the bus in the Easy Bay for free). Yes, he is wearing a hat advertising Microsoft Windows XP. I didn't have the interest to actually ask him why he chose to advertise for the one company that is the least in need of such exposure. Even if Berkeley is the best public school in the U.S. and the second best University in the world, we're not immune to the occasional dork.