1996

During January of 1996, I scanned in a bunch of advertisements for the Flowbee haircutting system. The device was so ridiculous that I felt that it needed parody. So I created a webpage featuring the scans of the ads and some commentary on how the people in the ads must have felt. I have not yet been able to find a backup of this webpage.

Fast forward to April of 1996. I was in France doing physics research. Flowbee International took notice of my parody page and sent me a cease-and-desist email. I took down the Flowbee parody page and put in its place the following response, entiteld "Blowmee."

Blowmee
The Blowmee page was eventually incorporated into the "Lemons" portion of Yellow #5, and as such was slightly modified to fit within the Y#5 popup. This modified form is what is shown above.

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During the spring semester of 1996 I took a mechanics course with physics professor Mario Affatigato. As one of only four professors in my department, I knew him quite well. We were perfectly comfortable making sarcastic comments to each other during class, etc.

Mario is a strange Italian/Venezualan/American hybrid and, while he is fluent in English, his mastery of proverbs and common phrases is sometimes a bit off.

During the mechanics course I began to write down quotes from Mario, whenever he would say something strangely. I made the following website as part of my ongoing quest for public Mario humiliation. The collection was added to after my subsequent optics and electronics classes with Mario.

Marioisms