“When I stroke the beard thusly, do I not appear more intellectual?” ~Data from Star Trek Next Generation I’ve been clean shaven pretty much forever. Dear Old Dad had a muschtache and looked a good deal like Juan Valdez from the coffee comericals. One of my older brothers has a goatee that he has had forever. My boss has one of those neat and trim little goatees that he keeps at a constant quarter of inch length. Whenever I have tried to grow a beard or a goatee or anything, I have been unhappy with how it has looked. That…