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Author: RandolphMy friend Aidan posted about the new Pope on Facebook, and how he doesn’t like silly hats as much as Vitamin B-16, prompting me to plumb the depths of DuckDuckGo Image Search. For your reference, here’s Benedict Eks-vee-eye: And now here’s Francis, with three excellent reasons why he doesn’t wear a silly hat in public. OfContinue reading A review of silly hats
For the longest time, I have wanted to be a B-list celebrity. I get a kick out of being recognised as “that guy” from a play or a television commercial, but I would not want my face plastered across the front page of the newspaper (or Buzzfeed, he said, bringing his references up to date)Continue reading Engage!
Eusebius McKaiser wrote this essay on Facebook earlier today, and with his permission, I am reposting it here. On male rape, and the taboo around it: Earlier today I was interviewed for a news channel by one of my favourite television journalists. I had told her I would share some of my reflections of howContinue reading On male rape
Site theme change. I really liked Scott’s Decode theme, but the menus, oh, the menus. WordPress 4.1 launched two weeks ago, and Twenty Fifteen is pretty much what I was looking for. Now I’ve got a custom menu structure along the left of the screen, which expands to show the items more clearly. If youContinue reading Change of heart
Happy New Year. It’s 2015. With the new calendar comes a fresh installation of Yosemite on my laptop, which is almost a year old now. I didn’t want to do this because it meant having to remember what I’d done over 4½ years to set my Mac up the way I like it, but IContinue reading Clean
From his latest Orbital Operations newsletter: All of which is to say: so much of this absurd job is feeding the compost bin. I have spoken in the past to so many writers, not even limited to beginning writers, who focus on prodigious word counts and/or deep narrow research wells. Or just reading the mediumContinue reading Warren Ellis, on writing
In late 2000 or early 2001, I joined the Johannesburg PRIDE 2001 Organising Committee. I’ve written about my experiences of that year already. This post is something different, but related. Imagine you’re scanning your receipts for 2013 and 2014, and you accidentally move a PDF file to the wrong folder. Then you decide to sortContinue reading Where Is Your Pride?
I posted this quote on Twitter earlier today, in capital letters, because it’s true. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM DOING — Randolph West (@rabryst) December 3, 2014 This past week, M and I made a big decision. We’re all about big decisions in this family. We got married when it was still aContinue reading “I Have No Idea What I Am Doing”
Today is M’s birthday. Before the end of the year, it’ll be mine. We’re getting older. But are we getting old? Adulthood is an invention by children to explain why adults are grumpy all the time. I feel older. Time is moving faster because as a percentage of my lifespan so far, a day isContinue reading On birthdays and getting older
This is getting a lot more interest than I expected, so I’ll just let you know that: After a lot of to-and-fro with customer support, I spoke to a director at the company. The director disavowed any wrongdoing on FastMail’s part. I received a full refund, even though I used the service for two months.Continue reading FastMail: the Final Chapter