Is “Justin Byam Rye” your real name, or an anagram of something?
Yes: “ban my jesuitry”!
What does your email .sig mean? “Ankh kak!”?
It's a perfectly genuine Ancient Egyptian blessing; “may thy soul
live”.
Why do you write these polemics?
I just have this genetic urge to preach, I suppose.
Are you serious?
Ah, you'll be using one of those browsers that can't handle
<irony> tags…
But really… why?
Well, many of them started as bile‐sumps, designed to archive
Frequently Argued Questions so that new acquaintances could find
out my opinions without me needing to go into repetitive
tirades. In real life these days I can even be polite to
premature enumerators!
What's all this about your flatmate John Mather disappearing?
I suppose since a garbled version was in all the tabloids from
the Daily Record to The Times… here's an
explanation.