28 thoughts on “Return of the beard”

  2. The “who commented where last” feature is the one I reckon most of the argumentive ratbags who hang around here are looking for.

    And admit it you sly old dog. You’ve been tinting yer beard. Either that or Nick has been hitting the reds a bit hard.

  4. Great comrade we have got the colour right. All we need now is a hammer and sickle.

  5. Comrades, I did contemplate adding some complex political imagery into the texture of the header block, but I settled on a nice shot of Brisbane taken atop Mount Coot-tha. Was I wrong? Time will tell.

    I plead guilty to the red beard. An unfortunate side-effect of Photoshop’s Shadow/Highlight tool.

  6. You look like the only quaker in a lawless but god-fearing midwest town. I am having a profoundly religious experience.

  7. John,

    We could use a photo of Ned Kelly on the site, too, to judge whether you do indeed look like him or not.

    Gen’l Glut

  8. The header block looks like Brisbane is having an attack of global warming.

    And what’s with the pink borders? A subtle political identifier? Perhaps all blogs should be colour coded.

  9. is that a yarmulke on top of your head or is your hair a darker tint on top and reddish all around?

  10. The one suggestion I’d make is to add a space below the metadata. The main body text, when it wraps around, is hard to distinguish from the metadata.

    div.metadata { margin-bottom: 10px; } should do the trick.

  12. Very refreshing shade of salmon. Is your head shot getting bigger and bigger, JQ, or is that just the beard?

  14. Yes I think some colour coding is needed in your posts.

    Red for Economics
    Blue for Science
    Green for Environment
    Purple for philosophy
    Yellow for poltics
    Pink for life in general

  17. Sorry, but the header is still completely boringly blue, in both IE and Firefox (on XP). And no pictures in it, either. Wanna see!

  18. The photograph just absolutely proves that Brisbane is a city on the surface of Mars.

    Redbeard was a fine Kuwosara film, which had karate in it. Is the reference intentional?

    And yes, the curvature on the image at the top creates a strange yarmulka, a reference increased by the big black beard and the white shirt.

    As a man with a weedy but persistent beard, I am always full of admiration for this triumphant explosion of prickliness atop the academical adam’s apple.

    I remember whinging that the numbers in the comments made it bureaucratic. Boy was I wrong – it is an ace navigational device.

  19. Did I tell you about how my Irish uncle had to grow a beard when on the run from the Gestapo, only to find it grew out red and he had to dye it with boot polish and still had to steer clear of being inspected for fear of the disguise being detected?

  20. I can edit the image to exclude the halo from the top of John’s head. But perhaps a vote will be required. I defer to our host on this matter.

  22. Ummm…

    I like blue. It goes with the water behind your head.

    Has Brisbane been hit by some kind of nuclear weapon?

  23. I think I’ll lose the halo/yarmulke thanks Nick, and maybe go for a slightly less pink shade for the background

  24. Dear PM,

    No you hadn’t, and in fact I believe your Irish uncle was the last remaining member of your family tree we had yet to hear about. You need to put it all in a book. The Belgian nanny – now was she from the Congo?

  25. “Yes I think some colour coding is needed in your posts.”

    and beige for comments like this.

  26. No Belgian nanny, an Armenian nanny (when we were in Iraq). That does not mean grandmother but a sort of permanent child minder, to those of you who have never had servants.

    My Irish uncle was in fact naturalised French, but that didn’t affect his beard. I may or may not have mentioned my great-uncle Leopold who was the Irish Minister to Madrid who had the secret correspondence with the Germans about the possible restoration of the lost counties. But that’s all peripheral, save to show that I am third generation deracine (those should be e accutes in deracine).

  28. Couldn’t agree more, PM. I’ve got some relos in the Western ‘burbs who call their grandmother, nanny. A sign of being acutely declasse!

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