Movember

Hello all.

Something a lit­tle dif­fer­ent from me today. Normal over­think­ing on the sub­ject of videogames will resume momen­tar­i­ly, I promise. For the moment, allow me to indulge in some­thing more, dare I say it, impor­tant. This is an appeal for your help.

I am tak­ing part in Movember, a move­ment that sees men around the world sport­ing fab­u­lous mous­tach­es through­out November in sup­port of men’s health char­i­ties. From hum­ble begin­nings Movember has become some­thing of an inter­na­tion­al phe­nom­e­non, but it’s not enough. It’s pret­ty well known that men have a short­er life expectan­cy than women, but what is not wide­ly recog­nised is that there is no bio­log­i­cal rea­son for this. The are a num­ber of social fac­tors that con­tribute, and one of the main objec­tives of Movember is to com­bat these fac­tors by rais­ing gen­er­al aware­ness, encour­ag­ing a change in men’s atti­tude to their own health and pro­mot­ing char­i­ties which do bat­tle with the joint scourges of tes­tic­u­lar and prostate can­cer.

Movember seeks to put a fun spin on a very seri­ous issue. Fun as it is, it’s impor­tant that we don’t lose sight of the direct effect every penny raised has on the future improve­ment of men’s health. While I always have a good time devel­op­ing a silly bit of facial hair every year, it’s essen­tial that I con­vert that into the most effec­tive dona­tion drive that I pos­si­bly can. That’s where you come in. Chances are that if you’re read­ing this you’ve vis­it­ed Ontological Geek and enjoyed what you found here. If any­thing I have ever put into words here has touched, inter­est­ed, infu­ri­at­ed or per­haps even infat­u­at­ed you in the past, I beg of you to con­sid­er donat­ing to this most wor­thy of caus­es.

Every par­tic­i­pant of Movember gets their own Mospace which can be updat­ed through the month and used to col­lect dona­tions. If you can spare any amount, big or small, to my own Mospace I’d be so grate­ful. Head on over to www​.mobro​.co/​j​i​m​bim if you feel that this is some­thing you’d like to par­tic­i­pate in. Hell, even if you can’t man­age to donate right now, keep an eye on that address for updates on my own top lip tick­ler!

Thank you so much,

Jim.