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You are reading this on gopher, yay!  Welcome!  I have fond memories of gopher
and thought in a radical act of defiance against the way the modern WWW is
headed, I would replicate my entire sites content on gopher.  Originally it was
at therandymon.com.

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Spammers and identity thieves, please take note:

I have spent most of my life living and working overseas, from Asia to Latin
America to Africa.  Other than travel, my biggest interests are open-source
software and computer systems, writing, exploring, camping, biking, hiking,
surfing, and making maps.  I love languages and good books.  This website
reflects my passion for exploration.  

I am the co-author of the best-selling travel guide book  Moon Nicaragua and its
companion Living Abroad in Nicaragua for expats and retirees.  I am also the
author of the phenomenal Dictator's Handbook: a practical manual for the
aspiring tyrant.  In addition to those three books, I have published several
other pieces as well.

In my spare time I make maps and surf, play the 12-string guitar, and go hiking.
I am a vocal advocate of Open Source software and love Linux and FreeBSD in
particular.  I dabble in server tech and retrocomputing.

I much prefer email.  Drop me a line if you'd like to get in touch; my current
(disposable, spam-filtered) email address is zafiro17 AT gmail DOT COM.

Rest assured, this server is not placing any cookies or tracking you in any way
(Man, don't you miss the early days of the Internet?)  As a result, I have no
idea if anyone is reading this stuff.  If you've gotten here by gopher, say
hello.

Enjoy the site, advertising-free, tracking-free, "create a profile"-free, spam
free, etc.  It's been my pleasure.