I asked an older family member about old Scottish legends. She told me about what she heard when she was younger, from someone older still, and I suppose that puts the legend at least a hundred years back.

There are ghostly bagpipes that foretell death...there are banks of primroses, where, if you pick the wrong …

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I felt so very bored with learning in high school that WWII was bad.

The lesson plan, as far as I remember, was this:

• War happened, it was bad.
• It was bad the war happened.
• Nazis did a war, which was bad.
• Nazis did it because of racism, which is also bad.
• (English class) Poetry about how the war was bad
• 11 Million …

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We're not all in power, by definition.

(Ricky Gervais)

Pouring the rest of my soup into a Tupperware container, my girlfriend-at-the-time asked me to stop.

"That won't fit", she said.

"Obviously it will", I replied, pointing to the remainder of the pot.

And it did, with a millimetre to spare. …

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I was working on the tech-support frontdesk from my flat when my girlfriend-at-the-time asked how to watch films on Linux. I was maybe 30 minutes into some bullshit ticket, and probably watching a crappy web-interface load.

[ 00:00 seconds ]

I turned to her, stared for a moment, and thought 'popcorntime'. This program …

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It's literally three commands:

1. i to insert text
2. Escape to not insert text
3. ZZ to save and exit

An old girlfriend once asked me if she could write a website. This came out of the blue - she had no experience with computers beyond installing Sims.

"Is it easy?", she asked.

I said "yes", then showed …

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I started the entire path to Linux due to a single Windows Error message. My little netbook couldn't handle the massive book I was writing (pictures every two pages, tables and formatting galore, et c.). I needed a real PC.

A friend kindly gifted me her old computer parts. She handed me a plastic bad full of plastic …

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