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An e-mail platform doesn't enjoy the same kind of network effect as social media, so there won't be any social penalty for never joining or leaving it. Unless he comes with a compelling reason to keep an account there, I don't see it taking off.

Joe Dever's Lone Wolf saga was my crack during my late teens. I'll have to drag them out and replay them.

One side of my bedroom wall was a built-in bookshelf. We're talking about 4m in length and 2m in height. Some shelves had double-stacked books.

But you are right; the logistics are nearly impossible. I moved out of my parents' house in the mid-90s, but they still keep most of my books there for me. I have my own house and family now, but my wife threatened divorce if I "cluttered" our house with all the books. My hope lies in my kids inheriting my love for reading and bringing over my books themselves.

If I play RPGs and have the choice of a character, I always pick male and customise him to look like me. Despite never seeing my character when I play in first person mode. It just seens natural to me.

But when I don't get the choice (mainly narrative driven games like adventures), I simply roll with it. It's a game after all, not a second life.

I was in a similar situation. It was the only time I got into a serious fight with my mom. The only difference was that I was an adult already, had around 1800 books, and sorted them by genre, author and series order.

Good choice.

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."

Sorry, but that's the reality we live in. There are mass murders committed all the time by companies and governments, and while we may stand against some of them (even to the extent where we endorse vigilante justice), we approve of, either directly or by our silence, many other mass murders. I firmly believe there isn't anyone on this world who wasn't complicit in some corporate or governmental mass murders, and as such, I don't think there will ever be agreement which CEOs and politicians to shoot and which to spare.

I work with a few Indian development teams, and "sweatshop" is an apt description. We work on software dependencies, as specified by them. After we deliver, they decide it's not what they wanted, change the specs and treat it as a "drop everything else" bug. It gives me no greater pleasure than telling them to relax, that we'll get to it in due time when we have the capacity. I like to think that a few of their managers already popped a vein.

The killer is not as dangerous as the approval for his act. The government wants to prevent copycat vigilantes by making an example out of him. Regardless whether this guy is guilty or not, they'll drag him through the deepest mud and then string him up with the harshest possible sentence, to discourage others from gunning down CEOs.

"Hippo" in German translates as "The horse of the Nile". It's such a fun language, with its word combinations.

Not too bad. But to be honest, I started mixing trail running into my schedule. It's fun, better for your joints (even though I've never had problems), and as a runner gets older, longer distances become more appealing. I'm beginning to consider some easier ultras, and they are usually on trails.