I have a new (old) laptop

given to me by my parents - or is it an old (new) laptop? - to replace the one given to me several years ago by my wife's parents.

Either way, my new old laptop is much quicker than my old new one, and doesn't insist on shutting down at random intervals.

At the moment, of course, it's sitting on the floor, just playing Spotify. But still: this is progress.

'Forking that guy's repo'

I think it's a very special sort of hell where you're compelled to explain to a journalist some terrible throwaway joke you made ten months earlier - and the journalist keeps saying, "I'm sorry, I still don't get it."

- Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed