Idea for an advert.

Open on two KIDS visiting GRANNY at the nursing home. No sound but a clock ticking. The KIDS are bored.

Kid 1: sighs

Suddenly, in an explosion of light and colour, our new exciting youth-appealing mascot VIOLENT VIOLET bursts into the scene.

Violent Violet: Hey kids! Did you ever wish you could eat granny’s perfume?

Kid 1: No.

Kid 2: What? No.

Kid 1: Gross.

Violent Violet: I’ll fucking cut you.

To be developed but I think it has potential.

Oh, it’s okay, I kept a rag next to the funnel. And I used a funnel. Belt and braces, you see?

I saw eight bears on Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway back in the nineties: a mother and six cubs on one day, and an adult on its own on another. Those fuckers are big.

More recently I was on a coach from Vilnius to Warsaw and saw loads of wolves. Those fuckers are big.

For both occasions I felt something like a distant, muted, primal fear and I was very grateful to be inside a vehicle.

Not a carnivore, but a few years ago I was hiking alone in northern Norway and I came across a small group of reindeer who obviously took a liking to me and followed me for about two hours, very close. They were big enough to do some damage but I didn’t feel even slightly threatened by them, nor them by me, apparently. Those fuckers stink.

For three, say “command prompt” instead.

In fairness, several major distros are available on the Microsoft store.

something chocolate…

cooking chocolate

I used to live (alone, unsurprisingly) in a house with a games room in the attic. The only toilet was on the ground floor. So I ran a hosepipe all the way through the house so I didn’t have to trapse down two flights of stairs to pee. Thinking back, I both admire and loathe the person I used to be.

I’m glad that I’m flying.

Sounds like someone wants to go back to a website

You know how the technicians at NASA keep finding new and creative ways of using the Voyager hardware well beyond it’s operation lifespan, presumed hardware limits and original intent? As you get older you realise you have a few bytes of very short-term storage in the air between your mouth and ears and you might as well use it.