Long, healthy lives, it turned out, made people either too conservative of their lives and health to take any risks or, on the other end of the spectrum, suicidally reckless.

Okay, so I did get Mandriva 2011 installed and working and then it started stopping. Sometimes it wouldn’t load the wallpaper. Sometimes it wouldn’t load a program until I rebooted. Sometimes Firefox would crash its brains out. Then, yesterday, the GUI wouldn’t load. For any…

Once upon a time, there was a stray cat who lived in New Albany, Indiana. One day, he met a tender-hearted young woman whose parents lived in the country and she sweet-talked her parents into taking the cat in. They named him Roger, after a…