Just as a precaution before the celebration:

If you do anything with documents, especially editing them on multiple computers, definitely skydrive. Office web apps make google docs look like child's play. Plus, you won't have to convert between file formats.

what did I just read?

So don't class your baby as a mage then?

Is Spotify for linux still for paid subscribers only?

Agreed.

And then I pull out a photograph.

VOTE: Google Hangouts

I completely agree. Everything that this article has mentioned can be accomplished simply by not pulling your phone out of the pocket, which I frequently do. Also, i see my phone as more like a Hitchhiker's Guide than an instructions book, and I use information from it to supplement what I already know. Like going to…

Ctrl-Z, ctrl-z! It's not working?! Ctrl-alt-z!

I just couldn't use GIMP's interface. Too confusing with all of those windows floating around. Also, it maps a tablet independently of the mouse pointer.

Those who can extrapolate from data

TOMACCO.

You know, you just ruined the idea of a burrito for me.

In my day we had to squeeze our own buttcheeks and pretend it was boobs.

If I am permitted to venture a guess on this point, I would suggest that since the new brain is, well, new, there is a higher degree of plasticity and it was easier for that brain to learn? i.e. the memories/aversions, etc, in the new brain hasn't crystallized yet?

here is my signature:

Every six months or so - scrub down keyboard and trackpad/palmrest with alcohol to remove grime.

1 in 10 success rate? Excellent! To Jool!