Didn't realize this format was a military standard. I've been using YYYYMMDD for years to catalog photos, recordings, etc. Occasionally it drives my coworkers nuts, but I find it so much simpler and more intuitive.

I wonder. I use my full middle name just about everywhere.

I went through a Dore kick in my early 20s, which (incidentally) is also when I finally got around to reading Lovecraft. Gorgeous stuff. Dore is the only artist I can think of whose Heaven interests me just as much as his Hell.

Funny to see these two side by side; I've always cited the combination of Doom and Myst as the reason my beloved Sierra/Lucasarts-style adventure games disappeared after the mid-'90s. I've never personally cared for either game, but I'd like to think I appreciate their impact on the industry. Games on 5-year-old…

My parents are both in their sixties and have never been called either. Meanwhile, I have an uncle who has been called six times and been selected four. I was called almost as soon as I turned 18, and had to ask for postponement because the first day of selection was my first day of college (yes, they granted it).

I used to use a brick wall, too, but found it impractical for travel. Or use.

...Not to mention that it's a choking hazard. Apparently.

As far as I can tell, Ubuntu has gotten better, and I've never *had* to extract a tarball, but I've done things The Hard Way voluntarily once or twice. I honestly believe that at this point, the more beginner-friendly distros are a viable alternative to Windows, especially for, say, your grandparents or your brother…

Aristotelian already hit the points I'd like to make, but I have to wonder what distro you used. The ones that are designed to work "right out of the box"—Mint, JoliOS, and (to a lesser extent) Ubuntu—generally play well with older hardware. I can't address drivers—I've been using Linux exclusively since 2011, and…

That's unfortunate. Now that you mention it, I have a friend who thinks I collect toy goats, and my wife's mother thinks—and neither one of us knows where this idea came from—that she collects mermaids.

Many years ago I had a very large collection of ketchup packets. I didn't start it on purpose; it just sort of happened.

I switched from MS Office to OpenOffice about 10 years ago, and then went over to LibreOffice because it was the default office suite when I switched to Linux. I find the free options work beautifully for my personal use, but every once in a while someone sends me a Word document with elaborate formatting that…

I had this one custom made, and I'm quite fond of it.

...into another bucket.

I um, actually use Print Screen, Pause/Break, and Insert on a very regular basis. I'll grant that Pause/Break hasn't had much purpose since the DOS era, but I seriously don't understand how other people can get through the day without Insert. For that matter, that whole block of keys — Insert, Home, Page Up, Delete,…

I remember that one! One of my former roommates was the local Comic Book Store Guy, and he got a copy in some giveaway or other. I never watched it, and he claims he didn't, either. I know that's what you're supposed to say when you get caught with porn, but I'm pretty sure I believe him.

"a place that everyone knows, but no one has ever seen: the world inside the human mind."

What I'm saying — or trying to say, anyway — is that consumer broadband has been around for longer than most people have had Internet access. I don't think that even a third of the kids I graduated high school with had used the Internet by the time we graduated, and when they finally did, it was in college on a…

Convenience, price, DRM-free. Let me purchase my content online at a reasonable price, and let me listen to it on the device of my choice. That's it. I don't pirate or share my media, but if I can't purchase it online and listen without device restrictions, I'm probably not aware of it.

Regarding dial-up, I have no problem believing that a 23-year-old wouldn't remember it. An Internet connection wasn't a must-have utility for most people until about 10 years ago. I'm 31, and I know plenty of people whose first Internet experience was on a cable modem in 1997.