* In 1994 the first edition of pc gamer magazine came with a floppy disk and some shareware game.. I fondly remember ‘cannon fodder’. My girlfriend of those days took me to a swimming pool and we spent all afternoon there. Thoughts of a baby crossed our minds. A CD of Afghan Wigs was playing in repeat. And the baby went straight to heaven.

* The other day I found on a fortune cookie something very clever: “a half-truth is a full lie”