Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Internet has been down for a few days and I was condemned to the prison of my own thoughts. Too much thinking feeds the madness monster that lurks in the verge of consciousness. The voices in my head had debates ranging from free trade agreements to eternal universes. Socializing and drinking keeps them quiet. So I found myself at a...er...wine tasting five o'clock in the morning with...Wolverine.

Today I got my new computer, Marvin, he's a lovely laptop, named after the paranoid android. He's a bit depressed right now because he can't operate yet (I don't want Vista that came with it). My brother helps me with the partitioning and installation of multiple operating systems...

Yeah, and the mention of Wolverine earlier needs an explanation I think, it's neither craziness nor alcohol, it's a nickname. I don't want to post real names just to be careful with future Google matches. So all my friends will get nicknames, based on entirely subjective grounds. We have the word games (Wolverine and Luna), the lookalikes (Hippie and Jesus), the ones defined by some characteristic behavior (Angel, the Pirate and the Boss), the obvious(?) ones (Little Brother and Bluebox) and a touch of irony (Blackjack).