Funny story, nothing more hair-raising than the horrific spectre of data-loss.

That should be "Augean stable", probably.

You know, I guess the new version of the classic tattoo would be a happy mac on one finger of your fist, and the sad mac on the opposite finger.

hardly bathed or ate, and smoked hundreds, if not thousands, of cigarettes. So in other words, a fairly normal week at Chez Doctrow?

sad

no offense, but
"natch" must die.