> He's likely bilingual (or tri, or quad, or more) since he's from Iceland.

Not quite, unfortunately. I just moved here a couple of months ago (I'm from the US). I am taking Icelandic classes though, and I do speak a bit of American Sign Language from my undergrad time at RIT. So I'm working on it.

Also yeah, getting the hell off of reddit/facebook/hn is extremely important. Sometimes HN is good for finding interesting reading (I hit hckrnews.com once or twice a day to find good links) but always remember the golden rule of the internet: http://shouldireadthecomments.com