My growing appreciation of Tool
For those not into progressive metal music [glances at most family and friends] who may not have heard of the band Tool, here’s the scoop.*. When the worl...
Category: math
The dodginess of reward point systems
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, as they say. And reward card systems are no exception. I can’t speak to all of them everywhere, but can say w...
Update to the confusion about my height
(… and other headlines you’ve never read before…) You ever have one of those “ah-HA!” moments when you realize something that you ...
Wait, I’m HOW tall?
A month ago I went for a medical exam to look at booking a minor operation, and in the pre-exam they check everyone’s height and weight and blood pressure...
In search of a new metric metric
As a child of the early 1970s, I’m in the unfortunate position of being in a country that was switching to the metric system* in my early youth but with e...