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...
Category: math
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...