Just because he has a kid that crys over needles, doesn't mean he deserves a +1.

Ohhhh, you meant the other kind of "parent"....

Electrolytes?

although, to be fair, this is a good question.

I love when the programmer version of a grammar nazi comes out to play.

Probably has to do with the lack of cross-traffic at an airport versus a whole city's worth of subways trying to go in different directions.

Is it really worth having a terrible acronym for something when you still have to explain what it means anyways?

Normally you have to pay extra for the bullshit part. Although sometimes it comes as a complimentary garnish with rocky mountain oysters...

Javascript is hardly "some wizzy feature."

To be fair, I didn't actually pull up TFA. But considering how much of the web requires javascript these days, its hardly something to complain about in a comment. If you don't like it, get NoScript and move on with your life.

You realize this is the 2013 version of the internet right?....

Wish I didn't just run out of mod points. Look at all those jobs created on a false pretense.

I asked CowboyNeal to reply for me.

Yep. Lots of puns/wordplay going on up there.

principal/principle
colonel/kernel
general/colonel/corporal (military ranks)

wooosh...

Took him a year to hitch hike across the country from California.

True, but how is giving "mom" three words to type into an app any easier than lat/long numbers? My point is more that someone bold enough to seek out a random location based on an app and just a couple words, is probably smart enough to use lat/long for more accurate location anyways. I'm thinking about something like geocaching here.