Sounds like the brother of one of my neighbors.

I still remember one of the first programs I did in college. There was a bug, and I'd been trying to find it until I went cross-eyed. Finally, I took a break, went to the bathroom, and while crapping I came up with the answer.

Ask yourself this question. WWJLD? (What would Jamie Lannister do)

As usual, it's a tradeoff between usability and security. An email based login is much easier to remember, especially for accounts that I access once every 5 months, like those accounts I create to buy crap online. Surprisingly, my bank, though not the best on security, does give me a userid that isn't my email or based on my realname.

Not that smart long-term. You can get fatter eating goose eggs for a year than you can eating the whole goose for a few days.

I'm still growing. Just not vertically.

Wow, you must drink more than I do!

Or maybe population reduction.

I've never used one, but a few years ago, I was looking at their site, and their stuff was as expensive as Macs! Which is why I haven't tried them.

The syntax was cleaner and easier to understand than the C-like languages, and Borland's Turbo Pascal and Modula-2 were just as capable for most purposes as C.