Exactly a point I was about to make!!

After over a decade intense C++ programming, I finally had found a real world use for the ".*" and "->*" operators. Soon after the review, my 3 reviewers started using them also and our code improved in re-usability and readability.

The president's dog, silly

Shrub was born in Connecticut, raised in West Texas and South Texas and now officially resides in North Texas with his ranch in Central Texas.

East Texas has it's problems (see the Jasper dragging case), but Shrub's not one of 'em.

I am a scientist 1st, but an amateur chef a very close 2nd and I live in the US.

In my scientific life, I of course use metric. Nothing else makes sense.

In my cooking life, I've adapted recipes from the 2000s, 1900s, 1800s, 1700s and, yes 1600s. It's bad enough interpreting archaic English wordings and "gas mark" oven settings to degrees Fahrenheit. If I had to translate my 100s, if not 1000s of recipes to kg, ml and celsius as well, I might as well give up and just order Pizza Hut the rest of my life.

Other "specialties" I've heard with similar concerns. Try breaking down a '68 Mustang with a metric wrench. Try measuring for a replacement truss on the Golden Gate Bridge with a metric tape measure.

I don't see it as a concern, anyway. I "grok" that a liter is "a little more than a quart," that a meter is a "little more than a yard." Celsius I usually need to do the math, but that comes up less often. What's the big deal?

Sugar in insufficient quantities will make you hypoglycemic, you lose consciousness and collapse--I've been there. Too much, and you go into shock and die.

Vitamin D in insufficient quantities will increase your blood pressure, make your bones brittle and give you colon/prostate cancer. Too much and your kidneys shut down and your liver fails.

Is Vitamin D toxic now?

Actually, that gives me lots of links to "I'm coming up, so let's get this party started!"

(for some reason, it defaults to the "artist" Pink)

That may be the obscenity filter.

Try to get auto-complete on a phrase including p*ssy, f*ck, c*nt, etc. The second you type one of those, the feature shuts off.

When I was sysadmin/programming manager/lead programmer for a mid-sized company in Glendale (suburb of L,A,), I implemented a backup plan with 3 level incrementals and multiple media. I even went in on Sundays to do the weekly full, non-incremental backup. Then, the Northridge quake happened and every disk in house survived without a hickup. What a waste!

I know I like eating my dates. They seem to enjoy it also.

Yeah you did! They've got the keylog to prove it!