Dread and Awful Czar, While we’re on the subject of foolish questions… If cartoon characters have 8 digits (3 fingers and a thumb on each hand), why do they use a decimal, rather than an octal numeric system? Best,Dr. J. … Continue reading →
Have you heard about the recent Gallup poll that made a mistake? Probably not. I put little weight in these national polls especially when it’s a poll teamed up with some sort of media outlet (a newspaper, a television outlet, … Continue reading →
It would be a failure on my part if the Techie in me fails to point out that at 11:31:30 p.m. GMT, we reached 1,234,567,890 seconds since Unix time “began”. For those still scratching their heads, many computer systems determine … Continue reading →
