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sooshon All or something (2009)

That much is true. I guess you're lucky with your son. My daughter sleeps so badly I've discovered a new side of my wife called "apocalyptic night mommy".

sooshon Best Resume Ever: How to Woo a Startup

yeah, I'm too old for this.

sooshon We are sorry

Yeah, I don't consider an apology that blames ME an apology. You screwed up, full stop. You're shirking your responsibility if you're talking about my response to your mistake.

sooshon Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result

This reminded me of a fun fact from an old professor's paper: 1/99007599 has a binary expansion of period 48993900.

http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~agboola/teaching/2005/winter/old-1...

sooshon Ubuntu rips up drop-down menus

sure, discoverability. I guess what I want as a user is for Excel to tell me, "you're formatting a lot of cells the same, have you heard about format painter?" ... though as Clippy that was a little obnoxious.

sooshon Ubuntu rips up drop-down menus

Random question -- does any operating system or application, having noticed you did something the hard way, say, "hey, next time, hit Ctrl-% when you want to do that?"