The problem with the names Escort and Probe is that people are perverted enough to have the first thought about those names being a prostititute and a dildo when the original meanings are simple such as as Escort being a companion of any sort or a Probe being a space exploration craft. 

China but you’ll find a lot of Southeast Asian and Latin American markets have a practice where you buy supplies for a meal at one place and bring it to another to pay for it to be prepared for you to eat on site. For many of them, it is uncommon but not unheard of for customers to arrive at site B with goods not from…

• A restaurant where the food is free, but you have a salesperson sitting at your table constantly trying to sell you stuff

I’ve actually eaten at a place that allowed exactly what the last one offers.

A lot of seaside restaurants will do that for fish.

If only someone would make a car stereo with an 8-track player *and* a aux jack for your Zune. (Just teasing, but even the Ron Paul-is-god, audit-the-fed, put-your-401k-in-gold, contrarian nutbag who used to work for me gave up on his Zune (and his Blackberry Touch) after MS stopped production and then support.)

Love is the greatest algorithm of all! It perpetuates life.

Yes, I teach an intro to computer systems course and my introductory activity when introducing algorithms and flow charting is for each group in the class to make a flow chart for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Then each of the groups have to follow another group’s flowchart

The cheese at the bottom also prevents the pre-cut slit in the bun from splitting it totally in half. I endorse this hot dog prep process wholeheartedly.

I would say you are correct as the company itself knows its selling a ‘cheese food product’, being made with waste cheese as an ingredient does not mean the final product is also cheese.

There are 33 days in June. 

You’re blaming government for a President who is abusing every part of government to destroy the country?  Okay.  

“more correct than the FDA’s definition”

American made, no less

Strictly speaking, it does need a little road, right at the beginning.  As airplanes’ road needs go however, it doesn’t have to be very good road, anywhere near as long as usual, or even road - grass is fine.

I love a good algorithm.

Q: how do you fit a C130 into a parking lot?

Dave Tracy’s next project?