Quatloos are the next big thing! Anyone know where can I buy them?

obligatory ref The Gamesters of Triskelion - Wikipedia[^] ?but was the ref necessary?

Bi-monthly, bi-weekly, bi-annually - I'll never understand why words with such ambiguities are in-use!
When I worked at a banking processing center and they were pushing for "bi-monthly billing" as a feature - half the staff had one definition in mind, and the other had another!
Any attempt to have them adopt less ambiguous speech like "twice-monthly billing" or "two-week-billing" was shown with disdain. Don't be optimistic about explaining why wording is important to any higher-ups in the financial industry. They already had the marketing stuff all printed up and didn't want to be seen as troublemakers.

Mara-lago

Oh, there were a few movies, and a TV show. "Knight Rider", "Duel",..."Christine".

And if there's a software problem can we call it "Buggy Code"?

I don't object to others doing that, but to think about code I do better to "think in code".
So the comments about "habits" really apply here. If any identifier is unconventional/silly I won't be focused on the intent of the code.
Secondly - the code that I do as a "one-off" often turns out to be useful and adopted in another project or context. It drags down my time and effort if I need to go back and tidy up and refactor.
Lastly - I was part of a moderately sized audience for a product demonstration once. As often happens the "presentation gods" were unkind. The demo started going awry and exposing all kinds of errors, exposing dopey-silly stuff that the developers probably NEVER intended to be part of a marketing demo.
I felt awful for the marketing guy that had to tap dance around to try to save this humiliating, failing pitch.

Yes! I even write ISO 8601 format on personal correspondence, check (yes, checks!), etc.
But I still have to deal with files at work that come in MM-dd-yy format - yes, using dashes "-" instead of slashes, and others that are dd-MM-yy, so it's ambiguous when read in context for various countries.
Hello all specification authors! Don't invent a new format! Just Don't! I've never seen anyone get confused reading ISO 8601 format
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Regardless of who made the actual call, there will be plenty of blame distributed. Hate to sound so pessimistic, but if it has so many unknowns then it sounds like there are big problems ahead.
"Get it right" is taking a backseat to "Get it done.". Business decisions aren't always right, you can only hope that good enough is good enough. Keep calm.

“The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30.”

― Lorne Michaels

I wonder if divorce lawyers and marriage counselors might pick up some good business leads by following such indicators.

It always amazes me the number of exercise machines on the side of the road come February.

HA! And I try to keep tabs of how many of them have Christmas ribbons and bows still attached to 'em! :laugh:

"...just tell the customer, 'well the computer decided and we know computers do things correctly'. "

This is exactly what they do today! If it came out of a computer or cash register display the teller/cashier/branchmanager is dumbfounded that anyone would question it! Thinking is so old-school.

I wondered if they were meeting on HangOuts

This thread really is really resonating with my experiences, both good and bad ones. I'll try to sum up my experience so briefly: First the bad: The toxic 'anti-learn' folks are around, with so many variances. I try to persuade them to find joy in their work, but to them it's "...just my job, I'll get what I have to do done and then go home and not think about it". Never learn anything new unless they're explicitely directed to use it. Or "...I just have to do this for ten more years and then I can retire...". They'd be wiser to change their careers now when they're still young enough to live life. I'd rather be dead already if I was in their miserable state. And the best! The learners, the knowledge-sharers! These are the people in techie careers of all types (and then again, not necessarily techies) They are a joy to know and work with! Something new comes their way and they willingly share it, or they seek out their coworkers/neighbors/friends. They share in the fun you have of learning too. Keep in touch with these folks. You can always get joy from learning, even if it doesn't pay dividends!(e.g. even learn to juggle!) A teacher in high school told me to never stop learning, never stop reading things, keep connections that matter. It was the best advice I ever got.

I don't have a solution to offer, but I'm wondering if you could give some usable example data?(rigged-up or otherwise) I certainly recognize that this simple need has arisen more times than I can remember. It's time to dabble in tool-building. This kind of issue is a lot like when I only want to make a simple chicken-scratch sketch using old-school Paint but the system I happen to be using only has a major drawing program that takes too-long/forever to load up. Or I just want to type a sentence and a bloated word processor starts loading. Great to have some of the suggestions - checking out GNUPlot and some of the free-or-inexpensive options.

Pete K.