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Without much ado, five minidoozies follow.

If it isn't one thing it's another, for our regular Argle Bargle."I looked outside. Everything was soggy and I could hearclaps of thunder. How long will it last? Click on weatherand... um... Fire Weather? I can think of only one wayI'm getting a fire going in my backyard right now and itinvolves a flamethrower." It's better than tornadoes!

In the unending time wars, the U.S. Postal Service hasstruck a blow in Mouseville. An anonymous character tipped us off, noting "It's pretty impressive that USPS can prepare a shipping label in the future."

Meanwhile, new-nymed unity noticed "Airline schedules have the useful feature of telling youwhen a flight continues onto the following day or the dayafter with a +1 day or +2 days notation.Unfortunately, this airline has run into a bit of a roundingerror." I recall just enough of my numerical analysisclasses 30 years ago to remember that this can happen andyou need to be careful about floating point. Which is stillone bit more than whoever coded up this thing.

Mindboggled Michael R. wails "In what mathematical universe does this profit make sense?"

And finally, for the last time today, clocks are hard. "Starbucks has a weird pickup time!" discovers a famished Brett, explaining"I was hoping to get my food around midday." Well. Midnight is a kind of a midday, isn't it?

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