MrHeather

>But with 20 million customers a year, and 17% of them paying with cash, the policy will eventually cost Kwik Trip a couple of million dollars a year, McHugh said.

If we figure two-fifths of cash transactions need to be rounded up and the store is losing an average of 1.5 cents each time, their expected losses would be around $2,000, yeah?

The article says FPGAs are too power hungry for handheld devices. Did Analogue do anything special to solve this problem on the Pocket?

Thank you for the kind words, Don.

When I first met with Al about this project, I was quick to point out that linguists would disagree with about a third of the "advice" he's giving out. His immediate reply was "WELL THEY'RE WRONG"--really loudly in the "Weird Al" character voice.

In my mind the joke is that the song's narrator is a know-it-all character that shouldn't be taken entirely seriously. But on the other hand, a lot of educators have contacted me to tell me they use the song as a learning tool.

Any profit the video makes is shared equally between myself, Weird Al, and Sony. So far that hasn't added up to $50k, sadly.

Creator here. I'm happy to answer any questions about the project.