few of these good tidbits. appreciate you both being here. john phipps is spending a little time with the calculator this holiday season working on plans for a new year. john. while i have been sorta working on plans for 2016 all year, it seems like i always get down to the tricky details in the week between christmas and new year's day. so this week i've been hunched over my computer trying to get the right answer. this process called to mind one of my all-time favorite scientific