Rob Eberhardt

The Windows calculator has Standard and Scientific modes... 

Suddenly conspicuous today in its absence was a Conversion mode.  (Heck, I've got a little app on my phone which does this.)  Cmon Vista, it just makes sense! 

Especially while we dumb Americans keep resisting metric.  Liquid volume is where it's hairiest, figuring out:

• 3 teaspoons to 1 tablespoon
• 2 tablespoons to 1 fl. oz
• 4 fl. oz to 1 gill
• 2 gills to 1 cup
• 2 cups to 1 pt
• 2 pts to 1 qt
• 4 qts to 1 gal

...We should really just drop most of those units.  (What's the point of ×2 units, anyway??)  It should be much simpler, like:

• 16 tablespoons to 1 cup
• 16 cups to 1 gal

If elected, I promise to simplify liquid volumes immediately.