Optimism...

Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places? 

Robert Noyce

Amazing google Sheets trick

How do you search and replace [*] in Google Sheets so that the brackets and whatever is in the bracket (or parentheses) gets deleted?

You need regular expressions to solve your find and replace the problem. A regular expression pattern is an admittedly arcane character string capable of matching various text patterns with exquisite sensitivity and precision

Google Sheets supports regular expressions in its Find & Replace dialog. You must check the box for “Search using regular expressions” each time you perform such a search. The Find field will be the regular expression pattern \[.*\] and the Replace field should be left blank.

To explain the regular expression pattern,


the backslash means the next character is a literal rather than a regular expression special character. 

The . mean any character.

The * means 0 or more occurrences.


So the regular expression pattern is looking for a left square bracket, 0 or more characters, and a right square bracket.


Thank you Brad Yundt... you Sheets aficionado


Dystopian...

Just finish binge watching this show to get ready for sesason two. I really love dystopian stories like this one.  What if the Russians landed on the moon first?  Nixon never left office, Ted Kennedy won the Presidency in ’76. And the Apollo missions kept on going into the twenties. Season 2 is in less than a month.