Oh yea funny story. Yesterday I went to walmart and bought a bunch of vegetables and fruits. At the register, there was a women who looked like she didnt know what she was doing. Anyways as she was ringing everything up, one by one she had to ask me exactly what each produce was. "That's a celery... thoses are red bell peppers... thats a bunch of parsley, thats basil... and then she got to the nectarines

and she was like "ohhh ohh i know what these are... they are peaches!" and she sounded so proud of herself. But i corrected her and told her they were nectarines. People make me sad sometimes...

Poor kid :/

Wth leaves a 10 year old all alone by himself at home...

He can't use the microwave? :(

@Jay Yeah he is a bit young.

But if it's only for two hours...

@Cerberus yea but from the way the question is worded, it sounds like its not just for a day or two. it sounds like consistantly every day

@Jay Right, yes, I just noticed. See my comment.

@Jay Well, I'd guess WTH leaves a 10-yr-old alone is someone with no better options.

Yeah I mean if your choice is between that or having enough money for basics... what are you going to choose?

If they're trying to figure out good things to make for him to eat during those couple hours, I don't think they're an uncaring parent.

Just be careful judging, I'd say.

Right.

It's hard to judge someone else's situation.

I left one more suggestion in a comment (and cast a close vote): whole fruit

I mean, if you left me alone when I was 10, I'd have sat around and read.

Hmm. I'd have read, or I'm not sure if I was into computers yet. Might have programmed.

Or just played video games...

What grade in school is 10, anyway?

4th or 5th, I think.

I don't want to figure it out/look it up.

Oh, that's 4th or 5th? Then I'd have programmed.

Depending on when your birthday is, in the US.

I think 3rd or 4th is around when I learned to program. Been a long time...

I guess I'd done a bit of logo and QBASIC by then, huh? I didn't remember that I'd started that young.

Sometime in third, I started with LOGO and BASIC, moved on to HyperTalk not much later. And perl shortly after...

A few other languages in there that I don't remember the name of

Haha, I didn't get perl back then, wow.

Basic once I got a graphing calculator, then C once I discovered TIGCC - compile C for your calculator! Excitin!

I was pretty proficient in Perl CGI by middle school. Well, proficient at the way Perl CGIs were written back in the mid 90s

But math and eventually physics were really my things back then so I just kinda skimmed through the programming a bit.

I did quite a bit with TI-83 basic when I first got my 83, then 89 basic when I upgraded. But those were annoying, especially 83-basic, because I'd already used much better environments

Yeah, it was pretty painful.

WTH do you mean I have 27 variables, total, all of them global, and several of them are randomly overwritten by the calculator. UGH.

Of course, then you used lists to stash more data

Haha yessss what a language.

Was amazing what you could pull off—but it was a PITA. E.g., sheet of paper, with where I'm using each of the 27 variables (well, minus x, y, z, theta, which are temps since the calculator overwrites them in numerous circumstances), to make sure I don't overwrite my data.

I was working on writing a adventurish game. Had battles, map screen, random monster generation (with random names, too), stats, etc. working

That was sooo much 83-basic code

Wow, that's intense.

I wonder if I still have a copy anywhere. I bet if I do, its on media I can't read.

stopped work on it once I got an 89, I think

Oooh! I also did a two player tank wars game on the 83.

Two player, as in two calculators, over the link cable

Nice!

If I remember correctly, 83 had a getvar function. Which would only get a variable from the remote calculator if it was at the home screen, or running pause. Thankfully, it'd cancel the pause in the process. So you could use that for communication.

and for synchronization as well

Now, I think I'll go write a file uploader. Sure, I could just download one of the 20 already on CPAN, but what fun would that be :-P

fee fi fo fum

Sure is quiet in these here parts

I love the "how should dashi smell?" question.

@hobodave my SA page just loaded without CSS too.

@Mien That's pretty likely a CDN failure, but there's more than one way that can go wrong.

I refreshed and it's okay.

oh @rfusca!! congratulations :D

Did everything went well?

Thanks

yup

Nice!

everything is great

Cool :) enjoy

baby and momma happy and healthy

thanks

Is your daughter happy with the baby as well?

ya, she hasn't been around much though

we just got home and she's been staying with my parents

She'll have time enough to play ;)

indeed

Oh, you're already home?

When was he born?

yup

yesterday

That's pretty fast :)

went into labor on thursday night, born friday afternoon, home today

it was so 'perfect' or whatever, they're just required to keep us 24 hours. They started processing us out at 25 hours

hehe

Well, why stay if it's not necessary?

yup

we were happy

Home sweet home ;)

Well, I wish you and your family the best.

definitely

thanks!