I'm looking forward to it, but they're a little too young. Both seem to love the computer, but the one-year-old just wants to eat it, and the three-year-old thinks it exists exclusively for home videos and coloring programs. As soon as I teach her to spell, though, all bets are off.

I'm just one guy, but I'm definitely going to try to teach my girls to code when they're old enough. I won't force them if they're not interested, but I'm going to work pretty damn hard to show them how fun it can be before I give up.

I've often wanted +0 "inciteful" - a combination of insightful and flamebait, for those posts that blend useful information with a barrage of unnecessary name-calling.

Er, retract that. I check three sources which all agree with me and post, and then find one referring to the Chicago Manual of Style which indicates the version with spaces is preferred. (Though it also says both versions are common, and there's obviously disagreement.)

And don't get me started on programs like Microsoft Word which auto-format three dots into a special, even tinier, ellipsis character automatically.

You've got this wrong. There are spaces before and after the ellipsis, but the ellipsis itself is three dots in a row without any spaces inside them.

I keep a running list of potential band names. Here are a few for your continued enjoyment:

* Meatyocrity
* No Shit Sherlock
* Indecipherable Mumbling
* Spoiler Alert
* Redacted
* Blurbing Stack

I didn't even give them a try, and they're still just as obnoxious. My father in law signed up, and I got about 5 emails from them over a few months before poking them to unsubscribe. The next month another contact pointed them back at me, and I got another 3 emails before remembering to unsubscribe *again*. I've now had four or five people give me as a contact and I know I've got to go unsubscribe immediately or I'll just keep getting spammed. As a non-customer there's no way I've found to stay unsubscribed for good. I've wondered if, were I to actually create an account, I could then get them to stop emailing me entirely, but I don't want to reward their bad behavior like that.

Yes, but does his post sound intelligent?

I'm a human and I can't figure out what number rhymes with live. I mean give, shiv, sieve ... nope, none of those are numbers.

I'm pretty sure that the GP meant "own" as in "not have a mortgage" where I'm positive the 66% figure in 2000 includes many people with mortgages. I don't think you two are talking about quite the same thing.

My childhood lego collection consisted of one teensy space ship set and a large semi truck. Everything I made looked like an exploded yellow semi.

I was still happy, though, with my blocky yellow space ships. No way in hell was I going to just make a plain old truck when I could have space ships.

I'm not Sribe, but I did the same thing, choosing tech over creativity for the day job. I took years of work evenings and weekends, but I did still manage to write a novel. You're welcome to read mine, if you're looking for material.

I can only assume you meant to write "Christians" were being persecuted?

Road Ends, Convert to Hover Mode

I've often suggested they should do an entire season set 6 or 8 years in the future, where Bart and Lisa are in high school and Homer and Marge are getting older, to explore a different slice of life's issues. Sure, they've worked in a few things that are rightly an older kid's story by trickery (Bart getting a driver's license, Lisa "smoking" via second hand, several slightly out of place romances) but there's a lot more teenage material it's not easy to cover.

Also, I just think it would be hilarious if the entire season was done that way without any warning or explanation, and then the season after they reverted to their original ages and timeline, also without any warning or explanation.