I don't have kids yet. I'm 22, too young for marriage, honestly. And me and monogamy are not exactly friends, so I'm not sure if me marrying would be ethical.
You programmed a database and a GUI before SQL?
Not
before SQL before it was solidified. SQL was mostly an idea back then with all the various venders coming up with their own versions/rules and vying to ensure that their flavor adhered to whatever eventually became the standard. Naturally enough, the government had a big hand in it, not by fiat, but by force of being the largest user of software in general and the largest repository of data. So getting to work for NASA at the time was lots of fun. We got to play around with all the various database products and I got to be a major voice in the final decision for NASA's database. I rather pushed the one with the most developed, easy to use library of C calls (C being the primary language of guis at the time, with C++ being developed from the roots of object-oriented programming being done at the time with C - yep, by me and my co-workers). I was just thrilled that we no longer had to write the graphics totally from scratch by that time, using mostly widget calls and the latest-and-greatest thing called debugging environments. Made things so much easier
Which language?
Take me out of Python and C++ and I'm like a fish in outer space.
I wrote mostly in C, making my own objects with global declarations. I had to port everything to about 3 different Unix-based OSs and two other platforms that, I believe are now obsolete (I did tell them we were wasting our time - Unix was the future). We had to write some tie-ins for the engineer-written fortran programs they used for modeling over there, but it was mostly C.
Not might makes right, more on the lines of "no coercive authority, self-defense and mutual defense instead of State-approved jack-booted thugs" civilized anarchist.
Hmm... I might just be an anarchist myself :think:
I do like having the rule of law to help the weak against the cruel; I like a strong volunteer military; I like strong borders for the same reason I like having a rule of law; I like a totally free market - buyer beware; I think that taxation ought all to be voluntary and that the government ought to be able to function on minimal funds outside of military costs (including border protection)...
I've seen a couple of other pagans here. Asatru is just a subset of the pagan revival of the late 60s and early 70s
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Okay. I don't know much about that either, so I look forward to what you have to post
Do you homeschool your kids? I'm relieved when it's educated and knowledgeable people doing it. Perhaps I'd homeschool if I had kids. I don't like the "Big Brother is your friend" theme so prevalent on public education.
I school my own primarily because I can. I don't want to send them away to be educated; I don't have to send them away; so I keep them home where I can enjoy them
We like it and they do well learning what they each need individually. Not that we do everything
at home - as they get older, a great deal of it is home-based, but largely out of the home. For instance, the high-school level science classes are learned at home with a group meeting regularly for lab work and extra lecturing by an expert in the field. Pretty cool that they do this for free
My older three are in a neighboring town just now at their speech/debate club. My oldest is a driver, so I send them on their way each Friday morning to enjoy the fellowship of other home-schooled kids and practice public speaking in a friendly environment. They are currently only auditing the debate class, but they do like it. I wonder where they get that from :think:
I don't think your life is particularly boring: Hell, you worked for NASA! I'm just a "janitorial tech", as Heretic aptly put before.
No, it's not boring. I was just teasing really because it sounded like you were really glorifying your statistics
I love my life. I have the best job in the world in my opinion and I wouldn't trade with anyone, nor would I alter any of my major life decisions.
How is rural life? I've been a suburbanite most of my life. Are rural folks actually that conservative? After all, the people seem very religious and very conservative when I visit my grandparents at Montana, but people seem genuinely welcoming.
People, by and large, are individuals, I've found. I, personally, am conservative, which to me means that I believe strongly in personal responsibility and self-sufficiency, as well as in the solid foundations of the traditional family for the rearing of children.
I like you. You seem easy-going even though you're only 22, and that's saying something
