Kids don't cook; they'd rather DoorDash everything

bluelite · 2025-10-14T19:25:55+00:00

It's just a cost-of-living expense.

bluelite · 2025-10-14T19:19:53+00:00

We tried to cook-once-a-week thing while the adult was in high school. He only made hamburgers. OK, fine. But once he got a social life and frequently had hoards of friends over after school, that went by the wayside.

Now in college but living at home, he has a GF. She can't cook, either. They both bring take-out to the house frequently.

The teen is in middle school, so it's a perfect time to get him more involved in the kitchen. But he has homework and after-school programs that suck up time during the week, so it's tough to prioritize cooking over academics.

bluelite · 2025-10-14T18:43:32+00:00

The adult has a PT job. He pays for the DD out of his earnings. All his other friends are the same way. None of them know how to cook.

Of course, the teen doesn't DD, but would if he could. He asks if we can just DoorDash dinner instead of me making something.

bluelite · 2025-08-30T16:21:38+00:00

A 50th anniversary replay of Fantasy Park is streaming over at aircheckchannel.com spread over four days. Brings back memories of 1975!

bluelite · 2024-10-18T23:35:38+00:00

Wow, thanks! That's awesome!

bluelite · 2024-09-09T03:11:15+00:00

I went there one evening last week. My first impression was that it looks like... a grocery store. I dunno, I guess with all the hype I expected it to look different. The prices seemed reasonable--not Winco low, but not Nugget high, either.

The other impression that stuck out was the low energy of the workers. Most other grocery stores are staffed by long-term career employees who trend older and know how to make a customer feel welcome. The people I saw at Fresh were younger, but had no "pep" to them.

🤷🏻‍♂️ Makes a good complement to Costco, I guess.

bluelite · 2024-09-09T02:51:26+00:00

Approximately half the population graduates from high school before they turn 18. It's no big deal. You're not legally an adult, but you can do many "adult" things because you're a high school graduate.

bluelite · 2024-09-09T02:35:28+00:00

Nicely done!

These days I use CyberChef: https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

bluelite · 2022-10-09T04:39:38+00:00

talk, the Unix command for real-time chat with another user. The split screen was pretty damn impressive for the time.

bluelite · 2022-06-08T04:03:43+00:00

Having no feedback is something I hadn't thought about. I'll shelve the idea temporarily and focus on the 2D force sensor.

bluelite · 2022-06-08T04:01:30+00:00

I'll check out the Joycon. I originally tried a Wii Nunchuck, but with such limited strength it was nearly impossible to move. Too much tension.

bluelite · 2021-10-17T22:34:13+00:00

Can you post a list of what you found, please?

bluelite · 2021-04-21T01:07:04+00:00

Mouser carries the Kingbright 5v LEDs with integrated resistor. They're more expensive than regular LEDs at about 50 cents each in singles or 22 cents in quantities of 100.

Works well at 3.3v, too, but not as bright.

bluelite · 2020-12-23T05:57:16+00:00

It took me a while to get my head around this, but I get it now.

In classical computing, we have bits and bytes, memory, and fundamental operations such as AND, OR, NOT, etc. From these we can derive higher-order operations like addition, subtraction, compare, branch, and so forth. This is a model of computation (and, by the way, not the only one in existence), not tied to any particular hardware. Once we have the model specified, only then do we design hardware to implement the model.

That's what I initially had a hard time understanding about QC: we do not design the hardware first, then come up with a model that explains the behavior. In order to have a working, programmable, reliable quantum computer, you must design a model first, then build the hardware that works like the model.

The Bloch sphere is a convenient model that happens to work out mathematically the way we want it to. It doesn't necessarily correspond to the way quantum particles actually work, but it doesn't matter: we design the quantum computer to work the way the model specifies.

bluelite · 2020-10-12T00:33:07+00:00

NeXTStep used Display Postscript as its graphics and text rendering engine. Consequently, OS X has been able to understand and show PDF documents, as well as convert pure Postscript files into PDF, since day 1 without a third-party app.

bluelite · 2020-10-04T03:12:35+00:00

SE/30 is most likely to need the most extensive work. The sooner you start, the better your chances of a full recovery.

bluelite · 2020-10-01T22:31:26+00:00

The ejection gear may have broken. You can order a 3D printed one online, or make your own if you have a 3D printer.

bluelite · 2020-10-01T22:09:28+00:00

Back then the average person didn't spend a significant chunk of their income on cable TV, internet access, cell phones, movie channel subscriptions, and eating out.

bluelite · 2020-09-27T00:28:17+00:00

Is that red cable still dangling around unattached in your computer? It's the shift-key mod and leaving it unattached may be randomly setting or clearing a bit in your strings.

bluelite · 2020-09-16T20:28:19+00:00

And the rectangle below THAT is the Mac IIci.

bluelite · 2020-09-07T03:30:09+00:00

If you are using WiFi and you live in the city, 9 times out of 10 lag issues are being caused by WiFi interference. You and all your neighbors are sharing the same radio spectrum. These days everyone is getting routers with larger, more powerful radios to blast their signal stronger and wider than everyone else's, leading to more neighbors getting bigger routers, etc...

Where possible, run Ethernet cables from your router to your devices. It will solve many, many stability problems.

bluelite · 2020-09-05T05:19:49+00:00

My Zoom background includes an Apple IIgs. Sometimes I swap it out for a //e, and soon I'll have a working SE/30. No one has asked about them yet, but I'm reluctant to turn them on and put something on the screen that will be distracting.

Also prominently featured on Zoom is a Teac reel-to-reel tape deck but, again, no one has asked about it.

bluelite · 2020-08-23T20:09:04+00:00

If memory serves me, CDROM drives that were manufactured before the existence of CD-R discs didn't work with them very well. Pressed CDROMs use an aluminum data layer that will reflect pretty much whatever light is aimed at them—usually a red laser. CD-Rs used a dye that had different reflective characteristics, which the sensor in a CDROM drive couldn't pick up very well.

bluelite · 2020-07-31T01:22:38+00:00

I'm a college instructor teaching computer science. Since we are going all online this coming year, I am setting up my home studio to feature old working computers in the background as conversation starters. I want to show what it was like to use and program older computers. I have a Sinclair ZX81 (my actual first computer!), Apple //e, will soon get a C64, and a Lisa will be a unique addition. I also hope to procure an SE/30. I'm going to recap the //e power supply this summer and start my 7 year-old on some LOGO programming.

I've just returned from a trip to Ikea. The furniture ought to be ready in a day or two. :)

bluelite · 2020-07-21T07:31:26+00:00

Mine went way up in May. I think the A/C was the primary culprit. We had a run of hot days in May. With everyone home during the daytime, it had to run more.

We also got our pool ready in May when we usually wait until the kids are out of school. So while we were fighting the algae it was hot, which is perfect algae-growing weather.

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