He's considering branching out into umlauts and other diacritics.What will stienman do once he's got a boy and girl with names startign with every letter of the alphabet?
Stienman develops electronic devices, usually employing microcontrollers (small single chip computers). So on any given day he may be designing circuitry, programming them, or debugging them. He also does some app development (iOS and Android), and has been known to write software for computers, though usually at a lower level such as display or printer drivers.Could he kindly explain his job in greater detail? What, exactly, does he do all day?
He expects to run into biological barriers long before parity is achieved, and has a pretty strong determination to not have kids who are younger than any grandchildren.#10's a girl. Does he intend to strive towards parity and keep trying until he's got the same amount of boys and girls (biologically speaking, I guess)?
He believe's there must be, but hasn't bothered to investigate or quantify it.Would you say there's a difference of behaviour or demeanour between stienman and Adam Davis?
Stienman's son in question is doing better, and changes are being pursued slowly. No change in medication for now, but a change in therapy has given everyone involved a better perspective and a few more tools. In particular it doesn't yet appear to be a serious call for self harm, but his parents are proceeding under the assumption that it'll eventually turn into one without effort on their and his parts.1) Stienman posted a while back about one of his sons struggling with bullying and autism, and expressing willingness and/or desire to hurt himself. Does he feel like providing an update on their struggles, and how the family is coping?
Yes, it's essentially a form of telemetry, which is something stienman has done many times over the last few decades. If the machine already has a network interface and an API it's fairly easy. If not it can be a little more challenging, but he can add intelligence to dumb machines or reverse engineer unknown protocols on smart machines to obtain status information.2) Has steinman done any programming for networked devices? My father's company occasionally has need of someone to write apps to track their clients' extruder output logs and report back to the mothership for QA purposes. They seem to prefer electronic data to flying a person to the client's site to read the logs and troubleshoot - I can't imagine why, but suspect it may have something to do with one of their main clients being located in the Czech Republic.
Does the stienman family feel like they are in a good place right now? Geographically, I mean. Is there sufficient room for expansion and to spread out so as to minimize conflict generated by crowding?He is currently testing us to see if we notice him - disappearing and seeing if we look for him. It's easy to feel lost in a large family, so stienman is now spending one on one time with each child on a regular basis - movies, games, outdoor activites, etc.
He really likes where he and his family are living, and is glad it is warmer so the kids can go outside more often and stay outside longer. Even so, there are 5 fairly distinct communal areas inside the house (apart from the 5 bedrooms - kitchen/dining, front room, back room, basement, sunroom), and plenty of play and entertainment options, so crowding shouldn't be a big problem. He acknowledges, though, that his response to a kid reporting that "[smaller child] is bugging me!" is usually something along the lines of "Learn to deal with it!" and so it could be a bigger problem than recognized simply because the older kids know there's not a lot their parents are going to do to relieve the pressure for them.Does the stienman family feel like they are in a good place right now? Geographically, I mean. Is there sufficient room for expansion and to spread out so as to minimize conflict generated by crowding?
--Patrick
Stienman indicates the difference is small, but would go with Swift if he had to choose one or the other as the only music played on a long road trip.Taylor Swift or Katy Perry?
Tigers, he indicates, must be orange, similar to his favorite tiger, Hobbes.What is Stienman's favorite tiger color, orange or white? Does stienman have a favorite tiger?