I feel very fortunate when I talk to my wife about my job/hobby... The other day I was telling her why I convereted a data structure from a group of arrays to a group of hashes. She asked what an array was, then what a hash was. Then she came up with her own summary: hash = associatave array! I love my wife! > Just out of curiosity, how many have a non-technical SO (significant other) > who's eyes glaze over when you tell them about your day (if you work with > PCs), > your hobby(ies), latest gadget, or some such? How do you handle it? > > I only ask because my fiancé will ask me about my day, what I am tinkering > with > or why I am in the basement hooting and hollering like a chimp :> but when I > tell > her about it she starts to she starts to fidget. Things are fine between > the two > us but I was curious about other peoples stories. > > > - Michienne > > ps: It's not a good idea to describe any lack of response > as in terms of pings and packet loss hehehe > > > > > > > ;--------------------------------; ; The problem with reality is ; chris@nukequarters.com ; that there isn't a coherent ; http://www.nukequarters.com ; soundtrack. ; ;--------------------------------;