Saw a dragonfly stuck in a web. I wondered what spiders in this area were big enough to eat a dragonfly. Then this crawled out.

DiscipleOfDiscord · 2012-02-04T20:10:51.661686+00:00

Its a scary looking spider but its definitely not a black widow.

fuchiwinkle · 2012-02-04T19:57:44.637583+00:00

My wife is getting induced tomorrow also, also first child. Have some parallel life upvotes.

freefallbydefault · 2012-02-04T19:24:14.703315+00:00

Its not a popular thing to say in Duluth, but there is a reason people call it "Socialist Duluth". There is nothing multi-cultural about Duluth, its 92% white. To be full of liberals you don't need to be multi-cultural.

uofc2015 · 2012-02-04T07:59:26.520415+00:00

wow 4:1 you had a lot of girls at your school...

freefallbydefault · 2012-02-04T06:45:11.849518+00:00

The thing that gets me is people neglect to talk about the racism that goes on between white groups. You still hear on a regular basis things like "we don't want him hes a dago", or there goes a "Mick". I heard this at work recently, "Why did we hire that Bohonk".

I'm not saying its right, or its not a problem. But how do you stop white people from being racist when they are still raciest within there own color group?

freefallbydefault · 2012-02-04T06:43:54.272831+00:00

The same amount as before. I hate to say it but with so many "bleeding hart liberals" in Duluth, it was already a pretty common topic.

futuretoday777 · 2012-02-04T04:41:04.683156+00:00

Its silly to include the skylark into any kind of conversation like this. Comparing the two is comparing a 200kg lifting capacity rocket to a 6900kg lifting capacity rocket. After 2, 90kg adults are sitting on top, there isn't much lifting capacity left for there shelter.

futuretoday777 · 2012-02-04T04:40:32.240958+00:00

Its silly to include the skylark into any kind of conversation like this. Comparing the two is comparing a 200kg lifting capacity rocket to a 6900kg lifting capacity rocket. After 2, 90kg adults are sitting on top, there isn't much lifting capacity left for there shelter.

czebrda · 2012-02-03T18:18:48.577790-07:00

Good luck holding them accountable.

Vithar · 3 days

Details/project scope, Here is a post where more info is discussed.

timeline --- I guess that depends on how long these things take. I'm not an expert that is why I'm here asking for help.

compensation --- None to speak of at the moment.

Vithar · 4 days

The broad concept, is to somehow use the reddit API to let people log in and verify user accounts based on there reddit accounts. Idealy it would be a process similar to redditgifts.

If you are interested, go to the site register under your reddit username, and we can discus in detail there.

Callix · 6 days

That's for termination, that's why you should just always lay people off.

Callix · 6 days

That is why its very important to never give a reason. MN does not require that you supply a reason, so don't.

tenface · 7 days

Where is the toboggan?

trot-trot · 8 days

(as any American would know - Russians tend to be germophobes, clean-freaks, picky with their food and so on).

FTFY based on my Wife and Mother in law. Both Russians, and both terrible germophobes. Mother in Law, lives in Russia, wife and I live in USA. How dirty and anti-hygienic the Americans are is a constant point of argument and contentions. At times I have to remind my wife that its a different culture and not to tell people that they are doing something horrible to there children.

wantitbringit · 8 days

Its hard to explain, there isn't any pain, but it can be very uncomfortable. The harder I try to make something right the more discomfort there is, on the other end if I just let it come natural like there is none.

wantitbringit · 8 days

So I don't like going down this road, buy I have a fun condition known as "Dyslexic Dysgraphia". I don't hid behind this condition, I struggled threw any course that required substantial amount of writing. I have methods and systems in place so that common problems like homophone errors suck as "peers and piers" don't occur but they take time and require extra effort. I ignore this on reddit, and allow reddit to have my text right as it comes out, without edit.

I worked hard to not allow this to prevent my education and it made "simple" classes like college writing more challenging than any calculus class, and I work hard to keep it unknown at work, and for 9 years know I have, but as I said, I let my hair down on reddit.

wantitbringit · 9 days

For what its worth in regards to grammar, this is reddit, and not something for work or for school. I have no interest in editing at any level of quality for posts on reddit.

wantitbringit · 9 days

I wont accept that I was lucky. Why? First there are lots of these jobs all over the country, you have to be willing to travel for them. I lived in tents, and shitty motels. I didn't stay close to home, I looked for the bigger projects and went to them. The reason I mention Keystone, is a project of that magnitude will employee every starving collage student who can be bothered to travel out there and is willing to work. The thing is very few bother, and the ones that do will have a story like mine. I know and met when working plenty of other people doing the same thing. A few quite school and decided to just stay construction workers, but most ended up like me. Its not that uncommon of a thing.

The only luck I had was the moment of inspiration that got me looking for this type of work. The thing is, that moment of inspiration was someone suggesting it to me and me researching it. The hard labor was a good motivator to do will in school also.

wantitbringit · 9 days

Fair enough, NYU is not well known in my field so it was never on my raider so to speak. Well I don't actually think taking some student loan debt is a bad thing, if done properly its more than worth it. The thing is, most people don't seam to do it right. They take out the student loans and buy an x-box and other toys, and then wonder why they have debt.

One thing a to the prestige of a University. I don't mean to take away from how having the NYU stamp may have helped you, and it very well may have. However I think that the person is far more important in any case. It may be mentioned in an interview, but I would speculate that you got that job for what you learned, what you knew, how you presented yourself, ect. I doubt it hurt if NYU is known in your field, but I would give you the credit not the prestige of your university. I would go further to say that had you gone somewhere else and still got the same quality education and ended up interviewing for that same position you still would have gotten it. I may be wrong on that, but I'm a firm believer in personal responsibilities in all things. No one from your university was in the interview with you, it was all you. It was up to you know learn and pay attention in university and then go into the world and do with it what you will.

wantitbringit · 9 days

I won't lie. I did my first two years at a community collage. Now because I went for a tech degree and then went to University I ended up spending 2.5 years there. But I ended up with a proper engineering degree and EIT status. Take the PE next year... I had access in my 2.5 years to all the top level people I cared to have. One thing at least in engineering that I think people miss or forget sometimes, is that professors and top researchers don't actually have that great of connections to industry and jobs. (There are exceptions of course)

You are absolutely correct:

Anyway, like I mentioned in my original post, you can't convince somebody who already has the mountains of debt that it could have been done better. People will always argue that what they did was the "smart" thing or better choice. It is human nature.

wantitbringit · 9 days

Guess you just don't know where to look. There is of course different amounts of work available in different locations at different times. The trick is being willing and able to travel to them. I lived in a tent at a campsite for an entire summer so I could be close to the work. That is pretty cheep living my friend.

wantitbringit · 9 days

I never looked at NYU, but I did look at some schools in CA. I did a cost benefit analyses and selected the best school in the price range I knew could leave me debt free. It was a goal from the start not an accident. If I had looked at NYU, it probably wouldn't have meet my requirements, I only applied to schools that had quality education for a reasonable price. As it turned out most of the schools that fit in where Land Grant Universities in the Midwest.

I would also add, don't be afraid to travel. Out of state tuition is always more than instate, but it can still be done.

wantitbringit · 9 days

I lived in the dorms, $2300 a semester at the time. One payment and all your food and accommodations are taken care of. I also lived in a house with a bunch of roommates. The house rent was close to $1000 a month, but with 6 of us it ended up being about $200 each for rent and utilities. So plenty of money for food.

Strength isn't super important for lots of the work. I'm about as nerdy a computer geek as you can get and it wasn't a problem. There are plenty of females that also do the work. I think one of the reasons more people don't do it is they have a false perception of the physical strength recurred.

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