The Swamp

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I don't buy the explanation that it was just a knot and it had no meaning. I've worked in several jobs as a teenager where they had industrial garages with a rope attached for a pull. The purpose of the rope is to give you something you can reach when the door is fully open. They always had a small ...

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Just passed Shartlesville. I doubt they have an Along Came Polly festival every summer. I'm not sure how I missed the Shartlesville callout. I grew up 10 minutes from there. For years my birthday request was to go to Roadside America. That town is weird. Hasn't changed in 75 years after you get pas...

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The kids got me one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-LSW-21 ... B074MHLC2C

It works ok, but it's a fun novelty. Kids love to use it. I think I've had a half a loaf of toast in the past 24 hours.

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We released our plans for fall. It's similar to most others in the Northeast in that students do not return to campus after Thanksgiving. Our fall plans require that everyone on campus wear masks walking on campus and in classes. It's really anything outside of private offices and dorm rooms. On Sat...

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We had our inspection results last weekend. They had some nonsense on the list that we rejected like replacing one of the original basement windows. The stuff we did commit to doing was replacing some GFI outlets that didn't work anymore, modify some downspouts, level the heatpump, etc... Total cost...

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I don't know what we're going to do, but there's a lot we can do like setting up a mentorship, job shadowing and internship program with a STEM high school in St. Louis to internal education for our cracker-ass employees from small towns. A lot of college students had their internships get cancelle...

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I expect we will do something similar to BU for the main campus. Enrollments for the summer have been up. Fall is looking good as well. Getting students enrolled is just part of it. With a budget of $7B with $2B from tuition there will need to be students/visitors at the campuses along with usage of...

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We started doing zoom happy hours with friends/family. It's been great to catch up with people we don't run into very often.

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They finished enough of our own heating system that it is running now instead of a small portable heater that was on 24x7.

For a few days they had two if them. It looked like this:

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How is everyone in the Swamp? I've been so busy with work and kids at home that I may have missed if someone is sick, laid off, having a hard time or just needs some help.

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The day we were supposed to list our house was the day the PA state government shut down non-essential businesses. That also stopped construction at the new place. So right now we have our current house payment and another one that is interest only on the draws for the new place. Plus 2 of all our u...

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Our cleaner comes every two weeks. The cost is based on how long she spends cleaning. Typically it's around $120. We Venmo'd her $100 and said we would continue to do so until things cleared up. Based on her response I don't think many others are still paying.

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degenerasian wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 2:14 pm why would undergrad be different? Volume of student? More exams? Hacking?

Maturity, content, and class size. For many, undergrad is just an extension of high school.

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Grad school is a completely different beast. I don't see a reason why most grad degrees can't be online. CSU has a great online program. The group that runs it knows their stuff. Georgia Tech is one I've considered for a data science master's degree. Cheap and high quality.

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I have had to work with several faculty members this week where they had students take over their online lectures in Zoom. Playing music, spamming chat, yelling profanities, etc... This is arrived in my email while I was typing in the swamp: One class had students dancing in costumes, doing shots, ...

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I think online university degrees will be the big change. My wife was obsessed with MOOCs like 10 years ago. I did a couple courses, too. You could pay a relatively small fee to get college credits or do them for free. I really thought that would have taken off by now. While I think living on campu...

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Working from a 20 year old lazy boy in the basement. Wife is on the first floor. Kids are all over the place.

If you are on as many zoom calls as I am you may want to try out the virtual background

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A_B wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:38 pm I’m in Altoona in the shadow of a stadium. Anyone need any Pianofish gear?

Wave as you go by... You're probably driving near me right now if you are on I99.

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Same question as Nonlinear. We just signed the contract with a realtor in the past hour and the house will be listed later this week. Our new house won't be done until June. What do you do if it sells quickly? Apartment? Has anyone done the lease-back? Any other options? What's going to be a pain is...

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Other than the match kit I don't understand why they make you buy the extras like warmups/backpacks/etc. It's just pricing out families.

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Haven't done much work with it other than trying to get vendors and internal teams to follow it. We found that many api's that have swagger front ends don't work when we try to consume them with OpenAPI libraries.

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A refugee cannot just cross the US border, that is indeed a crime. Refugees have to seek asylum and stay in the Mexican border town refugee camp that is already in place to house them, as dangerous as that is, and wait to receive the call to enter the US. By crossing the border, a refugee has in fa...

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Born April 6, 1969, actor Paul Rudd ('Clueless,' 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' 'Anchorman,' 'Ant-Man,' 'Living with Yourself' & many more) is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congrats, Paul -- you've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line. https://twitte...

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Good luck on the inspection. We are in the process of building. Under roof and starting to get some heating/electrical installed. Location was key for us as well. I'll be able to walk to work.

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I would use something like teamsnap. It's easy to add people/events. When you create an event you can send messages to attendees. If they add their phone numbers or put the app on the phone they can also get text messages/app messages immediately. The free version is for 15 members. There are other ...

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That picture placement should win some type of award.

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Johnnie wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 11:38 am Also, here's a cute photo!

My favorite part of it is who they cut out of it.

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Some back story since this probably isn't followed heavily in the Swamp. The match below was from the NCAA finals in Cleveland. OSU was leading in the team race over PSU. The winner of the match would be an individual NCAA champion and their team would clinch the team race. After sitting next to som...

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I'd skip Hershey and Dorney. Do Knoebels instead. In case anyone was wondering who really buys those "I'm a Leo Union Pipefitter Who Loves Monster Trucks and My Three Kids" t-shirts, its people at Knoebels. What a weird fucking place. The people there are an attraction themselves. The mid...

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The only other comment I'll make is that I'm just not sure about Jill Ellis. Morgan was not herself today and she was getting hacked to shit when she touched the ball. I don't understand keeping her out there until the 85th minute. Just in general, you have all of this talent sitting on your bench,...

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If you are paying for the construction as it goes, through a general or construction manager, insist on lien waivers as a condition of making any progress payments. In other words, if your general contractor is including the plumbing work through April 30 in his invoice to you, then he should be pr...

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We are in the process of building a new house closer to town. We couldn't find anything we really liked. When the houses had what we wanted they were huge. So far we bought a lot and have a builder. Anyone ever build their own house? Trying to make sure you don't get screwed in some way seems imposs...

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We put in french drains around all the interior walls before we finished the basement. Like this. It works really well. You could save a few bucks if you do the manual labor yourself. Having a plumber dig a hole isn't cheap around here.

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Man arrested for refusing to remove "I EAT ASS" sticker on rear window Of his truck After issuing Webb a notice to appear ticket, the deputy asked him to alter the sticker so that it would “no longer be derogatory.” Webb declined the request, citing First Amendment speech protections. ACL...

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If you do what I did late one night years ago while driving to Boston and accidentally exit onto 87 South after crossing the Tappan Zee you'll eventually end up in NYC, which I hear is the restaurant capital of the world. I think I did something similar 20 years ago over confusion with US9 and US9W...

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A nice example of wasteful spending . The $71 million will be funded under the capital budget which gets it's money from state capital funds, tuition and fees, philanthropy and others. Their plans go to $85 million if they get some donations. The current art museum attracts 100 people per day. They...

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Does anyone have one of these at their grocery store? I was trying to get some coffee filters off the bottom shelf and that damn robot kept blocking me. When I would get close it would stop moving and then I couldn't reach around it. Had to wait for the thing to move on. It was like a retiree with a...

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I just discovered the automatic hi-beams. It detects other cars and turns they down. When the car passes it turns them back up.

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Yo, Klobuchar. FACE. https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1120296821300060160?s=19 This is bad idea. Higher Ed is already highly wasteful in their spending and really only feels pressure when students/parents see the bill. Removing that obstacle and not applying some type of tuition limit would just ...

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Why do they have that team in that flight? Is it an ego thing that they won't play in a lower division? Guesting on teams may be an option if you like your training sessions. Does your club offer anything like that? We have relationships with a few other clubs that we reach out to for guests in tour...

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