Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Dec 23, 2019 11:42 am
My 23 year old son is currently trying to get his Industrial Design career going (graduated in May, a couple of interviews, but a slow process), in the meantime he's working 2-3 shifts a week at Toronto's best brewpub and has just started a gig as a (paid) automotive journalist. Basically just using his knowledge and scouring the web for research and making stories for a website.
Which brewpub was it again? My father picked up a bunch or unique stouts for me from a Canadian brewery, and I couldn't remember which one your son works at.
He's at Bellwoods Brewery.
Just started selling a couple of their beers in the government liquor stores.
Brewmaster is a wild man and makes some incredible beers.
Love the artwork on Bellwoods' labels, it's like 1950s paperbacks. Some really interesting barrel aged sours and a stout with almond extract, apricot jam and vanilla beans. Right up my alley.
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 5:20 pm
by Pruitt
The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2019 4:37 pm
Love the artwork on Bellwoods' labels, it's like 1950s paperbacks. Some really interesting barrel aged sours and a stout with almond extract, apricot jam and vanilla beans. Right up my alley.
It's top notch stuff.
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:17 pm
by mister d
My oldest (the one I would chose Kobe over) apparently got into a physical fight today with one of her friends at school, which is super out of character. She explained it to the asst principal as she "couldn't control her arm" when she took the first swing. Bright future in PR.
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:20 pm
by Steve of phpBB
mister d wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:17 pm
My oldest (the one I would chose Kobe over) apparently got into a physical fight today with one of her friends at school, which is super out of character. She explained it to the asst principal as she "couldn't control her arm" when she took the first swing. Bright future in PR.
Did she win?
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:22 pm
by mister d
TBD.
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:53 pm
by Ryan
Is this the pro swimmer because arm control is kinda important
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:22 pm
by mister d
I got Mark Spitz and Bruce Kimball confused so I don't have much of a response here.
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:28 pm
by rass
I got a notification this afternoon that there was a new sign-in to my Netflix account from a web browser in Virginia. I couldn’t fully check from work because it’s blocked there, but was prepared to come home and change the password.
Before I did that, I asked my oldest if she had logged into Netflix at school. She said “no,” then “Yeah, but just for a minute. We found a way around the guardian* software.” I asked her if she meant a VPN, and she said “Yeah! But it didn’t work that well. Another kid figured out that if you log in and out enough times the blocking software eventually fails.” Trying to stay ahead of kids is hopeless.
*or whatever they call the nanny software used to block content on the chromebooks they all carry around school
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:31 pm
by DaveInSeattle
My youngest daughter told us on Sunday about a kid at her school who was making anti-Semitic comments in front of her, and that she was going to talk to the school counselor about it.
The school expelled the kid. Really (pleasantly) surprised they took that extreme action (guessing he must have been in trouble previously). But really proud of her for standing up for herself, and not letting it slide.
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 12:03 pm
by DSafetyGuy
Daughter is nine (4th grade), son is five (kindergarten) with nearly a 4 1/2-year age difference.
Daughter comes home from a sleepover with a couple friends. After a little over 18 hours not seeing each other, she beelined to play with him as soon as her coat and boots came off and they have been together with no issues for over 90 minutes since.
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 12:32 pm
by Steve of phpBB
DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 12:03 pm
Daughter is nine (4th grade), son is five (kindergarten) with nearly a 4 1/2-year age difference.
Daughter comes home from a sleepover with a couple friends. After a little over 18 hours not seeing each other, she beelined to play with him as soon as her coat and boots came off and they have been together with no issues for over 90 minutes since.
That's awesome - except it clearly means they're plotting something.
I emailed my kid's signed HS acceptance letter to the wrong email address this morning. Luckily it was REALLY wrong and bounced back as undeliverable right away.
oops
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2020 4:18 pm
by The Sybian
rass wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 8:47 am
I emailed my kid's signed HS acceptance letter to the wrong email address this morning. Luckily it was REALLY wrong and bounced back as undeliverable right away.
rass wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 8:47 am
I emailed my kid's signed HS acceptance letter to the wrong email address this morning. Luckily it was REALLY wrong and bounced back as undeliverable right away.
oops
UCVTS?
Yeah. She’s super excited. Just need to figure out how to get her back to town for sports practices with UHS and I’ll be excited, too.
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:19 pm
by HaulCitgo
I would have taken the time off:
"First of all here is a list of important things I need to do in school this week.
French unit test (25% of my grade)
Read Midsummer Night Dream + in class notes
Start new math unit on factoring polynomials
Help shadows get to their correct locations
Start my project on the reformation
Finish painting the background for my Wayne dubaud painting
Wordly Wise test
Science Test
Etc
Doing all this is obtainable while at school with the help of teachers/peers. However at home I just don?t have all the resources I need to complete these task to my best ability. In addition it will take my teachers until at least Friday to make virtual lessons for all students. This means all the work I?ll miss thought the week will have to be made up while I?m in school. I also have duties I must fulfill as a shadow host and because I?m the only one able to volunteer at the time they will be behind without me.
My school has talked about how to prevent the corona virus with us for the past three days. They also sent out an email and talked to the whole school again during assembly. I go to a very small and remote school so the chances of the corona virus coming to is smaller than most bigger institutions. Our small size also makes it easier for those in charge to find and isolate any students/teachers who could have the corona virus.
In conclusion school is very important and I believe that if they close the school it will be done at the right time to maintain not just mine but all students safety. As said by the CDC ?...be prepared NOT paranoid.?
Love you Dad,"
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2020 9:16 pm
by The Sybian
HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:19 pm
I would have taken the time off:
"First of all here is a list of important things I need to do in school this week.
French unit test (25% of my grade)
Read Midsummer Night Dream + in class notes
Start new math unit on factoring polynomials
Help shadows get to their correct locations
Start my project on the reformation
Finish painting the background for my Wayne dubaud painting
Wordly Wise test
Science Test
Etc
Doing all this is obtainable while at school with the help of teachers/peers. However at home I just don?t have all the resources I need to complete these task to my best ability. In addition it will take my teachers until at least Friday to make virtual lessons for all students. This means all the work I?ll miss thought the week will have to be made up while I?m in school. I also have duties I must fulfill as a shadow host and because I?m the only one able to volunteer at the time they will be behind without me.
My school has talked about how to prevent the corona virus with us for the past three days. They also sent out an email and talked to the whole school again during assembly. I go to a very small and remote school so the chances of the corona virus coming to is smaller than most bigger institutions. Our small size also makes it easier for those in charge to find and isolate any students/teachers who could have the corona virus.
In conclusion school is very important and I believe that if they close the school it will be done at the right time to maintain not just mine but all students safety. As said by the CDC ?...be prepared NOT paranoid.?
Love you Dad,"
God damn that is some persuasive writing! You can't argue with that. How old is she?
I remember learning about the Pinto cases in a pre-law class in college. They could have added the plate for something like $150 to each vehicle, but did the math and calculated it'd be cheaper to pay of the families of victims in the fiery explosions. Disgusting, and my prime example of how pure capitalism without conscience is evil.
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2020 8:49 am
by mister d
Had an econ professor that taught the same case but in a very different way. Got some backlash from the class.
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:26 am
by Pruitt
Local car enthusiast made a video about my son's car.
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:51 am
by wlu_lax6
Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:26 am
Local car enthusiast made a video about my son's car.
I have had a number of subaru's in my day. The gimmick subarus are my favorites
Subaru XT (hand me down from the folks)
the Baja
The SVX
but let's not pretend the Baja is not just a Subaru El Camino
So, my daughter just got word that she is officially accepted into her major. I’m very happy for her, as she is excited (and relieved.) But, I feel like the clueless dad, because I can barely understand what it is.
“Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences”, with a concentration in “Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms”.
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:20 pm
by Pruitt
sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 6:38 pm
So, my daughter just got word that she is officially accepted into her major. I’m very happy for her, as she is excited (and relieved.) But, I feel like the clueless dad, because I can barely understand what it is.
“Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences”, with a concentration in “Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms”.
That's great! Congratulations.
I'm thinking that it's something to do with numbers.
sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 6:38 pm
So, my daughter just got word that she is officially accepted into her major. I’m very happy for her, as she is excited (and relieved.) But, I feel like the clueless dad, because I can barely understand what it is.
“Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences”, with a concentration in “Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms”.
That's great! Congratulations.
I'm thinking that it's something to do with numbers.
That is great and she was heading towards useful high or paying job right after school is she wants. I took a bunch of discrete math in school. Starts with card counting and goes to graph theory. Super useful right now as the world moves to machine learning.
sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 6:38 pm
So, my daughter just got word that she is officially accepted into her major. I’m very happy for her, as she is excited (and relieved.) But, I feel like the clueless dad, because I can barely understand what it is.
“Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences”, with a concentration in “Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms”.
That's great! Congratulations.
I'm thinking that it's something to do with numbers.
That is great and she was heading towards useful high or paying job right after school is she wants. I took a bunch of discrete math in school. Starts with card counting and goes to graph theory. Super useful right now as the world moves to machine learning.
OK, thanks, guys. Good info, wlu. I still don't understand what the hell she's learning, but she's excited about it. Unlike many kids who want to take time off while everything is online, she wants to stay sheltered in place in Washington and take a couple summer courses. (Hmm... the boyfriend may be involved in this thinking...).
Re: Proud Parental Unit Crowing Thread
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 12:52 pm
by Steve of phpBB
sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 6:38 pm“Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences”, with a concentration in “Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms”.
