Yes. We have the other end of I-35 up here in Minneapolis/St. Paul. It splits into 35E and 35W, each going through one of the cities. There is a circular freeway that bypasses the cities for "through traffic", or, as I call it "people commuting to the cities from the suburbs that popped up around the freeway."
Well, I interviewed for a semiconductor company that was looking for a Ph. D. Electrical Engineer to fill the position.
For the record, I have a B.Ch.E. And it says as much on my resume. No idea what the fuck they were thinking. It was an awkward interview. "Soo...uh...I see you don't have a doctorate, or...er...um...any eduction in Electrical Engineering at all...er...I don't know what I'm supposed to ask you."
Andyway, I suggest you look around. Maybe you'll find a company looking for a PhD EE that actually interviews PhD EEs
I refuse to drink malt beverages after my encounter with a Bacardi O3. The single bottle of Barcardi O3 was the only thing I had to drink the entire night, and I threw it up within the hour. Waaaay too sugary.
I have one in my wallet- you never know when it will come in handy. One time, my older cousin insisted that I was making up the element Vanadium. So, I pulled out my pocket periodic table, and my younger cousin started looking at me funnily. Then my older cousin pulled out his pocket periodic table. And then my younger cousin got this fearful look on his face, yelled "geeks," and rand away.
Oh, yes...but the point of this story: always be prepared. You never know when you will need to scare somebody away with the body of chemical knowledge stored in your wallet.
YES! This cannot be emphasized enough. At my college, a year after I left there was a prospective student visiting for a night. She was housed in the dorm room of a host student who didn't lock her door. In the middle of the night, the prospective student was raped by somebody who was not a student there, and never should have been in the building in the first place.
This isn't in a particularly dangerous area, and it is a fairly small school (1200 students). Some random person just took advantage of the goodwill of students who would always hold the door for people and never locked their rooms.
I'm one of the fortunate ones that can wear a pair of contacts 24/7 for days at a time without damage or discomfort
That made me cringe. I used to wear my contacts for days at a time. Until I woke up one morning with a scratched cornea. Very painful, and all you can do is wait for it to heal. I had to wear an eye patch for a week to keep the light out because it was too painful. As a result, I have tired of pirate jokes. Just a warning to all who might think it okay to sleep with contacts in.
It is my understanding that heavy metals are compounded in nature. We don't mine uranium, we mine uranium salts. The chunks of plutonium, uranium, lead, cadmium, etc that we put back in the ground are unnatural.
Lead crystal glassware may leach lead. "The crystalware industry has established voluntary lead-leaching limits for crystalware," says Kashtock, "that most foreign and domestic manufacturers follow." As a precaution, children and pregnant women should avoid frequent use of crystal glassware. Lead crystal baby bottles should never be used.
That lead is in the glass. How is it going to get into the water supply?
Source: Solid Waste Management Coordinating Board presentation to the Environment and Natural Resources Policy Committee of the Association of Minnesota Counties. 18 Sept 2003.
Lead is in the phosphorescent coating of the tube - fused between 2 pieces of glass, so an unbroken CRT is relatively safe, but crushing CRT glass releases solid lead into the environment
Lead in the funnel and face plate glass - does not leach readily
Lead in the 'frit' which joins the face plate glass to the funnel glass leaches readily when subjected to TCLP* test
Informative and Funny. How can you go wrong? Seriously, this is the more entertaining than I thought a computer magazine could be. The writers are brilliant.
I also read whatever magazines the previous occupants of our house subscribed to. This usually amounts to Latina and Stuff. I wouldn't recommend Stuff. It's like Playboy without the softcore porn and competent writers.
I once received an email from my boyfriend's university account to my (different) university account 2 months after he sent it. Good thing it wasn't important. (I think that may have been a feature of my college's email- there were a lot of other problems as well.)
Very true. 3M for example doesn't even "prefer" Ph.Ds. It's a requirement for a job as a chemist. Additionally, you're allowed to work on whatever you want for 15% of your time. Supposedly Post-It notes were a 15% project.
It's a flat $10 delivery fee, which is WELL worth the money when you consider the time you save driving to the store, pushing a cart around...
I would probably save more than $10 on impulse buys alone. I'm sure you spend less if you have to actually think about what you're putting in your cart, especially if you have little kids.
Meanwhile, I have seen other automatic transmissions last out 70,000 miles before needing a replacement.
My 1993 Ford Tempo has 160,000 miles on it and it has never needed a new transmission. I don't think there's a way to tell before you buy a car what is going to happen to your particular vehicle 10 years down the road.
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If you are *good* at math, you are unattractive and intimidating.
Yup. An aquaintance to my boyfriend upon learning that I am a chemical engineering major: "So, you like your women smart, eh?" Bothersome on many levels, including the implication that you shouldn't like "your" women to be intelligent.
Yes we do. At least in Minnesota, the sex offender registry is for all sex offenders who have been designated as high risk recidivists, regardless of their victim's age.
By room I mean a closed off room that holds a fraction of the animal cages instead of a large lab area housing all of the animals. It's a little cosier, plus they aren't disturbed at night. Each cage was 8 inches by 12 inches and only held one or two adult rats (or 4 mice).
I think rats need that more than mice.
The rats were actually handled on a schedule (at least once per week per animal) because they need attention more than mice, while people would play with the mice at their convenience.
It doesn't do anybody any good to have psychotic lab mice. If they need human contact (once a week per animal was our minimum) in order to retain their sanity, consider that a cost of experimentation. Your data isn't going to be any good if the subjects are under unnecessary stress. (It's been fairly well demonstrated that psychological conditions affect physical health, and anything else you might want to study.)
what do you expect them to do -- house the mice in the fucking ritz on their own dime (which ain't much)?
There are ways to ensure that your lab animals have a pleasant environment without spending a lot of money. When I worked in the animal facility at my college, they had many small rooms instead of one large room. I don't know how sensitive to overcrowding mice and rats are, but we usually had no more than 40 rats in any given room (1 large or 2 small per cage excepting for nursing mothers).
Another consideration is the level and quality of stimuli. If the animals are kept in an environment with loud noises or bright lights, they might not respond too kindly. Also- were the animals in the article subject to frequent playful human contact (not of the latex glove variety)? Part of my job was to play with the animals so that they wouldn't become attention deprived.
All I know is that I never observed this "psychotic" behavior in our lab rats and mice, so something had to be working.
If a publisher has gone out of its way to select the salient points of a topic...
I view professors as a way of getting another viewpoint. If you go to a class where the PP slides are structured and presented exactly like the book, you're missing out. Sometimes information has to be presented in two or three different ways before you really get it. If you can't follow the textbook, the class with the publisher's PP slides won't be any better.
The fact that it was that way when you went to school does not mean its better.
When I went to school (that'd be now) my professors use chalkboards and very little technology unless it's a Mathematica example. I think the ways that technolgy can be used depends heavily on your major. For very math intensive majors (like mine), PP slides are of very little use. Doing an example on the board with chalk (or a marker, for those more technologically advanced schools =0) is the only way to go. It's easier to follow along if the professor has to write as he goes- it slows him down a little.
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How is that different from the extracellular matrices used for cell growth as described in this article?
Yes. We have the other end of I-35 up here in Minneapolis/St. Paul. It splits into 35E and 35W, each going through one of the cities. There is a circular freeway that bypasses the cities for "through traffic", or, as I call it "people commuting to the cities from the suburbs that popped up around the freeway."
Well, I interviewed for a semiconductor company that was looking for a Ph. D. Electrical Engineer to fill the position.
For the record, I have a B.Ch.E. And it says as much on my resume. No idea what the fuck they were thinking. It was an awkward interview. "Soo...uh...I see you don't have a doctorate, or...er...um...any eduction in Electrical Engineering at all...er...I don't know what I'm supposed to ask you."
Andyway, I suggest you look around. Maybe you'll find a company looking for a PhD EE that actually interviews PhD EEs
I refuse to drink malt beverages after my encounter with a Bacardi O3. The single bottle of Barcardi O3 was the only thing I had to drink the entire night, and I threw it up within the hour. Waaaay too sugary.
Most college kids don't really do the wine thing. Once you learn to like wine, it can become a very expensive taste.
What are you talking about? A bottle of Boone's will only set you back $2 and some change.
What? Why are you looking at me like that?
I have one in my wallet- you never know when it will come in handy. One time, my older cousin insisted that I was making up the element Vanadium. So, I pulled out my pocket periodic table, and my younger cousin started looking at me funnily. Then my older cousin pulled out his pocket periodic table. And then my younger cousin got this fearful look on his face, yelled "geeks," and rand away.
Oh, yes...but the point of this story: always be prepared. You never know when you will need to scare somebody away with the body of chemical knowledge stored in your wallet.
YES! This cannot be emphasized enough. At my college, a year after I left there was a prospective student visiting for a night. She was housed in the dorm room of a host student who didn't lock her door. In the middle of the night, the prospective student was raped by somebody who was not a student there, and never should have been in the building in the first place.
This isn't in a particularly dangerous area, and it is a fairly small school (1200 students). Some random person just took advantage of the goodwill of students who would always hold the door for people and never locked their rooms.
I'm one of the fortunate ones that can wear a pair of contacts 24/7 for days at a time without damage or discomfort
That made me cringe. I used to wear my contacts for days at a time. Until I woke up one morning with a scratched cornea. Very painful, and all you can do is wait for it to heal. I had to wear an eye patch for a week to keep the light out because it was too painful. As a result, I have tired of pirate jokes. Just a warning to all who might think it okay to sleep with contacts in.
It is my understanding that heavy metals are compounded in nature. We don't mine uranium, we mine uranium salts. The chunks of plutonium, uranium, lead, cadmium, etc that we put back in the ground are unnatural.
Possibly, but unless you're pregnant the harms are probably negligible.
FDA Article, 1998.
Relevant paragraph:
Newer glassware is safer, but you should be wary if you are using older lead-containing dishware.
North Carolina State University article
Source: Solid Waste Management Coordinating Board presentation to the Environment and Natural Resources Policy Committee of the Association of Minnesota Counties. 18 Sept 2003.
[*]Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure
...the more entertaining...
Would you believe that I previewed? No. I didn't think so.
Informative and Funny. How can you go wrong? Seriously, this is the more entertaining than I thought a computer magazine could be. The writers are brilliant.
I also read whatever magazines the previous occupants of our house subscribed to. This usually amounts to Latina and Stuff. I wouldn't recommend Stuff. It's like Playboy without the softcore porn and competent writers.
I once received an email from my boyfriend's university account to my (different) university account 2 months after he sent it. Good thing it wasn't important. (I think that may have been a feature of my college's email- there were a lot of other problems as well.)
Very true. 3M for example doesn't even "prefer" Ph.Ds. It's a requirement for a job as a chemist. Additionally, you're allowed to work on whatever you want for 15% of your time. Supposedly Post-It notes were a 15% project.
Do you think the users enjoy playing tester Thursdays?
Yeah really. He should do this on Monday night. "Tester Tuesday" has much more of an alliterative ring to it.
It's a flat $10 delivery fee, which is WELL worth the money when you consider the time you save driving to the store, pushing a cart around...
I would probably save more than $10 on impulse buys alone. I'm sure you spend less if you have to actually think about what you're putting in your cart, especially if you have little kids.
Meanwhile, I have seen other automatic transmissions last out 70,000 miles before needing a replacement.
My 1993 Ford Tempo has 160,000 miles on it and it has never needed a new transmission. I don't think there's a way to tell before you buy a car what is going to happen to your particular vehicle 10 years down the road.
If you are *good* at math, you are unattractive and intimidating.
Yup. An aquaintance to my boyfriend upon learning that I am a chemical engineering major: "So, you like your women smart, eh?" Bothersome on many levels, including the implication that you shouldn't like "your" women to be intelligent.
You make some good points, however...
We don't publish registries of convicted rapists
Yes we do. At least in Minnesota, the sex offender registry is for all sex offenders who have been designated as high risk recidivists, regardless of their victim's age.
By room I mean a closed off room that holds a fraction of the animal cages instead of a large lab area housing all of the animals. It's a little cosier, plus they aren't disturbed at night. Each cage was 8 inches by 12 inches and only held one or two adult rats (or 4 mice).
I think rats need that more than mice.
The rats were actually handled on a schedule (at least once per week per animal) because they need attention more than mice, while people would play with the mice at their convenience.
It doesn't do anybody any good to have psychotic lab mice. If they need human contact (once a week per animal was our minimum) in order to retain their sanity, consider that a cost of experimentation. Your data isn't going to be any good if the subjects are under unnecessary stress. (It's been fairly well demonstrated that psychological conditions affect physical health, and anything else you might want to study.)
what do you expect them to do -- house the mice in the fucking ritz on their own dime (which ain't much)?
There are ways to ensure that your lab animals have a pleasant environment without spending a lot of money. When I worked in the animal facility at my college, they had many small rooms instead of one large room. I don't know how sensitive to overcrowding mice and rats are, but we usually had no more than 40 rats in any given room (1 large or 2 small per cage excepting for nursing mothers).
Another consideration is the level and quality of stimuli. If the animals are kept in an environment with loud noises or bright lights, they might not respond too kindly. Also- were the animals in the article subject to frequent playful human contact (not of the latex glove variety)? Part of my job was to play with the animals so that they wouldn't become attention deprived.
All I know is that I never observed this "psychotic" behavior in our lab rats and mice, so something had to be working.
If a publisher has gone out of its way to select the salient points of a topic...
I view professors as a way of getting another viewpoint. If you go to a class where the PP slides are structured and presented exactly like the book, you're missing out. Sometimes information has to be presented in two or three different ways before you really get it. If you can't follow the textbook, the class with the publisher's PP slides won't be any better.
The fact that it was that way when you went to school does not mean its better.
When I went to school (that'd be now) my professors use chalkboards and very little technology unless it's a Mathematica example. I think the ways that technolgy can be used depends heavily on your major. For very math intensive majors (like mine), PP slides are of very little use. Doing an example on the board with chalk (or a marker, for those more technologically advanced schools =0) is the only way to go. It's easier to follow along if the professor has to write as he goes- it slows him down a little.
The exchange rate generally hovers around 1.5 dollars/pound.