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| Tomato seeds, germinating. |
Ace 55 are on the top-half as viewed in the photo. Stupice are on the bottom half. The Stupice are germinating much more quickly than the Ace 55. The seeds were planted March 27th and the the tray was placed in Walmart, disposable, (translucent) plastic grocery bag. It was placed on a 20 Watt warming mat and kept at about 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
More wardrobe observed on-campus
Looked like a heat-transfer equation to me.
Deuce Anna Quattah (not a girl's name)
I grew up in Lansing, Michigan. People in Lansing built Oldsmobiles. People in Lansing drove Oldsmobiles. Except Black people. They drove Buicks and sometimes Cadillacs.
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| Curb feelers. Not a Buick |
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| 1972 Buick 225 2-door. No curb-feelers. Locally, the cool, young guys who wanted to impress the ladies drove two-doors. |
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| Look. At. That. Trunk! |
Specifically, most well-to-do Black men drove Deuce Anna Quattahs. With curb-feelers.
I think it was because the Oldsmobile dealerships did not extend credit to Black customers while the Buick dealership did.
Never discount how availability of credit can shape culture.
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Student loans enable kids to live off-campus in newly-built apartment complexes. There are even condominiums that Pappa can buy and then use for a write-off.
My gut-feel is that these commercial real-estate investments will not age well.
There is little no organic demand other than what is enabled through student loans to attend University. Demand for many college degrees from diploma mills that churn out no-value-added credentials is tepid-at-best. That is, the return-on-investment approaches zero if you look at five years of forgone wages (especially compared to skilled-trades) and deferred retirements.
Historically, technology accelerates and the expertise that a college degree "signals" becomes stale ever more quickly. What once informed employers that a job candidate had job skills that would be useful for fifteen years now inform potential employers that the candidate knows how to look things up on Wikipedia...and most bright, young people without college degrees know how to do that.
Snow White
For the record, the movie Sydney White is a sweet, tastefully done remake of the Snow White story.
Buick 225 aka "deuce and a quarter"
ReplyDeleteYes sir!
DeleteA guy I went to college with in the mid 1990s had a functional two-place homemade submarine (nobody died). He has a resort in the Honduras now, gives tours of the reefs in his fleet of custom built submersibles. Anyway, the point is he used to tow the thing around behind an old green Electra 225, which had more than enough grunt to tow a big yellow submarine around. It was quite a sight.
DeleteERJ, thank you for the automobile photos. They are literally not made like they used to (in fact, perhaps they would not be beyond the reach of a Fine Arts Tuesday?).
ReplyDeleteI do wonder if we are on the edge of some kind of "collapse" in the educational industry. There has already been a slow rolling one over the last few years, not terribly well published, as smaller (mostly private) institutions have been closing down due to lack of enrollment or lack of funds. And much in line with the idea of the trades (versus school), companies and are hiring folks with Associate's degrees that have specific programs and knowledge (like, for example, biotechnology).
Haven't had a chance to fact check it yet, but I heard Ford has plans for four new plants in America.
ReplyDeleteYou got that right, Joe. And my experience as an employer is that the people with worthless degrees are much more worthless as employees because you can't teach someone new skills when they already know everything. ---ken
ReplyDeleteKen, it is not only "knowing things", as Fred points out below, it is the willingness to be flexible and think outside your field of learning.
DeleteAnd that is were they fail. Fred got a 2 year STEM degree in a real field which is a degree in reality. I'm talking about 4 year, or more in social programs. I sold my company to a lawyer and two years later it failed. ---ken
DeleteKen, I agree - and I am one of those social sciences people! It took a lot of additional learning to make me useful.
DeleteFred in Texas, a STEM degree from a two year college set me up for life. The technical knowledge required to work in one field transfers to other fields very easily. Knowing the principle of stoichiometry in a 4 stroke engine helped me learn how to repair the burner in my boiler at home. Knowing how self diagnostics work in an automobile transfers to PLCs that control industrial equipment. Same thing with a timing chain helping me to understand a sheet folder in a massive industrial laundry. A single 2 year stem degree in the hands of a motivated person grows and expands over the life of a productive individual. The morals, ethics and behavioral baggage that a child learns can't be unlearned...
ReplyDeleteIt also comes down to 'work ethic'... And yes, who got loaned what DID shape cultures.
ReplyDeleteThe '51 ? at the top has an evaporative
ReplyDeletecooler in the window...far out~ Joe Roy.
Anon@555: I wondered what that was. Disappointingly, it's not the starboard torpedo tube.
DeleteI grew up in a radius around Mt Hope and Logan in the 70s. That could put me across from the governor's mansion or next to a junkyard or everything in between in eight blocks.
ReplyDeleteI grew up about two miles north of you.
DeleteOne of my best high school friends lived on Boston Blvd.
Do you remember the smell of baking bread or the sound of the drop-forges as you traveled south on Logan?