I would have grabbed the gas station job. I spent a summer working in a warehouse for $1 hour (no benefits too). My boss’ boss, recognizing what I good worker I was, tried to get me to not return to Caltech and keep working in the warehouse. After all, my direct boss was making $60/week after 20 or so years.
Ed _______________________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel> > On Oct 11, 2018, at 2:01 PM, Gary Schiltz <g...@naturesvisualarts.com> wrote: > > And doggone it, I really *should* be back working in the gas station like I > did in High School, for $2 an hour. > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 2:14 PM Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net > <mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net>> wrote: > Thanks, Barry, > > But we Puritans think that currency inflation is one of the wages of sin, and > if we spend less money, the world will returned to an earlier State of Grace. > I still remember 25 cent gasoline on Ashby Avenue in Berkeley. That's what > gasoline SHOULD cost. > > Nick > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com > <mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>] On Behalf Of Barry MacKichan > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 12:36 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com > <mailto:friam@redfish.com>> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers > > This may not be any consolation, but these “dollars” you speak of, thanks to > inflation, are what we used to call in our childhood, “dimes”. > > --Barry > > > On 10 Oct 2018, at 12:30, Nick Thompson wrote: > > > I HATE to spend more than 1K for a computer. It seems a mortal > > injustice, an assault upon my mongrel puritan soul. But perhaps it's > > time to suck it up? > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> by Dr. Strangelove > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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