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#223
Hoochie Coochie Man said:
Mr Deck has just about all of us here beat as far as I'm concerned.

Physists have to be experts on just about everything, (except maybe biology?).

I have a lot of respect for your knowledge and education. (I also have a series 2, and series 3 fdeck pre, that work great).

One of these days I would like to catch a performance by you over in Madtown.

I used to play in a blues band back in the mid 1970s and we played at a place in Madison once that was formerly a church before it became a bar. It was called The Church Key. Back in those days, (when beer came in tin plated steel cans), you needed a can opener that cut two triangular holes in the can to drink and vent the can. Instead of calling it a can opener, the slang term for it was "church key". That made it a good name for a former church, turned nightclub.
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Ah yes! I remember those old cans very well (as well as the church keys)...
 
#225
T_Bone_TL said:
I do networking from fiber to wifi, database foolishness, IT etcetera and occasionally pollute young minds with a smattering of knowledge in engineering subjects.
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So, some years later I've transitioned to contract network and telephone wiring, the bulk of it (via at least three stages of subcontracts) for a retail chain. Haven't touched fiber yet in this job, have run miles upon miles of Cat5e. Usually pays well when it pays, but sporadic, particularly with pandemic. Less subject to offshoring than the IT aspects of what I used to do. I may be somewhat overqualified...
 
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#228
Still teaching history in college (same answer as back on page 2 or 3 or whenever that was). We've had cuts and I'm teaching more broadly now - my degree is still medieval history, but I really cover anything European, and with some departures that will not be replaced, I'm doing more world history now. What's been exciting has been developing courses on topics that cut across our usual categories. I've got a course on the history of magic now, one on the treatment of mental illness, and one on interactions between humans and animals. Never a dull day.
 
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#229
hrodbert696 said:
Still teaching history in college (same answer as back on page 2 or 3 or whenever that was). We've had cuts and I'm teaching more broadly now - my degree is still medieval history, but I really cover anything European, and with some departures that will not be replaced, I'm doing more world history now. What's been exciting has been developing courses on topics that cut across our usual categories. I've got a course on the history of magic now, one on the treatment of mental illness, and one on interactions between humans and animals. Never a dull day.
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Don't worry, the whole world will be Medieval again soon. You're just ahead of the game. ;)
 
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hrodbert696 said:
Still teaching history in college (same answer as back on page 2 or 3 or whenever that was). We've had cuts and I'm teaching more broadly now - my degree is still medieval history, but I really cover anything European, and with some departures that will not be replaced, I'm doing more world history now. What's been exciting has been developing courses on topics that cut across our usual categories. I've got a course on the history of magic now, one on the treatment of mental illness, and one on interactions between humans and animals. Never a dull day.
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I've taken a few courses in uni on classical history and anthropology. Including one that was on a random topic that was TBD when I signed up. It turned out when I showed up day one to be about magic in classical antiquity. It was a good course, but the prof decided to do the last lecture or two on, more or less, tying things loosely between back then and today.

That's when half the class decided to raise their hand to say that they were wiccan or some other similar flavour of spirituality. I kinda felt bad for the guy, that day, he wrote a book on alcohol in antiquity, it was a fascinating read, I bought it without having to buy it for a course. But that day, there he was, dealing with a bunch of students insisting on arguing minutia.
 
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pie_man_25 said:
I've taken a few courses in uni any classical history and anthropology. Including one that was on a random topic that was TBD when I signed up. It turned out when I showed up day one to be about magic in classical antiquity. It was a good course, but the proof decided to do the last lecture or two on, more or less, tying things loosely between back then and today.

That's when half the class decided to raise their hand to say that they were wiccan or some other similar flavour of spirituality. I kinda felt bad for the guy, that day, he wrote a book on alcohol in antiquity, it was a fascinating read, I bought it without having to buy it for a course. But that day, there he was, dealing with a bunch of students insisting on arguing minutia.
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Interesting! So he hadn't anticipated that students who signed up for a class like that would be personally invested in it? Whenever I teach the magic course, or anything about religion or spirituality or anything similar, I always try to make clear that we're looking at it to understand how it works for the people who practice it, not to promote it nor to disparage it. Students have generally been pretty understanding about that. Our gen ed courses are a "past and present" category, so drawing links to modern beliefs and practices are planned. I'll do a unit on, say, healing, and we'll talk about vibrational energies and crystals and stuff as well as ancient and medieval healing practices. I did make the discovery one semester that some of the students in the class were members of a Paranormal Investigation Club on campus. That was fascinating.
 
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hrodbert696 said:
Interesting! So he hadn't anticipated that students who signed up for a class like that would be personally invested in it? Whenever I teach the magic course, or anything about religion or spirituality or anything similar, I always try to make clear that we're looking at it to understand how it works for the people who practice it, not to promote it nor to disparage it. Students have generally been pretty understanding about that. Our gen ed courses are a "past and present" category, so drawing links to modern beliefs and practices are planned. I'll do a unit on, say, healing, and we'll talk about vibrational energies and crystals and stuff as well as ancient and medieval healing practices. I did make the discovery one semester that some of the students in the class were members of a Paranormal Investigation Club on campus. That was fascinating.
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It might have been a first for him, he was the only professor I've seen do something like that.
 
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#236
Munjibunga said:
Retired engineering geologist and civil/geotechnical engineer. Senior executive for the last ten years of my career. I retired nine years ago. Now I play in a couple bands but spend most of my time taking pictures of birds. Here are a few. These are from the last couple weeks.

Bald Eagle in the local mountains
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Acorn Woodpecker
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Belted Kingfisher
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Light-footed Ridgway's Rail - rare and endangered
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Nice shots !
 
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I work on these:
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