[FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

[Edward Angel]

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
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Ed Angel

Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico

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> On Oct 11, 2018, at 2:01 PM, Gary Schiltz <gary at 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 <nickthompson at earthlink.net <mailto:nickthompson at 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-bounces at redfish.com <mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com>] On Behalf Of Barry MacKichan
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 12:36 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com <mailto:friam at 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?
> >
> 
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