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  1. JimWagner

    The Role of Education In Assigning Value to Societal Labor Sectors

    I'd suggest that educational institutions need look no further than themselves to understand the issues you are referring to. Look at how scholorships are assigned, who has the free rides and who doesn't. Which departments within the large universities have and control the most dollars. (Answer...
  2. JimWagner

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    But there is such a thing as incompetent labor. No matter what they are paid.
  3. JimWagner

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    Now that needs to be on a tshirt!
  4. JimWagner

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    With $1.3 billion you can have another bathroom for your wife. Complete with thst piano bar I keep hearing about.
  5. JimWagner

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    There's a great scene in the 1986 Rodney Dangerfield movie Back to School where Rodney's character has just flunked an English paper analyzing why Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. wrote something a certain way. His teacher really blasted him and explained just what motivated Vonnegut. Rodney, who had paid to...
  7. JimWagner

    Lunch, Anybody?

    Doesn't sound like it was a mentally healthy lunch :-)
  8. JimWagner

    Things You Learn as an Old Car Driver

    Yep. When I replaced that un-airconditioned vehicle soon after the beach trip incident I bought a new 1990 GMC Suburban with two airconditioners. :-) Wife and family were much happier. That was while the Suburban was still a truck and not the yuppiefied luxury assault vehicle it has become since...
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    Things You Learn as an Old Car Driver

    You need more than vents in a NC summer. I can remember coming back from the beach to central NC one Labor Day weekend in the 1980's in an un-airconditioned vehicle with the temperatures hitting 98 and the humidity at 100%, and the whole family just about having heat strokes when we got caught...
  10. JimWagner

    Vintage trains

    And here's the N&W Class J 611 test run from 5/21/15. Long live steam!
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    Vintage trains

    My all time favorite steam locomotive is the N&W Class J. Here is the 611 located at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, VA. When I was a kid in South Norfolk, VA we lived right at the tracks and I used to see these thunder by several times a day. The 611 is under restoration...
  13. JimWagner

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Now that's just wrong.
  14. JimWagner

    Dawn of a New Epoch

    Sorry you've had to go through that. My wife has been lucky in that her taste hasn't really been affected. The water filter situation here has been going on for 20 years and predates her health problems significantly. Just one of those quirky things.
  15. JimWagner

    What's For Breakfast...

    Creamed chipped beef on toast, also known as SOS.
  16. JimWagner

    Dawn of a New Epoch

    Well, the approach people employ in their recycling and conservation can be pretty quirky sometimes depending on their fundamental personalities or mindset. Before I continue, this is just what happens at my house and I'm neither criticizing nor justifying, just describing. My wife has more of...
  17. JimWagner

    Things You Learn as an Old Car Driver

    Yes, I get rather upset at that myself. Not following the rules of the road is NOT courtesty. It is stupid. And those people don't seem to realize that if you proceed under those conditions and a wreck happens, YOU will get the ticket and the points for not following the rules.
  19. JimWagner

    Attaching Morale Patches On Leather Flight Jackets

    I was actually born in Norfolk and lived in South Norfolk until just before I started high school. My grandfather worked as a machinist on the NAS. I used to see the Truculant Turtle all the time. It was still there when I was stationed there and there were several other shrink wrapped planes...
  20. JimWagner

    Dawn of a New Epoch

    Most people I know don't own strip mines, oil refineries, nuclear power plants, toxic waste dumps, etc. While turning off your lights is certainly a good idea the truth is that the amount of residential electricity used across world is a fraction of what gets used in industry and business...
  21. JimWagner

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    Well, I have to live in the real world and not a limited fantasy world designed to make a point. In the real world I've been a worker bee and a manager. One of the things I learned through experience is that most people both need and want leadership. They do not want to be the one who makes...
  22. JimWagner

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    True. Pulling cables under floors, installing servers, running wiring were in my duties at one time or another. Carpel tunnel injuries are common with programmers. Then there's the effects of accumlated stress from working under arbitrarily short development schedules in an "zero defects"...
  23. JimWagner

    Attaching Morale Patches On Leather Flight Jackets

    I remember those old seaplane ramps. When I was first assigned to VP-24 it was at NAS Norfolk (1966) and our hangars and flight line were along that old seaplane ramp area. Our sister squardron, VP-56, lost a young enlisted man there that year who managed to fall into the bay down those ramps in...

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