Your pre-Gulch job? Your job in the Gulch?

Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 10 months ago to The Gulch: General
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One of the most entertaining parts of the book is the part at the beginning of the chapter on Atlantis where everyone talks about their jobs outside the Gulch vs. within the Gulch.

Before I read AS, I was both a professor of chemical engineering and materials science, particularly nanotechnology, as well as the co-founder of small biosensors and biofuels companies. After reading AS, I sold the businesses to not feed the looters. I kept the professorship because I was not doing things contradictory to Galtish values. Recently I just got an appointment as a biomedical engineering professor, too.

Within the Gulch it appears my job is to be discussion facilitator.

Welcome to Atlantis,
jbrenner

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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Barkeep would especially appropriate if your Reverend status was for a teetotaling group.
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  • Posted by neilevan 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Picked up 22,000 rounds at $0.03 per, before the craziness started, and feeding my rifles judiciously and frugally. None for sale, though. Sorry.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When I was really young, I wanted to own one of those railcar diners that used to be so popular (but, sadly, are mostly long long gone)... slinging homemade hash and serving up 10¢ a cup coffee (of course, that's 10¢ in silver, thank you!), 49 cent burgers to die for (with fries), 2 bit beers and $2.95 steak dinners. Something really genuine about those places! Call it... "Mom's Diner". Just because.

    (Hope that put a smile on some people's faces!)
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    History: The two Panozzo brothers and Dennis DeY were the first members with JY joining very soon thereafter. Several years later Tommy Shaw joined and that was the band through the majority of their ride at the top of the charts. After Kilroy (Mr. Robotto) DdeY wanted to do more rock opera types of compilations and the rest (mostly lead by Tommy it seems) just wanted to be rockers. There was a split and some bad feelings - John Panozzo died just a month after the concert that I saw in '96 (he wasn't there as he was very sick). Chuck P is gay and I think that is the rift between most of the band and DdeY, as he is devoutly Catholic. I go to both Styx concerts and DdeY concerts as they are both great, just not as good as when they were all together. Sorry for hijacking the thread for a bit of history. People wonder why Objectivism won't work - and I say that it is because of the nature of humankind. Jealousy's and control are aspects that I don't think can ever be eliminated. This is just a microcosm of that.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "The poor people would make good use of it". Ugh! those who say things like that make my skin crawl.

    BTW thanks for reminding me, have to sew the clover for this years crop of deer. Bees love it, you would think it was Deer-nip, and it helps lock the nutrients into the soil to make it more productive next year! Win win win!
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Rather calm right now. The leftie that they put up to go against Scott (family built Trek bicycles, and she has several hundred million) has just announced last week that she would not be self-funding her campaign and will be looking for the party and donors to foot the bill - just goes to show how little faith she has in herself winning.
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Keeping Mulligan's Gold from the prying hands of the looters... I rather like that. And yes.. we can hold up our end of a conversation, the foreend of a shotgun, sight alignment on a pistol or the buttstock of a MBR to the shoulder and hit what we aim at. After all... What good is a tool if it cannot be used correctly? Or if it isn't there, or ready, when needed?
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  • Posted by $ Susanne 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There is a cafe. Kay Ludlow is a waitress there.... Hmmm...

    There's an idea. Go back to being a line cook. Worked my way through school doing kitchen work, everything from potwasher to sous chef. Fun, tho at times exhausting, work. always figured... People Gotta Eat. Or get a cuppa coffee brewed for them. Breakfast anyone?
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Tonight's the night we'll make history ...
    Baby, you and I (sic) ...
    I still love singing songs by Styx.

    I can go into a very lengthy discussion about Styx, but this is not the appropriate forum for it. If someone would like to discuss this privately, please send me a private message.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You're in the battleground right now, Robbie. Scott Walker is trying to return WI to sanity, and all of the looters and moochers are struggling (mostly unsuccessfully) to take him out (as opposed to down). It is one of the few reasons to consider not going Galt left.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Styx (and DdeY) is the most underrated band in R&R history (and still not in the R&R HoF). The only band to have #1 hits in 4 different decades - not even the Beatles or Stones did that. I was privileged to see them in their last tour together - 1996 at the Burlington Steamboat Days.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Parts of downtown MKE. I would say that Madison is more like DC. Major public university and seat of state government. Looter and Moocher heaven. Much of the rest of the state is actually rather rational. Like most of the US, if you get away from high population density, you get more rationality.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am not a composer like Halley. I have written a couple of songs for my band in high school, "The Garage Band". I can sing like Dennis DeYoung, but my saxophone playing was not even second-rate. If you need anyone to sing like Dennis DeYoung (Styx), Freddie Mercury (Queen), Steve Perry (Journey), or any of the Beatles, I have performed their songs in public. I am not in their league, but I'm like a 2 handicapper in golf (excellent, just not professional). Don't ask me to dance. That was the biggest reason that I didn't turn music into a day job. Chemical engineering and materials science are more my cup of tea now.

    I used to sing the national anthem at minor league baseball games, but since I've shrugged, I just can't have the same enthusiasm for America that I once did. It is hard to perform at a sufficiently high level once you have lost some of that passion. I still have passion for singing some rock-n-roll, but not music prior to baseball games anymore.

    We did have a pretty good band. Our saxophonist could pick up a new instrument and within a week be better than anyone I knew. Truly gifted!
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