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I'd open a bar/pub with good cask ale and decent electronic music. Actually whenever I get too stressed out at work I consider doing this, I've got the necessary capital and in a city like Oslo where people don't care about beer prices it can surely be made into a profitable thing.
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+1 on the Woodworking.... I started StumpCrafters.com just a few months ago and its great. I love being out in the shop more and still getting to do a few things with code here and there. Im not quite there with the customization yet but its in the works. Check it out at: https://stumpcrafters.com https://facebook.com/stumpcrafters https://instagram.com/stumpcrafters https://twitter.com/stumpcrafters edit: formating
This is great. My friends and I played a similar game we called hammerschlaggen -- except instead of a hammer we used the sharp end of an axe and a real stump!
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As a non German living in Germany I think this is the best idea in this thread. German bakery products are the best and can be sold everywhere despite of their high end price.
That and I never understood why knödel never took off. I love knödel! I actually brought some back the last time I was in Germany (before learning I could buy them right here in Paris).
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+1 on the Woodworking.... I started StumpCrafters.com just a few months ago and its great. I love being out in the shop more and still getting to do a few things with code here and there. Im not quite there with the customization yet but its in the works. Check it out at: https://stumpcrafters.com https://facebook.com/stumpcrafters https://instagram.com/stumpcrafters https://twitter.com/stumpcrafters edit: formating
This is great. My friends and I played a similar game we called hammerschlaggen -- except instead of a hammer we used the sharp end of an axe and a real stump!
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I'm a VA with one long-time client who can only offer me part-time work, plus the occassional small project related to the work. I also sometimes get a few side jobs from previous employers. For the last several years, I've generally worked an hour per day, M-F. Living abroad on dollars, and staying out of native-English speaking countries and Nordic ones, it's quite easy to live an average lifestyle on around $600/m…
Fascinating! You are living an interesting life. It is fun to read about how different everyone's experiences are.
I would be a modern day philosopher/thinker (like Taleb, Dawkins, Harris). I would start with the classics and read everything, learn ancient Greek, Aramaic, as well as Italian, French and German (maybe Russian also, who knows) I would study the first proof in mathematics all the way up through modern probability theory. I would throw away my cell phone and do all of this work from a nice modern loft in the Trastever…
All the carpentry-as-an-alternate-career comments here reminded me of something Fred Brooks wrote in his "The Mythical Man-Month" -- how he described programming, reminds me of carpentry (note: it's a quote from the book all the way from here): Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult en…
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I've owned several boats and I'm done with that. I now belong to a coop where I pay $650 a year and have access to a 30' Catalina and 24' C&C that I can use almost as much as I want. There is no such thing as a cheap boat. The maintaince is a constant time and money suck.
Is it in Bay Area?
Was just there two days ago, that place is like an engineer's wet dream.
Briefly, and without an intent to shame or embarrass you - I think it's worth thinking more carefully about using (presumably male-centered) sexual language here, especially since the bookstore is named after a pioneering woman engineer.
the entire point of language and thought policing is to shame and embarrass people.
you are doublespeaking to an intelligent audience and it comes off creepy as hell. you sound brainwashed.
also, this is basically lefty version of "i'm not a racist but..." nevermind you assumed gender, assumed it in the context of STEM (doubleplus ungood, comrade), assumed helplessness based on that gender, and assumed incorrectly that females do not have wet dreams/noctural emissions, all of which is pretty much the textbook definition of sexism, you sexist.
most people call it whiteknighting because it's offensive, but just think it's normal because you live in a world where sexism is normalized.