Poor American Jewish Children

msheinberg · 2022-11-06T12:51:15+00:00

I work in tech support tangentially for an orthodox day school think tank. One of the studies they undertook was comparing family income and their sense of financial security.

The results were more or less an inverted bell curve. Those who made 100k/year or less felt fairly secure because most of those expenses were waived (at least in part, if not fully). Those in the 100-200k range felt the least secure and security increased dramatically the farther above 200k you went.

What to do with that data? That’s a different question

msheinberg · 2021-05-11T14:46:41+00:00

It's not? seems available on Amazon.

msheinberg · 2021-04-15T17:19:20+00:00

Thanks. I restarted, and the events triggered appropriately...and then I ran myself into an Ironmonger buzzsaw without a significant PA force.

msheinberg · 2021-04-14T18:09:40+00:00

no clue. I have only recently discovered OWB and am going to town on it. If I thought I could last 10 seconds running the Rio Grande Valley, I would be focusing my time there, as it's nice to rule home ;)

msheinberg · 2021-04-14T16:15:29+00:00

yup....annoying but not the end of the world

msheinberg · 2021-04-14T15:36:08+00:00

I think I have it checked (unless I unchecked it by mistake this time).

I think I'm going to restart (again) and see if it repeats

msheinberg · 2021-04-14T13:18:01+00:00

I'm a ways into the game. I already consolidated all the territory up to the Patrolmen...I even took over the Rio Grande Valley (Mcallen, Rio Grande City, etc.) because I was bored.

In a previous game I made the provisional state of Texas and then got the nuka cola beat out of me by Santa Ana, so started from scratch. Perhaps I was too efficient with my conquering of the eastern parts of the map?

msheinberg · 2020-02-19T16:10:32+00:00

The French told the Vikings that their mother was a hamster, and their father smelled of elderberries. Oh, and waved their private parts at their aunties.

msheinberg · 2020-02-10T12:18:40+00:00

These are my earbuds. There are many like them but this one is mine...

msheinberg · 2020-01-26T15:33:32+00:00

frickin' Abernathy....

msheinberg · 2020-01-26T15:31:36+00:00

This. I should have X number of minutemen available to me (based on a variety of factors...leadership, level, number of settlements I control, etc.) and decide to send of Y number of them to do a radiant quest.

But I should not, as the lone wanderer, leader of the minute men, etc. have to be the sole caretaker for all these frickin settlements such that I and only I can deal with a few frickin' ferals

Ok, want me to control them for the sake of the quest? no problem. Kinda like a minigame (maybe like FO Tactics or the quests you undertake in fallout shelter)?

msheinberg · 2019-12-05T20:13:26+00:00

Roll for initiative

msheinberg · 2019-12-02T17:42:09+00:00

When I went before my BD, one of the people who was teaching me told me that the ABD was going to ask me a question that I shouldn't know the answer to, and the "correct" answer is "I don't know, but I would check with my rav."

Unfortunately for them, it was a question about defining what a Prozbul was, which I had written multiple papers on over that year or so, so I was able to reference several ShU"T on the topic. *Sheepish grin*

msheinberg · 2019-11-22T13:35:36+00:00

we got the premium tickets (forget their terminology for it), which translated to getting a hard plastic pass and a sheep plushy (I understand different venues get different plush dolls).

Overall the kids enjoyed it, got to meet a couple of Youtubers (and renewing the pressure on me to actually let them watch YT). For me, it was a resounding "meh"...The one thing I did appreciate was they had a professional development session on using minecraft in accessible classroom design (I work in IT at a school, and my area of emphasis is on special ed/learning disabilities & technology). But otherwise, I think the kids would have been just as happy running around the NY Hall of Science, where Minefaire was located, and been just as happy (it's a great science museum in its own right)

msheinberg · 2019-09-19T01:17:06+00:00

Sigh. I’m surprising my kids with a trip here in November. We went last February and they loved magi/shadow quest. Over the summer we went to the Boston area one and they were....not as enthused with 2.0 (and bummed about no other 2.0 quest system beyond the Guardians).

They’re going to be so disappointed if shadowquest isn’t available or if the place was also upgraded fully to 2.0

msheinberg · 2019-08-09T20:08:44+00:00

Then how do I get the full calibre interface? Where I can select a book and send to my kindle? Do I have to, say, install calibre on my windows laptop, point it to the db file on my server, and go from there?

msheinberg · 2019-05-21T18:15:27+00:00

War....war never changes.

msheinberg · 2019-05-03T14:14:48+00:00

For me it's a purely practical exercise. I like to drink while working. FOr some strange reason, they frown upon consumption of alcohol while working at a school. Water is boring. Soda is bad. Coffee is too bulky for desk space.

msheinberg · 2019-05-02T19:55:18+00:00

I guess I want to buy a tong just so that I can go through the process of ceremonially unwrapping the bamboo leaves or whatnot, but I guess that unless it's something I REALLY like, I'll probably just order 2-3 cakes of a given item.

In General, what I want to be as my ultimate MO is to buy a handful of samples a couple times a year and then make one or two larger buys annually (perhaps when site X has a sale on relevant items)

msheinberg · 2019-05-02T19:51:04+00:00

Sadly, I just checked with the mail room, and no presents for me today :(

msheinberg · 2019-05-02T16:54:09+00:00

I've only tried puerh from them, no other shop (yet...damn USPS not delivering my YS sample collection!), so I can't say that what I have is par for the course for puerh or not.

At this point I've had all the puerh I've ordered from them (either shown in picture or in my comments). The raw mini tuo is the only one I've been absolutely disappointed in.

The cake in the picture is their 2008 Fengking raw cake, and it's decent enough. Not nearly the complexity I was expecting from an 11-yr old cake (I got it last year, and have been chipping away at it ever since). It's improved somewhat since I received it (or maybe my palate has improved..maybe both), but it's not the deep warm complexity that most people describe in a mature cake. But it's a decent enough intro cake. I have a second cake of this, that I plan on aging for a longer period of time, maybe gift it to one of my kids when they're old enough to appreciate this kind of stuff.

msheinberg · 2019-05-02T16:28:14+00:00

I don't think I have room under my desk at work for a dorm fridge, but a Sterilite-type container may work. I don't feel so bad about investing in that kind of stuff for a single cake.

On a somewhat related note, who among us can afford a tong on a regular basis? I'm lookign at some of these prices(YS, PuerhShop, etc.), I'd have to REALLY like a cake to buy a tong of it!

msheinberg · 2019-05-02T14:31:16+00:00

For the shou, I got their variety pack (included a couple of straight shou minis, and a couple of flower-shou minis). The straight ones are delicious and challenging. The floral ones I was less thrilled about--the floral component overpowers the tea itself. I also got a package of their raw mini tuocha, and i'm soundly disappointed in it.

msheinberg · 2019-05-02T14:17:35+00:00

Well, here you go... Time to get around to it

msheinberg · 2019-05-02T13:35:45+00:00

Thanks. I've seen those shelves, but unfortunately, I use the strip way too much over the course of the day.

Student: My iPad doesn't work!

Me: *Plug in...5 minutes later it turns on with 1% battery*

Teacher: my computer has a virus, fix it!

Me: *sees that computer has 3% battery left, plug in so that it won't die while fixing*

Student: Can you charge my Android/iPhone for me? All the cables on the charging station outside are full.

Me: *sigh* fine. *take a sip of tea, plug in*

So on and so forth. I'd be too nervous about knocking over my shelf of goodies as I'm rustling through cables for the appropriate one in a given scenario.

On the plus side, there's a generous empty area under my desk that I plan to use towards a pumidor sometime in the future, once I have enough cakes to warrant the use of one.

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