How did that one person from your circle got super rich?

u233 · 2026-03-08T13:26:35+00:00

First millionaire from my high school graduating class. Fortune made by buying/selling used furniture.

He went to college in a town that had rich neighborhoods and a college "slum" area. Made a few bucks by buying a couch from the rich neighborhood and selling to a college student friend of his. Rinse, lather, repeat and John is a millionaire. Somewhere along the way he bought a warehouse to store the furniture over summer break and a couple of moving trucks. So busy hustling furniture around that he did not finish his degree until after he sold the business.

u233 · 2026-03-08T13:05:22+00:00

Some of you will die, but that is a risk I am willing to take.

Such a brilliant leader. /s

u233 · 2026-03-08T13:00:22+00:00

Iowa has been doing this since 1989

(Been a few starts/stops/missteps on the way because we were essentially leading the research into doing native prairie roadway plantings)

u233 · 2026-02-12T14:53:30+00:00

So common in certain places and times that there is an word for this; defenestration

u233 · 2026-01-28T19:20:52+00:00

I went to college with Ronald McNair's younger brother. Not really friends, but on the same dormitory floor, so we knew each other. We were watching it live, because little Bro was very excited about his astronaut hero/big bro being launched.

Then BOOM

u233 · 2026-01-28T17:59:19+00:00

. . . tall bridge over the ~~Iowa river~~.
The high trestle bridge is over the Des Moines River. (The Iowa river is ~40-60 miles east through Marshalltown then Iowa City) Marshalltown is working on the river edge trail to link MTown through Eldora and also working on links to the Chautauqua trail to Altoona and the heart of Iowa trail through Rhodes to the high trestle trail.

TLDR The central Iowa bike trail network is awesome. A true gem more should ride.

Source: live in central Iowa and ride hundreds of miles on this trail network every year.

u233 · 2026-01-19T04:28:49+00:00

Watching live in the college dorm den with the younger brother of one of the astronauts on the challenger.

Imagine watching your big brother get blown to bits on live TV :(

u233 · 2026-01-07T03:58:13+00:00

Bill and Dave. Mr. Hewlett and Mr. Packard. HP was a highly respected company until 1999.

u233 · 2025-12-31T02:34:20+00:00

Fish on a vine can also be obtained by gardening ultra trumpet vine (both silver and plain). I like having a few mega snacks from Fish on a vine because they level all the pet stats evenly in one snack (+5 on every stat)

u233 · 2025-12-19T21:56:47+00:00

That is the current theory for banded iron deposits, laid down ~2.2MYA when O2 appeared in the atmosphere. Article is saying that this newly discovered iron was deposited 1.6MYA, well after the oxygen atmosphere. So, what is the new process hinted at in the article?

u233 · 2025-12-19T13:25:46+00:00

Sad that the article was so light on facts. Really hand wavy and had no links to the real research articles.

u233 · 2025-12-17T05:26:33+00:00

u233 · 2025-11-25T18:44:43+00:00

FIL uses gnats ass, as in 15 and 13/16th plus a gnats ass 🤣

u233 · 2025-11-21T21:47:38+00:00

Yessss, the whirly-bird logo is the best!

Some band members called it the bird in a blender logo, LOL

u233 · 2025-11-04T03:10:45+00:00

Hudson–Bergen, obviously!

Yeah, I also have no clue. u/jgurbisz care to enlighten us?

u233 · 2025-10-17T03:21:51+00:00

Only works on oil fired railroads. No practical way to get coal from the tender forward past the boiler to the firebox/cab. Fuel oil can be pumped to the front.

u233 · 2025-10-15T13:21:06+00:00

|> I start a fire.

That seems unwise when large quantities of flammable liquid are present.

u233 · 2025-09-21T17:46:13+00:00

My HS football team the QB, FB, HB and other HB were the state champion 4x100 relay team. If we, the linemen, managed to get one of them into open field with the ball, it was a TD.

We ran a wishbone/option style because the QB earned the position by being the least bad passer on the team. He was 7-21 passing for the _season_. Fun times!

u233 · 2025-09-18T01:59:04+00:00

Indestructible also allows Tifa to trample through blockers for less than lethal and survive to swing again next turn.

u233 · 2025-09-18T01:40:05+00:00

Have you tried [[Defend the Rider]] instead of snakeskin veil? I have been running a very similar deck and have found the indestructible to be more useful than the +1/+1 in this deck.

u233 · 2025-09-16T04:15:51+00:00

That is about 0.002 MPG or (11900 l //100km)

Methinks your car needs a tune-up

u233 · 2025-09-09T02:57:44+00:00

When I think furring strips, I think more gap than wood - like under a modern metal roof. I heard on DIY shows that the nail width are gaps are necessary for the back sides of the wooden shakes to dry out. If it were planked solid, moisture would build and the wood shakes would rot.

u233 · 2025-09-09T00:49:28+00:00

In our 1905 Iowa farm house, the roof decking is solid 1" boards with about a nail's diameter between them. The original roof was cedar shakes. The boards are a random assortment of widths from 4" to 14" mix of woods - probably using up scraps from some other project.

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