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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #8730 on: January 16, 2026, 06:34:51 PM »
Growing up in ice and snow, I never saw anything even close to this.

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #8731 on: January 16, 2026, 07:14:36 PM »
Was talking with a co-worker that is based in the Bay Area today.  Her daughter will graduate with a degree in comics from an art school there this spring.  The school just announced that it is closing and they are worried that will taint the value of the degree.  The kid has wracked up about $300,000 in loans.  I didn't know that such a degree even existed.  I could see maybe taking a couple of drawing classes at a community college and then start pumping your stuff out and see if you can make a go of it.   What kind of classes would they offer - Explorations in Why Woodstock Flies Upside Down or Hidden Family Circus Fascism?   Seems to me if you have talent, you have talent -  go put it work.  If you don't have talent, no amount of coursework is going to give you any.

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #8732 on: January 16, 2026, 07:19:29 PM »
Quote from: PB on January 16, 2026, 06:34:51 PM
Growing up in ice and snow, I never saw anything even close to this.

After five winters in the Upper Peninsula, I thought I was a winter bad ass.  Then was driving through Wyoming one summer and found they have these gates they shut the Interstate with that had signs that saying "Closed.  Return to Laramie".  Never say nothing like that before - I can't imagine how bad the drifting would have to be to put something like that in place.

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #8733 on: January 16, 2026, 09:34:06 PM »
Quote from: Walks_At_Night on January 16, 2026, 07:14:36 PM
Was talking with a co-worker that is based in the Bay Area today.  Her daughter will graduate with a degree in comics from an art school there this spring.  The school just announced that it is closing and they are worried that will taint the value of the degree.  The kid has wracked up about $300,000 in loans.  I didn't know that such a degree even existed.  I could see maybe taking a couple of drawing classes at a community college and then start pumping your stuff out and see if you can make a go of it.   What kind of classes would they offer - Explorations in Why Woodstock Flies Upside Down or Hidden Family Circus Fascism?   Seems to me if you have talent, you have talent -  go put it work.  If you don't have talent, no amount of coursework is going to give you any.

Interesting. $300k for a degree not guaranteed to be lucrative or marketable seems like dubious adulting.

As an artsy-fartsy girl who changed her major from a BFA to a BS … my guess is twofold. 1- most Fine arts degrees are still pretty snobby. My profs would have never let me get a passing grade turning in that sort of artwork- even with technical mastery. 2- it probably involves aspects of production/writing/visual storytelling that would not be found in a normal BFA drawing art degree.
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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #8734 on: January 16, 2026, 09:35:50 PM »
Quote from: Walks_At_Night on January 16, 2026, 07:19:29 PM
After five winters in the Upper Peninsula, I thought I was a winter bad ass.  Then was driving through Wyoming one summer and found they have these gates they shut the Interstate with that had signs that saying "Closed.  Return to Laramie".  Never say nothing like that before - I can't imagine how bad the drifting would have to be to put something like that in place.
It’s not fun to get stuck behind a closed gate either- ask me how I know. Here we call them ground blizzards- it only takes a couple of inches of snow in a bad wind to bring visibility to zero.
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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #8735 on: January 18, 2026, 08:00:23 PM »

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #8736 on: January 19, 2026, 07:28:57 AM »
Like...What's wrong with trees?

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #8737 on: January 19, 2026, 07:44:04 AM »
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I was a fish tank guy for a long time and if i was to become neglectful of my tank duties for an extended period of time that is exactly what the water would have looked like.

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #8738 on: January 19, 2026, 11:47:57 AM »
Quote from: KSM on January 19, 2026, 07:44:04 AM
I was a fish tank guy for a long time and if i was to become neglectful of my tank duties for an extended period of time that is exactly what the water would have looked like.
Speaking of, I just aquascaped and started cycling a soon to be shrimp tank. I’m pretty excited! I'm going to put these little cuties in it

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There was a little girl,
            Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
            When she was good,
            She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #8739 on: January 19, 2026, 12:01:56 PM »
Do they taste good?
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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #8740 on: January 19, 2026, 12:24:10 PM »
Quote from: JUAN on January 19, 2026, 12:01:56 PM
Do they taste good?
They’re tiny…so you’d have to eat a lot of them.
My son asked the same question
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            When she was good,
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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #8741 on: January 19, 2026, 01:02:02 PM »
Quote from: PolkaDot on January 19, 2026, 12:24:10 PM
They’re tiny…so you’d have to eat a lot of them.
My son asked the same question

Ok.  So you eat a lot of them.  The real question is do you poo blue?

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #8742 on: January 19, 2026, 03:50:51 PM »
In 30 years they can retire

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #8743 on: January 20, 2026, 05:02:57 AM »
Not good

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
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