Last week, one of my favorite bartenders mentioned something to me that, I admit, finally got the better of my curiosity. Here's what ten minutes of surfing tells me
( Read more... )
I had heard on the news that one of the biggest issues out west with people walking away from their McMansions is that people come into the homes and tear all of the copper wiring out of the walls to make a quick buck. I can't imagine that they are careful or cautious when they do it.
Pipe and wire stealing was a huge problem here during the early part of the city rebuilding process. Some bastards stole the pipes to a nearly-rebuilt synagogue, flooding it again. That can be halted by reasonable vigilance at scrap yards-requiring documentation be kept on people turning stuff in for scrap.
Copper changes price a lot though - my engineer got shifted off a copper/gold mine project a couple of years ago when it went down to $1.50. Back to oil.
Both of you are very right. Even in places around here, where we aren't rebuilding after a disaster, buildings are broken into all of the time and stripped of pipes and wires, exactly as you say. And, it's very true, the local metal scrap places do keep and require documentation.
Friend of mine is attempting to scout out a job at RIT; his skills are mainly desktop and networking stuph. May I point him in your direction for pointers/ideas/landmine alerts? If so, do you still work onsite, or mostly telecommunte with all the traveling you've been doing lately?
You can, but I don't know how much use I'd be. I'm pretty far out of the mainstream these days, living a nearly 100% research life (as opposed to the mainstream campus teaching life).
In other words, yes, I'm a bit out of touch, but it's not because of the travel.
By the way... the job market is pretty saturated in the Rochester area. And with the Golisano college, your friend is going to have a bit of competition landing a "desktop and networking stuph" job especially around here. He's looked over RIT already, he knows what we've got here, right? Don't get me wrong, he should take a shot if he's got one, but don't get his hopes up unreasonably high.
Any job, in any field that opens up at RIT, always has a large number of applicants. In the IT field, this is doubly true.
Wow, being in the copper state (or is it the big ditch state), I find this especially intriguing.
Anyway, you've probably seen this in your research, but once you piqued my interest, I just found this:
One of my hobbies long ago was coin collecting, and I used to roll and exchange several pounds regularly, and occasionally actually pay money for real finds. Now it's just plain funny how little I actually handle cash, let alone coins. Oh wait, maybe that's not funny...
I knew the federal law was passed in '08, but I had no idea it was being discussed in '06.
I have no idea what I'm going to do with this information, not just yet. But I keep thinking, we ought to know about it and do _something_.
Probably, our best bet is to just hoard pennies, sorted into "wheat", "boring (mostly copper)", "weird", and ditch the "boring (mostly zinc)" ones. :-) One day, decades from now, a glass jug of mostly copper pennies might take on some real value.
Comments 7
Reply
Copper changes price a lot though - my engineer got shifted off a copper/gold mine project a couple of years ago when it went down to $1.50. Back to oil.
Reply
Reply
Friend of mine is attempting to scout out a job at RIT; his skills are mainly desktop and networking stuph. May I point him in your direction for pointers/ideas/landmine alerts? If so, do you still work onsite, or mostly telecommunte with all the traveling you've been doing lately?
Reply
In other words, yes, I'm a bit out of touch, but it's not because of the travel.
By the way... the job market is pretty saturated in the Rochester area. And with the Golisano college, your friend is going to have a bit of competition landing a "desktop and networking stuph" job especially around here. He's looked over RIT already, he knows what we've got here, right? Don't get me wrong, he should take a shot if he's got one, but don't get his hopes up unreasonably high.
Any job, in any field that opens up at RIT, always has a large number of applicants. In the IT field, this is doubly true.
Reply
Anyway, you've probably seen this in your research, but once you piqued my interest, I just found this:
One of my hobbies long ago was coin collecting, and I used to roll and exchange several pounds regularly, and occasionally actually pay money for real finds. Now it's just plain funny how little I actually handle cash, let alone coins. Oh wait, maybe that's not funny...
Reply
I have no idea what I'm going to do with this information, not just yet. But I keep thinking, we ought to know about it and do _something_.
Probably, our best bet is to just hoard pennies, sorted into "wheat", "boring (mostly copper)", "weird", and ditch the "boring (mostly zinc)" ones. :-) One day, decades from now, a glass jug of mostly copper pennies might take on some real value.
Reply
Leave a comment