UC Davis grad and still live in the area. I believe almost all strawberries grown commercial come from UC Davis. Was the whole big issue with this strawberry commission thing that a few professors ran and tired to take the IP when they left. Was interesting. I love being able to grow really delicious tomatoes with almost no effort. Always look forward to tomatoes season. I cure my own homemade bacon and make sourdough bread. Best BLT sandwich even use lettuce I grow sometimes. UC Davis has some great online resources for gardening. I have even thought about starting a beehive but I am not sure I want to go through the effort.
I am forever thankful for California community colleges. I did not the best high school slacked off mostly c's doing the bare minimum. Went to local community college loved it took so many amazing classes with great teacher. I transferred to uc Davis with admissions under contract if hekd certain gpa. Cost me about 4k for two year in fees and books. At uc Davis for 2 years 30k. I learned more at my community college than a pretty decent public research college. Still uc Davis was worth it worked as student employee doing computer support. Turned that into full time job at the college as computer programmer and then gotA
e jobs making way more doing the same thing. Never got CS degree just got chance to some cool things I had no business doing. All thanks to community college
> I learned more at my community college than a pretty decent public research college.
I've heard "I learned more at X than at college" multiple times, it's become a refrain. But public university courses are pretty intellectually intensive, or at least provide good opportunities to be so; I wonder if people who say these implicitly qualify it with "that I valued / that I found was useful to my (intended) career"
I think another aspect of it is that professors at research universities don't view teaching as their main vocation but as something they have to do (their "real" job is research/writing papers). I think lecturers that focus on teaching can probably be better at it, especially at undergrad level where you're anyway pretty far from the state of the art.
> professors at research universities don't view teaching as their main vocation but as something they have to do (their "real" job is research/writing papers).
Some of them view it this way, and end up being excellent lecturers. They get laid off for not publishing often enough or successfully enough. Like the one statistics professor I've had that was worth a damn.
I find universities forcing both research and teaching on the same people quite bewildering nowadays. Yes, you used to be able to get super fresh information directly from the people doing the research back in the day, but guess what, nowadays that's not what's in the curriculum anyway and your lecturer doing great research probably won't really translate into them being able to better teach the basics of their field.
Same. My peers were going crazy trying to get ready for university. Once my plan was to do community college and transfer, the last two years of high school became really easy. Tuition was something like $11/unit, and textbooks were actually a bigger expense.
I have a 4 year degree from a state school now, and even though I missed out on some of the dorm shenanigans/networking/etc, I’m doing just fine now. And I never had any student loans to worry about. (Admittedly, my parents did help pay for my degree, but $2500/semester at a state university is very, very reasonable.)
I got solar in northern California with new roof that needed to be replaced. I got 30 percent tax credit on the roof as well. Paid for the roof in cash but took 10 year loan out for the solar panels at 3.0 percent. Break even at this rate is about 4 years already a few year in. With inflation right now I feel like I got good deal borrowing the money. Right now my loan payment plus then 10.00 monthly connection fee is less than my average monthly bill before 2019. Not sure I would do it with needing a new roof though. But everybody experience will be different.
And I used to buy SD cards and Mac adapters from Amazon for work and it was about half of them products were fake until I finally stopped and got them from cdw. They would fight me every time I brought it up. It is well know issue glad you never dealt with it.
Seems like at least the AA size, model LADDA 2450mAh. You can check they're made in Japan. Not sure about the 1900 mAh, or the AAA size model, it might be a different brand.
All 3 are Eneloops, just not the same lines (the 2450's are pros). Also their Tjugo charger is one of those chargers that slowly pulse-charges each cell individually and checks the delta, it's a very overengineered and conservative charger design that won't roast the AAA's and AA's from them. Decent video of teardown of it, though the guy wasn't aware of this style of pulsed-charging and why it's done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG2clNRFz2k
It is also was built on super fund site. I still will not understand why Davis and other places are ok with a Target but will die before getting a Walmart. It is very impressive how target is able to pretend like they treat there employees any better..
Davis is cool if your young. I went to UC Davis and lived there a few years after I graduated. But some of the residents that live there are just something else. Some people hate the college even though they owe everything the town has to the college. I wish it was more affordable.
I lived next to a major university for a decade... I could see how it would be very easy to lose your patience with a university. The core problem is that... you encounter the same problems with students year after year, but they cycle out every so often, so to them, these are new problems.
I found several students passed out in my yard or on my stool steps. Each one was given a medical exam (my partner was a nurse) and a burrito, and a ride home.
I didn't mind the constant parties so much except when i had a kid-- her first year was very tough sleeping and on numerous occasions outrageously loud parties kept her up all night. 2-month-olds don't care if its Halloween or not.
One kid vaguely threatened me saying he had a "party right of way" to do whatever he wanted. I informed him I was a gun owner.
One time a woman directly out my front door was screaming "RAPE! RAPE!" and I felt obligated to interdict.
The ex-wife and I would stay up on nights there was likely to be trouble, having gotten the rhythm of the place after a decade.
That being said, if you kept your wits about yourself it was a really fun place to live, any problems the kids caused were way overshadowed by the vibrancy of the neighborhood.
The nice thing about Davis is it’s still large enough to have suburbs that are primarily families so you don’t end up with drunk kids on your lawn or parties every week :)
Its just the difference in 10-years of aging. I moved to this hip town to be around the fun, then... you get married, have a kid, start a 401k and life is wayyyyy different. My next-door neighbor was in her late 70s, had lived in the town for 40 years and was old and tired for the shenanigans. I imagine if I was that age I might be as well.
i too lived a 10 minute walk away from shoreditch while i was working in the City of London. Every other Friday night are partying and shouting and youths on scooters blasting eurodance on speakers and Saturday mornings are the smell of old beer and vomit. It's not shoreditch if it's not. I too would often partake in the merrymaking with my mates after work until the wee hours. Now that i am older that scene is still not mine to deprive others of.
Very true I am taking the opposite bet. I refinanced last year 30 year 2.85 apr. In California so prop 13 means property taxes won't go up to fast. I have no plans to pay it off earlier. But we are kinda stuck we can sell our house for a nice profit on what I paid 5 years ago. Then I have to pay for another house that is expensive in the current marketing. Not really looking to relocate to cheaper place. So I am just hoping all the money I am putting in the stock market ends up being the right call. Who knows though. Either approach could be a good choice in the right situation.
