A slight reduction in consumption would suffice
After calculating the risk involved, I’m still going to poke fun at the cries of despair from certain students. Not about assignments, or impending examinations. Rather, their anger at proposed tuition increases, amounting to about a dollar a day, over the total time required to complete a bachelors AND a masters degree. Five years, if you’re counting.
Let’s see: one dollar a day equals seven dollars in a week. After verifying this (with my resident source), I realize that this is equivalent to one beer in a local bar, per week. I have met (a) university student that didn’t drink beer. It was a long time ago, though. Imagine if the large breweries perceived the tuition increase as a threat to their bottom line (two less beer instead of one). Maybe we could have a generation that learned from their recreational consumption.
And so the dispute continues. The government has offered to extend the increase over seven years, instead of five (a good start on a doctorate). The pity is that such fee reduction will only be offered to “the best and the brightest”, who have enrolled in an accredited university. Trade school… forget it.
In my own, admittedly narcissistic, existence, I’m fixated on the idea of acquiring a new set of code paddles. I know the price points, the weight, the flaws in construction. Unfortunately, such things are not sold in local stores, so I’m forced to imagine what I want. YouTube videos are insufficient. I could end up with something that doesn’t please me, and then I’d have to start selling on eBay. A vicious circle.
Maybe I’ll scrounge around in the box of obsolete technology, and try to construct something. Those microswitches that make a mouse into something better could serve as the electrical basis, methinks.
