Things That Are Bothering You, Got You All Hibbeldy-Jibbeldy, or just downright pissed, RIGHT NOW!

[HRoi]

@HRoi , this you?

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Yeah! You like how I color coordinated my pants with my face?

 

[ValidusLA]

Does that mean I can hit you up for a reader ticket? That place is tough to get into (beyond the public spaces).

I get invited to talks and VIP stuff sometimes, but I don't think I have access to read in the collections.

I think you have to be doing actual research. My friend is the Dir of Strategic Giving - I'll ask her.

Maybe I need to be a bigger dawg.

 

[imatlas]

I get invited to talks and VIP stuff sometimes, but I don't think I have access to read in the collections.

I think you have to be doing actual research. My friend is the Dir of Strategic Giving - I'll ask her.

Maybe I need to be a bigger dawg.

That's the trouble. I need a "Dilettante Ticket".

 

[sugarbutch]

I have no idea how anybody enforces phone rules. I have no idea why teachers would even try, and honestly don't blame them for throwing up their hands and hoping something cuts through the TikTok brain rot.

I'm addicted to my phone/screens (I think all of us are to an extent), and my nieces and nephews are on another level entirely. The idea of them/kids in general going without seems borderline laughable.

Needless to say, I'm not overly confident in the youth

My wife's school collects phones in dedicated containers by the front gate as kids walk in. If they need to call a parent or otherwise use the phone, they go to the front office, use it there, and hand it back when they're done. Works just fine.

 

[venividivicibj]

lus shelling out for the Huntington Library a few times a year.

They charge $25 to visit and still need fundraising?

 

[ValidusLA]

They charge $25 to visit and still need fundraising?

Since when has "need" factored into asking for money?

 

[double00]

That's the trouble. I need a "Dilettante Ticket".

atlas visits the archives :

 

[edinatlanta]

For the first time I know of I hit a squirrel while driving. Poor little guy was just trying to run back to his house with a full breakfast.

 

[imatlas]

They charge $25 to visit and still need fundraising?

The endowment stood at $600 million ten years ago. OTOH that's not a lot when you factor in operations, capital improvements, and acquisitions.

 

[SixOhNine]

The endowment stood at $600 million ten years ago. OTOH that's not a lot when you factor in operations, capital improvements, and acquisitions.

Over the past decade, the stock market has had a 12% average rate of return. Even factoring in 0 contributions and dropping that to 10%, the endowment should be 1.5 billion or so now. That seems, I dunno, pretty good?

But I have no idea what kind of expenses there are, so maybe all that's wrong.

 

[imatlas]

Over the past decade, the stock market has had a 12% average rate of return. Even factoring in 0 contributions and dropping that to 10%, the endowment should be 1.5 billion or so now. That seems, I dunno, pretty good?

But I have no idea what kind of expenses there are, so maybe all that's wrong.

Here are the numbers from their 2021 990. $100M is exactly the amount I was guesstimating for annual expenses.

 

[beargonefishing]

What a f-cking loser. All these rich a-holes who got fabulously wealthy off the backs of unpaid labor can go cry like bītches somewhere else.

 

[Michigan Planner]

Dealing with Purchasing and Corporation Counsel for contracts for professional services is by far the least favorite part of my job. By a long shot.

 

[edinatlanta]

Dealing with Purchasing and Corporation Counsel for contracts for professional services is by far the least favorite part of my job. By a long shot.

Not the part where you have to be you?

 

[HRoi]

the endowment should be 1.5 billion or so now. That seems, I dunno, pretty good?

Looks like I have something in common with the library - both of us are well-endowed