squeak

PY, if you change the display resolution in the Windows settings, it shouldn’t be blurry. Go to Display Properties –> Settings, and change “Screen Resolution” to something reasonable. That has never caused a “blurry” problem for me. It’s when you try to enlarge or focus on certain pixels only that you get that effect. If the actual display setting is 1280×800 then all the pixels will appear on screen and there’s no blur.

oomis1105

Member

SJS, I cannot recall a single instance where I thought you wrote something disrespectfully, even while disagreeing with someone.

Which exactly proves RY’s point.

yes, chatty. Thanks for letting me know that Joe and I can’t have a secret language.

charlie, rather than direct you to the thread, I will just repeat that according to Joseph, he is in the “low 30’s”. Though I always thought that was a street in Flatbush and not an age…

Of course I’m hiding things. I just don’t know which thing you are referring to. Care to specify?

Yum, R&S pound cake! (Hameivin yovin)

He was serious, and he was correct.

errr, the quality of the education (by which you of course only mean secular education) is subpar by choice (in the schools you are referring to). There are other schools that manage a fine quality. The 12-15K amount that you mention is by and large used to subsidize the non-paying families.

BTW, you just gave away your identity (to me). There are only 3 frum girls who became engineers at CCNY in recent years. Not all of them took internships at ConEd either. (Of course, I doubt that others in the CR will be able to access the information I have).

I’ve heard of the Refuah before the makka, but now I’ve also seen the answer before the question! Jewess = mod? Or Jewess = time stamp hacker?

Oh my, I think you are probably right. It is the only one listed on Shoprite’s website. I had just assumed that there would be more than one in a country as large as Brooklyn! I guess I know what happens when you assume…

If we’re going to start listing different brands of instant coffee as “types” of coffee, then I can understand why everyone is adding milk and sugar. I am a bit of a coffee afficionado, and the instant stuff is a poor excuse for coffee. It is not a type of coffee, it is a reconstituted, dehydrated ground drip coffee from Arabica beans. And adding hazelnut syrup flavor is something you can do to any liquid.

Anyone here likes Turkish coffee? If not, how do we all enjoy our brew – French press, drip, espresso? Where do the beans come from? Do you roast them yourself? Grind them? Are you the type who will only brew coffee from beans that were roasted and ground within the past hour?

JK, BTW. I’m not THAT nuts about coffee! Havin’ a little fun is all.

I never read anything by Marvin Schick. But I look at the schools that have adopted an “everyone pays this amount, no excuses” and I see that the per child tuition is pretty reasonable. My example would be the Lakewood and Waterbury yeshiva ketanos. Tuition ranges from $3500 – $5000 per child, no excuses. If you can’t pay it, you can raise it. I see that it is difficult to implement, but I think that those issues can be worked out and every school can operate this way.

My idea for a centralised administration would not exclude any school, from MO to uber yeshivish. I personally would not want to extend this service to Reform or Conservative (if they even have private schools, that is). The administration would be as non-denominational as possible. They would collect tuitions from each parent (regardless of school) and manage the expenses of each school appropriately. Obviously, lots of details would need to be ironed out. But I do not in any way mean for this organization to manage the curriculum of each school. That job would have to remain local (and salaried through this central org).

SJS, I’m guessing from your comment about the cost of heating and electricity that you own a home and pay your own bills. Good for you! But while those utility bills seem huge to you (and they are) they are just another expense when running a business. If you looked at how much an office pays for its office supplies, you’d probably be surprised by what you find. Heating and cooling a school costs thousands per year, but it is not a large expense at all in relative terms.

Everyone was quick to point out the advantages of having this type of group for group coverage. Indeed, this would enable all yeshivos to obtain fair group health premiums, group life premiums, group disability premiums, etc. (But don’t think fair means cheap. If the average yeshiva employee has a large family, K”H, the PMPM health insurance cost will not be very low). There are numerous other advantages, too.

areivim, every time you post about me I get a warm and fuzzy feeling inside!!!!!!!!!

joe, what do you take me for? Another rusty?

I think he meant his CR wife and baby, otherwise how could rusty wake them? You can continue to read him in real-life.

Is that a threat? In that case, what motivation do I have to reveal them myself?

Why CF and not CR?

Joseph

Member

we let squeak have the big 4-0 as a consolation.

What does this mean, exactly? I assume 4-0 is “40” as in the 40th post on the page, but what significance is that? And what is that a consolation for?

Good random questions.

Cyber Java, no milk, no sugar. If the coffee itself doesn’t taste good, why are you drinking it?

It’s time for some real, sustainable options. I have always thought that yeshivos are united in a common goal. As such, they should all centralize and have a single administation unit. The cost savings would be phenomenal. An added bonus would be that those in the administration could be highly qualified financial professionals, who would be able to properly handle the large sums of money that yeshivos deal with.

I could put forward my ideas on other issues, like tuition reform, but a) it won’t help nearly as much and b) it is too much effort to bring reform to one institution at a time, especially since one won’t be willing until all the others are willing too.

12 minutes!!! Wow, that’s a long time.

Yeah, for once it didn’t come from you.

Y’know, I try very hard not to ask “where’s my post” and not to try to sneak it through a second time, because I understand how it annoys you, O gracious mods. But when I am attacked and I respond with a brilliant retort, I would expect that you would replace the offending word (humil*ate) with a more acceptable one rather than just deleting me.

I have a good record, y’know. That should count for something.

Yeah, yeah. You said the same thing about doughnuts (donuts) to humiliate my good friend chuck. It’s not going to work.

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/coffee-room-chanakah-party#post-18420

Since there are only 6 posters (including areivim) we should only get 36 opinions out of the CR. Which sounds about right, and approximately one per user name, based on recent experience.

careful areivim…. there’s no telling what an insane boss can do to your performance review when he’s provoked….