Arbitrary Aardvark

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

tesla hits 100 billion market cap at today's premarket price of 575.
this number is significant because is it holds this level for 6 months, musk gets a bonus of 1 billion in stock. trivial in comparison to his 20% share, but will get a lot of press.

trump on musk:

JOE KERNEN: Tesla’s now worth more than GM and Ford. Do you have comments on Elon Musk?

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well-- you have to give him credit. I spoke to him very recently, and he’s also doing the rockets. He likes rockets. And-- he does good at rockets too, by the way. I never saw where the engines come down with no wings, no anything, and they’re landing. I said I’ve never seen that before. And I was worried about him, because he’s one of our great geniuses, and we have to protect our genius. You know, we have to protect Thomas Edison and we have to protect all of these people that-- came up with originally the light bulb and-- the wheel and all of these things. And he’s one of our very smart people and we want to-- we want to cherish those people. That’s very important. But he’s done a very good job. Shocking how well-- you know, how it’s come so fast. I mean you go back a year and they were talking about the end of the company. And now all of a sudden they’re talking about these great things. He’s going to be building a very big plant in the United States. He has to, because we help him, so he has to help us.

# posted by gt @ 05:41

Friday, January 17, 2020

https://www.polygon.com/2015/8/18/9173621/ryan-north-stuck-hole-twitter

# posted by gt @ 19:53

Monday, January 13, 2020

some free education resources

Gemologist http://www.gia.edu/gem-education?gclid=CLKwgIDW55sCFQZlswodSCxp6A

Dog Psychologist http://www.opencollege.info/dogpsychology.html

Medical Terminology Certification http://www.aama-ntl.org/cma-aama-exam/study/medical-terminology-practice-test

Boating (Maryland only) http://dnr.maryland.gov/nrp/Pages/BoatingSafety/Safety_Certificate.aspx

Interpreting http://www.panoltia.com/Interpreter_Certification.htm

beer judging http://www.bjcp.org/index.php

lactation consultant http://iblce.org/certify/certification-application-information/

SQL http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_quiz.asp

career readiness https://www.act.org/certificate/faq.html

purchasing http://www.american-purchasing.com/default.asp?t=applycert

piping design http://www.spedweb.com/index.php/component/content/article/98.html

Haz-mat certificate https://extweb.missouri.edu/courses/default.aspx?courseid=103

Get Ordained by Universal Life Church (+Doctorate of Metaphysics) http://www.themonastery.org/ordination For other cool stuff check out http://www.themonastery.org/catalog/

Get Ordained by the Church of Latter Day Dude http://dudeism.com/ordination-form/

OSHA Certification http://www.360training.com/free-online-courses/ Lots of other courses as well.

Canadian OSHA Equivalent http://www.ccohs.ca/products/courses/course_listing.html Lots of free courses there

FEMA http://training.fema.gov/

Powered Actuated Tool License http://www.ramset.com/ramtest/a001_begin.html

Accredited Boating License in Canada (costs C$) http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/marinesafety/debs-obs-paperwork-paperwork_operator-3718.htm http://www.boaterexam.com/canada/

Notary http://justice.alberta.ca/programs_services/official/Documents/NotaryPublicApptAppProcessReviewCriteria.pdf

XSeries Courses (Certification Courses from Various Accredited Universities) https://www.edx.org/xseries Project Management Professional (PMP certification from PMI) https://www.pmi.org/certifications

WHMIS (Canada) http://www.whmis.ca/

Fall Arrest (also WHMIS, Transportation of Dangerous Goods) (Canada) http://www.fallarresttraining.ca/

Active Listening Certificate http://www.7cupsoftea.com/

Google Apps Certification http://certification.googleapps.com/

Knight/Dame of Sealand http://www.sealandgov.org/title-pack/knight

Unicorn Hunting License: https://www2.lssu.edu/banished-words-list/unicorn-hunters/

https://www1.kaplanuniversity.edu/degree-programs/online-certificates/

beer server http://www.cicerone.org/

Management and Leadership http://www.masterclassmanagement.com/

CPR course http://www.firstaidweb.com/

A Pokemon professor http://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/organize/become-a-professor/

Magic The Gathering Judge https://blogs.magicjudges.org/o/judge-levels/become-a-magic-judge/

ordained by the Universal Life Church http://www.themonastery.org/

Forensic consultant training http://www.acfei.com

Powder actuated tool certification http://www.ramset.com/patlicensing

These aren't all certs, but some free classes/resources. http://education-portal.com/academy/course/index.html

http://101science.com/

https://iversity.org/

http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

https://www.coursera.org/

https://www.edx.org/course-list

http://www.dliflc.edu/products.html use the GLOSS link

http://www.coursehero.com/subjects/

http://oli.cmu.edu/

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/

http://www.saylor.org/

http://ocw.jhsph.edu/

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

http://ocw.tufts.edu/

https://itunes.stanford.edu/content/rss.html

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/#

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-websites-started-learning-programming-language/

https://www.futurelearn.com/

http://www.flashcardmachine.com/

http://freerice.com/category It quizzes you on the basics of a subject o your choosing, and donates rice for each answer you get right once you turn off adblock

http://openstaxcollege.org/

http://justenglish.me/2012/09/01/free-books-100-legal-sites-to-download-literature/

http://blog.boundless.com/2013/04/the-cost-of-textbooks-is-too-damn-high-so-boundless-made-free-ones/

http://freescience.info/index.php

Not too expensive to become a notary:

https://www.nationalnotary.org/knowledge-center/about-notaries/how-to-become-a-notary-public

You can also become a licensed radio operator with relative ease:

http://www.arrl.org/ham-radio-licenses

As far as learning goes, I'd encourage you to check out Khan Academy and MIT's free online courses.

# posted by gt @ 16:16