(Part 3) Top products from r/Atlanta

Yeah -- this is being said in a harsh way, but it's the real deal. Film school is often very expensive, with a relatively poor ROI. And the opportunity costs of sitting in a classroom, when you could be working, are also high.

If you want to learn technical skills in other departments, since you're already in the industry, just make friends with people in the other departments and ask them to hire you on a job or two. Really -- people love giving someone with enthusiasm a chance. You'll probably have to start out at the bottom in any department you lateral to, but, hey, still cheaper than school.

If you want to learn more about film in a critical sense -- like, the why of certain technical choices -- you can teach yourself most of that:

• First, if you like to read, there are great standard textbooks, like Bordwell & Thompson, and you can rent the videos and read along. You can also learn a ton by reading great critics, like Andrew Sarris, Robin Wood, and Jonathan Rosenbaum. Or there are online film theorists like Every Frame a Painting.
  
• Second, watch everything you can get your hands on, including old movies, foreign films, experimental films, "tentpole" action pics, Netflix originals, YouTube/Vimeo, etc., etc., etc.
  
• Third, try to reproduce what you see, or use it as a starting point to try something new -- an cell phone or iPad camera is perfectly good (way, way better than anything available to normal people when I was starting out). Use your household lamps or flashlights as light sources if you don't have anything else. You really will figure it out.
  
  If you're still not convinced, though -- I agree with the redditor above who suggests GFA, which partners with community colleges and looks to be relatively affordable.

I think that having a poor diet going into this makes continuing the journey after 30 days much more difficult. The time spent cooking was intense but my SO and I made it work. I cooked dinner and the SO would prepare lunches for the following day. We always made enough food at dinner to bring leftovers for lunch the following day. It just requires preplanning and you have to be ready for that or you will fail.

As for sweets, I love them. Chocolate is something I will never give up. Find alternatives. My SO does apples with a little almond butter. I do pistachios (in moderation).

The best advice I can provide to someone is to read the book. It provides your with explanations as to why you are cutting out dairy, legumes, etc. but having lots of fats. Don't be intimidate by it. The books reads really well and the second half is full of recipes. Feel free to continue asking questions!!

I love David McCollough's writing style - that book is definitely a monster (I've gotten part way through it). That wouldn't be a bad suggestion except I packed a lot of my books away when we moved here and not moved it here with me. I'll have to take a look!

I really love books written by journalists about historical events. For instance, I love Adam Hochschild's books, like To End All Wars, it's just my attention span is horrible right now.

You should read the Book "Brag! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It." We read it in my women's book club at work and it is actually pretty good. Not just for women, and not particularly patronizing.

(and yes, the title does say toot hee hee hee)

> I do like a good American drama.

Try Boy's Life

I've read it 3 times.

For some fun brain vacation police procedural, you can't go wrong with John Sanford

3 time restaurant/bar owner here. Taking classes is good or your can get a bartending for dummies book and Franmara's The Bartenders' Black Book and do that shit on your own. Either way you will still have to sign on somewhere as a barback. You will never get hired at a real restaurant or bar with no actual, direct experience.

If you want to work at a really nice restaurant with a decent wine list add http://www.amazon.com/Windows-World-Complete-Wine-Course/dp/1402757468. That shit will give you more wine knowledge than 90% of the bartenders out there. Plus it's patriotic as fuck because the class used to be held in building one of the first World Trade Center pre 9/11.

If you want to learn how to flip bottles and shit go somewhere where you can be alone, grab your ankles and try your hardest to stick your head up your ass. That's as useful as you will ever be to a real, non theme park themed libation establishment. Learn everything you can about every spirit your establishment offers and learn how to craft drinks quickly, efficiently and well and you will be a rockstar. Treat the place that hires you with respect and honesty and you will be rewarded handsomely. Forget that you can be replaced and work for your tips over the interests of your employer and you will find yourself unemployed and unemployable.

/rant

No problem at all. If you want a much better breakdown of it I HIGHLY suggest: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Life-Great-American-Cities/dp/0679644334/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501702472&sr=8-1&keywords=jane+jacobs+the+death+and+life+of+great+american+cities

A remarkable read that will never ever be outdated... it's pretty much the bible for us City Planners/Transportation Planners

They should hand out free copies of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt to explain how/why this works.

There's solid science behind these signs...but of course you have to have signs that actually function correctly.

edit: added link to book.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X16300977

*Why the downvote? If you want to discuss gentrification then this study is required reading. He wrote a Pulitzer prize winning book about it: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City if that's more your style.

One of my favorite books is How to Lie with Statistics. I think you would like it: https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728

OK then...

This author knew. https://www.amazon.com/Pickin-Peachtree-History-Country-American/dp/0252016874

Him, too: https://www.atlantastudies.org/2017/08/09/steve-goodson-the-nashville-of-its-day-recalling-the-origins-of-recorded-country-music-in-1920s-atlanta/

As well as some of the authors of other books cited in the notes at the bottom of the second link.

Does HR interest you at all? I bought this book (and the exam questions book), studied it for 6 months, took the exam, passed, and landed a $50k/year job a few weeks later. This was after working in restaurants for years.

https://www.amazon.com/Associate-Professional-Human-Resources-Certification/dp/1260019489

It just stuff I've picked up over the years since moving to Atlanta. I've always wondered why things are the way they are especially when they're different than the way I'm told they are. When I first moved to metro Atlanta, I lived in Dunwoody for a couple of months and everyone I met told me to never ride MARTA and that I should avoid going inside the perimeter as much as possible because "those people" live down there. But when I would use MARTA or go into the city, everything seemed ok. So I started reading books and doing research online to understand how the city and the suburbs came to be the way they are. One thing is for sure, it wasn't because this is what the people wanted most.

If you're interested in learning more, I suggest the book 'Suburban Nation'. There are thousands of books out there on city planning and suburbs but many of them are academic so not a lot of fun to read.

If you live in Atlanta or Fulton County, you can check it out at these branches: Central Library, Buckhead Branch, Georgia Hill Branch, Hapeville Branch, Kirkwood Branch, Ponce de Leon Branch, Roswell Regional, Sandy Springs Regional, and Stewart-Lakewood Branch

Amazon listing for the book: http://www.amazon.com/Suburban-Nation-Sprawl-Decline-American/dp/0865477507/

Sounds like, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

>They cannot be rehabilitated, that's already been proven in the vast majority of cases. They have proven they cannot ever live in a civilized society so they should be dealt with accordingly. They are a waste of resources that could be better spent otherwise.

You might be interested in reading http://www.amazon.com/Less-Than-Human-Enslave-Exterminate/dp/1250003830 for a more thorough argument against the dehumanization and extermination you are advocating. As for capital punishment, it doesn't actually have an effect on crime rates, and is inordinately more expensive on a per capita basis than simply jailing them for life.

>Perhaps spent reducing the levels of poverty and bettering the environment for the overwhelmingly vast numbers of people in the same situation who DON'T devolve into murderous animals.

100% with you, but what if those funds had been made available to these particular people? Are you proposing that even those funds wouldn't have affected the outcomes of these people at all? If so, why should we spend the money to make the environment better if they're sub-humans who can't be affected by their environments?

Do you now see the illogic in the dehumanization and assertion that the environments in which we are raised and live do not affect our behaviors and outcomes?

https://www.amazon.com/24vac-Transformer-Compatible-Doorbell-Thermostat/dp/B07RHR8SSN/ref=asc_df_B07RHR8SSN/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=366430786295&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10644769063055007281&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=200524&hvtargid=pla-807605513701&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=75985294733&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=366430786295&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10644769063055007281&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=200524&hvtargid=pla-807605513701

This book

Try reading or listening to Alan Watts.

https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Insecurity-Message-Age-Anxiety/dp/0307741206

Pokeball grinder; Kitty Hoody; Cat Bonnet; Cook Book; these and many other "unique" gifts can be found on This is why I'm broke.

Generally, I would say your point about being open-minded and understanding others perspectives is valid and a great thing to do.

However, the recent links with Republicans (through conservatives) to racism, though Trump and others, deserve to be automatically judged. Any group that espouses outright racism should automatically lose.

Also, there as been the recent post showing John Lewis being for Net Neutrality and local Republicans at the federal level being against it and as well as their comparative campaign contributions from Comcast etc. Surely lobbying effects every congressman etc, but it's painful when it is so clearly obvious your representative cares more about specific business interests than what you want.

Though both Democrats and Republicans are now involved in instituting neoliberal policies (such as privatizing prisons) that unequally effects non-white and poor people, these policies did come into Vogue under Nixon and Regan. A capitalism (and therefore business) first attitude means a citizen last attitude.

I understand their perspective, generally. More importantly, I understand the historical and modern consequences and causes of their policies and actions. Racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression exist systematically throughout our society as it is, we don't need to fuck people over more now when we already have stolen and murdered and subjugated and basically fucked billions of people over historically.

I am positive there is a lesser evil, and even if we just base it on racist tendencies alone, the answer is clear; assuming one is anti-racist.

*Edit: I can cite some academic sources if anyone desires.

Some Sources, mostly dealing with US history:
Knocking the Hustle - Lester K. Spence - for neoliberalism and related issues
The Case for Reparations - Ta-Nehisi Coates - inequality/racism in the 20th century
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney - How Europe and the United States benefited from the slave trade and how Africa was harmed.
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism - Edward Baptist - How all citizens of the US benefited from slavery and how it was responsible for US's quick growth/power.
A People's History of the United States - Zinn Ch1 is about Columbus and settler colonialism. Invasion/land theft/murder.
Legacies of the Dawes Act -Berthrong Land Theft from Native Americans.