It's the front page in The Advocate today "IBM announcement stirs excitement in downtown BR" although I wonder if the major benefit of the project will be to encourage a few more Indian restaurants in town . this would be a good thing of course but given the shambles that seems to be education here, I suspect they will be importing most of the talent. I hope that I'm wrong. I think that Jarred is spot on - outside of Louisiana there's is a reservoir of talent that makes it easy to decide to live there because if one job folds it's easy to find another one - Baton Rouge doesn't have that and as a result, advertising locally for workers is fruitless which is why we have to go out of state for all our development and production. This probably explains why, according to one of the comments on the Advocate story, the IBM jobs are costing 90k each in subsidies. Edmund Cramp --
From: General [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] On Behalf Of Brad Bendily Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 3:03 PM To: general Subject: Re: [brlug-general] WOW! Yeah. This isn't some bogus company with a few developers, this is a HUGE deal for Baton Rouge area technology. It's like when McDonalds builds on an empty corner somewhere and everyone else follows them and builds there too. When IBM shows up in your town, others are sure to follow. IMO. :- b On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Jarred White <jarredwh...@gmail.com> wrote: IBM isn't cool per se, but new business (especially business with recognizable names) in Baton Rouge is a good thing, especially when they agree to develop property. The difference between Atlanta and Baton Rouge (at least as far as this conversation is concerned) is: choice. I could leave the job I'm at tomorrow and immediately go somewhere else in a place like Atlanta. I can't return to Louisiana until I have options, so I think this is great news. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Joshua Frugé <joshuafr...@gmail.com> wrote: Wait, when did ibm become cool? Maybe this will bring some brlug members back...doubtful b/c of the not cool thing ;) On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:50 PM, mat branyon <mat.bran...@gmail.com> wrote: I move that we make emoticons mandatory for all brlug communication :-/ Also, I wonder just how many members of this list are no longer in BR? Addendum: BR needs a hackerspace to be cool, just like www.denhac.org (warning: self promotion) P.S. :), :P, and probably >:O On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Jarred White <jarredwh...@gmail.com> wrote: No worries. There's definitely some correlation there :( On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Keith Stokes <kei...@neill.net> wrote: I'm kidding. No offense meant at all. :-) On Mar 27, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Jarred White wrote: Didn't I imply that above? I said that Brad leaving would make it even cooler. Also: relax guy. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Keith Stokes <kei...@neill.net> wrote: Um, er, maybe it was *your* leaving that made it start getting cool. On Mar 27, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Jarred White wrote: I hate that Baton Rouge was apparently waiting until after I left to start getting cool. Now if you could get rid of Brad Bendily I bet it would really take off. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Brad Bendily <bend...@gmail.com> wrote: BRAC Welcomes IBM to the Capital Region Project will create eight hundred jobs, a stronger economy, and a transformed skyline http://www.brac.org/brac/news_detail.asp?article=1675 -- Have Mercy & Say Yeah _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- "The world's my oyster, a hotel room's my prison cell..." _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net --- Keith Stokes _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- "The world's my oyster, a hotel room's my prison cell..." _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net --- Keith Stokes _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- "The world's my oyster, a hotel room's my prison cell..." _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- "The world's my oyster, a hotel room's my prison cell..." _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- Have Mercy & Say Yeah
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