The miracle associated with Paul the Apostle before his canonization was that in a period of three days of temporary blindness an encyclopedic knowledge of Christianity was instilled in his mind making him arguably the best teacher of it in the middle of the first century. It's kinda like that scene in the "The Matrix" where Neo suddenly states "I know Kung Fu." I guess you could make other tech analogies too. It could be as simple as downloading a JSON packet from an API endpoint, really. If it takes three days maybe it's some sort of data migration. The state capital named for St. Paul in Minnesota, the second largest city in the land of ten thousand lakes after adjacent Minneapolis with which it comprises the Twin Cities, is not a city like San Francisco or Seattle or Austin or those of the blossoming North Carolina space (Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, er... well, Cary, etc., maybe not so much Asheville) that brings to mind tech when you think of it. Instead it is a forgotten Midwestern bit of urban nowhere, not unlike St. Louis, Missouri. That said, there is more tech than you might expect in both environments, and all while they are wearing the dunce cap of not-a-tech-town. Google suggests that software engineer salaries are twelve percent below the national average in the Twin Cities and thirteen percent down, with average Joe dev not even clearing a 70K salary, in St. Louis. However, even as you are underpaid, you are not marooned. When one job ends, there is another to be had easily. St. Louis loses the cagematch because I've moved to the Twin Cities for a new job. The photo here of St. Laurence at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden was taken just today. One of the deciding factors was more money. The Twin Cities have a lot of money going on by way of being a major healthcare hub and having a healthcare identity. There is not really an industry the economy of St. Louis is associated with in contrast. There are a bunch of random opportunities to be had there and many of them are blue collar and low wage. If you go far enough back in time, America acquired St. Louis from the French in the Louisiana Purchase, and thus, back before that, it was all French-controlled. The St. Louis for which St. Louis is named is one of the kings of France, Louis the 9th, who went on to be a saint beyond being a king. I guess he significantly impressed the Catholic Church. As an atheist I used to think that was all there was to being a saint, that it was a posthumous trophy, however my sister asked me one day about St. Louis and what the miracles associated with him were and I was surprised to realize that you also have had to do something pretty special to be a saint beyond merely being an A student of Christianity. In at least a few instances, St. Louis supposedly made the blind see and the lame walk. I don't get the impression that he had the healing stat cranked up to a 10 like St. Clair or was able to fix people at will. Instead when he wasn't busy being a good king he earned a little extra street cred on the side. By the way guys, I don't recommend that you cheat on your day job by contracting part time. The distraction won't make your résumé like it did for St. Louis. It'll just... Well, now I'm off topic.
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