The Red Tornado wrote:

The Dude wrote:I need to set up electricty for a trade show in a couple weeks, and the order form has a ton of choices. How do I know how many I need? What does single phase or three phase mean? And how many volts per computer? They offer 120 or 208

crazy how much they charge insnt it? Good thing I never need electricity at the shows

Yeah, and I just looked and read the very fine print, and it said "service connection for lights only". Interesting.

she didnt know his name until I told her last night- I did arrange the meeting after all...

The Dude wrote:

The Red Tornado wrote:

The Dude wrote:I need to set up electricty for a trade show in a couple weeks, and the order form has a ton of choices. How do I know how many I need? What does single phase or three phase mean? And how many volts per computer? They offer 120 or 208

crazy how much they charge insnt it? Good thing I never need electricity at the shows

Yeah, and I just looked and read the very fine print, and it said "service connection for lights only". Interesting.

We ship all the stuff we need except carpets anymore, honestly they charge twice as much as it cost me to buy a chair than it was to rent it form them.

Is it a laptop, can you bring enough battery power and charge at the hotel at night?

I recall a few shows ago when I was setting up I needed to blow up a ball and didnt feel like using the manual pump, so I plugged my air compressor in the plug in the booth behind me, no one seemed to notice as he already had plugged in everything he needed to.

We have at least two laptops, a 50" plasma, and a machine hooked up to the laptop and also plugged into the outlet. The meeting is in two weeks, this information would have been very helpful a while ago

The Dude wrote:We have at least two laptops, a 50" plasma, and a machine hooked up to the laptop and also plugged into the outlet. The meeting is in two weeks, this information would have been very helpful a while ago

bring a surge protector and youll be fine- just dont pack it in your carry on or else security might think it's a bomb

FACT: I will never again work in an office where we get to play beach-basketball on a friday to the sounds of MGMT. Ah well.

Someone hit the $144 million Powerball in DC. Sadly it was not me.

Apparently the ticket was sold in Southeast. For as much as I can't imagine coming into that kind of money, imagine if you lived in the projects all your life and suddenly had $50 million after taxes?

I want to go one fucking day without having to hear the words, "facebook" or "twitter". I thought today was going to be that day, but the Rangers baseball broadcast broke the streak.

jerseyhoya wrote:Someone hit the $144 million Powerball in DC. Sadly it was not me.

Apparently the ticket was sold in Southeast. For as much as I can't imagine coming into that kind of money, imagine if you lived in the projects all your life and suddenly had $50 million after taxes?

GOIN SIZZLER

jerseyhoya wrote:Someone hit the $144 million Powerball in DC. Sadly it was not me.

Apparently the ticket was sold in Southeast. For as much as I can't imagine coming into that kind of money, imagine if you lived in the projects all your life and suddenly had $50 million after taxes?

Did anyone else immediately flash to the Dave Chappelle "reparations" sketch?

A similar case study would be me with 20,000 dollars surplus student loan money.

jerseyhoya wrote:Apparently the ticket was sold in Southeast. For as much as I can't imagine coming into that kind of money, imagine if you lived in the projects all your life and suddenly had $50 million after taxes?

Substitute "trailer park" for "projects" and you've described a lot of lotto winners. It usually doesn't end well.

phatj wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Apparently the ticket was sold in Southeast. For as much as I can't imagine coming into that kind of money, imagine if you lived in the projects all your life and suddenly had $50 million after taxes?

Substitute "trailer park" for "projects" and you've described a lot of lotto winners. It usually doesn't end well.

This is true. There are many articles on the Googles that I'm sure you can find.

Poor education + inexperience with "high finance" + relatives and friends looking for handouts = recipe for disaster

This is cool:

i hate to be an asshole, but nick adenhart wasn't that good a pitcher.

uh high five there steagles, really.

steagles wrote:i hate to be an asshat

Actually, I think you relish it.

but really steagles was does that have to do with anything?

does it make what happened any less worse??

philliesr98 wrote:but really steagles was does that have to do with anything?

does it make what happened any less worse??

What it has to do with anything is it was an easy way to draw attention to himself. Mission accomplished.