I'm glad they killed the sniper.

jerseyhoya wrote:Why when talking about baseball contracts are two m's commonly used to abbreviate million?

mm = financial convention for "million"

m = roman notation for thousand, so maybe m next to m works as "thousand times thousand"?

Trent Steele wrote:As I was zipping up after using the urinal, the zipper on my pants broke. I now am unable to zip my fly. This is potentially problematic. Other than (1) going to buy new pants right now or (2) going home, I'm not sure what to do.

My attempt to staple my fly together proved both exceedingly dangerous and unsurprisingly ineffective.

keep a roll of duct tape in your desk drawer.

Isn't the american system of higher education teaching kids anything anymore?

Houshphandzadeh wrote:Ask the hot chick in your office for help.

As a happily married man, that would be inappropriate. Also, I work at a law firm. There are no hot chicks.

Trent Steele wrote:

Houshphandzadeh wrote:Ask the hot chick in your office for help.

As a happily married man, that would be inappropriate. Also, I work at a law firm. There are no hot chicks.

Sexcretaries/paralegals?

lethal wrote:

Trent Steele wrote:

Houshphandzadeh wrote:Ask the hot chick in your office for help.

As a happily married man, that would be inappropriate. Also, I work at a law firm. There are no hot chicks.

Sexcretaries/paralegals?

Staff layoffs in recent years have been last in, first out. It's not pretty.

Trent puts the organ in Morgan/Lewis

So Nate Silver attempting to quantify soccer on the front page of espn.com

Is there anything he can't do?

Funny stuff (a guy's Twitter feed of his dad's best lines--mildly NSFW)

drsmooth wrote:

Trent Steele wrote:As I was zipping up after using the urinal, the zipper on my pants broke. I now am unable to zip my fly. This is potentially problematic. Other than (1) going to buy new pants right now or (2) going home, I'm not sure what to do.

My attempt to staple my fly together proved both exceedingly dangerous and unsurprisingly ineffective.

keep a roll of duct tape in your desk drawer.

Isn't the american system of higher education teaching kids anything anymore?

Trent, don't you make millions per year? Just call up Boyd's and have then send you a couple of sharp suits.

This one looks pretty good--

TenuredVulture wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

Trent Steele wrote:As I was zipping up after using the urinal, the zipper on my pants broke. I now am unable to zip my fly. This is potentially problematic. Other than (1) going to buy new pants right now or (2) going home, I'm not sure what to do.

My attempt to staple my fly together proved both exceedingly dangerous and unsurprisingly ineffective.

keep a roll of duct tape in your desk drawer.

Isn't the american system of higher education teaching kids anything anymore?

Trent, don't you make millions per year? Just call up Boyd's and have then send you a couple of sharp suits.

This one looks pretty good--

In my dreams I make millions (or a million).

That is a nice suit.

You haven't really shared with us where you are on Operation GTFO Professional Services. Don't you think, after your wife, we should be the group you're bouncing this life-altering decision off of?

jeff2sf wrote:You haven't really shared with us where you are on Operation GTFO Professional Services. Don't you think, after your wife, we should be the group you're bouncing this life-altering decision off of?

No question. Things are looking very positive. I can't really say more right now because there are various moving parts that: (1) need to move; and (2) are out of my control. It is possible that by the end of this week I will have further information. If it works out, I will end up in the place where it makes the most sense for me to end up. There would be a paycut, but not nearly as severe as I would have expected.

Fingers crossed.

Edit: If this doesn't work out, my level of devastation will be. . . . I don't even know the word.

drsmooth wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Why when talking about baseball contracts are two m's commonly used to abbreviate million?

mm = financial convention for "million"

m = roman notation for thousand, so maybe m next to m works as "thousand times thousand"?

I was just going to mention that I've seen, like, 15,000 abbreviated as 15m, so the mm prolly borrows from Roman numericalization, meaning one thousand thousands (even though MM = 2,000). As for the motive... ppl r lazy ... or maybe it originated during the great ink shortage...

Trent Steele wrote:If it works out, I will end up in the place where it makes the most sense for me to end up. There would be a paycut.

Ridin' the broiler at Good Dog

So there's a dude who doesn't live in my apartment building but has a key and bangs girls in the fourth floor laundry room

kruker?

I look at the suit I posted (it probably runs about 5 grand) and think it would look really good on me. But I'm not nearly as lanky as that model.

TenuredVulture wrote:I look at the suit I posted (it probably runs about 5 grand) and think it would look really good on me. But I'm not nearly as lanky as that model.

Same here. I have seriously problems with finding suits. I'm pretty broad shouldered, so I have to wear either a 44 or 46 jacket (depending upon who makes the suit) or I can't move my arms. I don't really have a gut though, so the jacket needs to be taken in alot in the middle and the pants are just ridiculous (I think they give you a 38 waist with a 44 and a 40 waist with the 46).

I've basically started buying only Joseph Aboud suits and shirts. The cut is much looser up top.

Trent Steele wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:I look at the suit I posted (it probably runs about 5 grand) and think it would look really good on me. But I'm not nearly as lanky as that model.

Same here. I have seriously problems with finding suits. I'm pretty broad shouldered, so I have to wear either a 44 or 46 jacket (depending upon who makes the suit) or I can't move my arms. I don't really have a gut though, so the jacket needs to be taken in alot in the middle and the pants are just ridiculous (I think they give you a 38 waist with a 44 and a 40 waist with the 46).

I've basically started buying only Joseph Aboud suits and shirts. The cut is much looser up top.

I do have a gut, and even though I too am broad shouldered, I still often find the pants loose.