luggage question
 

Strange. He has the exact opposite effect on me.

Levengers
 

I recommended 'em based on the portfolio I bought, which, as leather goods go, is sex on a stick.

Just a class for RT
 

I appreciate ham.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._fe_st/ham_art

(Brooklyn artist makes a bed of ham)

"Cavallaro says his cheese period ended two years ago, after he had sprayed five tons of pepper jack over a vacant house in Powell, Wyo.


'I was cloaking myself in cheese. I had started getting comfortable,' he explained. 'I always need new boundaries.'"

Middle management
 

The reason why Phil Jackson "manages" these superstar egos is because he has three rings and because Michael Jordan has vouched for him (which means little more than that he was Michael's bitch while in Chicago). He didn't cultivate this ability to manage egos. The reputation was handed to him by Michael and he's been sliding by on it ever since.

That is complete bullshit. When you have the best players in the league on your team, it isn't about running plays, sure. But for the other teams in the league, it's about executing plays and adjusting game plans and strategy. Van Gundy is the perfect example. He's not exactly known for his ability to manage big egos. But he's an amazing Xs and Os guy who draws up game plans so that his team can compete with whoever they're up against.

It's even more important now that the NBA basically allows teams to play a zone defense.

TM

Just a class for RT
 

this is kind of like some advice I pm'd to nfh. he needs to move past the "I'm a woman schtick, and do something different, but as an admitted guy.

Crack
 

Yeah, Slave mentioned the weight problem.

Middle management
 

didn't he replace Doug Collins? Collins is the most extreme control freak. Jackson let Michael make a lot of decisions as to who/when guys play. He is easy going in comparision to Collins and because he realized fighting Michael would get him fired.

On the other hand, in a sense he "realized" that doing this would get the team championships. And he* did get a few good years out of Rodman, and he* got Pippin to become a reliable 2nd option.

* the last 2 hes could have been as much Michael as Jackson.

It would be interesting to see his big skills sitting on the 76 or Magic bench. somehow I don't think we'll see him anywhere rebuilding though.

Middle management
 

I agree with much of what has been written about Phil, it certainly isn't as hard to look good when you have superstars on your team. But, and I'm not positive about this, but I don't think Jordan & Pippen or Shaq & Kobe ever won a championship before Jackson "coached" them. Other coaches had the same or roughly the same personnel, and weren't nearly as successful with these players. Like the guy who coached the Lakers, Del Harris (looks kinda like Leslie Nielsen)--he had Shaq and Kobe, and he didn't do squat.

Middle management
 

Jeff Van Gundy! [clap clap clapclapclap] Jeff Van Gundy! [clap clap . . .].

Ahem.

Do I ever miss him. When will our long nightmare be over? When, Jeff, when?

Oh, and

2.

luggage question
 

The link, although boring and unrelated to anything at all that I could think of, still failed to hold my attention. I wouuld have made this observation sooner, but I had to go take my nap.

Glarf.

Crack
 

It all started when I first began cloaking myself in cheese. But what sacrifice is too great for that cruel mistress, Art?

Crack
 

Stop calling me Art. I told you, it's Arthur to you.

ugh
 

it is so not fun to email someone saying "wow, I wish it were time to go home, is it time to go yet" and have them email back saying "now that it's summer, at my company we go home at 1:00 on Fridays."

If I were not so stupid as to have friends who are not lawyers at firms, I would not have to endure this kind of inadvertent taunting.

ugh
 

Come work for the greedy plaintiffs. Nice Friday between Memorial day & Labor day = NO ONE IN OFFICE.

Crack
 

And to think I was going to hire you as my latex salesman.

Is it time to go home yet?