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pony_trekker · 11-16-2005, 04:32 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The problem here is figuring out how personal taste can coexist with the rest of the office. My personal tastes run to mid century modern, but that wouldn't have gone at all with the French provencial look that my last firm had.

If "decorate" really means "furnish," I second the used office furniture suggestion. Large offices redecorate all the time, and they often have NO idea what they have when they get rid of their old furniture. My brother redecorated his apartment on a shoestring a few years ago, and he spent a lot of time pouring through used office furniture warehouses and found goldmines. Beautiful designer chairs that are still in production for a fraction of their cost. Desks and credenzas that are beautifully finished (and heavy as shit, I'm never helping my brother move again). There is no reason in the world that anyone in California should pay full price for an Aeron chair (str8 should probably look for an extra large one, since he's tall).

If "decorate" means "adorn," benefit auctions, in my experience, have been the best places to pick up nice artwork for a reasonable price.

Why would someone decorate an office? Mine is austere, so that when I leave I pack everything into a gym bag and away I go . . .

11-16-2005, 04:33 PM

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Originally posted by pony_trekker
Why would someone decorate an office? Mine is austere, so that when I leave I pack everything into a gym bag and away I go . . .

I just have a zippo in my drawer for the day I go.

ltl/fb · 11-16-2005, 04:35 PM

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Originally posted by ironweed
Thank god both those options are still open! Excuse me while I decorate my office with a stylish rubber hose attached to my car's tailpipe.

Watch out, or the squirrels will get in through the hole you punched in the wall with the car.

pony_trekker · 11-16-2005, 04:35 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The whole "Millionaire Next Door" thing is horseshit. It cites fifty guys who lived lousy boring lives, squeezing pennies, and managed to squirrel away a pile of dough to start living at 50 (just in time for pancreatic cancer and heart disease). It doesn't even consider the thousands of people who did the same thing and didn't wind up with a million bucks. ...Another stupid self help book based on only the half of the data which supports the author's position.

Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids.

The Millionaire next door thing is NOT horseshit.

and neither is "Lose 20 pounds a week eating ice cream and donuts"

No the diet doesn't work but I sold 6 million copies.

ltl/fb · 11-16-2005, 04:37 PM

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Originally posted by ironweed
I just have a zippo in my drawer for the day I go.

Y'know, if you went with an off-brand disposable or just used matches picked up for free at restaurants, you could probably afford to retire at 50.

Not Bob · 11-16-2005, 04:37 PM

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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Springsteen's remastered Thunder Road sounds so good it's reason enough to buy the new box set. Like a vision she dances across the porch indeed.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5012820

Hear it at about 31 minutes in....

I am so there. I hear the DVD concert footage included with the remastered release is just amazing.

pony_trekker · 11-16-2005, 04:41 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Don't decorate. Keeps management on its toes.

There's something wonderfully contemptuous about bare white walls. Nothing says "There is no place I'd less like to be" than stark white plaster.

And add to that a fair helping of bankers boxes and redwelds with papers strewn everywhere over my desk.

Nothing says "Firing me is a guarantee you max out your malpractice policies" better than an unkempt work area.

str8outavannuys · 11-16-2005, 04:48 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
And yet people swear by this bullshit like its fucking scientifically proven fact. I wonder if they also read that book by that convicted felon (fraud) who claims the govt is holding back an herbal cure for HIV and cancer. I believe he's sold about 3 million copies already.

Why I am writing here? I am a fool.

I saw someone reading this book (The Cures They Don't Want You To Know About, or some such nonsense) on an airplane recently. I wanted to tell the person, "you know that guy's a used car salesman, right?" But I bit my tongue.

str8outavannuys · 11-16-2005, 04:50 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Hmm. I sold all my law school textbooks the second I finished the course. Do you keep them around for nostalgia, or do they ever offer anything useful?

Nostalgia, exactly. Reminds me that once upon a time, hot* undergard girls wanted to sleep with me -- sometimes more than one at a time.

*relatively speaking, considering that this was New Haven, and not LA.

Replaced_Texan · 11-16-2005, 04:53 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
I am so there. I hear the DVD concert footage included with the remastered release is just amazing.

My mom was dropping hints on Sunday about what she wants for Christmas, though I don't think she'll be able to hold out for Christmas. Her version of "dropping hints" involves showing everyone in the room the full page ad for the discs from the New York Times.

I asked her if she really needed a full page ad to be persuaded to buy it. She admitted that all she needed was knowledge of the release. I think it's probably the same for all other Bruce fans.

str8outavannuys · 11-16-2005, 04:54 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Other than an unfortunate kiddie-porn-on-work-computer incident, everyone I know of who has been fired or quit a law firm job has had at least a couple weeks of transition. And friends of people who quit would know far, FAR in advance of the announcement to the firm generally. Enabling them to make thoughtful dispositions of coveted furniture and plants.

This is all making me want to clean my office.

This brings up an interesting difference between lawyering and similar jobs and other types of jobs. Whenever someone at my wife's fashion company gets quits or gets let go, they may get some severance, but they're NEVER permitted to set foot in the building beyond the end of the day. And they're usually escorted out by security.

taxwonk · 11-16-2005, 04:54 PM

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Originally posted by ironweed
I just have a zippo in my drawer for the day I go.

That will go well with the rubber hose attached to the tailpipe. Very anti-zen.

notcasesensitive · 11-16-2005, 04:55 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Nostalgia, exactly. Reminds me that once upon a time, hot* undergard girls wanted to sleep with me -- sometimes more than one at a time.

*relatively speaking, considering that this was New Haven, and not LA.

Plus it is a good segue for conversations in his office to turn to "Ah, law school books. Where did you go to school again?"

Except that the diplomas on the wall preempt such naiveté.

bold_n_brazen · 11-16-2005, 04:56 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
My mom was dropping hints on Sunday about what she wants for Christmas, though I don't think she'll be able to hold out for Christmas. Her version of "dropping hints" involves showing everyone in the room the full page ad for the discs from the New York Times.

I asked her if she really needed a full page ad to be persuaded to buy it. She admitted that all she needed was knowledge of the release. I think it's probably the same for all other Bruce fans.

Have I mentioned that I'll be seeing Bruce play live this weekend?

Hank Chinaski · 11-16-2005, 05:00 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Plus it is a good segue for conversations in his office to turn to "Ah, law school books. Where did you go to school again?"

Except that the diplomas on the wall preempt such naiveté.

you sound jealous. Maybe you should steal the diplomas off the walls of a better educated lawyer on another floor?