The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

I've been to Texas quite a bit on business in the past few years (mostly Austin and vicinity), and some of the more unusual images I've come away with are:

1. Tons of pickup trucks, often driven by people who don't look like they need them;
2. Nasty T-storms and heat in summer;
3. "Check your gun at the reception desk" signs on the front doors of businesses;
4. Industrial parks along the interstate with, for some reason, Longhorn steers in a fenced-off field out front;
5. Having to buy a license to buy a beer at a restaurant;
6. Strip clubs galore... NTTAWWT
and 7. being told "Ya'll come back now" by the hostess at an Italian restaurant (what an ambiance killer)...

I love Texas, but it's truly a whole different world down there.

Because Enquiring Minds Want To Know
 

Current odds on California’s governor:

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER 2/3
GRAY DAVIS (NO RECALL) 4/1
CRUZ BUSTAMANTE 6/1
TOM MCCLINTOCK 40/1
BILL SIMON 40/1
PETER UEBERROTH 40/1
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON 50/1
LORETTA SANCHEZ 50/1
LARRY FLYNT 50/1
PETER CAMEJO 50/1
GALLAGHER 100/1
GARY COLEMAN 100/1
MICHAEL JACKSON 100/1

I may take some of that Gray Davis action.

Craigslist poll
 

Originally posted by RT

Originally posted by ltl/fb

If you want 1, doubtful. The only way a jetpack could stay on you is if you were suspended, in part, by a crotchstrap.

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

Austin is in a very wet county. I think you're either visiting the country, or my friends in South Oklahoma.

The FB: All Texas, All the Time
 

Which reminds of a joke: You know why Texas doesn't fall off into the Gulf of Mexico? Because Oklahoma sucks.

T. (oww -- not sure I want a jet pack now) S.

Totally Unfashionable
 

Originally posted by ltl/fb

It's not the firm, it's the benefits work. Course, I'm sure benefits has its upside. I doubt you'd like being, say, a litigator that gets a hotel room by the office for a month and bills 300 or 350 hours. Unless you're paigow, she might actually bill her minimum if she did that for six months.

Craigslist poll
 

Ahh, muscle cars. I love muscle cars. I live not too far away from a dealership that only sells car guy cars -- muscle cars, Porsches, Ferraris, Cobra replicas, etc. It's like car guy heaven there. The other day, they had a Boss Mustang from the 1970s (not the modern knock-off). Man, that thing was sweet. The only thing that would have been better is if it were in some swinging '70s color, like Grabber Orange. (It was dark blue, with the black stripes.)

One day, some how, some way, I will own a 427 Cobra replica, dark blue, with white stripes, and a 427.

Power outage
 

Right back at ya. :waggle:

Because Enquiring Minds Want To Know
 

How about Mary Cary, the only candidate that really matters?

Power outage
 

Not Exactly. He said Bilmore. I am his sock, and you are mine. He makes your strawman arguments look silly on the politics board and I come in for comic relief. Sort of like the three stooges, or Abbot, Costello and Costello's brother from Denver who is trying to make sense of the conversation.

Power outage
 

They did this, originally, to get out of federal (FERC etc.) jurisdiction since almost all their grid is intrastate. But I agree that Texas rules. Not as much as Oklahoma rules, but texas rules. Especially the hot chicks there with the tight low-rise jeans and really big hair---and TITS!

Diamonds (big ones)
 

So what? That is probably the only place that won't totally rape you when you buy a ring b/c the salespeople don't work on commission and their merchandise is not marked up so much.

Do you think that Hasidic guy in the diamond district is going to give you a better deal? Unless it's your brother in law, think again.

Besides, I wouldn't want to buy my future fiance a diamond b/c they are conflict diamonds from Sierra Leone. My brothers' college roommates' sister's boyfriend's mom got proposed to with a diamond ring that still had an african finger attached to it. I mean he got a great price on the thing, but it was so obvious that it came from the civil war zone. Make sure they give you a certificate to make sure it's not a conflict diamond. And make sure there are no fingers or toes in the box--that is a dead giveaway.

Power outage
 

And the three of you are my socks, because, as everyone knows, all of the socks on the politics board are mine. Or Thottam's.

Totally Unfashionable
 

My old firm had a similar rule that you couldn't bill for travel time, unless you were actually working on the plane. Number of times I have followed that rule---ZERO. If the reason I am on that plane is b/c of you, then YOU are paying for it.

Book rec?
 

Never heard of it. Try "the Armchair Economist". It is informative and sometimes even very funny--although a book on econ can only be so funny.