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Old May 20, 2009 | 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by The Raptor,May 20 2009, 12:39 PM
How's your horse?
Marlana and I went riding yesterday evening.

Khaleel's doing well for a 20-year-old and Valentine's doing spectacularly for a 27-year-old. Boris (13 years old) has a nasty bump on his back from a bug bite of some sort, and his left front suspensory tendon's been swollen lately (an old injury), so he's on hand-walking for another month.

Thanks for asking.
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Old May 20, 2009 | 12:58 PM
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Congrats on the success thus far! Pretty good for 3 days' worth of searching.

My dad's been searching for a year after his company downsized. (Mechanical Engineer: Facilities Manager).

Good luck, and keep plugging away!
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Old May 20, 2009 | 02:25 PM
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Ok. All cleaned up. Some of you get so dirty. Wash your hands and brush your teeth.
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Old May 20, 2009 | 02:36 PM
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good luck
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Old May 20, 2009 | 08:12 PM
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Did you sign a non-compete?

Can you come up with your own online CFA program?
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Old May 20, 2009 | 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by magician,May 20 2009, 10:04 AM
Not at all.


Amen!

(I was thinking of writing, "I couldn't have said it better," but the truth of the matter is that I could have: I'd have written, ". . . at whom can we laugh?")

I've always been horrible at knowing when to use who, whom and whose.
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Old May 20, 2009 | 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Harpoon,May 20 2009, 08:12 PM
Did you sign a non-compete?
No.

Originally Posted by Harpoon,May 20 2009, 08:12 PM
Can you come up with your own online CFA program?
Probably, but I believe that it's more work than I should want to put into it.

I was thinking today, however, that something I haven't seen is a set of mnemonics to help the candidates recall the material. I could develop something like that fairly easily, as I use many such devices when I teach the material.

Hmmm.
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Old May 20, 2009 | 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by RebelS2k,May 20 2009, 08:17 PM
I've always been horrible at knowing when to use who, whom and whose.
The who/whom distinction is fairly easy: think, instead, about he and him; the words ending in "m" go together.

You'd say, for example, "We'd laugh at him," not, "We'd laugh at he." Hence, "We'd laugh at whom," not, "We'd laugh at who."
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Old May 21, 2009 | 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by magician,May 20 2009, 12:28 PM
To top it all off, my wife ordered some Bhut Jolokia seeds and they arrived today.
do u have any experience growing peppers?

fricking snale's keep eating my jalepeno leaves... friggin annoying. where'd your wife get those seeds?! i want some.
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Old May 21, 2009 | 01:27 PM
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OK, I'm the dumb one here, what's CFA? I don't see an explanation and I'm too lazy to google it.
If you can do consulting, be somehow self-employed, you can't get laid off again. My only complaint about working for myself is my boss won't give me time off.
Hey I flew over your house, Magician, just yesterday. On my way home from San Diego and went over CSUF where, for some reason, they decided they'd give me a B.A. (long ago....)
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