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    Virtual Stock Trading Game - Niketalk competition

    Who is interested?  Seemed like a lot of people were based on the PM requests through that other thread. Anyway - I grew tired of waiting and had enough time to set one up. The link is: www.marketwatch.com/game/niketalk-2011 Terms: Game STARTS on Monday August 22nd and will run through the...
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    Anyone ever tear/rupture their achilles tendon (partially/fully)?

    Had a basketball game last Sunday and it appears that I may have at minimum slightly torn my achilles tendon.  Didn't hear a pop or anything, pretty decent amount of pain plus hard to feel my foot right after.  Went to a specialist who put me in a walking boot/cast and gave me crutches.  I have...
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    My fellow bearded gents - questions

    How do you trim and maintain your beard? What products and tools do you use?  How often?
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    buying a car on ebay

    You're going to get got.
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    Reasons like this are why I don't believe the US will "change"

    I don't see eye to eye with Bernanke's monetary policy and don't believe that a total scholarly approach is the best. With that being said he was re-affirmed today. Love how they cite shaky markets or overall investor nervousness as a reason to let him have another 4-year term.  What a...
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    Prospective Law Students - What LSAT material did you study with?

    I'm likely to enroll in law school for the fall of 2011 and will take the LSAT probably in June or October. My question is what study material did you useand would you have used it again? Also how much time did you give yourself to study then sit for it? Any other helpful details would be...
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    Dear NT - I passed the CPA exam! Vol - I don't need a blog

    As some of you are aware, I've been in the process of taking the CPA Exam (for a while ). I had taken and passed 3 out of the 4 fairly quickly with a few 74's. Ithink I've received a record amount of 74's (you need a 75 to pass) on BEC alone. This morning it was my pleasure to find out as I...
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    Does KG deserve to be on the All NBA Defensive first team? Vol - 2008?

    Per SLAM's Lang Whitaker - "NBA All-Defensive teams just announced. 1st team: LBJ, CP3, KB24, Dwight and KG(!). 2nd team isDWade, Duncan, Rondo, Ron Ron and Battier". Discuss. FYI - he played in 57 aka almost 70% of the games.
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    Delete.

    With the emergence of the other thread, if the mods don't mind, this can/should be deleted.
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    Hey NT - I'm propsing to my GF tomorrow. How did you guys do it?

    The plan has been in the works for a while. The hardest part is being secretive to someone you live with and hiding something, since I typically do not. So the big day is tomorrow. More details when I get back on Monday, hopefully w/ pics..... Overview- -I work in accounting, so I planned...
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    The Official we've BEEN in a Recession post -

    All that talk about not being in a recession can cease according to this group - The market sure took the news well Here's a link to the site referenced in the article - http://mirror.nber.org/dec2008.html
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    NT whats your opinion about this.............

    My opinion is this post wont end well.
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    Raises during economic downturns - APPRECIATION

    I feel blessed to have put myself in the position to do a good enough job to be rewarded with a raise. Not quite Hovkid, but enough to wet the palate formore. Effectively ~18%. I'll most likely up the 401k contribution and save the rest. Planning to move to NYC, but we shall see. A lot of...
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    Mike Epps - stand up comedey....is it good/worth seeing?

    I've wanted to check out some good stand up, but I'm not trying to drop $41 x 2 if its not even worth it. I remember a LONG time ago someone said Epps was pretty good....anyone see him recently? I think he basically follows the Dave C. way of just interacting withpeople and free styling. Is...
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    Official Warriors Off Season Thread

    No playoffs = season over. Thoughts for the off season?
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    Which players got hyped from a good playoff series/championship?

    This came to me as I was reading about Dirk choking away the series versus the Warriors last year.... I wanted to discuss a flipside to that thread - who did you think would be much better than they actually are after witnessing a playoff series/game and/orchampionship? Off the top of my head...
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    You want to work in accounting?

    Mind you, I do NOT work for a Big 4. I cannot imagine their workload compared to mine. However, this email just came through.
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    Bonds indicted by federal grand jury

    KNBR 680 reporting that Barry Bonds has be indicted on obstruction of justice and perjury charges. Source- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/11/15/state/n141013S18.DTL For the ultra lazy, like myself.
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    What's good with Boston around Labor Day?

    Whats up? I'm from CA and will most likely head out to Boston for labor day. So far, we're in our infancy of planning with just a budget and dates. We're most likely going to fly out on the red eye on Aug 30 and leave later on Labor Day of the following day. We'll most likely stay...
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