It seems like a pretty great text-message-substitute technology. The main hurdle for me is that almost nobody with whom I would text regularly is on a RIM device - it's almost all iPhones or non-smart-phones, with one crazy WinMo nutin there. :p Of course, there is the exception of...

YES! :D Given my earlier statement. about the phone demographics in my life, that was really quite an amazing observation.

I learned to write well at my (private) secondary school. Not, incidentally, at my (Ivy League) university. (And then it was after that, in graduate school, where I discovered how little one could take that skill for granted in other people.) It's one of the two or three reasons why I have no doubt that that education was well worth it.

:p:-::D yeah, that word simply doesn't exist in some industries...

I am SO SORRY to hear that. :( My office-mate is dealing with the same thing from this past weekend - it truly sounds wretched.

No love from UA's E-fares this week. :(

I'm sure that the MSY issue has something to do with fare buckets and the fact that one can fly PHL-HOU-MSY on WN if one is so inclined. There's no reason why DL would be that much more, particularly since they still have a lot of service between PHL and ATL.

If you're making a connection on a refundable fare, connecting through a city where WN flies can lower the fare enormously. When I take a red-eye home from California, I usually fly on UA through ORD; since the fare prices out as XXX-ORD and ORD-PHL, the total fare is less than XXX-PHL non-stop (because WN flies XXX-MDW and MDW-PHL).

Briefly going back to the hated words discussion, I forgot to mention the small group of adverbs that do nothing to help one's argument in a written piece. "Officially", "actually", "literally" - these words need to jump off a cliff. Quickly.

Howdy B:rolleyes::-:

Exit row is best for Y, but I still end up getting a numb butt after a few hours. :-:
Literally? :-::D:p:rolleyes:

Do most, if not all, online brokerages lump the cost of the trade in as a loss in your portfolio? I'm still getting the hang of this and I find it annoying that costs of acquisition are not broken out separately from the performance of the stocks themselves.

It was a jolt and a roll where I live. The cats noticed it more than I did. It was the same fault as a quake that hit pretty hard about 23 years ago.

I slept through a 4.2 in the Anaheim area when I was about 10 years old. My mother woke up and told me there was an earthquake and I didn't believe her.

Thanks Brituchenite!! The slouching is for next week. I still haven't heard back from ExJet about an interview. May need to double check with them today.

I haven't noticed if Scottrade and Schwab do this, but it would make sense since your commissions are a loss. Additionally, your buy and sell commissions are subtracted (or added) when figuring your capital gains (or loss) for tax purposes.

Don't know if they 'all' do this -- but it is to help the client -- in terms of tax loss calculations!:rolleyes: It is more 'realistic' to include transaction costs in the overall gain/loss tracking!;) GL!^

Same fault as the World Series quake?

I remember those on DL too, I think even as far back as maybe '98 or '99. At the time I remember thinking it was kind of :cool:, grabbing your lunch as you got on the plane. Who knew it was a harbinger?

Especially when "literally" is used as the exact opposite of its meaning, like when someone says, "My jaw 'literally' dropped to the ground". No, it didn't.

I've got it bookmarked.....I re-read it when it's been a long day and I need a laugh. Fart jokes are always funny! ^

My partner has an iPhone, which he's planning to dump late this year and probably replace with the new Windows Phone 7 (still hate that name) or something on Android. Most of my friends have iPhones. I'm on Android and BlackBerry, and I have a growing group of friends using Android. I don't know anyone anymore who is using a Windows Mobile device.