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[econophile]

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These days, I get confused by the term "business-casual." What, exactly, does that include?

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it's a little nebulous, but just check what other people at the company are wearing when you interview with them. then dress towards the more formal end of the range to start out.

[El Diablo]

econ: Sounds great.

ED: Slacks + button down shirt is the standard for business casual.

pete: Maybe. I'll lock a couple of the older ones if they keep getting bumped.

[Dids]

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I was watching a chef competition of some sort last night and the following happened:

They cut over to a chef in his whites and he had a passing resemblance to Dids. Now I'm neither a hater nor a supporter of Dids, but for some reason at that second it hit me like a ton of bricks...

Why the hell is Dids not a chef?

A: You love food and post most every meal you prepare on your blog.
B: You seem to have culinary creativity and ability.
C: You live in one of the culinary capitals of the US.
D: Your current job seems boring and dead-ended.


Anyway, just a thought.

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Trust me, I've thought about this a lot. I toy with going to culinary school about every two weeks.

The problems:

1- Cooking for a living offers far less stability and pay than even my somewhat lame job does. I'm not sure I'm willing, at 30, to give up what I've got and go back to minimum wage.

2- I'm not sure that just because I like cooking, I will like cooking for a living. I've never been a career person. A job is what keeps me fed and clothed so I can do what I like. That said, this is changing slightly.

3- I don't have the spare 20k+ around to pay for the CIA, and if I was to do this, that's where I'd need/want to end up.

[JaredL]

A thread I would like to read, and in which I would participate mainly with questions, would be about showing dogs. I believe Patrick del Poker has experience. Basically, I think it's a subculture as Evan mentions, and suspect that there is a lot more going on behind the scenes that people don't know about.

I would start it myself but I don't know much about it and these things go much better with an informative OP instead of one asking a bunch of questions.

[wet work]

I'm almost finished a book called You Can't Win by Jack Black. I think it fell out of print and was re-issued with a foreword by William S. Burroughs, upon whom Black was a huge influence. Burroughs' Junky reads a lot like this book with it's colorful characters and connection to the seedy underworld of America.

Black was basically an old school rounder. He was a traveling 'bum', that was a cat burglar, opium addict and gambler. A part of a subculture called the yeggs or Johnson's. It's a fun and interesting, sometimes grim, read.

Mainly I thought a thread about the book would for one turn people onto a cool book that I think people here might find interesting and hopefully a larger discussion about people who lived outside the law during those times. Possibly about some of the earlier professional gamblers and con men, etc. I know there have to be other books like this out there and maybe others here could offer up some recommendations.

[keikiwai]

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with a foreword by William S. Burroughs, upon whom Black was a huge influence.

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do you mean, "with a foreword by William S. Burroughs, who was a huge influence upon Black"?, since i find it difficult to believe that Burroughs even knew about JB... (i mean Burroughs died in 1997, and High Fidelity came out in 2000)....

i do find it interesting that the same chap who directed high fidelity was the one who directed the queen.... i guess, hi fi is based upon an english novel.....

[wet work]

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with a foreword by William S. Burroughs, upon whom Black was a huge influence.

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do you mean, "with a foreword by William S. Burroush, who was a huge influence upon Black"?, since i find it difficult to believe that Burroughs even knew about JB... (i mean Burroughs died in 1997, and High Fidelity came out in 2000)....

i do find it interesting that the same chap who directed high fidelity was the one who directed the queen.... i guess, hi fi is based upon an english novel.....

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A different Jack Black entirely, book came out in 1926.

[keikiwai]

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with a foreword by William S. Burroughs, upon whom Black was a huge influence.

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do you mean, "with a foreword by William S. Burroush, who was a huge influence upon Black"?, since i find it difficult to believe that Burroughs even knew about JB... (i mean Burroughs died in 1997, and High Fidelity came out in 2000)....

i do find it interesting that the same chap who directed high fidelity was the one who directed the queen.... i guess, hi fi is based upon an english novel.....

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A different Jack Black Entirely.

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rofl - well that explains it..... i had a feeling i was misunderstanding something.... so who is this other Jack Black..... i assume he didn't have a School of Rock.....

i mean i could imagine Jack Black, the actor, being a bum before he hit the big times

these are some other JBs that wikip lists:

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* Jack Black (author), a 19th Century author and hobo.
* Jack Black (drummer), who played drums for 70's UK punk band The Boys.
* Jack Black (rat catcher), a famous Victorian rat catcher and mole destroyer.
* Jack Black (Viz), a morally dubious, right wing boy detective featured in the adult comic Viz
* Jack Black (wrestler), a World Wrestling Federation contestant
* A slang for Black Label bottles of Jack Daniel's.


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[wet work]

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with a foreword by William S. Burroughs, upon whom Black was a huge influence.

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do you mean, "with a foreword by William S. Burroush, who was a huge influence upon Black"?, since i find it difficult to believe that Burroughs even knew about JB... (i mean Burroughs died in 1997, and High Fidelity came out in 2000)....

i do find it interesting that the same chap who directed high fidelity was the one who directed the queen.... i guess, hi fi is based upon an english novel.....

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A different Jack Black Entirely.

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so who is this other Jack Black..... i assume he didn't have a School of Rock.....


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No. More like a few pebbles of opium and his eyes on the bankroll of local gamblers and figuring out a way to separate them from it be it by hook or by crook.

[27offsuit]

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I was watching a chef competition of some sort last night and the following happened:

They cut over to a chef in his whites and he had a passing resemblance to Dids. Now I'm neither a hater nor a supporter of Dids, but for some reason at that second it hit me like a ton of bricks...

Why the hell is Dids not a chef?

A: You love food and post most every meal you prepare on your blog.
B: You seem to have culinary creativity and ability.
C: You live in one of the culinary capitals of the US.
D: Your current job seems boring and dead-ended.


Anyway, just a thought.

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Trust me, I've thought about this a lot. I toy with going to culinary school about every two weeks.

The problems:

1- Cooking for a living offers far less stability and pay than even my somewhat lame job does. I'm not sure I'm willing, at 30, to give up what I've got and go back to minimum wage.

2- I'm not sure that just because I like cooking, I will like cooking for a living. I've never been a career person. A job is what keeps me fed and clothed so I can do what I like. That said, this is changing slightly.

3- I don't have the spare 20k+ around to pay for the CIA, and if I was to do this, that's where I'd need/want to end up.

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Have you ever thought about the unconventional route?

Side work/job at home involving food + internets = profit and freedom