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Ceetar
Sep 20 2013 06:31 AM
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It's a fun commute (At least, the walking through Midtown bits)
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Frayed Knot
Sep 20 2013 06:53 AM
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I worked for a short time at 11 W 42nd -- don't remember any models hanging around there in those days
(unless those were the girls who kept saying 'Get away from me you creep' all the time)
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Ceetar
Sep 20 2013 06:59 AM
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Frayed Knot wrote:
I worked for a short time at 11 W 42nd -- don't remember any models hanging around there in those days
(unless those were the girls who kept saying 'Get away from me you creep' all the time) |
I usually cross and walk past there most days, and it's the only day i've ever seen them. It seems like fashion week was _last_ week but they certainly looked like that type. Maybe there's a company taht was doing a fashion shoot or something and it was break time. *shrug*
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Edgy MD
Sep 20 2013 07:28 AM
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I did the graveyard shift as a legal proofreader once, only for about two weeks. Coming out into the canyons of Manhattan during the 6:00 hour was a revelation.
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Ceetar
Sep 20 2013 07:42 AM
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Edgy MD wrote:
I did the graveyard shift as a legal proofreader once, only for about two weeks. Coming out into the canyons of Manhattan during the 6:00 hour was a revelation. |
This is closer to 8, most people have finished washing the sidewalk in front of their shops by then, but it's interesting. Especially in a couple of weeks when it'll still be dawnish (if I still work here). The whole city feels like a coiled snake, you know it's going to explode into activity at any moment.
I did work 4-12 in Jersey City once, and commuted through Midtown home. It's especially interesting at 12:30am on Thursday and Friday nights too.
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themetfairy
Sep 20 2013 07:51 AM
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Did that for a summer with varying shifts.
Watching the Empire State Building shut off at midnight was always pretty interesting.
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Vic Sage
Sep 20 2013 08:13 AM
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I work in the middle of Times Square -- pedestrian congestion makes me homicidal by the time i get to my office. But I like Bryant Park; in the summer, a nice place to sit outside and eat lunch and watch females gradually wear less and less as the weather gets warmer. In the winter, they have a cool crafts fair with more than the standard commercial crap you see at every such fair.
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batmagadanleadoff
Sep 20 2013 10:55 AM
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Edgy MD wrote:
I did the graveyard shift as a legal proofreader once, only for about two weeks. Coming out into the canyons of Manhattan during the 6:00 hour was a revelation. |
If you don't mind me asking (since you bring it up) what's a legal proofreader?
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themetfairy
Sep 20 2013 10:59 AM
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Someone who proofreads legal documents. Makes sure that new drafts of documents, pleadings, contracts, etc. properly incorporate changes, that they don't accidentally delete other things, etc.
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batmagadanleadoff
Sep 20 2013 11:02 AM
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themetfairy wrote:
Someone who proofreads legal documents. Makes sure that new drafts of documents, pleadings, contracts, etc. properly incorporate changes, that they don't accidentally delete other things, etc. |
That's what I figured. Wouldn't some other lawyer do that? Edgy must've worked for one of those fancy shmancy firms with like a billion lawyers on the payroll.
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themetfairy
Sep 20 2013 11:10 AM
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Do you know what a lawyer's billable hourly rate is?
Do you know what a proofreader's hourly rate is?
It's a question of economics, pure and simple.
And a not unrelated question of time management - a lawyer can work on something else while the proofreaders are pouring over the fine print.
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Frayed Knot
Sep 20 2013 11:13 AM
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| I did the graveyard shift as a legal proofreader once, only for about two weeks. Coming out into the canyons of Manhattan during the 6:00 hour was a revelation. |
I did a bike ride one time (couple of times actually) that started all the way downtown on a Sunday morning. One year I was crashing with a buddy somewhere on the UES (his girlfriend's place I think) the night before so as to bypass the early morning drive-in from the 'burbs. Anyway, we were biking downtown to get to the start of the ride at the crack of dawn just as there was the last hints of Saturday night hanging around, last bits which included a few hookers who figured maybe they'd grab one last payday from two bikers passing by. So as Derek and I are zipping along at about 20 mph through mostly empty Manhattan streets, there's a couple of streetwalkers calling out; "Hey baby you want a date?"
That was kind of weird.
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batmagadanleadoff
Sep 20 2013 11:17 AM
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themetfairy wrote:
It's a question of economics, pure and simple.
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I don't think it's that pure and simple. Else, most law firms would have proof-readers. As things stand, most firms don't have specialized proofreaders; most firms expect the lawyer that drafted the document to proofread it as well.
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Ceetar
Sep 20 2013 12:16 PM
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batmagadanleadoff wrote:
| I did the graveyard shift as a legal proofreader once, only for about two weeks. Coming out into the canyons of Manhattan during the 6:00 hour was a revelation. |
If you don't mind me asking (since you bring it up) what's a legal proofreader? |
I know a guy down in Chinatown that will proofread anything you like for $20. Looks real and everything.
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themetfairy
Sep 20 2013 12:20 PM
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Most of the elite law firms do, in fact, employ proofreaders or otherwise will use paralegals or other support staff in that role, often in two- person teams.
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Edgy MD
Sep 20 2013 12:41 PM
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themetfairy wrote:
Do you know what a lawyer's billable hourly rate is?
Do you know what a proofreader's hourly rate is?
It's a question of economics, pure and simple.
And a not unrelated question of time management - a lawyer can work on something else while the proofreaders are pouring over the fine print. |
I imagine the client paid as if a lawyer was doing it. But no, it was a 25-year-old me, sleeping under a desk and drooling --- woken up whenever a new filing came down the pike. Ka-ching.
I tells ya.
[list]I've proofed in New York and I've proofed in Virginny.
I've proofed in DC where the girls all were skinny.
Your cigarette lawsuit might have a huge gaffe.
So all of the firms keep us proofies on staff.
And they don't pay you much when you're hired as a temp
Li'brals arts grads that are smelling of hemp
The client pays dollars and you just see pennies
An hourly wage and nix on the bennies
So to make sure that EPA filling makes sense
The verbs are consistent and in the same tense
Are there decimals missing? Are all parties cc-d?
Fuck all the lawyers, its' ME that you need!
I'm a graduate student with no clear direction
I live in a in walkup that won't pass inspection
I smell kinda funky and don't look official
But no lawsuit gets filed without my initials[/list:u]
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themetfairy
Sep 20 2013 01:12 PM
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No - clients don't pay lawyer rates for support staff work. Nor do they pay partner rates for associate work. Nor do they pay 5th year associate rates for 2nd year associate work.
Itemized bills from the big firms are quite specialized.
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Edgy MD
Sep 20 2013 01:16 PM
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I reckon so.
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themetfairy
Sep 20 2013 01:19 PM
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D-Dad deals with this stuff constantly. Trust me, it is so.
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Edgy MD
Sep 20 2013 02:19 PM
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I'm not disputing. I understand.
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batmagadanleadoff
Sep 20 2013 02:51 PM
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themetfairy wrote:
Most of the elite law firms do, in fact, employ proofreaders or otherwise will use paralegals or other support staff in that role, often in two- person teams. |
batmagadanleadoff wrote:
Edgy must've worked for one of those fancy shmancy firms with like a billion lawyers on the payroll. |
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Mets – Willets Point
Sep 26 2013 08:15 AM
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Ceetar wrote:
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"Fuck safety!" exclaimed Joe the construction worker. "I'm going in naked!"
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Vic Sage
Sep 26 2013 08:30 AM
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my morning commute (and evening too) has been screwed up by Metro-North, which has lost power on its New Haven line and so is only running an occasional diesel on the local track. They say its going to be at least 2 more weeks. yikes.
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Ceetar
Sep 26 2013 08:33 AM
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Vic Sage wrote:
my morning commute (and evening too) has been screwed up by Metro-North, which has lost power on its New Haven line and so is only running an occasional diesel on the local track. They say its going to be at least 2 more weeks. yikes. |
yeah, I hear the passenger/train ratio is worse than the Yankee fan/Mariano bobblehead ratio.
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soupcan
Sep 26 2013 09:38 AM
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Vic Sage wrote:
my morning commute (and evening too) has been screwed up by Metro-North, which has lost power on its New Haven line and so is only running an occasional diesel on the local track. They say its going to be at least 2 more weeks. yikes. |
Yup. I'm fucked too.
Worked in CT the last two days (incl. today) but have to go in tomorrow. I'll get up at the crack of my ass and drive in to beat the the traffic but I'm not excited about driving back tomorrow night.
All I've heard was that a '138,000 volt feeder cable failed'. No idea what that is, how it happened, or why it will take multiple weeks(!) to repair it. They fixed a derailed train, which involved repairing damaged tracks and using cranes to lift trains off of tracks, in 3 days. Why so long to repair this issue? No physical damage, no explosions...I don't get it.
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metirish
Sep 26 2013 09:45 AM
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Yes, the lack of an explanation is baffling...opening paragraph in news article
| Parts of Interstate 95 turned into a virtual parking lot Thursday as tens of thousands of Metro-North Railroad commuters scrambled for alternate routes between the densely populated Connecticut suburbs and New York City after a power failure on a heavily trafficked line. |
damn
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dgwphotography
Sep 27 2013 04:25 AM
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Fortunately, I don't go all the way into the city, but get off at Stamford. It was a clusterf@ck yesterday when a couple of trains were canceled, and the resulting throng tried to squeeze into a shoreline express. I was lucky to get home when I did, but sardines have more spacious accommodations.
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Mets – Willets Point
Sep 27 2013 07:38 AM
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The things that happen when the rich get tax cuts, corporations get handouts, and the government is shrunk.
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cooby
Sep 27 2013 05:01 PM
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I've been getting up at 5 and leaving before dawn to watch my granddaughter, so it's usually still dark and foggy, but I travel through Amish farmland and wooded areas to get to SC. Once I get there I either pass Beaver Stadium or get off the bypass earlier and go through campus. Depends on my mood.
Never, ever, do I drive through downtown State College. Imagine 50000 or howmanyever 20 year old people walking through traffic not looking up from their cells or whatever and you will know what I mean.
Someday I'll post some interesting stuff, but'll be more in the line of Amish clothes on clotheslines or something. Or cows or mules. Very very beautiful commute.
Just wait'll it snows, ooh lala
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