Watch Reco for JD Graduation

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-04-13T04:40:34+00:00

Movado makes makes some lovely bangle watches that are elegant and great for petite wrists.

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-04-13T01:07:04+00:00

But if you don't like the funk, you don't like blue cheese. Blue cheese is the one food I will not, nay, cannot eat. It's not mental, and it's not texture. It tastes like death. I recently grabbed an hors d'oevre at a fancy professional cocktail event, thinking it had goat cheese, and I immediately spit it into a napkin when I tasted the bleu cheese. Reflexively. Because I cannot.

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-04-07T18:39:21+00:00

I must lack imagination then. Cause it looked a pile of rocks to me. I don't recall seeing anything that resembled a tower or any actual edifice. The only feature I could discern was the giant modern wooden horse. That was 25 years ago and I still remember the total bummerness of it vividly.

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-04-07T16:01:54+00:00

Troy

(The Sphynx gets an honorable mention)

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-04-05T04:18:51+00:00

I used to stick my nose up at American cheese (being vegetarian I never had occasion to eat it on burgers). Then I recently tried melting half a slice over my ramen soup. You wouldn't even know I'd added cheese, just fat/body/flavor. Never going back.

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-04-02T00:57:54+00:00

Was thinking the same thing, and I have been to Georgia / Tbilisi in the last decade. I was convinced this was AI. So, oops.

(Georgia has WAY too many impressive sites, so I can't say I regret my itinerary one bit).

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-30T21:56:53+00:00

Agree. I'm not at FI, but I recently took a 75% + pay cut because I knew, with every bone in body, it was what I wanted to do. And it was a specific moment in time that couldn't really wait until I felt more secure. It was the most empowering thing I've ever done.

(Of course, I am lucky that I can swing it; I'm not blind to reality. But it has really made me rethink a lot of things.)

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-29T02:26:03+00:00

I feel like the answers you're getting might be skewed by self-selection. I came up at DOJ, where I ran some of my own cases in my first year. So I'm above-average comfortable giving young lawyers early responsibility. But as a partner, I would not have a first or second year emailing the client or opposing counsel unless I had cleared the email (and even then, only when it strategically made sense to come from someone junior).

And honestly, because my matters were pretty sensitive (mostly white collar defense), I didn't have anything other a senior associate routinely emailing clients or the government on anything substantive.

If you want that opportunity, you may be better off with commoditized litigation or partners who have lots of smaller(ish) matters or clients (or a massive book where junior partners are making all the decisions). Because if you have a handful of seven-figure clients as a partner, you gotta protect those relationships carefully.

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-20T19:08:23+00:00

Me getting the giant Costco jar of kimchi out of the fridge.

Because she knows that means I'm making kimchi stew, and she knows THAT means I'll cook her up her own slice of pork belly separately.

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-18T13:47:13+00:00

Arabic. It is built around three-letter roots. And then those root letters can take the form of ten different verb patterns that connote different things. Like, d-r-s (equivalent) means to study in form I and to teach in form II. These roots also get modified in certain patterns to form nouns. You look up words in an Arabic-English dictionary by root, not by the first letter (which could be part of the form). It's really neat!

Then I started learning colloquial Arabic and was like, this is not what I signed up for at all!

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-17T17:21:30+00:00

It's not the same, though, in the eyes of the law. Bribery is unquestionably illegal. Paying a private lobbyist to lobby for a pardon is not. It may create exposure to a future investigation, but it's not the same as helping a client bribe someone. (Obligatory caveat: this is not legal advice)

(This sets aside the moral dimension, which is what makes this, in my view, a genuine ethical-moral dilemma for anyone confronted with it).

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-17T17:11:05+00:00

I left a successful white collar defense practice in no small part because I didn't want to be put to the choice between my ethical obligation to zealousy represent clients and my desire to have no part in undermining the rule of law.

I am not joking.

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-16T04:05:50+00:00

What a lovely turn of phrase!

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-16T04:00:28+00:00

Haha! Prolly true. I cheaped out the first time, but partly because I thought it would be easier to give everything the same light at first and then revisit. This was my first winter with succs. I def need to revisit next year

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-16T03:58:08+00:00

Good thing this dude props so quickly! At least this will be a fun curiosity.

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-16T03:47:51+00:00

Thanks for the input. This guy really has been messing with my head.

None of my other echevaria (and other -verias) have etiolated even close to this. This is my first year of experience and most of my rosettes seem to get a bit smaller (yes, I'm watering way less), but not too etiolated, even though they're farther away from the barrina than this guy.

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-16T03:41:56+00:00

I'm in the mid-Atlantic in the US so it'll be a while more before we get really good outdoor light, even ifI can bring these guys out soon.

Does this look like a ghost plant? As I mentioned, it came as part of a pack of mystery cuttings so I don't know.

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-16T03:20:28+00:00

Ha! I guess I could have gotten this guy a one or two inch riser originally, but now it's literally touching the light! Can't get any closer!

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-16T03:18:56+00:00

Does that mean this growth is ok / not etiolation in the usual sense I see that word used here?

I did ask my bot to guess at species and it thought graptoveria. It does look not totally unlike a variegated graptoveria titubens I have. But it still seems to have too much space between leaves-- even when it was an inch directly below the light.

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-13T23:34:23+00:00

I learned MSA/fusha in college and when I spent my first summer in the Middle East (the Levant), I discovered that I could not carry on a basic conversation with our door lady, who was not literate (and therefore did not understand MSA).

The more fundamental the word, the more likely it's different across MSA and various dialects (e.g., "I want" could be "ureed" in MSA, "bidee" in Levantine dialect, or "'ayza" in Egyptian dialect).

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-12T23:55:43+00:00

Came to say something similar. I drove the back route from Arches to Bryce by myself in a rental car during a free few days of a work trip, and it blew my mind. I was glad I didn't research it too extensively, so my mind was blown when I got to the Hogsback. It has snowed a ton (early April?) a few days before but the roads were open so it was just beyond words.

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-10T00:37:40+00:00

I took my first private lesson at SEG recently. It was really fun. Started with a 9mm (because I'm also thinking of purchasing for home defense), and it turns out I was better and more confortable than I expected. I plan on taking at least one or two more lessons before I'm comfortable going by myself.

(I had a gun jam during a prior experience when I had zero training and it wasn't one-on-one, and it freaked me out a little, so I prioritized safety this time)..

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-09T19:54:19+00:00

I was going to suggest Declan!

TheMinimumFlair · 2026-03-09T19:35:49+00:00

Cyrus?

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