In Elementary, they defined Consulting Detective to mean he didn't get paid.
Is that from the books?
t /tangent
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§ ita § - Oct 01, 2012 12:16:21 pm PDT #1019 of 1416
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Typo Boy - Oct 01, 2012 12:21:38 pm PDT #1020 of 1416
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I know that in several cases Holmes took money, and I believe he lived on money from fees. He did not take money from the police. And he often waived fees when dealing with people in straitened circumstances. Or in one case accepted a case for a very small fee to punish himself for being - I don't know snobbish, arrogant - something he considered a sin. At any rate he initially turned down the case as uninteresting, then realized it really was interesting and that he ad turned it down out of snobbisness or whatever. Missing housemaid. So he took a fee that was high to the woman paying, but low for him as self-punishment. I'm pretty sure he accepted the low fee rather than just waiving it because selling his services cheap was a form of self-humiliation, whereas giving charity would have been self-gratification. (Note that last sentence is my reading. The rest is canon. Well the use of the word "sin" is also mine.)
Tom Scola - Oct 01, 2012 12:36:20 pm PDT #1021 of 1416
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Have MLS, will travel.
flea - Oct 01, 2012 12:37:11 pm PDT #1022 of 1416
information libertarian
But only if you pay expenses and per diem for meals.
Strix - Oct 01, 2012 2:41:23 pm PDT #1023 of 1416
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
"Have MLS, will travel." I LOVE this as a tagline for your logo! But I looked it up, and it is already overused. Boo!
RealFirstName RealLastName, MLS, BA (Badassery?)
Consulting Research Librarian
Cincinnati-based
Don't speak Latin in front of the books, Xander.
OK, need an better tag. But I am sick and I think I need to take a little nap.
Jessica - Oct 01, 2012 2:47:56 pm PDT #1024 of 1416
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
In my line of work, flea, we would call the person who does that job simply a "professional researcher."
Atropa - Oct 12, 2012 10:08:23 am PDT #1025 of 1416
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Does anyone have suggestions for how to figure out content creation rates? My (delightful, snarky) dentist is hiring me to write all the content for his new website, and I have no idea what the going rate for that sort of work is.
Liese S. - Oct 23, 2012 12:46:14 pm PDT #1026 of 1416
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I don't have any idea, Jilli.
So today is the break the dam day, apparently. All the (many many) projects that have been sitting there waiting for me to get through my last whack of data entry are now flooding through. So I feel like I'm accomplishing a ton of shit today, when really it's the culmination of weeks of work. But still! I will take a productive feeling day when I can get one!
The big deal is that we're getting trained on our remote deposit unit tomorrow, which, if successful, will mean I can leave BoA for our local, and still be able to make deposits on the road. Including, for purely hypothetical example, this next month of fundraising and holiday travel. AND this next summer, because we have booked a camp! Yay!
We still have the big issue of what to do with the dog. I'm not sure where we're staying (their missionary cabin is under construction, and the couple's home in which we stayed last time has left the camp because of cancer) so it will depend on that, I guess, but yay for potential big summer fundraiser out of the way!
§ ita § - Nov 01, 2012 2:39:20 pm PDT #1027 of 1416
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If you're not using Microsoft Project to track and plan your projects, what do you use? If it's another app in the Office suite, are there specific templates you're using, or something pretty simple?
I'm trying to use swimlanes for two things: First is to see multiple project schedules side by side (column is project, row is day, task written in the cell) so I can tell if two projects are trying to do things on the same day that can't happen, and the second is one worksheet per project--rows are still days, but columns are resources (usually people, not items).
It lacks the ability of Project to do resource levelling, but I found I just could not model reality usefully enough, plus Project just seems to be fighting back more and more these days. I do miss not being able to have all the other dates move when something in the critical path is adjusted, but for legibility in a simpler project, it might be worth it.
So..how are you guys managing that sort of task?
Stephanie - Nov 01, 2012 2:51:46 pm PDT #1028 of 1416
Trust my rage
I can't help with ita's question but does anyone here design print ads, because I need help with two. Profile addy is good. (I'm being brief because I'm holding a sleeping Sammy and typing with my left had.)
Eta: when I say help, I mean the kind of help you pay for, not the take advantage kind.