Person a: "For example the /ESZ2. Is there a symbol code that reflects the extended session stop time for this product?"
Me: “You cannot get much further extended than the current session length of 23 hours and 45 minutes, on the /ES contract from CME. You’d need a Time Lord and a TARDIS. So, the /ES would be a bad example of different sessions, because it only has one. It is the Highlander of futures contracts.”
Person b: “Did you just assume that since {person a} is English he would get a TARDIS reference? Just curious.”
Me: “No. I always assume my audience will not get my reference, no matter what reference I am making.”
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Monday, April 09, 2012
from the back files: progress?
From: UIM
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 3:22 PM
Subject: Progress?
Quote from therapy, today:
“And I’m frustrated, because as much as I think about resolving this, I never seem to figure out how.”
(Pause)
“And now I’m annoyed because I seem to be quoting the punk rock song, ‘Institutionalized’.”
-UIM.
The progress part is that I did not start quoting the song.
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 3:22 PM
Subject: Progress?
Quote from therapy, today:
“And I’m frustrated, because as much as I think about resolving this, I never seem to figure out how.”
(Pause)
“And now I’m annoyed because I seem to be quoting the punk rock song, ‘Institutionalized’.”
-UIM.
The progress part is that I did not start quoting the song.
Monday, April 02, 2012
from the back files: no idea where I get it from
From: UIM
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 11:11 AM
To: Metrocake
Subject: Mom, about retirement.
Someone sent her information about yarn bombing…. (http://www.google.com/search?q=yarn+bombing+chicago&hl=en&rlz=1R2ADFA_enUS377&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Os95T-7oHKa42wW6zPj9Cw&ved=0CEEQsAQ&biw=833&bih=824 )
Mom: “I can sneak out and cover things with knitted garments. I’ve never been arrested before.”
UIM: “Mooommmm…”
Mom: “I haven’t decided if getting arrested is on my bucket list.”
UIM: “Yeah, that’ll be great, asking my boss for time off to go to Hanover and bail my mother out of
jail.”
Mom: “It’ll be fun.”
UIM: “At least it’s not a federal offense.”
Mom: “What if I knit a cover for a public mailbox?”
(pause)
UIM: (growlier) “Ok, Mom, you’re getting the reaction you wanted…”
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 11:11 AM
To: Metrocake
Subject: Mom, about retirement.
Someone sent her information about yarn bombing…. (http://www.google.com/search?q=yarn+bombing+chicago&hl=en&rlz=1R2ADFA_enUS377&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Os95T-7oHKa42wW6zPj9Cw&ved=0CEEQsAQ&biw=833&bih=824 )
Mom: “I can sneak out and cover things with knitted garments. I’ve never been arrested before.”
UIM: “Mooommmm…”
Mom: “I haven’t decided if getting arrested is on my bucket list.”
UIM: “Yeah, that’ll be great, asking my boss for time off to go to Hanover and bail my mother out of
jail.”
Mom: “It’ll be fun.”
UIM: “At least it’s not a federal offense.”
Mom: “What if I knit a cover for a public mailbox?”
(pause)
UIM: (growlier) “Ok, Mom, you’re getting the reaction you wanted…”
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
"Fresh hot cookies" is not a euphemism.
From: UIM
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:29 AM
To: Her
Subject: from last night's phone call.
http://www.tiffstreats.com/austin/
Rack: “So, there’s a company here that delivers fresh hot cookies.”
UIM: (5 minutes of laughter) “Of course there is…”
Rack: “You call or web, and thirty minutes later, a tired college student bicycles up with fresh hot cookies.”
--
From: Her
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:30 AM
Great, now I want fresh hot cookies .
--
From: UIM
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:33 AM
Yes, at least a dozen times after that, I told him, “Oh, go eat your fresh hot cookies,” or “Sure, what do you care – you’ve got fresh hot cookies.”
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:29 AM
To: Her
Subject: from last night's phone call.
http://www.tiffstreats.com/austin/
Rack: “So, there’s a company here that delivers fresh hot cookies.”
UIM: (5 minutes of laughter) “Of course there is…”
Rack: “You call or web, and thirty minutes later, a tired college student bicycles up with fresh hot cookies.”
--
From: Her
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:30 AM
Great, now I want fresh hot cookies .
--
From: UIM
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:33 AM
Yes, at least a dozen times after that, I told him, “Oh, go eat your fresh hot cookies,” or “Sure, what do you care – you’ve got fresh hot cookies.”
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