Wednesday, September 27, 2006

When I become Lord Chancellor of the English Language

The spelling of "separate" will become a choice of

seperate

or


seapirate.



AVAST DIRT DWELLERS!

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Amazon.com: Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams

Several things are wrong with books like Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams

1. I've convinced myself that this sort of explanation is like trying to explain how to make pepper make you sneezy. "You have to get sensitve to pepper, that way sniffing it will make you sneezy" "Okay, I've got my nose full of pepper. Now make me sneezy like a cartoon bad guy!"

This is a very strange analysis. Why is answering a law school exam question like involuntarily discharging a random spray of unpleasant... oh I got it.

2. "Getting to maybe" is fundamentally the wrong place to get to. The place to get to is "So what?"

As in: Cardozo says, "instinct with an obligation..."

Did you just get there? Good. You are ready for the exam.

Sunday, September 03, 2006

The unintended brilliance of the Microsoft Exhange default dictionary is that house.gov is suggested as "Hoosegow." Hello, Duke Cunningham!

I am mainly posting this to try out the blogging features of Writely. Oddly the word "Blogging" needs to be added to the dictionary, as does the word "Writely.

Okay now for the features test drive:

  • Added Tag
  • Added Multiple Tags
  • Added a snazzy table describing the prisoner's dilemma game

X

Cooperate

Defect

Cooperate

3/3

5/-1

Defect

-1/5

0/0

  • Edited the underlying HTML code
  • Picture - not working. Might be my rotten broadband. T1 down 300 baud up.
  • Added comment


  • Horizontal line
  • My favorite special char: §
  • Added header

Friday, September 01, 2006

eh?

What?
"Too late or still too soon too soon to make lots of bad love and there's no time for sorrow. Run around, run around with a hole in your head 'til tomorrow."
-----They Might Be Giants