Archive for December, 2003
Let’s all be careful out there
I want to wish you all a happy, safe, and blessed Christmas. Thanks so much for the cards and emails! If you are reading this, you’re really die-hard, or really curious. I really appreciate it. I’ll work on my customary end of the year message later on today. I’ve been kind of bummed out because [...]
Posted: December 25th, 2003 under Brooklyn.
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Now I can officially say, “Merry Christmas!”
Try this link for the “Yule Log,” and enjoy a tradition with a 21st Century twist as you open the gifts… Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. Peace be with you.
Posted: December 25th, 2003 under Brooklyn.
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T’was the night before Xmas….
Interesting NY Times articles, law-related and otherwise: Lenny Bruce, comedian arrested and convicted in 1964 for using obscene language in his stand-up, received a posthumous pardon by Governor Pataki, a first in NY. Considering that much of that kind of language is in stand-up these days, the pardon was probably long in coming. But, what [...]
Posted: December 24th, 2003 under Brooklyn.
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Yuletide Greetings
If I could, I would have linked/uploaded George Winston’s Joy mp3 here. Anyways, I wish you FC and ssw15 (and any other anonymous readers) a very joyous Christmas and a warm and safe New Year . =YC
Posted: December 24th, 2003 under Brooklyn.
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Martha Martha
Does anyone find it ironic that Henry Blodget is writing about the Martha Affaire? dispatches from the martha stewart trial. All good read. I vaguely remember my John Coffee Securities Reg notes and outline but I’m sure this all makes for tasty morsels for people taking Securities Regs in law school. Kind of like when [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2003 under Brooklyn.
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NYC Holiday Season
Californians typically ask me lots of questions about the Big Apple. Not surprising since most of them have never stepped foot in NYC, nor ventured so much as 50 miles within the city unless you count transitting through EWR or JFK as “visiting”. Most Californians don’t leave this beautiful state; why should they, there’s so [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2003 under Brooklyn.
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Less than three more days to Xmas
US News and World Report has an interesting article on the presidential candidates from Yale University. It’s a fascinating article. Is there any precedence about so many candidates from one undergraduate school, having attended during the same decade? And, there’s always a good backstory about that – for example, I remember watching, about a year [...]
Posted: December 22nd, 2003 under Brooklyn.
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Person of the Year
Time magazine named the Person of the Year. Now I know no one’s going to believe me as I say this on-line after the fact, but I swear, a couple of days ago, I was telling my family that I think that the U.S. military ought to have be named the people of the year. [...]
Posted: December 21st, 2003 under Brooklyn.
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Where’s the rage?!
RE: Officials: WMD chief may quit I’m totally dismayed but not surprised that people have not taken up arms on this latest development. Perhaps it’s just too much Iraq and bad news and people would rather just bury it and move on with life’s mundane issues — like where’s my next job coming from? All [...]
Posted: December 20th, 2003 under Brooklyn.
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Pueba de los Chinos
Thinking about the shrimp tortillas that I had yesterday ….. tempura battered jumbo peeled and cleaned shrimp that’s such a delicious cross-cultural metaphor. As confirmed by my co-worker, there’s no such thing as a shrimp tortilla in Mexico. If you ever look closely enough, you have to realize that most of the fresh taco places, [...]
Posted: December 20th, 2003 under Brooklyn.
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