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Finally finished jury duty on Friday after 7 days!!!! OK, now I can say that the case was about an auto accident — actually three auto accidents each separated by several years — and we had the task of figuring out how much injury the plaintiff sustained in the second accident, separating that from what [...]

Got to give Rehnquist credit – he won’t give up (or says he won’t, anyway). Well, on a more serious note, I feel as if all this talk of when-is-Rehnquist-going-to-go just a little unseemly – as if we’re waiting for either his retirement or his funeral. I’m thinking, “Let’s just leave Rehnquist alone so he [...]

Subway Fracas Escalates Into Test Of the Internet’s Power to Shame Apparently she had to drop out of Uni because of this. There’s a fierce debate on the expat forum about it. Some feel it’s just desserts, others are like, technology’s run amok, no one deserves this. I think everyone is missing the point. It [...]

Heat in July. Hurricane/Tropical Storm Dennis. The tragedy of London. The launching of Discovery and hopes reborn. Major League Baseball All-Star Game Break time. Consider: this Law.com article (link via the Yahoo’s posting of it) – “Who do Conservatives Want for the High Court?”. They don’t want Alberto Gonzalez because: (a) abortion is the end-all, [...]

It’s been raining every day this week except today, and often times torrentially. Last Friday, there was a warning to boil water because of unusual amounts of sediment washed into the water system from those downpours. As a practical matter, I noticed that in the past week, the tub has been noticeably scummier. I like [...]

“Fantastic Four” – the critics panned the movie. But, if you asked me, having seen it yesterday, the best advice is – just go watch it without your brain turned on and you’ll enjoy it just fine. I’d give it a two star out of four star rating, rather than the single star reviews I’ve [...]

I saw this month’s Wired magazine on remixing in the bookstore, and thought about the events of this week. History is remixing. Live 8 recalls and validates the original Live Aid by bringing an Ethopian survivor. The bombings in London recall earlier terrorist attacks. The search for missing persons by loved ones mirror the flyers [...]

Last night, a bunch of us went to Kelley and Ping in Soho – good food – pad thai and appetizers – yummy. Good teas. I had the chrysanthemum tea – I’m ignorant, such that I didn’t think that you could order chrysanthemum tea outside of the restaurants of Chinatown or my own kitchen. And, [...]

The unfortunate situation in London – reminding us that this isn’t the world we’d like to have and of the scary thought of “geez, that could happen to our mass transit.” Hopes and prayers to our fellow major metropolitan. In NYC, where we’ve been on security level Orange for four years now, we sort of [...]

Gadget: A $250 box called a Slingbox lets you do to location what a VCR does with time. This hooks up to your cable box and an Ethernet connection. Then, using their software on a remote computer, you can control the cable box via IR remote and watch whatever is on. I think it sounds [...]