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saturday, august 18

a small citation to remember

United States v. National City Lines, 186 F.2d 562 (1951) (holding that National City Lines, a subsidiary of General Motors, was guilty of conspiring to monopolize a certain portion of interstate commerce when it operated exclusively between 1926 and 1956 to buy existing streetcar systems, convert them to bus lines, and then close them down). The travesty of all of this, in my opinion, was that National City Lines was fined only $5000.

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friday, august 17

update

The suckiness I mentioned yesterday, by the way, got suckier today. You would not believe. Plus I'm crampy, too.

.: 2:59 PM .:

titling, blogs, and more

On the topic of web writings, Tehshik argues that titles make everything better by encouraging people to write with a point in mind. He suggests that the mundanity and boringness of most weblogs may stem from their lack of titled entries.

In general, I agree with him. There does seem to be a lot of awfulness out there, a lot of pages that don't really generate a sense of anything.

But sometimes, just sometimes, something comes across as nice, despite its pointlessness and meanderingness. It's a different nice, a nice in that gentle boring sense of nice that the sound of waves is. But it's a type of nice at which blogs can excel.

It's not like this hasn't been done in titled works. Take Wittgenstein's Mistress, for instance, that book by David Markson. Honestly, it sounds like a blog, in how its entries are page after page of one-lined, semi-connected thoughts. But I found it enjoyable and soothing.

Lots of people, though, didn't, and I presume those are the same people who wouldn't enjoy blogs either. But maybe they would, if they approached Markson, and blogs even, differently. As ambient text rather than as discrete literary works. And if so, perhaps different standards would develop as to what constitutes a "good" blog and a "bad" blog, just as there are different standards, really, for each genre of music. Coherent standards, that is, as compared to the unknown that's out there. Nothing formal, of course, just a better idea of how to approach a different form of expression.

And blogs, in turn, would adapt to those standards, and all would be well and good in the world again.

Just a suggestion.

.: 2:46 PM .:

thursday, august 16

the periodic whythis entry

This web page thing, to some extent it's because I'm lazy. I mean, the impulse that's driving me is the impulse to communicate, only oftentimes actually talking to people feels like it takes too much effort. Not that it requires tons of effort. Just more than sometimes I feel like putting in. See, I'm just lazy that way.

The people I talk to lots (these days, Gina and Andy), they're in that weird group of people who somehow make it feel like talking to them isn't full of effort. Usually I write to people (you know who you are), though sometimes that takes effort too. Sometimes I feel so antisocial that this page is all that I can deal with.

Everytime I say this to Dan, he sounds all surprised, as if I don't come across in person as all that antisocial. I smile a lot, you see, and that probably takes the edge off. Plus it's not like I find it difficult to interact with people, I just don't feel like expending the energy to do so lots of the time. Fine, and plus I'm probably relatively more extroverted than Dan.

Anyways.

.: 4:38 PM .:

this blogger thing

This blogger thing makes it all too easy to document my failure to concentrate. As I work on this one case I'm working on, I'm thinking about

* the sucky thing
* how similar I am to spiro the iguana (all skin-sheddy and angry and glarey and prickly, but occasionally peaceful-looking, when I'm asleep)
* how I actually miss Andy because if he were, like, in the country I'd call him up right now and ramble about the sucky thing (deciding, probably incorrectly, that us both being circuit clerks makes it okay) so that i can get the sucky thing out of my system
* the sucky thing
* how weird it is that cass sunstein got on a jury
* how i really ought to get back to work
* how i should respond to email
* how i should call the computer store to fix my modem connector thingie
* the sucky thing
* how that pizza made me way too full

.: 4:08 PM .:

suckiness, still

Basically, I'm still thinking about the sucky thing that in all likelihood will happen. I really can't wait till this job is over so that I can talk about it on this page in screamy angry detail. Fucking ARGH.

.: 3:08 PM .:

suckiness

OHMYGOD, major suckage in this circuit, in regard to certain things I can't specifically talk about. Geez, sometimes I really hate people.

.: 2:24 PM .:

a la blog

Okay, I'm going for full bloggy detail, at least for today. What I'm doing at this very moment is citechecking a certain case that came back to us on remand. Glad I didn't have to work on writing it, but hey, I actually enjoy the minutial nature of citechecking.

.: 12:31 PM .:

restart

I'm still working out the kinks in this thing, but I think it's getting there. Anyways.

.: 11:18 AM .:

start

dare I say it? test.

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