Friday, May 31, 2002
heh
We're here, we're queer and we're career!
Thursday, May 30, 2002
i've figured it out
People (er, including me) keep asking where all the left-wing bloggers are. Lately, I've been thinking they're on livejournal. A lot of them are incredibly young, though (as far as I can tell), and are still working out how to express themselves. So. It's like multiple worlds, not communicating at all. The whole thing is fascinating. Maybe they'll collide, as time goes on, but who knows! That wacky internet.
As for me, I think I'm too old-school (going from html to blogging was a big enough step for me, and I only went into it as a way to get around telnet firewalls) to really get into livejournal. Besides, I'm far more centrist than extreme.
about this page
(to be put into its own file, when I get around to it)
This isn't a pundit blog, this isn't a diary blog, this isn't even a pure linksy blog. All it is is a get-stuff-out-of-my-system-and-keep-my-friends-up-to-date blog, which means it's pretty nonsystematic and disorganized. (If you want something organized, check out my book log, or something like that.)
It's not a pundit blog because I think more like an academic than a pundit, meaning that if I write anything of import at all, I feel as if I need to do tons of research, and document as much as I can. Which means the one-to-seven pagers that are Optimal Pundit Output are difficult for me. I've tried it. It hurts.
It's not a diary blog because I can't write about everything I do at work (ongoing litigation and all, plus various internal operation stuff that really should be confidential), which means a significant portion of my life is off-limits. Oh. And I try to never write about dating, either, which eliminates yet another part of my life from being blogged.
It's not a linksy blog because I just don't surf that much.
Excuses, excuses.
ooh
The NYC blogger map rocks.
Wednesday, May 29, 2002
whine
Okay, I'll admit it. I've had a cold for the last week and a half. I try to ignore it, I try to pretend it's not there, but it is, and it sucks. Do not write a pity comment, do not write any comment. I'm just complaining. My nose (or "dose" as I have been pronouncing it these days) is "stobbed ub," my head is vaguely warm, and I am coughing all the time. But I have work to do, so here I am. Gah.
so i am slow
but I just discovered this dc bloggers group.
also
Whose Constitution Is It Anyway? What Americans Don't Know About Our Constitution--and Why It Matters, by Michael Dorf
Don't skip this link!!!! At least read the part where 35% of a survey of over a thousand "representative Americans" think that "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is in the U.S. Constitution!!!!
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
an excerpt
From a Salon article, I'd Prefer Not To:
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No, what I am talking about is a work of literature's temperament, the nearly cell-level sensation its voice provokes in a reader. Faced with the opening pages of a book, we subconsciously ask ourselves: Do I like the consciousness behind these words? The next question, even more cognitively buried, is: Does it like me? One can answer yes to one and no to the other, of course, and still like and admire a book. It is probably even possible to arrive at a negative conclusion to both questions and still attain from a book some form of enjoyment, however masochistic. But to say yes on both counts -- I like this, this likes me - is often to love a book without judgment or hesitation. Such blind, consuming love makes us as protective and jealous as Isaiah's concept of divinity, and we are offended when others do not share the intensity of our passion. It should be noted that this is pretty much exactly analogous to how we forge friendships and love affairs with real, organic human beings.
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and also
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Serious readers -- by that I mean readers who are given to Jacobinical passion, readers who hate and love and argue -- are, in crucial respects, looking for what one might as well call friends. . . . In reading as in romance, we are all looking for something unsullied by the marketplace; we want to believe more than anything that this book and this person has been intended for us alone.
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Um? I think that's me.
Saturday, May 25, 2002
okay
Dancing at the Hung Jury was okay, except that no one else was dancing but me and Kati. But hey! I like having the floor to almost myself! Lets me spin and stuff, which is fine fine fine. Plus I got to show off my glowing dancey pants, which are absolutely perfect. I need to go dancing all the time now!
Off to Oakland now. See ya'lls.
Thursday, May 23, 2002
ooh
Insomnia. Gotta see. I'd meant to see the Norwegian film it's a remake of, but didn't get the chance.
yummy
The Vegetable Garden, in Rockville, was great. Especially the crispy black mushrooms. On the outing this time: Margaret, Paul Har, Jason, Eric, Epin, and me. Yum.
stopitstopitstopit
Last year, I made a page of links to other people who support my Chandra- Levy- Was- Killed- By- A- Serial- Killer theory. Now it's getting all these hits. Silly.
Wednesday, May 22, 2002
a quote
From Sean, who just got back from a teaching stint at Iowa, in response to a question of you're-definitely-going-back-to-teaching-then: "The ratio of work to pleasure is . . . favorable."
interesting
This Salon article, which happens to talk about the juxtaposition of cell phones and transit cultures.
the internet
Anonyms, psuedonyms, dopplegangers, trolls. In the internet, nobody knows, nobody can tell. But we can guess.
Tuesday, May 21, 2002
to write
"What we talk about when we talk about risk."
heh
Cannibal Holocaust, which I saw at midnight at the Coolidge in Brookline, was mentioned in this review.
below six
I am now convinced that Ilana knows everyone.
Monday, May 20, 2002
obscure but not too hard to find reference for the day
Interdisciplinary path.
oh wow
Stephen Jay Gould just passed away. :-(
Sunday, May 19, 2002
whoops
Ed has informed me that they do not allow anyone over 25 on the MTV shows. Damn them, those ageists!
fear
Why am I not on this TV show? I wanna be scared out of my pants! I want my heart to go kerthump kerthump kerthump! I wanna screeeeeeam! If they have tryouts, I'm totally sending a video in for this one. Races and islands and surviving and stuff I couldn't care less about, but being terrified out of my wits? I'm all for that.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
A so-so night, by the way. Went to see a drag king show at the Black Cat, and told Edna and Wayne to meet me there when they got out of their party nearby. Waited in line and watched the cute women, but the show sold out before I got to the front. The whole thing was made more annoying by the fact that I noticed B in line ahead of me, probably on a date. Which would've made things really weird. So I left the line (which included people with tickets and will-call) once they announced it was sold out, hid at Gina's for awhile, and returned with Paul Hem so we could wait for Edna and Wayne together (and so that if I ran into B, I wouldn't look like a loser.). We waited for Edna and Wayne, but no show, grr. Had a good time catching up with Paul (plus he told me about that show), and managed to avoid B, not that B herself would've made me uncomfortable, just the situation. You know.
Friday, May 17, 2002
whoo
dcdykes.com, which, OHMYGOD, has a page on ElectraWoman and DynaGirl. And I thought I was the only one who loved them!
something i never thought i'd do
go to my ten-year college reunion. Here I go.
Thursday, May 16, 2002
two decisions, having nothing to do with each other
* I'm not going to see Attack of the Clones. The reviews make it sound awful (tho' Natalie Portman is cute in the pics), and plus I don't like special effects for the sake of special effects, which are what sound like the only saving graces of the movie.
* I think I'm getting another tattoo, maybe in the next few weeks, maybe not. Whenever I get around to it. Of a Chinese calligraphic character for salt, behind my left shoulder. This will be the first non-zodiac tattoo.
ugh
I am so moody this week, I don't know what to do. Moody moody moody. Frustrated frustrated frustrated.
I think I get this way at work when I have no briefs to work on. I like briefs, see. Briefs are big thinky things. Motions for extensions are not. Settlements make me nervous and worried that at any moment, one party (us or the other party, I don't know) will back out. Ugh.
I want to talk about big thinky things, too, but have no time to focus on them. I miss law school. I miss seminars and panel discussions on topics like Bakke. I read the legal op-eds on the 6th Circuit affirmative action decision and want to sit in a roomful of those writers, hear them talk, and maybe say a little bit myself, but maybe not. I'd rather be the moderator, asking questions to get them going.
Moody moody moody, frustrated frustrated frustrated.
Wednesday, May 15, 2002
oh wow
A New Kind of Science, by Stephen Wolfram, sounds fascinating.
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
economy and the creative class
Interesting theory, see here. Memphis is ranked low, which jives, sadly, with my experience. Though it doesn't have to be.
Monday, May 13, 2002
lyrics
I can give a straight up goddamn / I've can give you four or five of them / Got a thousand in my bank account / Break it open and let the goddamns walk out
-Mike Doughty, "Where Have You Gone?"
carrot halwa
Also rocks. Made a ton to distribute to the section, and to other friends in the Environment division. Some people didn't realize how rich halwa is, and took too much. Still, it's delish, and I think people enjoyed it.
Mmm, carrots and cream and nuts and cardamon...
also random
M Doughty rocks. God I had a great time at his concert. He has, however, kicked me into a state of existential angst, which I will describe here once I get some free time.
Friday, May 10, 2002
ooh
Steven Johnson, who wrote that book Emergence that I so liked, has an article in Salon about blogs. (It's totally derivable from Emergence, by the way.)
Thursday, May 09, 2002
heh
A recent study says that statistically, having boys shortens a mother's lifespan, while having girls lengthens her lifespan, at least in the Sami people of Finland.
Sorry, so many short snippets today.
fox or hedgehog?
Quiz.
Fox.
literary humor
By the Guardian, which I really ought to read more regularly for book stuff.
whoa
Conservative law professor Eugene Volokh has a blog? C'mon, where are the liberal legal pundits out there?
Wednesday, May 08, 2002
discourse optimist
that I am, stuff like this makes me sad.
comparing the two east coast cities i've lived in the longest
A column in Slate does it pretty well:
The cultures of Washington and Boston are, of course,
quite distinct. The intellectual life of Washington revolves
around the intricacies of policy (at best) and the jostling
of personalities (at worst); I think of the president in
Henry Adams' Democracy, a dead puppet shaking the
hands of his dinner guests. The intellectual life of Boston
revolves around the creation of ideas (at best) and the
repetition of ideologies (at worst); I think of e.e.
cummings shaking his fist at the "Cambridge ladies who
live in furnished souls | knitting for the is it Poles?" If
Washington has too many politicians, Boston may have
a few too many academics.
Here's the thing--I like the best of Boston far more than I like the best of Washington, and can deal with the worst of Boston far better than the worst of Washington. I'm in the wrong city, sigh.
Tuesday, May 07, 2002
uh
Pierced kids looking for trouble, study finds. Great, the parental crackdown will continue. And how many of people will ignore the last sentence---"This doesn't apply to adults," he cautioned. "We didn't look at the effects of piercing on college-age people."---do you bet?
totally fascinating
From a legal point of view. A lawsuit over the medical residency's match system. I should talk to my brother about this. On the legal side, though, the medical residency match system always seemed to raise similar problems as that mid-90s college financial aid case (as the article also observed).
As a note, with regards to people's suggestions of modeling the judicial clerkship system on the residency match system, I don't think that'd be as much of a problem, because judicial clerks are all under the same overarching employer and receive the same salary, with experience/cost-of-living adjustment, and hence such a situation wouldn't raise the same antitrust issues.
lucid dreaming
So I've read that you can control your dreams once you realize in your dream that you're dreaming. Plus Ilana's friend Adam says he can do this. It sounds pretty nifty.
Anyway, I've been trying to figure it out for myself, and I think I'm on the verge. Two times during the last week I've realized, during the dream, that this has got to be a dream. I always end up waking up, though, rather than being able to test out the amazing powers of lucid dreaming. Grr. But I'll figure it out, eventually.
Thursday, May 02, 2002
you know you're a law geek when
You read the new FRAP rules right away.
Wednesday, May 01, 2002
from the onion
Oh dear, this is going to happen to me someday:
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Secretary Of Agriculture Gently Reminded About Dress Code
WASHINGTON, DC— After attending Monday's Cabinet
meeting in a flannel work shirt and tattered jeans, Agriculture
Secretary Ann Veneman was gently reminded by President
Bush about the executive-branch dress code. "Say, you know,
we get a lot of foreign dignitaries coming through here," Bush
told Veneman. "So I think it might be a good idea if you had
a little bit more of a professional appearance. Like maybe a
nice navy-blue dress." Bush also encouraged Veneman to
consider dress shoes instead of her usual steel-toe work boots.
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Fortunately, the Executive Branch doesn't really have a dress code. Er, do we?
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