Law Technology

"game of lighter fluid tag ends badly"

Posted on May 21, 2009
Really, the headline tells you all you need to know, but the rest of the article is here. How else could a game of lighter fluid tag possibly end?

OMG! WTF?

Posted on May 15, 2009
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Scott Silverman declared a mistrial in a civil fraud case Wednesday after being informed a witness on the stand in his courtroom had engaged in text-messaging while the judge spoke with attorneys during a sidebar conference. The dispute is over the sale of condo tower in North Miami Beach...

link rot

Posted on May 07, 2009
It's a problem in this state.

never heard of this one!

Posted on April 30, 2009
New York preserves a "unique" cause of action for loss of right of sepulchre, or the immediate right to bury your own loved ones. It is a sad case, and one that I would have bet money would not succeed. The hospital, however, argued that the claim was time-barred, and the A...

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why i think twitter is stupid

Posted on April 21, 2009
How to lose a job with one tweet. It's not even that I think the applicant is "stupid" (naive, unwise, yes). The very application lends itself to this kind of unguarded naivete.

virtual buddha machine

Posted on April 19, 2009
I have no explanation for why I love the Buddha Machine so much. I don't even own a physical one yet, either release 1.0 or 2.0, although I come pretty close with looping the tracks on my Zune. I like the idea of having something that is like a cheap transistor radio, not the sleeker-than-sleek Zune...

how does it DO that?

Posted on March 29, 2009
It's a standard feature of social networking sites that they offer you suggested new connections based on the connections you already have.LinkedIn is starting to freak me out. It has suggested to me several out-of-state individuals to whom I have no known connection but who are, in fact, actual clients of mine...

holding my breath

Posted on March 27, 2009
One of the biggest mental shifts that I've had to make over the years as I think about computers--which I do a lot--is learning how to think about networks. Way back in the day--and I mean waaaay back in the day--my law firm put a box on my desk (it was a 286! w00t!), connected it to a network, and that was it...

data rot

Posted on March 26, 2009
New nomenclature, old concept. Along with global warming, something else to worry about.

the minimalist workspace

Posted on March 20, 2009
I'm working towards this. I have noticed, however, the peculiar phenomenon that as my workspace grows ever less cluttered, the desks of my staff get more cluttered. Are they less committed to miminalism than I, or simply in no position to complain about me dumping my crap on their nice clean desks? Hm.

dialectical bootstrapping

Posted on March 15, 2009
I'm all about making better decisions, so imagine my delight when I stumbled on research by Stefan M. Herzog and Ralph Hertwig of the University of Basel about a decisionmaking technique with the added benefit of a delightfully jargon-loaded name.According to the article, Dialectical bootstrapping is a method by which an individual mind averages its' own conflicting opinions, thus simulating the "wisdom of the crowd...

how not to use a lawyer

Posted on March 10, 2009
You never know when your snotty letter is going to be posted on the Internet.

strange bedfellows

Posted on March 04, 2009

the real reason that dinosaurs became extinct

Posted on March 03, 2009

what ARE they teaching them in school?

Posted on February 25, 2009
I believe I understand what the school is getting at here, but I'd like to see schoolteachers speak more clearly than this.

col. mustard, in the pantry, with a lead pipe

Posted on February 02, 2009
I actually am beginning to think that it would be interesting to be a network administrator.Nothing in my training or experience to date has given me the tools to solve this conundrum:Our server has Windows Server 2003, which is (of course) not quite the same thing as Windows Small Business Server 2003...

full circle

Posted on January 30, 2009
First, there was the Walkman (circa 1979 or so). It was cool. But I owned a turntable (and an 8-track tape deck). I was in law school and poor. So I didn't buy one.Next, there was the Discman. It was cool. But by then I had replaced my turntable with a cassette tape player, and I didn't want to replace all my replacement cassettes with CDs...

why i don't do numbers

Posted on October 17, 2008
Why was a first-year associate doing this kind of stuff with Excel? Who was proofreading?How embarrassing, but there but for the grace of God go I.

if i haven't posted this before, I should have

Posted on July 30, 2008

this is sad

Posted on February 24, 2008
Florida judges think intuitively, not logically.It's so hard to be a logical person in this world (says the INTJ).

kali sara

Posted on February 06, 2008
Saint Sarah is venerated by the Roma. The name Kali Sara is a reminder that the Roma's first origins were in India. I could go on and on about this.I was very excited to find this clip on YouTube. "Latcho Drom," the source of this clip, is one of my favorite movies of all time...

how many times do i have to tell you?

Posted on January 09, 2008
As reported by law.com this week, more attractive lawyers make more money.Look! I reported on this on 6/20/2005! Get with it, people!

forgiving versus forgetting

Posted on November 26, 2007
Back when I was just a young dakini, and the prime rate was 20%, I found myself partway through Columbia University School of Law with a reduced scholarship for my third and final year.I put myself through law school. My parents were both retired, and my dad was old and sick, when I entered law school, and the only financial support they were able to give me was $200 when I set off for New York City...

feeling cocky about being technosavvy?

Posted on November 02, 2007
The picture above was taken by a 10-year-old. With a cell phone.

"smelly fan blows wind on pirates. run!"

Posted on September 28, 2007
Everything you need to know about the new international radiation symbol.

subversive cross stitch update

Posted on September 13, 2007
I hereby certify that the foregoing item is, in fact, currently on display in my office.It is, however, arranged so that clients cannot see it easily.

why computers are occasionally pounded into their original components of silicone (or silicon, thanks Jay)

Posted on September 08, 2007
Palm has finally created a version Palm Desktop that is Windows-Vista compatible.But it isn't compatible with my Treo 650.I do not want to purchase another gadget right now.I would really, really like to pound my laptop with my Treo right now.That wouldn't be very mature.

imagine

Posted on August 21, 2007
You're in Hell. And you want to get out (has sound, is work-safe content).Absolutely fabulous.

a periodic table of visualization methods

Posted on August 08, 2007
I think this may just be the coolest thing I have ever seen.

i can has lolcats?

Posted on July 17, 2007
Now that I have found a guide to lolcat grammar, I feel better about writing my own captions. I found some pretty good ones on the Bar Exam Lolcats group, but now that I've found the generator...let's see...

note to self

Posted on May 31, 2007
Must remember. Do not tell judge that she is a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

so maybe i should lay off the postcards

Posted on April 11, 2007
I mean, look. This guy lost his disability insurance benefits and gained a criminal conviction and bar sanctions.On the other hand, for him it wasn't just postcards, it was POSTCARDS.

"enough of these silly letters"

Posted on February 22, 2007
Sometimes a judge has just had enough (not to be confused with the lawyer who had enough in my last post).

i'll have another, your honor

Posted on February 09, 2007
This is amazing.Amazing.He lost his license.

permit and proceed

Posted on January 25, 2007
This description is confusing, but bear with me. First, there was Second Life. I've signed up, but I have enough self-awareness by this age to recognize what a thief of time this could be for me.Second, there was First Life, or more accurately Get A First Life...

the biology of boredom

Posted on January 10, 2007
It's not my fault I can't concentrate on stupid stuff. So there.

for those idle office hours

Posted on December 29, 2006
Just the thing while waiting for those long jobs to print.

happy, um...

Posted on December 24, 2006
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, nonaddictive, gender neutral celebration of the holiday of your choice, practiced with the most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all...

why i can't find my keys

Posted on December 23, 2006
It turns out that different layers of the brain process information at different speeds. Very cool stuff.

the dorsal striatum and the prisoner's dilemma

Posted on October 09, 2006
As far as I know, researchers in neurology and the game theory types aren't talking much to one another, which is a shame. I have in hand a fascinating article called "The Neural Basis of Altruistic Punishment" that is causing me to rethink many of my assumptions about how to apply the Prisoner's Dilemma in my daily business life...

subversive cross-stitch

Posted on September 29, 2006
I really, really want a sampler that says WTF? for my office. Even though embroidery has always given me a severe case of the fidgets, I am willing to make the sacrifice in order to enhance my own subversive office decor.

the bryn mawr college cookbook

Posted on September 16, 2006
What's cool about this is that I sort of watched this book being built, because the recipes were collected through the alumnae listserv. Truth to be told (and I always do) I didn't pay much attention to the whole process other than to idly note that the recipes flying about during the testing process all sounded pretty good...

don't honor me when i'm dead

Posted on September 13, 2006
The state bar is giving a "posthumous professionalism award" to our late Chief Disciplinary Counsel, who died recently in a car crash.I have no doubt she was very professional, but what is the purpose of this? For myself, I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

the painter of ....RICO?

Posted on August 29, 2006
I'm experiencing an unhealthy glee about this.

i love conte crayon

Posted on August 15, 2006

oblique strategies

Posted on August 15, 2006
I turned them into cards.