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a spouse!

Posted on December 19, 2008
today's Dinosaur Comic is AWESOME.this is one of those gags that only the golden rule stops me from doing. it would be so, so, so, so funny to pull on someone else--and only the knowledge of how pissed i'd be if someone did that to me stops me from doing this.

telephone trivia...

Posted on December 19, 2008
useless fact of the day: the word "ethics" and the name "duggar" require the same combination of telephone keys to type them.this is entertaining, in that oh-so-disturbing way.

galoshes!!

Posted on December 19, 2008
everything's covered in snow! it's gorgeous and awesome, but it highlighted something that my wardrobe lacks: boots made for inclement weather. i was walking down the mostly-unshoveled sidewalks gingerly, hoping to get as little snow as possible into my work shoes...

faulty pattern recognition

Posted on December 17, 2008
a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=6480218amp;page=1"this article/a made me think of yet another Bad Argument in the a href="http://www.packetslut.co.uk/weblog/archives/00000053.htm"section of bad arguments/asup1/sup from the Dilbert book uThe Joy of Work/u:br /br /bFAULTY PATTERN RECOGNITION:/bbr /iExample:/i His last six wives were murdered mysteriously...

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the notorious b.o.a.l.t.

Posted on December 17, 2008
if this had existed in the fall of 2005, my Civ Pro grade probably would have sucked a lot less:br /br /object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qBTba2J6OKIhl=enfs=1"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www...

:-O

Posted on December 16, 2008
it is so windy today that the snow is falling up past my office window.

the bisexual quiz

Posted on December 16, 2008
i was watching the llama song this morning, and one of the google text ads below the video was rather ridiculous:The Bi Sexual QuizAre you Bi Sexual? Take the Bi Sexual Quiz & See if you are Biummm...we'll leave the bad grammar aside for now. the last time i checked, i don't think anyone needed to click on any little online quiz to tell them whether they're bi, gay, straight, or any other sexual identity...

eat them up, yum.

Posted on December 16, 2008
this is one of the few things from the eighties that doesn't suck.

the operative word is crack.

Posted on December 16, 2008
dear blog comment spammers,yes, i know i am openly soliciting content ideas for News Crack Smokers Can Use. but, the operative word here is crack. leaving me comments advertising some new medicine that will help cigarette smokers quit is not only annoying, but it's not relevant...

News Crack Smokers Can Use: December 15, 2008

Posted on December 15, 2008
it's monday...and that means it's time for another installment of News Crack Smokers Can Use! each week, i scour the depths of the interwebstubes to bring you stories of the stupidest crack smokers. if you're not a crackhead, take pleasure in the fact that you're not as stupid as these people...

i'm not a fed, but...

Posted on December 15, 2008
i'm now admitted to practice before the United States Distrct Court for the Northern District of Illinois.yay, federal court!

reminiscing

Posted on December 14, 2008
reading my really old blog entries messes with my head. i'm reading through stuff in 2003 right now...and, wow, i was an extremely unhappy person in late 2003. i remember being really frustrated with school, but seriously, i forgot how every single blog entry from back in that day was about how awful i felt and how many nervous breakdowns i was having...

i unnderstan...

Posted on December 14, 2008
the answer to this picture is simple--because that computer is an eeepc, and is really, really shiny.

year in review, part one...

Posted on December 13, 2008
stolen from Rob, murd0c, and the rest of the interbutts:Look at the posts you?ve made in the past year, and paste the first line of the first post of each month.january: happy new year!february: headline news is on in the lounge. most of it is boring...

facebook shakedown

Posted on December 11, 2008
oh, facebook. first you take "pornographic" out of the choices for ad tagging, so i have to type it in the "other" box every time that i want to tag an ad for engagement rings or Oprah's Latest Acai Berry Diet.and, now, you've moved on from posting ads aimed at getting women to demand engagement rings and promise rings to ads aimed at getting people to satisfy that fabricated demand for fear of losing them:if this doesn't sound like a threat of "Buy Her Jewelry Or Else", i don't know what does...

halp!

Posted on December 11, 2008
i'm going to a party this weekend, and it would be really, really cool if i could pull together something steampunk for it.given that i don't know jack shit about putting together a fun steampunk outfit...suggestions are welcome.

:D

Posted on December 11, 2008
after work yesterday, i went to the chicago bar association's young lawyers' division holiday party. on the way, though, i had a very fun detour. on the way to the party, i passed by the Rock Records store, on Washington between Wells and LaSalle. they must be going out of business or something, because everything in the store was 70% off...

a hackerspace? in chicago?

Posted on December 10, 2008
i went to a meeting for pumping station one tonight. i'm psyched. there are good people on the project, and hopefully we'll get even more on board in the near future.there's a lot of work ahead of us, but it will be interesting and rewarding work.....

it's like hunting cows.

Posted on December 10, 2008
well played, Jon Stewart. well played..cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links a{color:#b9b9b9;text-decoration:none;}.cc_show a{color:#707070;text-decoration:none;}...

a question of percentages

Posted on December 10, 2008
i was reading this morning's new york times online, and got to the section of letters to the editor. the times had recently published an article addressing the issue of abortion, so of course there were pointed and opinionated letters on each side of the issue...

no more Rod For Us?

Posted on December 09, 2008
yes, it's all over both the mainstream media and the blogosphere--my governor is a dumbass. he has already been under fire for corruption. he has been under investigation for corruption. he knew he was under investigation, since it has been all over the front covers of the newspapers for months upon months...

"aid for women"? really?

Posted on December 08, 2008
crisis pregnancy centers offend me. they hold themselves out to be places where women can figure out what to do when they're pregnant, when in fact their agenda is simply to stop women from getting abortions, no matter what.in an entry he posted today, foofy attorney discusses the danger and tragedy of these places more eloquently than i ever could.

\O-O/

Posted on December 08, 2008
i had my annual eye exam today. i always love getting a fresh set of contacts...and, even more awesome, i got new glasses this year as well! i hadn't had new glasses since 2002. they broke last year, but i never got around to getting them replaced...

what?

Posted on December 08, 2008
in today's chicago daily law bulletin, there is an ad for a filing and paperwork procesing service with the following headline:With the high cost of gasoline and summer congestion starting let The Attorneys' Clerk do your road work...did anyone bother to tell her that it was December, and that gas in Chicago was down to between $1...

News Crack Smokers Can Use: December 8, 2008

Posted on December 08, 2008
i've decided to make News Crack Smokers Can Use a regular feature on this blog. this is, after all, the last refuge of the persecuted crack smoker.what does this mean? it means that every week, i'll entertain you with the stories of that week's dumbest crack smokers...

a paean to clippers

Posted on December 08, 2008
i am never getting my hair cut with scissors again.when i go to the salon, i always have the same thing happen over and over again:i ask the stylist to cut my hair to somewhere between .5" and .75" all around.they cut my hair with scissors.it's still too long, so i tell them that, and they have to cut all my hair again...

holiday travels

Posted on December 08, 2008
alright, to any of you in DC or New York, this is your lucky day!well, maybe not today...but soon. and, it's only "lucky" if you enjoy such oddball things as "hanging out with me." :)however, i'm going to be in washington, dc from Dec. 24 through Dec...

doctors for jews for jesus

Posted on December 08, 2008
i was reading the new york times this morning, catching up on all kinds of SRS BSNS NEWS, and i encountered the strangest ad i've seen in a long time. has Jews for Jesus finally decided that they're going to go for respectable-looking ads instead of those crudely hand-drawn pamphlets that the people were always handing out next to the University of Chicago bookstore back in the day? if so, that may help the perceived legitimacy of their cause, but i doubt that claiming that Jews for Jesus is "more important than a cure for cancer" is going to help much...

math-matic

Posted on December 07, 2008
do you have a spare UNIVAC lying around your home or office? are you curious how to program it?today's your lucky day.even if you don't have a spare UNIVAC lying around, it's a pretty fascinating read.

an introduction to lock picking

Posted on December 07, 2008
yesterday was awesome. i spent the afternoon picking locks in a spy shop in skokie.we've got a pretty healthy lockpicking contingent at our 2600 meeting here in chicago...in fact, the meeting is concurrent the chicago meeting of toool, the open organization of lockpickers...

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