| Visit to Huntsville |
[Jul. 24th, 2009|09:30 am] |
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My wife and I will be in Huntsville the weekend of August 7. We'd love to see anyone who's around. |
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| Back from scuba diving |
[May. 5th, 2009|09:57 am] |
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In the Cayman Islands, which was really amazing, if brief. Now back in the office, which is less amazing, but makes up for it by being very long. Got to see a loggerhead turtle, though, and after some rather high-pitched and girlish stalling on my part, do a rolling-back entry into choppy water with a non-coddling dive crew of impatient locals. Like a hobbit, I am capable of enjoying adventurousness, when cornered and given no other options. |
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| I'm doing the MS Walk |
[Apr. 18th, 2006|02:50 pm] |
Hey all. What follows is a shameless request for cash, but it's in a genuinely good cause. Those of you who have already seen aspartaimee's post please feel free to ignore this one.
I'm doing the annual MS Walk in Philadelphia on May 7. As some of you may know, my friend and roommate's mother has been struggling with this disease for over 3 years. It truly has had devastating impact on her family.
Any contributions people are able to make are very welcome. The MS Society has been a great source of support for my friend and her family, so I can say from experience that your money would be directly benefiting people's lives. If anyone wants to joing the team, we'd be very happy to have you. I did this last year, and it's a gorgeous walk along the Schuylkil down by the art museum.
Best wishes to all.
To donate to me, click here.
To see our team, click here.
To join our team, click here. |
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| Legal writing |
[Feb. 13th, 2006|12:10 pm] |
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When your writing is so simplistic that a four year old could understand it and a six year old would be insulted by it, when it is so precisely channeled and formulaic that Henry Ford and William Shakespeare would both weep, the one for joy at your near-perfect impression of an automaton and the other in despair at language robbed of all human interest, style or creativity, when you can reliably turn your words into the verbal equivalent of checkbook math, then you have mastered the art of legal writing. |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 16th, 2004|07:18 pm] |
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I just spent a pleasant day canvassing for Kerry-Edwards. It was a lot better than I thought it would be - you just talk to registered Dems and (supposedly) undecided voters, though we sure didn't see any of them. Almost everyone I spoke with wasn't just tolerating my visit, they were positively enthusiastic about it. I had people I wasn't even trying to talk to stop me just to tell me that they were voting for Kerry, and to make sure we had their names. Many more Kerry signs on lawns than Bush, which is great, because I'm right in one of the most significant swing regions in PA. Traditionally, western PA goes Republican, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia go Democrat, and the voters in the Philly suburbs often determine the election. I expected to see a lot more Bush signs than I did. Based on the number of friends and neighbors that were pointed out to me as pro-Kerry by the people I was visiting, Lower Merion township seems safely in the Kerry camp. |
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| It's Iraq, al Qaeda, or even Guantanmo Bay... |
[Aug. 14th, 2004|10:54 am] |
But it could have more of an immediate impact on most American citizens than any of those things. It's the Bush administration's quiet regulatory revisions, which it's using to implement many policies that couldn't get through Congress.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/14/politics/14bush.html?hp
The upshot is that these are major changes to just about every area of life the Feds have a hand in, but they tend to go under the radar most of the time. The information is free to the public, but most people don't know where to look. While news reports of Iraq grab all the headlines, you're more likely to be affected personally by an exhausted trucker plowing into you on the highway or nearby Forest Service land that's suddenly clear-cut. |
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| Gotta love Amazon customer reviews... |
[Apr. 19th, 2004|12:50 pm] |
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2 people recommended Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean instead of How to Get into the Top Law Schools (The Degree of Difference Series) |
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| I'm a commie! |
[Apr. 8th, 2004|02:30 pm] |
And darn proud to be one, at least by the standards of that site. |
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