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More Cable Woes

I don’t think I men­tioned it, but last August, right after I took the bar exam, I moved out of my law school apart­ment in Lesser North­east Key Mid­west­ern Swing State City and (shud­der) moved back in with my mother in Greater Key Mid­west­ern Swing State City, because I didn’t have a job. I still don’t have a job, but I do have an inter­view this week, so that might change. When I was in Lesser North­east Key Mid­west­ern Swing State City Just 20 Min­utes South of Greater North­east Key Mid­west­ern Swing State City, I had AT&T’s U-​​​​Verse prod­uct, which deliv­ered inter­net and tele­vi­sion over a cop­per pair. It’s almost exactly [ . . . ]

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LHC Advisory Note

Dear The Inter­nets, Please be advised that, although the Large Hadron Col­lider will be pow­ered up on Wednes­day, no high-​​​​energy col­li­sions are sched­uled until Novem­ber. It really upsets me to see peo­ple, includ­ing the news media report­ing tomorrow’s ini­tial power-​​​​up as “the most com­plex sci­en­tific exper­i­ment ever under­taken” (from the first link) when in fact it is not. The claims that the LHC will destroy the world are pure lunacy. But please, all you cra­zies out there, if you’re going to get all het up about the end of the world, it is very impor­tant that you get your dates straight. [ . . . ]

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Aggregation Aggravation

I got a let­ter today from the City: Click to read it. At the bot­tom of the page is a tear-​​​​off form that I’m sup­posed to fill out and sign in order to opt out of the pro­gram, but my scan­ner won’t scan legal-​​​​size paper, so you don’t get to see it. It’s not all that excit­ing; you aren’t miss­ing much. Appar­ently, before I moved to Lesser North­east Key Mid­west­ern Swing State City (just 20 min­utes South of Greater North­east Key Mid­west­ern Swing State City), the city res­i­dents voted to do this aggre­ga­tion thinggy to, allegedly, get cheaper elec­tric­ity. From what I gather, the gov­ern­ment picks which [ . . . ]

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Gak!

That’s the noise I just made when I real­ized all the stuff I need to do. In no par­tic­u­lar order: Explain my posi­tion on the death penalty (includ­ing my analy­sis of Kennedy v. Louisiana) Post my analy­sis of Dis­trict of Colum­bia v. Heller Fin­ish my cri­tique of “gay cul­ture” Write a for­mal review of Gat­taca (I can’t believe I haven’t done this yet!) Write big memo for Job #1 Write big memo for Job #2 Update my resume (Why does this always take so much work?) Apply for Fed­eral judi­cial clerk­ship Con­tinue research on Sun­dae Spe­cials Start research on the impact of gay mar­riage on the spousal priv­i­leges Fin­ish upload­ing [ . . . ]

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Vandals!

I have a rose­bush. It is a flori­bunda with deep red–almost maroon–flowers. I’ve been work­ing on it for a few years now, and I prune it when it needs prun­ing, and I water it every other day, and I feed it and rotate it (it is in a large pot) and clip off dead blooms and what­not. I care for it, rather like some peo­ple care for pets. It is a thing that I am proud of. Proud that I have kept it alive (I have a bad track record with plants); proud that I have been able to trans­form it from the scrag­gly lit­tle runt I bought at a Home Depot some­where into a big, [ . . . ]

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Public Libraries are Hazardous to Your Health

This is a gross post. I do not often get sick. In fact, in the past 3 years, I have been sick exactly 3 times. For­tu­nately, they have all come at the least inop­por­tune times — dur­ing var­i­ous breaks. I got sick two Christ­mases ago, and then again last Christ­mas, and now I’m sick again dur­ing sum­mer break. All three times have been really insanely awful sinus infec­tions. I’m not the sort of per­son who gets sinus infec­tions with every cold. No, I only get sinus infec­tions when I get something–we’re talk­ing about for­eign bod­ies here–stuck up my nose. I don’t go around putting things up there delib­er­ately. Christ­mas [ . . . ]

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Today on CNN​.com

CNN​.com announces that Mitt Rom­ney will be sus­pend­ing his cam­paign fol­low­ing a dis­ap­point­ing show­ing on Super Tues­day. To announce this news, CNN​.com places a ban­ner at the top of their page. Click here to see the ban­ner as it appeared at 12:45pm EST. Mer­ci­fully, it was only up for about 7 min­utes, and has now been replaced with a head­line that con­tains nei­ther apos­tro­phes nor plurals.