So finally got through the week, which wouldn’t have been so long if I hadn’t been sick. Being sick allowed me to taste test chicken noodle soups, and the winner so far among Cambells Chunky and Progresso was hands down progresso, maybe I’ll put the whole write up here. What spurred me to write now [...]
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So the annual PILF (public interest law foundation) auction is today, but unfortunatly for me I can’t make it as I have class running throughout (4-6 and 6-8:30) I was surprised by the PILF auction last year as it is really well setup and run, and they bring in lots of great things to bid [...]
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The AP has somehow come across the secure video conference that occured six days before Katrina struck the gulf coast, and apparently it doesn’t look good for the current administration, with the president being explicitly warned by his experts about the strength of the impending hurricane and the likely failure of the levees (which he [...]
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Today the Supreme Court is going to be hearing an important case regarding campaign financing in Vermont (also today is the Anna Nicole Smith probate case). Vermont spent a lot of time researching, debating and passing election laws that greatly restrict campaign donations (to $400) as well as spending limits for campaigns (governor was $300,000, [...]
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Yup, interesting really I thought. There is a 3L here at OSU Law who is doing an independent study/research in which his ‘product’ is his blog (3L Epiphany, not sure exactly what that name means). It seems like he is just starting it this semester, so it will be interesting to see what comes from [...]
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“I could have ended up in Guantánamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale.” This comes from a great story called “The Freshman” that I recommend in this mornings NY Times magazine about a former Taliban member who is now at Yale. It is interesting for a number of reasons, one was just hearing about [...]
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So just another food update from a few days ago when I made goat cheese and cheddar quesadilla. Originally they were looking a tad plain so I started making some pico de gallo, just using simply a diced tomato, some diced onion, some lime zest and lime juice and diced jalapeño with the seeds removed [...]
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So I might have been out of the loop again, but I hadn’t heard of the movie Der Untergang (Downfall) til recently, a 3 hour long ‘epic’ of sorts about the events leading to end of Hitler’s Nazi regime in his Berlin bunker. The movie (in German) is quite good, although certain scenes can be [...]
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I first heard about this last week on NPR (listen to story here) on an interview with New Yorker author Malcolm Gladwell. The story he had just written and was discussing concerned what could be described as the hardcore homeless, those who are chronically often for years living in shelters, aggressively panhandling and abusing alcohol [...]
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A judge ruled that Google’s image search, which duplicates and resizes images from websites, was a copyright violation. (See here)
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