Within like a couple of minutes of each other, "we need these several dozen British court cases, the oldest from 1917, the most recent, from a couple of weeks ago", and, "I am looking for SEC complaints in insider trading misappropriation cases where scienter is based only on recklessness." One is the kind of request I damn near live for; the other ( Read more... )

Exploiting a combat system is one thing - hell, that's what like half the RPG's out there are built on! But, I guess, if you play enough games, eventually, you'll run into a situation that's not quite a glitch or error - but that's not really *supposed* to ever happen ( Read more... )

So, I picked up the first Trails of Cold Steel what, in February? So, let's say a month and a half after it came out, and more or less on a whim. And, of course, *because* I had no idea what I was going to get myself into, just got the download ( Read more... )

Twenty-two? hours in? Bareahard ( Read more... )

Twenty hours ( Read more... )

And, because for a while, this will still be seriously the *only* thing I talk about...

I mean, OK, so the game is getting pretty all-around acclaim. Again, "a modern JRPG masterpiece", all that.

But, reading the reviews, all I want to say is - man, those are some lazy reviews ( Read more... )

Little annoyances - getting a request for an article from a particular journal that I *know* we have on the shelf, copying the article, then thinking, you know, maybe I *should* check our "e-journal portal" (...which is buried like three pages into the intranet, and is really not promoted/advertised in any way) to see if we have electronic access ( Read more... )

At some point, I really would like to count how many times I've made the trip from New York to DC. For whatever reason. I mean, yeah, there was that whole *living in DC for almost five years* part, but, plus cons, plus conferences, plus just hanging out with friends. Hell, the one time I went down for a concert and back up again ( Read more... )

Habits that I don't think I'll ever quite get over - leaving notes for myself that barely made sense *at the time* - and sure as hell don't make any sense now ( Read more... )

That very New York kind of feeling/experience - so, one of the really cool things about my neighborhood is that the subway station I usually use gets both the express train, and local the local. And, even though the two trains' routes then split, in Manhattan, they both stop on 42nd Street (of course) - a block apart from each other - and the ( Read more... )