This afternoon I went to a reception in Santa Monica for newly admitted Cornellians in my capacity as a young alum. Vividly do I remember the analogous event in DC when I was in highschool. The only alums to show up were frat boys and sorostitutes. The lead frat boy said, I lived in thus-and-such frat house, it was awesome, I played hockey, it was ( Read more... )

No, anthropomorphic Microsoft Word paper clip, I do not want you to change every "unenumerated" I write into "unremunerated." Go fuck yourself.

Your friend,

J-----

(Who put the paper clip in charge anyhow?)

I came across a marvelous malapropism in another student's constitutional law notes:

"Congress can act prophylactively."

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A girl called me "fancy pants" today; I was partly dressed up for my (mandatory) bit part in a fake trial. Somehow "fancy pants" hurts more when you actually are wearing dress pants. Who knew.

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From Stern Electronics, Inc. v. Kaufman, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1982:

Video games like “Scramble” can roughly be described as computers programmed to create on a television screen cartoons in which some of the action is controlled by the player. In Stern's “Scramble,” for example, the video screen displays a spaceship moving ( Read more... )