“They don’t have any fiber out there. They don’t have any wires. . . . They use my lines for free - and that’s bull. For a Google or a Yahoo or a Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes for free is nuts!”

~Edward Whitacre, CEO of AT&T 1Released over a year ago, this quote has long since disappeared into the ether, replaced by more recent ( Read more... )

Having completed my final law school class session (which consisted of [not] drinking beer while discussing the second amendment), i feel that i ought to somehow solemnize the occasion. For the first time in my life, i can't say when i will next be sitting in a classroom, working toward some kind of degree. Fortunately, the magnitude of such an ( Read more... )

I'm currently working on a papar that i don't really want to be writing, about a topic where my understanding of the subject matter is just slightly more than superficial. I accidentally volunteered to write this paper, so now i'm suffering the consequences. Sucks to be me. By which i mean, suck it up and deal, for the word volunteer pretty much ( Read more... )

the sun is setting on the century
and we are armed to the teeth
we're all working together
to make our lives miserably bleak
and school kids keep trying to teach us
what guns are all about
confuse liberty with weaponry
and watch your kids act it out

April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land...

I know but one person who could translate the words of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land into a theme party. Fortunately, this is the same person whose company i enjoyed Friday night, when she directed her friends (and acquaintances) to dress as famous people who died in the month of ( Read more... )

I propose that at the point that one is convicted of first-degree murder, labeling the convict's "relationship to the victim" as "friend" (for statistical consideration) probably mischaracterizes the interaction between the two. If it does not, and in fact they believed this to be a reasonable assessment of their relationship, perhaps both could ( Read more... )

But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our sympathies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be ( Read more... )

Monday night, i saw Word Play. To quote my movie-going companion Tanya, "I'm a junkie for geek competitions," so i'm rounding out my week with Spellbound, and hoping the Netflix fairies will drop Word Wars in my mailbox this weekend ( Read more... )

Crippled by old age, my iPod has stopped displaying song titles. In fact, it has stopped displaying anything. It i touch the wheel, the screen lights up and reveals nothing. Useful as a nightlight, but little else ( Read more... )

Wednesday morning after evidence, i walked out of class with my friend Tanya, making plans to dedicate the afternoon to preparing for future classes. Then i spotted one of my favorite professors and suddenly remembered that, though i hadn't bothered to write it down on my schedule, i was registered for a class, with this professor, beginning at ( Read more... )