I'm reposting this from chilimuffin; I hadn't heard it before. But it's important info. If anyone knows anything related (either backing it up or contradicting it!), please comment ( Read more... )

Hi, all. I don't look at my LJ profile too often, but I recently saw that a few people had friended me who I hadn't friended back. I looked up most of you and figured out who you were and added you, but there were a few of you who I don't know ( Read more... )

Actually, I'm in a coffeeshop, not ship. But that was a typo I made a bit earlier, and I liked it. May even try to bring it into use.

The Chicago part, however, is not a typo! For the first time since she helped me move out to Ann Arbor in August 2006, I'm visitingtrinitysite! The fact that we hadn't seen each other in the past year and a half, despite ( Read more... )

Boston.com is predicting 5 to 10 inches of snow. And so more than 600 schools and colleges have closed in response ( Read more... )

Interested in the politics of information and knowledge? Wonder what on earth I mean by that? In either case, you should check out the Social Justice Librarian blog. It's at http://sjlibrarian.wordpress.comRead more... )

Hey there, folks! It’s a break from school, which makes it time for the semi-annual Matt-comes-to-Boston festival! This year, as part of our gala celebration, we’ll have dancing bears and flying penguins. And, of course, there’ll be all the nachos you can eat, and free shirts for the kids ( Read more... )

Y'know, Doctor, when I call you three days after seeing you to say that I've been following your advice and my symptoms are still there, I understand that you'll want me to list the symptoms and what I've been doing about them. But when you take the symptoms to be evidence that I haven't actaully been doing what you told me to do, when in fact I ( Read more... )

This is great. I went to bed last night feeling kind of cold, and then I woke up at 6:40 am with a pounding headache, sweating. When I took my temperature, it was about 101. Yet it's finals time, and i have a major paper due by midnight tomorrow. And the professor to whom I owe said paper is in Australia ( Read more... )

"The basic elements of the Pennsylvania vagrancy statute merely repeat legislation enacted 400 years ago in the immediate aftermath of the Black Dealth." --Caleb Foote, 1956

That, I'm fairly certain, is the law review equivalent of calling out a policy as completely whack.

L: I’m having an existential crisis. Can you talk for ten minutes ( Read more... )