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Good Fences

Posted on March 10, 2008
Everyone in my new building is super friendly and nice. People say "hi" to each other, and I have observed people engage in long, friendly conversations in which they convey the impression that they either 1) know each other's personal business or 2) actually hang out...

Retraction Of Ikea Imperialism Article

Posted on March 10, 2008
You know that Ikea Imperialism article that I linked to? The one where Danish names are used for doormats, while Swedish names are used for fancy couches?The article has been retracted.Apparently, accoding to the original linked article:Last week, SPIEGEL ONLINE published an article about IKEA products named after Danish cities...

Living Constitutionalism

Posted on March 10, 2008
If you are interested, which you should be:Michael Dorf on Living Constitutionalism.Larry Solum's Reply.Randy Barnett's Reply.

Motivation

Posted on March 10, 2008
I forgot to blog this back in January when everyone was making ill-fated resolutions (mine was "do more stuff," which so far is working out), but here is Jeremy's progress on his excellent scheme for staying motivated in his goal to work out at leat 200 days in 2008:I give myself a gold star every day I work out, and for every day short of 200 stars I earn for 2008, I have to give $25 to a cause I don?t want to give money to...

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Which Law School Would You Go To?

Posted on March 10, 2008
(The Law School Advice Wiki has been updated!!)And no, Paul Gowder, the correct answer is not "None at all! Run! Run for your life!"And yes, Amber Taylor, Hypothetical Pre-Law (HPL) does have a "good" reason for going: doing law/policy work for which a J...

Who Cares About Spitzer's Hooker?

Posted on March 10, 2008
Ok, ok, so Eliot Spitzer hired a prostitute. --- First, an interlude. Numerous feminist scholars read this blog, who are far better informed about this than I am. My understanding is that he hired a "high-class" (i.e. expensive) prostitute, and my intuition is that expensive prostitution is going to be fairly non-exploitative...

Songs Your Life Should Not Emulate

Posted on March 09, 2008
And I am taking nominations.This is NOT a breakup music thread. If/when that day comes, it will be signalled by Dusty Springfield's/White Stripes' "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" and Phil Collins' "Against All Odds" and all the most emotive dreck I can post without crashing the blogger server...

Chicken Soup with Kneidlach

Posted on March 09, 2008
If you want to make Jewish-style chicken soup, the first thing to do is stop calling them matzo balls. The Yiddish word is kneidlach. But in any language, that's tasty! (*teeth sparkling*)Here's how I made an awesome chicken soup for my wife, who is struck with a cold...

Nothing Is Random At Ikea

Posted on March 08, 2008
Via OrgTheory:Two Danish academics, Klaus Kjöller of the University of Copenhagen and Tröls Mylenberg of the University of Southern Denmark, conducted a thorough analysis of the names used in the IKEA catalog. They concluded that the Swedish names are reserved for the ?better? products, and that even Norwegian names manage to make it into the bed department...

Regina Spektor: Fidelity. Better and On the Radio

Posted on March 08, 2008
Faithful readers, don't read everything into everything. If something truly bad happened and you know me off-blog, you wouldn't find out via blog for one thing, and I would be posting up Phil Collins and Dusty Springfield videos so fast the RIAA would storm the doors...

Saturday Poet: Mark Strand

Posted on March 08, 2008
Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life For JulesIIs there something down by the water keeping itself from us,Some shy event, some secret of the light that falls upon the deep,Some source of sorrow that does not wish to be discovered yet?Why should we care? Doesn?t desire cast its rainbows over the coarse porcelainOf the world?s skin and with its measures fill the air? Why look for more?IIAnd now, while the advocates of awfulness and sorrowPush their dripping barge up and down the beach, let?s eatOur brill, and sip this beautiful white Beaune...

If it ain't space, I don't want it in my face. Orbit the awesome.

Posted on March 08, 2008
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Call For Links: A "Why You Should/n't Go to Law School" Wiki

Posted on March 06, 2008
I have created a wiki to collect links of advice pro/contra/useful if they are already stuck for aspiring law students, poor souls that they are.The link is here. To remember it, think anti-troll: http://lawschooladvicewiki.wikispaces.com/I have made this public, so that anyone can edit this wiki and do whatever it is that people do on wikis...

For TL: Teh Awesome

Posted on March 06, 2008
Reviews of Milk.(via the mighty Jeremy.)

Stuff

Posted on March 06, 2008
1. Stuff is my favorite euphemism/code name/non-descriptive moniker for everything. You want stuff? I got stuff (keep in mind, I probably mean cookies and not illegal stuff, which I don't want or know how to get and would not ever go near for fear of losing financial aid, and yes I'm actually serious)...

Why I will never be happy.

Posted on March 06, 2008
Looking at the date of this, a date burned into my memory as the Best Day Ever (so far) and re-reading it, all I can think is: man, I wish I had a blog crush.I will die alone, and unhappy.I can have all the happiness in real life (and I am pretty happy, I sayeth with a modest shrug and blush), and still want a blog crush...

Blogging makes the world go 'round

Posted on March 06, 2008
I always like "meeting" people who read my blog. I mean, who reads my blog? Heck if I know. Sitemeter and Google Analytics tells me that roughly 300 per day do, and at least 30% of those hits are regular and returning. I have no idea who you people are or how long you have been reading me...

Sociology Run Amok's Template for an Academic Manuscript

Posted on March 06, 2008
Previously, I posted Prof. Tina Fetner's template for a brief research statement.Wicked Anomie (Sociology Run Amok) has posted a most useful template for an academic manuscript--it's more geared towards quantitative work, but a few modifications would make it just as good for a qualitative study:"My Title And Abstract Include Keywords that Academic Search Engines will Pick Up AbstractMy study is about this...

I Wonder - Org Theory Edition

Posted on March 06, 2008
Since some of you keep wondering about my work, namely if I'm doing any, here are a few questions I ponder as I run off the bacon:1. I wonder if organizational over-compliance is due to the diffusion of norms across their organizational environment, a macro-level phenomenon, or if over-compliance is due to some micro-level cognitive phenomenon, e...

Why I Don't Throw Out Stuff

Posted on March 05, 2008
My stats notes from 2000 were more useful than any notes I took in class this semester. I like the prof a lot, but law professors, even when they have PhDs in Economics and presumably had some training teaching undergrads as TA's, are terrible at teaching undergraduate courses...

The Only Thing I Like About MS Word 2007

Posted on March 04, 2008
I hate, hate the ribbon bar and the illogical RE-organization of commands that used to be under the drop-down menus and how you can't click the sides of the page to adjust margins and on and on and on, but I'm creating a crib sheet of formulas for my stats midterm tomorrow, and this function is highly useful!:(click to enlarge)Snap!

Blanker Than Thou

Posted on March 04, 2008
(This post was edited several times. For now, this is the final version).For the record, I recyle, or at least I separate paper, plastic, glass, and aluminum, so stop hatin':I love my former roommate, and we are good friends still, but I love living alone even more...

Dreams

Posted on March 04, 2008
I'll blog under "Belle Lettre" for as long as I can, but I think I'd rather stop bloggging completely than archive this blog and join/start another under my own name. Unless I resign myself to being a dry academic blogger, and never have another public neurosis (hah, right) or interesting story...

Aristotle was wrong:

Posted on March 03, 2008
It is possible to pursue a life of vice, and yet not have one's soul corrupted, and even love the good. For our wonderful blog host has, indeed, pursued a life of vice, in the form of country music, Diana Krall, and similar such crimes. And yet, and yet, she does not only have bad taste, defined here as a taste for the bad, she also has good taste, defined as a taste for the good! For I inflicted a mix CD on her, consisting of the following tracks, carefully chosen as a sequential deprogramming from bad music, and particularly unchallenging jazz, to good music, particularly challenging jazz:1...

Facts

Posted on March 03, 2008
1. Paul Gowder is simply delightful.2. My chicken soup is awesome.3. My bittersweet chocolate pudding is even better.4. Stanford's political science department places its graduates better than God.5. One's musical education should always be continuous, and I am very open to learning and being challenged, and am at least aware of the good stuff and in favor of it...

How to Write a Brief Research Statement

Posted on March 03, 2008
Advice from Prof. Tina Fetner at Scatterplot:My proposed study is about this. Here is why this problem is important. Here is what we know about this problem. These studies leave THIS IMPORTANT THING that needs to be found out. Here is what I will do to find that out...

Beware Sovereign Wealth Funds

Posted on March 03, 2008
It seems the new political hot potato fresh on the heels of the Dubai Ports debacle is the growing back lash against Sovereign Wealth Funds. Bobbie S. Neal of the ABA Middle East Committee has an interesting discussion on this issue on the Middle East Law Blog...

The Power of One Woman Over a Man's Life

Posted on March 02, 2008
One of my colleague's, A, and I have an ongoing debate about the power one woman can have over the course of a man's life. Interestingly enough, I find our positions counter intuitive. She says that I overestimate the power of women, and I say she underestimates it...

Are We Our Jobs?

Posted on March 02, 2008
This is not meant to be a follow up to Belle's earlier post, even though the subjects are generally the same. No, think of this more like two studios developing similar, yet unrelated films: Deep Impact versus Armaggedon, or Dante's Peak versus Volcano...

I Am Captain, Not Tenille

Posted on March 01, 2008
Let it be known that despite not knowing how to swim very well (can't tread water, can only do a few strokes for a few minutes, can only float on back) and despite not having much upper body strength, I can sail a 20-25 foot keelboat okay. Just fine, actually...

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