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GeoTagged, [N42.91901, E78.87787]It's

Posted on June 18, 2010
GeoTagged, [N42.91901, E78.87787]It's LCA's world, at least this weekend, and we're just living in it. Closing demonstration last night, prom tonight, vocal recital tomorrow. She's like the opening credits to a 90's chick-com.

An interactive map that shows

Posted on June 17, 2010
An interactive map that shows county-to-county migration paterns. This is Erie County. An oddity: the same number of people moved to Westchester as moved from Westchester.

Surrogate's Court makes me hyperventilate.

Posted on June 16, 2010
Surrogate's Court makes me hyperventilate. In theory I should like the fact that there is a whole separate code of procedure for it-- I am a procedure maven, after all. In reality however it presents as a dense thicket full of odd nomenclature and potential traps...

Happy Bloomsday!

Posted on June 16, 2010
Happy Bloomsday!

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Five "sacred cows in need of a

Posted on June 15, 2010
Five "sacred cows in need of a good bricking." "But what ? I suggested to guardian.co.uk/music editor Tim Jonze ? if we turned the cliche on its head and made it about genuinely wank bands that everybody pretends to like, much in the same way that everybody pretends to like Guinness even though they really think it tastes horrid and would much rather be drinking lager with Ribena in it...

Looks like North Korea is pretty

Posted on June 15, 2010
Looks like North Korea is pretty good-- but Brazil is still Brazil. Ivory Coast and Portugal have their work cut out for them-- I could see Chollima (apparently a sort of Korean Pegasus) being the other team in the group that gets through. (And by the way, I love this handy list of team nicknames...

The way it figures, the second

Posted on June 14, 2010
The way it figures, the second place team in Group C (Slovenia, England, USA and Algeria) will play the winner of Group D (Germany, the Socceroos, Ghana and Serbia). Slovenia has a win, and so presently leads Group C, but the commentators don't expect that will hold up, so it'll come down to goals scored when it's time to decide who gets Germany in the second round...

Having a beer at the top of a hill

Posted on June 11, 2010
Having a beer at the top of a hill in Pittsburgh a couple of years ago the bartender made a claim to the effect that the Iron City's population had more college graduates (or maybe it was advanced degrees?) per capita than other place in the US. Seemed odd at the time, and to be honest the exact wording of the claim, which might be significant, now escapes me...

I didn't know that "soccer" comes

Posted on June 10, 2010
I didn't know that "soccer" comes from the "soc" in "association football", the original name for the game. So, in a related question, what's the difference between Rugby League and Rugby Union?

I love courthouses. They are, for

Posted on June 09, 2010
I love courthouses. They are, for me, civic structures that symbolize our democratic right of self-determination and governmental participation. As such, it seems to me, they should be as open and as assessable to the public as possible. Sadly, they are not...

Another Selection from our Collection

Posted on June 08, 2010
Another Selection from our Collection of Terrifying Nixon-era Children's Books: My Dad Sells Insurance. Re-captioned by Sweet Juniper!

Songs of the Summer, 1940-2010.

Posted on June 05, 2010
Songs of the Summer, 1940-2010. Some great stuff here, obviously, but not a lot of overlap with what my own list would look like. The defining criteria for a Personal Hit Single of the Summer is whether, when it came on the car radio you either turned it up (if you were riding shotgun) or yelled, "Turn that up!" (if you were driving, or in the back)...

Looks like LCA's SATs will get

Posted on June 05, 2010
Looks like LCA's SATs will get her where she wants to be. Congratulations!

At Lawyers, Guns & Money Robert

Posted on June 04, 2010
At Lawyers, Guns & Money Robert Farley offers a useful discussion of patron and client states, and how the relationship between China and North Korea resembles the relationship between the US and Israel.

To the Avett Brothers at ArtPark

Posted on June 03, 2010
To the Avett Brothers at ArtPark last night. They were opening for Les Claypool, so we got a truncated set, and the humidity seemed to be causing them problems too, but it was still worth the trip to Lewiston. We learned about the Avetts from EGA, who became a fan when her beau introduced her to their music; I get the sense that they are more or less his They Might Be Giants...

I couldn't put my hands on my KRAC

Posted on June 02, 2010
I couldn't put my hands on my KRAC singlet the night before the race, so I went with my Parramatta jersey-- my brother's colors. I figured it would add a bit of international flair. Wouldn't you know it, I wasn't to Porter Avenue before someone ran up beside me and said, "Parramatta? That's me home town!"

I got an 85.

Posted on June 01, 2010
I got an 85.

It wasn't fast and it wasn't pretty

Posted on May 30, 2010
It wasn't fast and it wasn't pretty but it was 13.1 and that's what I wanted. With that in the bank I'm tempted to gear up a bit. If I did eight at the Ridge next week where would that put me, I wonder? I was swinging along fine for eight today. Well, for seven at least.

Did you know that the Yardbirds

Posted on May 29, 2010
Did you know that the Yardbirds are touring this summer? Actually it's the bass player and the drummer from the Yardbirds, Jim McCarty and Chris Dreja. Keith Relf is dead of course, and the various lead guitarists for which the band is know are all otherwise engaged...

New York State Supreme Court Judges

Posted on May 28, 2010
New York State Supreme Court Judges make $136,700 a year, and haven't had a raise in ten years. There is a case to be made that this state of affairs has led to a decline in the caliber of judicial candidates, although you don't hear the same thing about federal district court judges often, and they make $174,000...

Here's a useful resource that I

Posted on May 26, 2010
Here's a useful resource that I literally stumbled upon by accidentally clicking on a link: The Dozens, a series of lists of great (mostly) jazz recordings, some by notable jazz musicians (Maria Schneider on Gil Evans, e.g.), that offer a way into a lot of music I've been wanting to explore further, and suggestions on directions to explore with artists that I'm already familiar with.

I don't think I've ever seen the

Posted on May 25, 2010
I don't think I've ever seen the photograph on the left before. That's Joan Trumpauer Mulholland in the middle, at a Jackson Mississippi Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in in 1963. Her mugshot is the photo on the right, from here. It is remarkable to contemplate the courage of this person and the others who set about the task of ending apartheid in the United States...

To the Party in the Hall last

Posted on May 22, 2010
To the Party in the Hall last night, a fund raiser and a preview of the renovations/new wing of City Honors. Just driving by the site for the past two years was enough to see that this was going to be an ambitious project, but I had no way of knowing just how grand the scope of it really was until we saw what was going on inside...

Splits among the four Appellate

Posted on May 21, 2010
Splits among the four Appellate Divisions are great fun, and they can linger for a long time. The other day we talked about the Second Department's sui generis approach to non-party discovery. A tells me there is an upstate/downstate split on the question of who has the burden of proof of collectability...

Rand Paul is like a gift. He can't

Posted on May 21, 2010
Rand Paul is like a gift. He can't possible keep this pace up, but I'm looking forward to watching him make the effort.Of course, none of this is likely to make any difference in The Blue Grass State. Jim Bunning was a moron too, and Kentuckians happily voted for him.

I've been struggling with whether

Posted on May 20, 2010
I've been struggling with whether to pick up Terry Teachout's Louis Armstrong bio-- it probably is the one biography of Armstrong to read, but I find Teachout to be a prig, and although I respect his taste I can't say that we have the same taste. Readers of the Buffalo News will understand when I say that I'd almost rather that Jeff Simon had turned his hand to the task...

I read stuff like this and I realize

Posted on May 20, 2010
I read stuff like this and I realize that I'm just going to have to start making my own damn pastrami, which is nuts.

From The Volokh Conspiracy, a description

Posted on May 19, 2010
From The Volokh Conspiracy, a description of this year's NRA convention by David Kopel, one of their contributors. 72,128 gun nuts wandering past three miles of displays of firearms, hunting gear, and related accessories in Charlotte, North Carolina. If there was ever a better nightmare description of hell I am not sure I want to see it...

When I started practicing the New

Posted on May 18, 2010
When I started practicing the New York rule with respect to non-party discovery and non-party depositions was that you had to make a motion, on notice to your adversary and to the non-party who you wanted to depose or get discovery from. (We called depositions "EBTs" back then...

Big props to my brother, who turned

Posted on May 17, 2010
Big props to my brother, who turned in a 2:02.45 in the Sydney Morning Herald Half Marathon.

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