Thursday, December 30, 2004

Yay Vacation, Boo School!

A little bird told me that a certain blogger, who shall remain unnamed, has already hit the books at the local starbucks. WTF?! We at SW law don't go back to school until the 10th of January. Why would anybody* choose to start the first reading assignments when they could have been on the road with Sean Paul to visit Brian in Colorado.

As for me, I am off to Vegas. Let's hope I get lucky.

Happy 2005!!!

*Bussy aka Wayne

Quote This!

"White girls bore me."

- Brian

Have A Happy New Year's Everyone!

I'll be back to posting on the 2nd of the new year.

Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Dialogue? There's Dialogue? More Than Just, "Ooooo, oh yeah baby, right there baby! Yes, yes, yesssss!"?

I think Jeremy's problem is in not realizing that it doesn't matter what the dialogue is so long as they're both really hot chicks.

Someone Get Kayten This

If she tires of the mini-lectures, she can pass out a training video.

Title Forthcoming

A work in progress. I could just have saved it as a draft but eh.

It started with us waiting for Nimmers to show. He was late. So late that he ended up not going. Something about not feeling well and leaving a voicemail to let us know instead of calling directly to Brian's. Thanks Nimmers, now go get me a beer.

Good thing Nimmers didn't make it though because the boys had to squeeze into Sean's truck - and with the cramped leg room I do mean "the boys" got squeezed.

We made it to Jeff's after a walk from Sean's garage. It was a bit like Cambridge that walk, with the memory of a unrinated children's playground coming to mind. Now if Brian's condo is "Pimp Palace", then Jeff's is "Pimp *Something Less Than Palace*" or "*Something Less Than Pimp* Palace", meaning to say it was like a "mini-Pimp Palace", but better kept and decorated with sports memorabilia rather than movie memorabilia.

We unpacked what we brought over and realized that we were long on chasers but short on alcohol. Or so we thought. Brian packed up a blue labeled Smirnoff and champagne along with eight cans of Red Bull, bottles of juice, a bottle of tonic, and a bag of limes. Luckily, more alcohol was on hand already and more came but really, it ended up being enough. And so we drank like Christmas Trees.

A game of Texas Hold'em ensued. Sean was terrible to the good fortune of Jeff, Sally didn't get any cards to play, and in the end Brian's pocket Q's beat my pocket K's on the flop. The pot of $6 was then split between Sally and Brian.

The McConaughey Twins, as Sally called them but I didn't see it, showed up. Then came Jay, Doug, and Dave. Then came Vinny and sis. Then came Rose. Then came Trini, Yolanda, and Marilyn. "Less than Pimp or Less than Palace" filled up and it was then time to make way to Level One. But not before much cajoling failed to get Rose to go with us. Something about not looking good enough in her Minnesota Gopher hoodie to get hit on.

The first cab - and what ended up being the only cab we needed to get to Level One - arrived. Out went Jay, Doug, and Dave to meet it. Rose and I caught up with them in the elevator. Now Rose had offered to drop me off at Level One. I, of course, accepted. I mean look to the sidebar pics people, would any sane man deny that? Anyway, so it was supposed to be just Rose and I in her car but somehow Jay, Doug, and Dave ended up in the car with us. Yet another instance of the white man keeping the asian man down.

We get to Level One and there's a line. Mind you, this is a Monday night at a place that doesn't pack in a crowd on the weekends.

Warning: This Blog May Contain Many Bad Posts

This post by Blonde Justice reminds me of products liability and warning labels - usually studied in the second semester at SWLAW, so you may stop reading SWLAW 1Ls. It reminds me of one particular note in my casebook. It was about this child, I forget if he was 8 or 10 or whatever, who rode a vacuum cleaner and was injured. The issue being whether the manufacturer of the vacuum cleaner should have seen this coming and posted a warning label about the dangers of riding the product. Why do I remember this post? Well... he was riding the vacuum cleaner naked... that's right, naked... and the injury suffered... was to his pee pee. ... that's right, his pee pee. Now I forget the case name and the cite, so if anyone has that in hand, please comment away to prove that I'm not making this up.

Happy Friend

I just approved my first testimonial on Friendster. Thanks Sara.

At Least 1 Dead From Tsunami

I usually get my news first from the internet and then from the newspaper, if from the newspaper at all. Why? More convenient to turn on the computer and check the websites than to go outside in the cold morning searching for a paper that could be either on the driveway, on the sidewalk, or underneath one of the cars requiring me to either move the car to reach or getting belly flat on the dirty ground. As such, I read the headline on CNN this morning that the death toll from the tsunami had reached 80,000. I get the LA Times later and read that the death toll had reached 60,000. It's been like that for the past few days now.

Now I might be in the minority of those who check the internet for their morning news first rather than their paper indicating little potential for a problem for newspapers but that's what they probably thought before this and this happened. So just in case, maybe the newspapers should start with considering a different approach to headlines and then with the way they deliver the news altogether. Like getting my effin' paper on the driveway without getting it underneath one of the cars.

Set Your Watches Accordingly

Because I'm 5

UNITED STATES v. HANKEY, aka Poo. Yeah, I laughed, probably for the same reason that the phrase "penal interest" - ha, penal interest - gets me everytime.

Weather Update For Those Who Left Cali For Home

It rained heavily through the night. Today's forecast calls for more rain and rain in 4 of the next 9 days the weather might actually be better in Denver for once. Not quite 30 days straight but it got me to thinking like Noah and building my own biblical Love Boat - link provided for you heathens. And if it were up to me, I'd leave off cats, porcupines (too scared I might sit on it), zebras, alligators (too similar to crocodiles), ostriches, spiders, buffalo, whales (I think they can survive a flood on their own because they're big and all), hippos, giraffes, snakes, naked mole rats, and various people of course but only because I don't like them.

Point of this post? Think ahead before posting, instead of merely rambling on and on; too much time on my hands; and I always wanted to be a weatherman, but not a meterologist, those people are just nerds.

Location, Location, Location

I'm obsessed with the online California Sex Offender Locator Map. Here's a link to the 1/2 mile area surrounding SWLAW. The star is where my school is, those houses with a red flag on them are grade schools I believe, and all those blue boxes represent the last known addresses of registered sex offenders. Scary.

Stat Of The Day

Megan's law database, here I come.

Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Fortune Cookie Say

[Yeah, I'm still doing this - what's it to ya?]

"It is time to help a friend in need in bed."
17 21 26 31 47, 13

New Year's Resolution #1

Get a life so I'm posting a lot less to this blog.

Best Series In The Blogosphere Ever?

Who knows? But it came to an end today. My favorite is Fucker #2 with Fucker #4 as a sentimental favorite.

Annoyed In Con Law At Times

But I wouldn't say that I was being indoctrinated. I wouldn't give him that much credit.

Trini, Stop Refreshing

And start posting.

Seriously

If her's are too small, then I wouldn't mind taking small ones over big ass ones any day. Not saying that I would never take the big ass ones.

I've Got Just Over Three Years Then

Until I start feeling like a complete loser.
More men are delaying marriage. In 1970, the median age of first marriage for men was 23. Today it’s almost 27, and college-educated men wait a year or two longer. Most men, however, are married for the first time by age 30.

If Ever There Were A Rumor That Needed To Be Substantiated It Is This One

Lord, please disregard my earlier request and make the rumor come true. And then please buy me a copy because I'll be a broke former law student with absolutely no job prospects and in a ton of debt. Amen.

15,000th Site Meter Visitor!

It's a milestone I suppose. The visitor came by way of a Technorati search of BTQ at about 4:30pm my time. So if Fitz-Hume or Milbarge [sic] would like to stake claim to whatever there is to stake claim to, they may do so.

Best News To Come From The Tragedy Of Tsunami '04

I know, I'm going to hell. But someone had to say it.

Even More Technical Difficulties

IE doesn't want to cooperate.

UPDATE: I figure IE just won't show certain Blogger templates the way they're supposed to be shown. I hate Billy.

UPDATE II: Yeah, it looks like shit, but at least IE is showing it correctly.

UPDATE III: Also lost the rotating quotes thingy. Don't know if I want to go through more of the hassel right now. Seeing that this was way too much of a bitch to deal with than it should be, I'll be back to posting much later in the day. Later.

If Law School Doesn't Work Out IV

I'll just fake it.

Quiz Time

You scored as Gluttony.

Sloth

31%

Gluttony

31%

Wrath

25%

Pride

19%

Lust

19%

Envy

13%

Greed

0%

Seven deadly sins
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(via Kayten)

California Bar Pass Rates by Law School

For all candidates, ABA-Accredited Schools:
1 Stanford 90.5% (86/95)
2 Boalt 85.5% (213/249)
3 UCLA 84.7% (244/288)
4 Hastings 75% (301/400)
5 USC 74.9% (155/207)
6 UC Davis 70.7% (133/188)
7 USD 65.2% (182/279)
8 Pepperdine 61.4% (105/171)
9 Santa Clara 58.8% (161/274)
10 Loyola 58.4% (240/411)
11 USF 58.3% (123/211)
12 McGeorge 57.9% (165/285)
13 Chapman 55.7% (59/106)
14 S'western 47.3% (123/260)
15 Cal Western 41.9% (75/179)
16 Thomas Jefferson 30.6% (48/157)
17 Western State 29.5% (49/166)
18 Golden Gate 29.3% (56/191)
19 Whittier 27.5% (63/229)
We're #14! We're #14! We're #14!

Seriously though, Chapman?! Chapman is a fourth tier school! And they beat us by a good 8%. WTF?! At least Whittier knows their place. That's right Whittier, I'm talking shit about you.

Talking shit about Whittier, what has SWLAW reduced me to? Other than $15,000 per semester of course.

Maybe I should blame the class of 2004 instead. Effin' idiots. I think it's time for the students from SWLAW to realize that we can't rely solely on getting our degree and expecting to pass the bar with just that in hand. And with two months to study for the Bar, there should be no excuses.

Well this ain't going to help the school achieve second tier status anytime soon.

Merely Keeping My SWHigh Gossip Skills Sharp While On Break

First, he's sick, now she's sick. You do the math.

Good for Soup, I say.

Kids Realizing How Good They Have It These Days And Rubbing My Face In It

What do you get when you have a bunch of today's youngsters playing the classic videogames of yesteryear like Street Fighter II: Champion Edition? Some sort of geopolitical discussion apparently.
Anthony (age 11): Why did he get thrown up when he got jumped on.

EGM (child manipulator): I don't think physics is supposed to be realistic.

Bobby (10): It's probably because the Nazis felt bad having a cement fighting place, so they put little trampolines under-

Parker (11): Wait. What do Nazi's have to do with it?

Bobby: Because Zangief is a Nazi.

EGM: He's Russian. Not German.

Garret (13): He's a communist.

Bobby: Then why is Zangief's place a Nazi place?

EGM: It's not.

Bobby: Yes it is-it had a Nazi sign on the cement.

Parker: It couldn't have been. They wouldn't have let that in videogames.

Bobby: Whatever.
And really, kids are much smarter about their finances these days.
[Playing 720°]

EGM: How many quarters would you spend?

Anthony: One, and then I'd be so bored.

Rachel (11): Probably three.

EGM: [After someone dies again] You just spent another quarter.

Parker: This is when I start hitting the machine.

Garret: No, I would've started hitting it a long time ago.

Rachel: I actually think this game is kinda cool.

Dillon (11): You die so many times and you spend so many quarters, why don't you just buy the whole arcade game?

[Playing Galaga]

EGM: Now imagine you've reached the 10th stage, and you're on your last life. Once you die and you put another quarter in, you don't just continue from there--you start all over.

Parker: Are you serious?

EGM: Yep. When you lose all your lives, you have to start over. You don't keep going.

Parker: And you guys back then were OK with this?
Not only should these kids be CPAs but they should also be game developers.
[Playing Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!]

Anthony: If Mike Tyson was in this game, his special move would be to bite people's ears. Then he'd be all gloating about it, but then the sound's all low because you can't hear him because your ears are gone. [Points at the next opponent, Von Kaiser, seen in the screen to the left] That's Mike Tyson, and he's trying to bite off your ear.

Garret: That's not Tyson. Are you kidding me? Mike Tyson does not have a handlebar mustache, and he's not white.

EGM: So those are the two things that make you think that's not Tyson?

Garret: Yeah, plus he's wearing pants.
Kids also give the best reason for making the violence more realistic and graphic.
[Playing Defender]

Garret: Oh, so the aliens pick them up, and if they're carrying them, you have to kill the aliens and catch the people. [The player starts shooting people.]

Parker: Or not.

Dillon: If you shoot them, then the aliens can't get them.

EGM: If you shoot all the people, the planet gets destroyed. Then the aliens take over.

Garret: Nice.

Bobby: If I was in it, I'd be like, "OK, aliens, if you give me 500 dollars you can destroy this planet."

Rachel: Only 500 dollars?

EGM: Do you feel bad about shooting the humans?

Parker: No, that's my only amusement in this game. If they were, like, more detailed, maybe I'd feel something. But it looks like I'm shooting a popsicle.
Lesson: Don't look like a popsicle. After all this blockquoting, there's no need for you to go read the article anymore.

(via BB - and no, not that BB)

Monday, December 27, 2004

Last Post Of The Day From Me

It's raining and that's a good enough of an excuse to call it an early night. Tomorrow we'll celebrate this blog being a year and a day old. How exciting.

Thank God Laptops Are Portable And Don't Necessarily Have To Sit On Your Lap

It may be only several words and only part of a sentence but Kayten's recent email to me has me hot and bothered. Be back in about two shakes of a tail feather (or whatever the correct hip-hop terminology would be) after a visit to the bathroom.

Ladies, Does This Actually Work?

If it does, I'm guessing using your own handmade one from the dirty sock pile is not the way to go.

Forensic Evidence Class

Yeah it's two hours on a Monday night but 5 of the 11 chapters in the casebook is dedicated to hearsay, character evidence, and impeachment while one of the other chapters is basically devoted to Daubert. So it's merely a rehash of Evidence and though I didn't learn anything the first time around, I'm sure the second time will come much easier. Not that I'm trying to tempt fate or anything.

Please God, intervene and give me a passing grade in Evidence and I promise to pass Forensice Evidence on my own. Amen.

Question Of The Night

Kayten asks the following:
[W]hy do so many of you damn law students follow The Hot Librarian?
Could be because those damn law students, who follow the The Hot Librarian, spend much of their time in the library and it's kinda hot comforting to think that the lady behind the reference desk may someday be like the THL. Or maybe it's because of her professed love for the anal. Though those two could go hand-in-hand or something-in-something-else.

I really don't know.

This Blog Is Such A Goody Goody Wuss

This site is certified 24% EVIL by the Gematriculator

Or if you prefer and I don't.

This site is certified 76% GOOD by the Gematriculator

Killing Two Birds With One Stone Here

Is she a she or is she a he? The poll never lies. And it's also a post to show her/he how to do a poll.

What's The Point?

Time has the 10 Things They Learned About Blogs.
  1. Blogging Can Get You Fired
  2. Bloggers Get Scoops Too
  3. Bloggers Keep News Alive
  4. Bloggers Can Be Titillating
  5. Bloggers Can Be Fakers
  6. Bloggers Make Money
  7. Most Bloggers Are Women
  8. Candidates Love Blogs
  9. Pets Have Blogs Too
  10. Anyone Can Do It
Yup, that's ten things. Unfortunately, Blogging Can Get You Laid didn't make the top ten. Makes me wonder if I want to keep this blogging thing going on for another year.

Random AIM Conversation

Bruin7089: I see you got an iPod.
Bruin7089: and uggs
sali: yes
Bruin7089: Sounds like someone was good this year.
sali: well, I didn't ask for the uggs
Bruin7089: Or maybe it was just your dirty talk w/Santa.
sali: my mom thought I needed them
sali: haha, could be
sali: glad to see your blog is back, didn't know what to do with myself for those couple of days
Bruin7089: Most of my readers usually just look up porn when I'm away.
Bruin7089: So now you know what to do.
sali: haha
sali: I would usually do that if I wasn't at my mom's house
Bruin7089: So I take it that you and your mom aren't that close?
sali: we are very close, actually
sali: my dad and I aren't close
Bruin7089: But not close enough to look at porn together?
sali: haha, the closest to porn we watch together is "Sex in the Ancient World" on A&E
Bruin7089: What's that?
Bruin7089: Porn involving octogenarians?
sali: haha, its a show about the sexual exploitations of people in ancient greece
Bruin7089: Like Alexander the Great?
sali: yeah
Bruin7089: I heard he was a snowboarder.
sali: its pretty graphic for A&E
Bruin7089: I don't want to know anymore.

Next Sem's Workload

Con Law II
Business Associations
Forensic Evidence
Legislation
Legal Profession
Writing Seminar: Criminal Law Theory

Five finals. One paper. 15 units.

It's supposed to get easier as you go along right?

I Know!

From my Co-Commish regarding this post:
So i was checking out that whole Megan's law thing...and in the middle of my search my dad
started freaking out. Turns out he went to elementary school with one of these psycho's.

This shit is sick.
Maybe I should throw produce if I happen bump into one of them at the supermarket.

Evidence Final

It was tough. The MC went by quickly. My thing is; if I know it, I know it. And if I don't know it, I don't know it. My fear is that I'll get caught overanalyzing - a kind of paralysis by analysis sorta thing - some of the questions, leaving myself too little time to analyze the other questions. And then test anxiety would ensue and the whole experience would spiral on down from there. So I finished the MC in about 35-40 minutes and took just over two hours to finish the essay portion. Which meant I left the test an hour and fifteen minutes before time was up. And as I've told everyone who wanted to know why I finished so early, it's because it doesn't take that long to put down the "D" answer.

I had the roasted potato and grilled chicken pizza at CPK afterwards.

More Technical Difficulties

Apparently this blog is all jacked up when viewed with Internet Explorer, but completely fine when viewed with Mozilla. Trying to fix it but until then, consider switching browers.

UPDATE: Should be fixed. And you should still be using Mozilla instead.

Antitrust Final

It was tough. The MC questions included something along the lines of,
Such and such could be prosecuted under:
a) Clayton Act Section 7
b) Clayton Act Section 4
c) Sherman Act Section 1
d) Sherman Act Section 2
e) A and C
f) all of the above
g) choose this if your name is Wayne because you have no clue and you're going to fail this test anyway
The essay portion included a question about international antitrust law. I mentioned something about the DOHA Agreement - don't quote me on that please - and left it at that.

Con Law Final

It was tough. No multiple choice, only three essays. Three short fact patterns. One of them dealt with the Commerce Clause, another with the Equal Protection Clause, and the other with who the hell who knows what. Bankruptcy? I think Trini spotted the issue in the first question whereas it just flew over my head. I made mention of Raich v. Ashcroft in hopes that knowledge of current events regarding the Supreme Court would help. But that's wishful thinking. I'm better off hoping that he was into his eighth eggnog when he graded my final.

It was the first final of the semester and it was rather demoralizing.

I Wonder If Ellisen Has Similar Thoughts About Big Law

So the Anonymous Lawyer has been exposed as Jeremy Blachman. And by the NY Times no less. An excerpt from the Times' article:
Hilarious, poignant, maddening (even the readers chide one another for their high-priced whining), the blog, which began appearing in March, has become an anonymous, online 24-hour confessional for disaffected associates at large, elite law firms around the country. (Many comments are posted late at night when, presumably, the readers are still at the firm.)

And even though the blog (anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com) makes clear that Anonymous Lawyer's stories are fiction, readers write in to say they identify with him and especially with the associates he tyrannizes.

"I'm a real live Big Law midlevel associate," one reader wrote. "And I'm here to say that whether A.L. is real or not, yes, most (most) Big Law partners do think that way."

It is not surprising that a group of highly verbal computer-bound professionals who are paid to complain would gravitate toward the blogosphere. The elite firms are supposed to be the pinnacle, the reward at the end of Harvard, Yale or Stanford law schools. Anonymous Lawyer is a chance to admit, anonymously, an uncomfortable truth: The money and status may not be worth all the sacrifices.

"Anonymous Lawyer is a cultural phenomenon," said William Henderson, an associate professor at Indiana University School of Law, who uses the blog in class. "It strikes a nerve with the deep-seated ambivalence that lawyers in big law firms feel about big law firm life."

Quote This

"You're just fuckstrated." - Stummy

These Days Kids Get Xboxes For Christmas But These Days Also Mean Those Gifts Can Be eBayed Away

An online casino that bought a cheese sandwich said to bear the Virgin Mary's image and a cane sold to banish a young boy's fear of ghosts has struck again — this time paying a man $5,300 for his naughty children's Christmas gifts.

The Pasadena man said last week that he decided to auction the three Nintendo DS game systems because his sons, ages 9, 11, and 15, had misbehaved.

The family's decision made national headlines, intriguing GoldenPalace.com, casino spokesman Monty Kerr said.

"Everybody knows Santa doesn't come to naughty kids," Kerr said Sunday.

So That's Why There Aren't Any High Court Case Summaries For My Legal Profession Class

I was going through my Professional Responsibility casebook in preparation of an outline - yeah, I'm a nerd and more importantly, I ain't playing catch up this semester - and noticed that there were only about a dozen cases. Still, it would have been nice to have spent $26.50 on 15 pages of case briefs.

White Collar Crime Final

It was tough. Only a page long fact pattern with the call of the question just as long. And that's how you know you have a tough exam, when the call of the question exceeds in or is greater in length than the fact pattern itself. In the call of the question, the professor referred to Section numbers of the U.S. Code or whatever and didn't mention the title of the statute. So it went something like this, "Defendant is charged with Section 3101(b)1(b), discuss." There were about ten of those. And maybe it was just me since I didn't try to memorize the code numbers and the titles of the statutes, but I swear none of them matched up with what we learned in class so sometimes I had to skim the statute to get some understanding of what I was dealing with. Anyway, good thing he gave us a statutory supplement or else I would've been screwed. Not that I wasn't. The only thing that gives me any sort of hope is that everyone else feels like it was the hardest exam they've ever taken and one even said she felt like crying.

Instead of crying, I went to Sushi Dan.

Then & Now

A collection of Theme Park maps.







(via Boing Boing)

Technical Difficulties

Comments should now be fixed. So comment away.

First Grades Posted Online

Comeback O' The Year

Not that it had a bad year prior, it only began this year. But there was a bit of a gap before Soup came back with a 20Q featuring THL and now he's given us a 20Q of Poon. A good back-to-back.

Don't Be Jealous... But In All Seriousness, I Need To Change My Name

Would anyone want to bang you? by phobia
Name:
Favorite Food:
Wants to Bang you:
This many times:97
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(via Blonde Justice)
Your Porn Star Name is: Xavier Dicks


Let's Hope So, Because I Ain't Moving East Even If It Is A $60,000 Bonus

Well maybe I would. Shit, it is after all, almost two years' worth of law school loans.

New Layout

Just trying to distinguish myself as much as I can from this guy.

We Gonna Sip Bacardi Like Ish Ya Birfday

That's right peeps, a year from this day this blog was birthed from my lawschool-ambivalent-Bruin-lovin'-conservative-prickish mind. So for all you lushes out there - I'm looking at you E-Spat - I give you another reason to knock one back as if it being Monday were not reason enough.

Anyway, I feel like I should do something special to commemorate this day but unlike these guys, I really don't have "better posts" or a "best of" to compile and share. All the posts herein are of equally crappy quality - except for those of my co-contributors, all of their posts are excellent, something about quality over quantity I believe. So what to do to celebrate this trivial occasion?

Post crap throughout the day. Check back for semi-frequent updates.

And to all those who regularly read this blog, thank you, especially to those who leave comments. For some reason, I hate to think I would do this only if someone/anyone read this. I'd like to think that I'd be posting regardless. Otherwise, it seems all a bit egotistical. But to be truthful, I probably wouldn't have kept this up for a month or two, much less a whole year, if I knew nobody was reading this. With that said, I sincerely hope you've enjoyed at least a little bit of what I've posted over the past year and I thank you all once again.