1:45 Cycle

I am old and slow. That's what I get for only swimming 3 times in the past year. And aging.

Must train harder. Only 6 months until the next alumni game!

The Eternal Recurrence of Weblog

Back! Out from under the NDA and in the news. I've left Clarium (the hedge fund that required me to shut this place down for a while) to co-found Udorse. This will allow me to replace my previous content of no posts about the financial markets with new content of willfully obfuscatory posts about software development! Progress!

24 Hours to Go

This seems appropriate:

What We Need More Of Is Science

Water + Cornstarch + Subwoofer = Awesome

NDA

For real this time, guys.

Trapped in Amber

Important Note: Recent decisions, like Heller discussed below, are NOT tested on the bar exam.

Trevor, stop reading the news.

Individual Gun Rights

It amazes me how far to the right I've moved on gun control in the last few years, but the recent decision in Heller strikes me as entirely reasonable. Scalia is way less entertaining than usual when he's being reasonable, but one takes what one can get.

Honors and Signaling

What's that? The DOJ under Bush systematically excluded left-of-center applicants from the DOJ honors program? The Federalist Society is a vehicle for affirmative action for conservatives? This is me not surprised.

Most Original Blawg Post Ever

Studying for the bar? Sucks.

Totally sucks.

Without A Net

1. I graduated! See shiny new title above.

2. I just quit the firm. 3 months before I even started. I still think it's a great place and would still be there in a minute, but I was seduced away from my legal career before it even began by some crafty financial services wizards, who used the cunning technique of getting my best friends from college to recruit me.

So, now the real fun begins.

Astronauts and Marriage

All oxygen tanks and massive bespoke shoes.

Literacy

Dang. I have read, like, no books ever.

Arrogance

I don't bring my laptop to Bar/Bri class, because this is my first an only opportunity to learn many important points of legal doctrine. Like, say, what exactly is a "tort." Not everyone takes things so seriously. Today, a student a few rows in front of me was confident enough in his mastery of the Duty of Care that he spent the lecture playing Doom on his laptop.

Cloud Pedant

Real graffiti from SFist:

The Giant Pool Of Money

This American Life, of all places, has a great story about the housing crisis and credit crunch that breaks it down more clearly and thoroughly than I've seen anywhere else.

Ganstagrass

Their severs are crawling under the load from Boing Boing, but I can't really complain since that's how I found them too. Head over to Ganstagrass.com, where the self-titled hip-hop-slash-bluegrass album is available for free download. A few seconds into the first track and you'll know – these guys are doing something right.

Batman and Iron Man

It's Movie Tuesday!

Elizabeth Warren on the Collapse of the Middle Class

I'm a little disappointed I went through my time here without having the opportunity to take a class form Warren. I can only take some solace from knowing that I have been able to meet her dog Otis, and he's awesome.

Michael Pollan at Google

The author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food at the Mountain View campus:

One Sentence Movie Review: Iron Man

Iron Man is the best superhero movie ever made, except for The Incredibles.