January 2008
80 posts
“Haunted Romance
“Over Her Dead Body” features a jealous ghost and a parrot in a...”
– The New York Times’ homepage teaser for their review of Over Her Dead Body. That’s um…helpful?
that boy is a running fool
Bought a comb today … I feel like such a sellout.
Semester: Spring 200(H8)
Julia: I HATE THIS CLASS
Rajiv: but to be fair, you're a fairly hateful person in general
Rajiv: at least with regard to law school
Julia: true
(joke in title stolen directly from www.niggaknow.com)
Write poetry on your own time, Your Honor
Rajiv: i hate cardozo
Rajiv: and I hate the law professor worship of him
Ian: lol
Rajiv: he makes shit up
Rajiv: that is not an admirable quality
Ian: but he does it with style
Rajiv: oh, I also hate stylishly written opinions
Rajiv: even when they don't make up the law
Ian: ok, well when you're RoboJudge you can write the most mechanical opinions ever
Rajiv: and I will
Rajiv: and law students will cheer my name from the rooftops
Rajiv: and [when] one of them gets injured in the process, I will write a very dry opinion as to whether there was a tort
The Claim: Never Drink Hot Water From the Tap →
Crap. I use hot water from the tap for cooking all the time.
In the Dirty Jerz, safety is priority #1
I’m walking back to Newark Penn Station after day one of my internship (judicial intern to Judge Linares in the District of New Jersey). In the elevator on the way out, I asked one of the clerks if the walk between the courthouse and the station is safe. He assured me it was; you wouldn’t want to get lost in Newark at night, he said, but the corridor between court and station should be...
Does telling everyone count?
Lyndsey: i'm at home. shh don't tell anyone
Rajiv: I won't
Well that was just uncalled for
[referring to a classmate]
Rajiv: he is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo LLM
Rajiv: it kills me
Julia: his sideburns kill me
Rajiv: well, I don't make judgments about dudes' hair
Rajiv: anymore
Julia: with damn good reason
in a meeting
Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler →
Omar: 1 Geets: 0
Geets, witness for the prosecution?
Omar: i could be gay
Rajiv: seems unlikely though
Omar: except i don't like having sex with men
Omar: or owning small dogs
Rajiv: I have previously suggested you might be a lesbian
Rajiv: which would be gay
Omar: i have balls though
Rajiv: allegedly
Omar: my balls are existent until proving otherwise.
Rajiv: disagree
Rajiv: can't prove a negative
Rajiv: so burden should be on you
Omar: false
Omar: i run my body on islamic law
Omar: guilty til proven innocent
Omar: i have balls until proven oherwise.
Rajiv: balls make you guilty?
Omar: yes
Rajiv: sounds like something a lesbian would say
Rajiv:
Omar: ...
Omar: well played
WatchThe Negotiating Table from Nick Kroll Money quote: “No, fuck you, monkey-squirrel!”
I bet having 3.5 glasses of wine at the Dean’s luncheon right before 7 hours of mediation training was an AWESOME idea.
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– Gmail sponsored link above my inbox. How did the link get there??
At Last, a $20,000 Cup of Coffee - NYT →
Things like this really annoy me - much more than they should, really. I guess I should be able to read this and think, “ha, how silly!” But the haughty, elitist attitude that inevitably comes with thinking that a $20,000 coffee maker should exist is always too much for me. How ridiculous is this thing? Despite its cost and many individual controls, the key to brewing a cup with it...
I <3 my new backpack.
Tests find hazardous levels of mercury in tuna... →
Vegetarianism FTW. — caffeinated alternative title: why geetika shouldnt move to nyc. — g33ts Right. Because the article didn’t say: Although all the samples were gathered in New York City, experts believe similar results would be observed elsewhere. “Mercury levels in bluefin are likely to be very high, regardless of location,” said Tim Fitzgerald, a marine scientist for...
Tests find hazardous levels of mercury in tuna... →
Vegetarianism FTW.
“How To Keep A Man In Love - www.CatchHimAndKeepHim.com - Learn The “Secret...”
– Gmail sponsored link above my inbox.
“There are no words to describe the grief, shock and loss…”
– —mala It’s just not fair, not right, not ok.
rajiv has changed his twitter name. he’s not sure if it will automagically show up in this tweet though…
sun down, sun up, sun down and repeat two more times until you find yourself on your couch unsure of the year or your job or what you were supposed to do today and watching the sun set in the windows across the street and feeling alternate swells of sadness and urgency. — l-y Lyndsey should write more; she’s good at it. Her prose captures raw emotion - ennui, regret, expectancy - extremely...
Web two point oh whoops I didn't mean to post that
What I posted: Old and busted: picking up the phone, dialing 6 numbers, hanging up. New hotness: opening the IM window, typing most of a sentence, alt+F4 How it happened: Post-party cleanup + general ennui = rajiv’s emo away message Twitter friend updates via IM + away message = auto-response to g33ts’ update sent to me by twitterbot. Auto-response + twitterbot = my own new tweet....
Old and busted: picking up the phone, dialing 6 numbers, hanging up.
New hotness: opening the IM window, typing most of a sentence, alt+F4
Watch reblog of unnamedplayer Yeah, I recognized way too many of those videos. I need to go outside, apparently.
I just woke up and peeled myself off the couch (8:45am, Sunday). Hooray for wine-soaked dinners, beer, and bowling. And hooray for sleeping off hangovers. Updated: Actually, booooo to not being able to fall back asleep. Weird - that never happens to me.
It was a "that's what he said / she said" dispute
Possibly inappropriate statements made by my teachers during mediation training: “Mediators do it in different kinds of ways.” “I’m a big proponent of faking it.” “What might be the downside of having one co-mediator do the opening?” “I think this is a good time to cock us” * “Model for the parties what you would like them to do.”...
“As someone who has bought teen comedies on DVD, we thought you’d like to...”
– Amazon, in an email to me.
Watchi lowe penguins. some penguins i saw in puntas arenas, chile. the best is when they get their hops on around :18 if only smuggling live animals into the us wasnt illegal. — g33ts Of course, her commentary would be more convincing if she hadn’t also gleefully told me the story about how her cruise ship would intentionally run down the penguins lounging out on ice floes, and how she loved it,...
I think my clinic is going to be interesting but GAWD this training killing me. I just want to sleeeep.
WatchAt the Tech Museum in San Jose over winter break. I played first, then dad. The best part is the way he smiles at the end.
Geets needs to stop making me feel bad for not running.
“i dunno, i want the wine, i don’t really want… the education”
– Julia [ellipse in original]. Though to be fair, she was taking about DeVinimus, not the law school in general.
Reasons why I think the new Macbook Air will be...
It doesn’t have to be revolutionary. People like attaching the word “revolutionary” to Apple products. Those people include Steve Jobs, so it’s no wonder that some technobloggerpundits come crashing down on Apple when they release a product that doesn’t turn the industry (whichever one is relevant) upside down. Some of them are already trashing the Air. But...
Harry Potter & The Well of Scammers →
Spam filters only do half the job. 419 does the other half - making scammers copy out all of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by hand.
“Fart Sounds - AmazingFartVideos.com - Watch Hilarious Fart Videos Like Horse...”
– Gmail sponsored link above my inbox.
I just spent $197.23 at Trader Joe’s. I’m excited.
“I will do a lot to get laid, but I am NOT going to New Jersey.”
– Ted, on How I Met Your Mother. Incidentally, I’m on my way to NJ in about 3 hours.