bowlinger qua bowlinger

1. Where to take that pesky exam in July. This is a level of commitment that I’m just not ready for.

2. Where to go for an awesome trip after taking that pesky exam. This is much more fun and is entirely based on the idea that wealthier relatives might contribute to the funding (it worked for grad school). I’ve been thinking the Trans-Siberian railway, and then taking a passenger/cargo ferry from Vladivostok to Japan. Or taking the railway on its Trans-Mongolian route, from Moscow to Beijing.

3. Not watching The Office after this season is over. I’m really really annoyed about a lot of plot and character developments. Anyway, this seems minor, but I’m very engaged in American television.

4. How I can’t wait to eat at Chick-fil-A. I sometimes cry myself to sleep over this.

Tucked into the comments section of a Crooked Timber post on book indexes is a great idea:

I know of a group of people who used to bowl together. In the first book each one of them wrote, there is an index entry for each of the other people in the group. The page reference provided in each case is that person’s bowling average.

I strongly feel that something similar should be worked up here, Bowlingers.

These two are about to get it on, aren’t they?  It’s not just in my mind?

I apologize for my discontinuation of posts about food and the law. I will go back and update soon, especially what we had to eat. But right now I need some help! This week is the last meeting of food and the law, unless we can come up with some other topics for OB-S. I already sent him the Posner opinion about the horse meat, which he never responded to. What are some other food and the law issues? We’ve done taxing fat, tort liability, bio-engineered food, the problem with corn, and now we’re doing packaging and labeling. If you can  help suggest something and he agrees, I will try to get you into the meeting. Is that good incentive?

In Corpse Episode, Echoes of a Grittier Time

charged with: attempted forgery, attempted possession of a forged instrument and petty larceny.

Interestingly, according to section 170.35 of the New York Penal Code, you can’t be convicted of both “criminal possession of a forged instrument and forgery with respect to the same instrument”. I wonder if that applies to attempt as well.

Why, oh why, can’t this have happened when I was in either Criminal Law or Secured Transactions?

oh May 2009, you’re so far away.

So Prof. Lawrence Solum has a new article up, “Constitutional Texting,” and, without reading the article, I’ve labored mightily this past week to come up with a decent Scalia-texts-something-hilarious-to-Ginsberg’s-husband joke, and I’ve failed miserably. I’m hopeful that a reader of this blog, cleverer than I, will be able to do it.

(in chronological order)

1. Apparently, two of Judge Posner’s favorite fonts are Century Schoolbook and Veranda. I was not really surprised by the first, but the second was a bit mind-blowing, especially since he used Veranda specifically for manuscripts about intelligence reform. Intelligence reform is no nonsense and brutish and whatnot. Veranda looks too fluffy for the subject.  The name even sounds wimpy - Veranda is more Gone With the Wind than Economic Analysis of Law.  Then I realized that all my typed notes for the last year were taken in that exact combination - Veranda for the header and Century Schoolbook for the text. Creepy.

2. Never, ever, ever assume anything. Just ask, even if it makes you seem stupid or pesky or whatever.

3. Don’t make chili while wearing a white shirt. This is self-explanatory.

I am sure I’ll learn more later this evening - the night is still young.