Speaking of Law
 

Mike Tyson was sued today in a patent case. What?
Is his tribal tatoo some sort of infringement?


C D Cal 5:03cv512
Mike Landrum v. Mike Tyson
Tyson, Mike, A Professional Boxer
Patent

Requium
 

Amazing. From you, yet.

Out of what was supposed to be a semi-humorous rant about the amount of TV some people apparently watch, I get a couple of alternative conclusions:

1. Some people are losing their senses of humor at an alarming rate; or

2. You shouldn't hit people where they live - TV just means too much to them.

Go back to ripping on purses. I need someone else's higher purposes to look up to.

Requium
 

Click here. http://www.leech.dk/dengdeng.swf

[an oldie and goodie from the old boards. A site that contains a picture of a car with someone making car sounds in the background]

NOTE: Sound starts immediately.

Requium
 

Must be good. It's blocked.

Requium
 

So, if the majority of posters didn't get that you were just trying to be "semi-humorous" then that means that we all have bad senses of humor, not that your post wasn't really funny. Am I interpreting you correctly? I just want to make sure that I resent you for the right snobby-ass reason (as there appear to be so many reasons to choose from)

Resumes
 

When I used to interview law firm candidates, I judged people on their social skills routinely.

If you have the qualifications to be interviewed, you have the qualifications to work there. What I wanted to know is whether you were a complete ass, or someone with whom I would want to have a drink at the end of the day.

I left that job a few years ago, and I still routinely see my former colleagues socially and refer business to them.

With the crazy hours involved in working at a firm, why would you surround yourself with people you hate?

Brazilian Poll
 

That is like, totally surreal, man.

TM

Requium
 

Wow. I promise to Never, Ever make fun of your TV again.

Touch of Class
 

To be fair, they do have a few individual things that are fine. Some of the bedding is quite nice by itself; it's just that combined with the elaborate headboards, matching wallpaper and curtains, 47 pillows, sconces, botanical prints, etc. etc. etc. it's enough to send one into an epileptic fit.

Requium
 

well, my tv refuses to make the same promise. and my tivo wants in on the action too.

Resumes
 

And I don't ask for more than that from potential co-workers. If someone has reasonable social skills and is not a completely humorless drone, I don't care if they would rather spend time with their kids than me. Finding out a candidate's interests (whether it be from the resume or the interview) helps me screen out the personality zeroes. Or less than zeroes - ever notice how some people can actually be aggressively boring. The people who are so boring that their boring-ness spreads out like kudzu, smothering all that is interesting or worthwhile around it. Anyway, that I happen to have some good friends at work is just a bonus.

As there is some unrelated discussion here about how some people purportedly think they are holier-than-thou or whatever, I will note that the unstated premise of my personality-based screening is that I am super-fucking cool. But I am, so it's all good.

Touch of Class
 

Do the tundra giraffes get along with the polar bears and carribou?

Truth is .... ah, you know the rest
 

This is so wrong on so many levels - http://www.sptimes.com/2003/05/15/Co..._a_hand_.shtml (financial planner says psychic ripped her off of $2,300)

Touch of Class
 

Oops. Veldt? (That story scared the hell out of me.) Savannah?

Give me a break. I'm from Connecticut. For all we know, everything outside Manhattan and our own little corner of Lilly Pulitzer paradise IS tundra.

p(plus, it's Friday)j

Requium
 

Sometimes you are so full of shit I'm embarassed for you. At least I know I'm full of shit. I think you've actually convinced yourself that you're not. Amazing.

Your rant was semi-humorous? So? It's obvious that you look down on people who watch tv. Am I defensive about tv? Hardly. I just think you're an ass for thinking that people care about what you think makes up a shitty life. Hell, you gave examples of what people should be doing instead. Yep. That's semi-humorous. Ha.

And of course you say, "Look everybody, TM is being defensive about tv!" And you don't even realize you're doing the same damn thing as in the first post. Was I the only one who responded to your post? I guess all those people are "losing their senses of humor at an alarming rate" or maybe "TV just means too much to them" too. How classic. Your ego is just too fucking big.

I may post like a lunatic with random rantings, ravings and insults, but at least part of my persona is that I know I'm full of shit.

Please. Like you think there's another person on earth who's worthy of your admiration. You just made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

TM

Requium
 

Damn it, barely. You've got to be careful. You've just been crossed off his list of people whose higher purposes he strives to look up to.

TM

Happy Friday.


http://http://www.rathergood.com/independent_woman/ http://www.rathergood.com/punk_kittens/ http:// http://www.rathergood.com/vikings/ :dance: :boots:


MOD NOTE: These links have immediate sound.

Fufu, please disclose content when posting a link.

edited by e/o to provide sound warning.

Requium
 

You are seriously wound way too tight. Or, at least, your persona is.

I'll have to get a persona some day. Sounds like fun. Do they come in different sizes? Or did yours just swell?

(Look, ass, I made fun of the TV posts. That's all. I thought it would be taken as funny. Apparently I was wrong. Big fucking deal. I have the impression that I could make fun of clowns and you would be right here, telling me why I'm a shit for saying such a thing. Get the fuck over yourself.)

Friday puke-a-thon
 

I think we found who liked Teddy Ruxpin, and probably liked Strawberry Shortcake too.

Less (it doesn't get much better than kitten websites, emoticons, and forwarded e-mail jokes) inSF

Requium
 

What the fuck do you have against clowns?

You first.

TM

Truth is .... ah, you know the rest
 

Christopher Goffard is my new hero. I gotta get me a 'stache like that. Speaking of sartorial matters, I just found my first grey (gray?) hairs. I am fired up. In a good way. Now I can be distinguished counsel instead of a maverick young turk. If I were still litigating, I'm sure I'd win a lot more motions now.

Hey Jack. After three listens, I think I'm much less keen on "Electric Version" than I was on "Mass Romantic." Not enough Neko (the Onion's review said the same thing). That said, it's still a damn good album. Gonna go listen to it again. By the way, should one with pretentions to being a serious music fan be ashamed to like the new Jack Johnson album? This is purely hypothetical, of course.

str8.

Um, OK. People are weird. Not least me, because I can't figure out why I think those things are so compulsively watchable.

Incidentally, thinking of weird flash-movies that are funny even if badly animated, the Mr. is apparently going to meet Odd Todd.

http://www.oddtodd.com/index2.html
http://www.oddtodd.com/hw.html
http://www.oddtodd.com/index777.html

[spree: links to Odd Todd's flash-diary about being laid off. Pretty damn funny, no nudity or bad stuff. may take a minute to load.]

Brazillian Poll
 

Be still my heart.

Paigs. Could you please go into more detail about how she waxes herself?

Friday puke-a-thon
 

I disagree. I think those things are all quite played out. Sorry.

New Message Board?
 

Someone today was looking for a new message board (I forget who)? Anyway, I found one:

http://www.mexican-elvis.com/discussion_toc.htm

[spree: a message board dedicated to "Mexican Elvis"]

One (sample) message follows:

Sounds about on our level.

Friday puke-a-thon
 

This just became too meta for me.

Truth is .... ah, you know the rest
 

My decidedly un-meta reaction to this line was to wonder whether a certain sock from the Stalin Board was going to show up and the ultimate result would be this post's being tied to the waxing thread.

It can't be good that I remember things like this -- it undoubtedly crowds out other more important things, like say, regs. and statutes related to my practice area, or the names of classmates who will end up in influential positions.

Touch of Class
 

I just bought me one of these.

http://www.touchofclasscatalog.com/i.../TW575-001.jpg

It's going to look great on top of the t.v.

Speaking of Great TV
 

Anyone else see the VH-1 Pop-Up Video treatment of the ExtenZe penis enlargement infomericial with Ron Jeremy, Kim Chambers and Ruby? Too fucking funny. One pop-up made fun of Ruby for saying in the commercial that she'd slept with at least 1000 men, when the true number is in excess of 1500. Geraldo could learn from VH-1's jouralistic skillz.

Touch of Class
 

I kid you not, somebody gave me one of these very recently as a wedding present. Mr. AMM and I agreed to put it away (way, way far away) so that we would not wet our pants laughing every time we passed the mantel. I am saving it to give to him as a wedding present when he marries the next mrs.

(edited to fix typo caused by sudden urge to run to the ladies room)

More power to her (like she needs it)...
 

...if only she didn't use the sponsor's exemption.

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/story?id=1554007

[spree: Another woman set to play a PGA sanctioned event]

TM

More power to her (like she needs it)...
 

She tried and failed to qualify for a different Nationwide Tour event, although she did beat many men and she is only 14 ...

The Bachelor
 

To Paigow and to everyone else who watches the Bachelor - this is your reminder that the finale is this Sunday.

" ‘Bachelor’ finale airs Sunday. Teasers for the finale suggest that the Firestone wealth will impress the women, and that one of the Firestone relatives will take Andrew aside and object to one of the two women. (Details, as well as that woman’s identity, won’t be revealed until the show.) Firestone and the woman he chooses will make their first public appearance as a couple on “The Bachelor: After the Final Rose,” airing at 9 p.m. ET May 21. The runner-up also will discuss her rejection."

The Bachelor

The Bachelor
 

My guess is that Andrew's family objects to Kirsten as a gold digger. Jen wins.

Touch of Class
 

This is how Mr. FuFu and I say goodbye to each other every morning before going to our respective firms.

:love:

Touch of Class
 

Wow, you have a really lax dress code at your office.

And another news flash on the Bachelor - funny Bob from the Bachelorette is going to be the next Bachelor.
:D

Fish news
 

Ollie, I always get my fish at the downtown farmers' market. I've always enjoyed the stuff I've bought from the folks at Briney Sea Delicaseas, including Copper River. It's scrupulously fresh, and scrupulously de-boned (and even the Copper River never goes over $20/lb). My only problem with them is that they also sell farm-raised. This year there's a new booth run by folks who catch (troll, not net) Chinook out of Newport--I bought a few pounds last week ($10/lb) and it was delicious.

tm

Interviewing and personalities
 

It's great to try to get a sense of a person's personality in an interview, but sometimes first impressions can be far off the mark. I once interviewed at a small firm, and one partner (of two--I would primarily be working with the other, alpha, one) I interviewed with seemed laid-back, not totally into working at all (ie., "if you have to work, law's okay, and it pays better than engineering"). He'd also done some community musical theater, and we had that in common. Right.

Okay, so cut to actual working conditions. The guy was invariably first in, last out. I don't think he was consciously trying to undermine me, but lots of things he did had that effect--didn't let the secretaries do my work, took calls from my clients when I wasn't in yet, etc. And he couldn't deal with the restaurant where we had our firm Christmas dinner one year (one of the nicest in town) because the food was too "weird." Evidently he would have preferred TGIFriday's.

A 20-minute interview will give you some idea, but no way it can tell you the whole story.

tm

Really Cool Ad
 

http://www.daboyz.org/honda/ - note, it took them 606 tries to get this 2 minute ad to work.

Speaking of Great TV
 

I hope all of you are watching the Surfer Chicks* reality show on MTV. Who could ask for anything more? I may have to try to remember when it's on next.


* Note: Not its real name, I think.