“Happy leap year day!”
~ Me.
Category: Our Experiences
Tales of my life as told by me.
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Tonight at 1am
I walked the streets alone with my camera and tripod. The freshly fallen snow – at least ten inches – was piled high on anything wider than a finger. The landscape was, like the moment, pure and simple. There were no sounds and the only smell was that of burnign logs in a fireplace.
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The Quiet Justice
“Two years and 142 cases have passed since Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas last spoke up at oral arguments.”
He says:
One thing I’ve demonstrated often in 16 years is you can do this job without asking a single question.
If part of my grade in law school is based on oral participation, shouldn’t a Supreme Court justice be required to speak up every so often?
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Criminal Law TV Shows
I’ve been watching old episodes of The Practice and Murder One on Hulu non-stop. I haven’t even turned on my TV, except to watch golf coverage over the weekend.
I’m taking Criminal Procedure at school this semester. It’s the only exposure to criminal law I’ve had to date. Criminal procedure, not to be confused with criminal law, is the “legal process for adjudicating claims that someone has violated criminal law.” (Cite) I never thought I would be interested in criminal law, however the cases in my Procedure class are some of the most interesting I’ve read. There is no shortage of drugs, death or other allegedly illicit illegal activity. When compared to 50-page antitrust cases where the highlight is the court finding that company A orchestrated a horizontal merger among companies B and C, criminal law is a thrilling read.
Anyway, the shows are interesting, and it’s always fun to relate what I’m learning to a television show.
(Last semester it was applying my newly acquired common sense Professional Responsibility knowledge to pick out moments when the lawyers crossed the line of ethics on Boston Legal.)
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History and Hiatus
I’m at that point with Savechris.com where I want to delete everything and start over. I’ve been blogging for a few years now, as you’ll read below. I’ve never been able to stay on point or be happy with any one for very long. Deleting and starting over is easy with a tumble-log because most of the content is unoriginal.
With that said, here is a brief history of my blogs. I won’t be blogging for awhile.
Misconceptions
I’ve had several blogs over the years, none of which has stuck around that long. I started on Google’s Blogger with a blog titled, “Misconceptions.” It was a personal blog that was not focused on any particular topic. The only thing it did was accentuate how weird I can be from time to time. Some of the posts from that blog were adapted for a blog I wrote for Ruckus Network. I wrote under the alias Cyclops, a cartoon character developed by the production team. That didn’t last very long, either.
Yugflog.com
After ceasing blogging on “Misconceptions,” I purchased Yugflog.com, which I still own. Yugflog is “golf guy” spelled backwards. I started blogging about my personal endeavors on Yugflog, and did so off an on for nearly a year before turning it into the all golf blog that it is now. The thing is, I’m not crazy about blogging about only golf and thus my posting is sporadic at best.
SaveChris.com
I purchased Savechris.com during the summer of 2006 before I started law school. I wasn’t completely sold on going to law school at the time, so I bought Savechris.com thinking I would enact a “get rich quick scheme.” Thus, the “Save Chris” in Savechris.com was not initially meant to be “Stuff that Chris Saves,” but rather, “Save Chris from Law School.”
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Alpine Email
I know I’m really bored when I (once again) try to set-up Pine or it’s equivalent, Alpine, email in the Terminal on my Mac. I’m decent with computers and can follow directions, but actually accomplishing this has thus far been beyond me. I’ve approached it on four separate occasions over the past year, and have yet to be successful.
When I was freshman and sophomore in college I used Pine exclusively to access my email. Using the program is completely pointless now as I wouldn’t be able to do things like link or add an attachment, but it has nostalgic qualities that I’d like to revisit.
One day, I will figure it out. I promise.
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Beloit College’s Mindset List
Beloit College’s Mindset List:
The Mindset List is a set of constants that each graduating class grows up with – significant people who’ve always been dead, the emergence of trends, etc.
The list is very retrospective, and may appeal more to those who came before the birth of the graduating class because the emphasis seems to be on change. In order to appreciate change, you have to recognize it.
I was born in 1981 and graduated from college in 2004. Most children born in 1981 graduated in 2003, so I went with my birth year instead of my year of graduation.
Beloit has been doing this since the class of 2002.