Miscellaneous


Final Post of 2009

I am busier than I expected today, mostly because I was apparently the only one stupid enough to actually come into the office on December 31.  But I did want to post one final post of the year, although, as you…


Yet More Comical Case Names

Added about half a dozen new ones to the list, including: United States v. 2,507 Live Canary Winged Parakeets, 689 F. Supp. 1106 (S.D. Fla. 1988). United States v. An Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each…


Korean Woman Passes Driver’s Test on 950th Try

It seems like only yesterday that Cha Sa-soon was failing her 775th written driver's test, but in fact it was February.  Cha, a 68-year-old grandmother from South Korea, had been taking the test every two days or so starting sometime…


Lowering the Bar at Microsoft

As I think I have mentioned before, I occasionally do presentations based on "Lowering the Bar" for law firms, in-house legal departments, bar associations, and/or anybody else who might be interested.  I gave one of these at Microsoft on October…



It’s a Series of Tubes!

If you were getting a "Page Not Found" response earlier today, that was because I seem to have jacked up some server settings when I was tinkering with them last night.  Me doing that is sort of like Tom DeLay…



Wrongening the Math

It seems that I got the math wrong in my post a couple of weeks ago about the $1 trillion lawsuit against Oprah Winfrey.  See "Oprah Stole My Poetry, Man Claims In $1 Trillion Lawsuit," Lowering the Bar (Aug. 12,…


Internet Blamed for Latest Face-Stealing Incident

Just the other day I was writing (again) about the Case of the Taster's Choice Guy, a former model who posed for a picture in 1986, forgot about it, and sixteen years later happened to see his own face on…