classmate: “If you have any advice on what not to do during our summer jobs, we’d appreciate that.”
legal practice instructor: “Well, I can tell you what I did at my summer job.”
“I worked at a firm in Seattle. One day one of the senior partners asked if I wanted to come to a shareholder’s meeting. [...]
geyes, which had previously been the pinnacle of *eyes-related achievement, has now been surpassed. Sorry, dave.
me: would it be bad to go ahead and completely out myself as a dork by wearing [a particularly dorky t-shirt] to IP class tomorrow?
friend: umm
friend: everyone knows you’re a dork already
friend: so wearing the tshirt won’t really do anything other than confirm opinions
me: doh. point.
A couple quick final thoughts before I pass out for the night: I haven’t read O’Reilly’s proposed blogger code of conduct yet; some commentary I have seen on it suggests I’ll be irritated at it as an involuntary speech restriction, and one comment makes the useful (and almost certainly correct) point that when you start [...]
How depressing:
I don’t want someone chatting away to me and telling me how “cool” it all is (I’ve lived long enough as a computer programmer to know it’ll never really be “cool” to be one).
How refreshing (following has tongue completely in cheek):
Programming is for world commerce. It is like agriculture or fossil fuels. It is [...]
It doesn’t start out that way, but this is an excellent explanation of why video blogging may get interesting at some point, and how if it does, it will get into serious conflict with copyright law. Watching this made an old friend write me and tell me ‘for the first time, Lessig makes sense to [...]
If you run your own mail server (or know someone who does) you might point out to them that the DSBL blacklist is currently blacklisting parts of gmail. I can’t comment on what gmail may or may not be going to deserve being blacklisted; I can only comment that whoever you are, you almost certainly [...]
A fellow Duke engineer slipping into law school is taking Property right now from the professor who wrote the Cannibalism book I linked to the other day. Apparently he auctions off signed copies of the book to help fund public interest work at the school.
He signs the books in blood.
Creeeeeeepy.
My old co-worker Ethan (who is blessing New York with his global presence next week) has written a piece about ‘the post-national’ people who are his friends. It includes some thinking about the implications of a growing post-national class- particularly one which is post-national not because they hate their countries, but because they love all [...]
Am puttering around the house a bit to clean up before my mom and step-dad get here for a weekend visit. Some thoughts from similar putterings around the ‘net:
This Matt Asay piece on relationships and sales in an open source context is great- really nails how a company and a customer should think about each [...]
