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Mar. 13th, 2010 08:48 amLast night, knowing many of my friends were going to bound, I thought about going out. I also knew of Dana's free industrial night. Instead I fell asleep on the couch watching animal planet at around 11 (going to bed when I realized I was dozing). I couldn't have been happier.
Ok falling asleep on the couch at 3am after hitting the clubs and having a consensual olive oil bisexual fitness squishfest, drunk, then having gamed alone for a bit, and THEN watching animal planet sounds really cool...but I'm still in recovery mode
From http://volokh.com/2010/02/03/seeking-qualified-mentally-retarded-lawyers/ it turns out that my confidence regarding the practice of law is utterly justified.
The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply. Targeted disabilities are deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorder, mental retardation, mental illness...
(also in this week's news of the weird as a linked story)
Seriously, I'm bordering on legal competence - not because I'm any good, but because the bar is so low. Sure, I've learned how to keep up and I have some general ability to practice law now. However, my coworkers flounder as much if not more than I do - when they practice good law, their poor social skills handicap them (more than my poor social skills handicap me). I just did a post hearing brief on a case I know we lost, but were it subject to the better brief winning I CRUSHED the other side, and he got paid a full legal rate. With my recently closed national case, I met the OGC staff and while some impressed me, I realized that were I stuck in that shop I wouldn't be the least skilled there. Neato.
ALICE is surprisingly flat for a 3 d movie. NO SPOILERS. There is no need - the story is utterly predictable and insults the intelligence of 9 year olds. The Onion did a good write up on it at http://www.avclub.com/articles/alice-in-wonderland,38818/ though I disagree on a major point - even the red queen was flat. I wanted to find this Riche-esque forehead chick interesting, but outside of being fickle and screaming offwithherhead...well that's it, we just described her entire role. Even more dull than the red queen was the white...really? That's it? The movie was 3-d, but the effect was mediocre. I think I've just blown my vip cover on my first and last 3d movie - the effect is no better than the funhouse ride in King's Dominion and from the previews of the other pending 3d disasters, to include a special effect, the first thing to be sacrificed in it's stay - is the script. Each character is...dull. While fascinating to watch as any fractal projected on a club wall, the characters never do much to explain their state or make it entertaining to watch them interact with their various peculiarities. The whole movie is like watching a chess game where you see how each of the pieces moves, but the rook never crosses a bishop or a knight - one moves this way, the other another, but they appear to do it with no rationale or contrast to another. There was one saving grace to the movie, our Alice appears to bring some life to her character despite the limiting script, upstaging the costumed Depp. Oh, and a blue caterpillar is one of the better acted parts and makes some of the only entertaining character exchanges with Alice. Save your $25 super imax 3d xfinity EXtrEmE visa-swipe fandago processing fees and get the 2d dvd for $9.99 in a month, or better yet, just wait until you can glance at the wallpaper-background showing of the movie drunk in the club while you hold an intelligent (by comparison) conversation.
Ok falling asleep on the couch at 3am after hitting the clubs and having a consensual olive oil bisexual fitness squishfest, drunk, then having gamed alone for a bit, and THEN watching animal planet sounds really cool...but I'm still in recovery mode
From http://volokh.com/2010/02/03/seeking-qualified-mentally-retarded-lawyers/ it turns out that my confidence regarding the practice of law is utterly justified.
The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply. Targeted disabilities are deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorder, mental retardation, mental illness...
(also in this week's news of the weird as a linked story)
Seriously, I'm bordering on legal competence - not because I'm any good, but because the bar is so low. Sure, I've learned how to keep up and I have some general ability to practice law now. However, my coworkers flounder as much if not more than I do - when they practice good law, their poor social skills handicap them (more than my poor social skills handicap me). I just did a post hearing brief on a case I know we lost, but were it subject to the better brief winning I CRUSHED the other side, and he got paid a full legal rate. With my recently closed national case, I met the OGC staff and while some impressed me, I realized that were I stuck in that shop I wouldn't be the least skilled there. Neato.
ALICE is surprisingly flat for a 3 d movie. NO SPOILERS. There is no need - the story is utterly predictable and insults the intelligence of 9 year olds. The Onion did a good write up on it at http://www.avclub.com/articles/alice-in-wonderland,38818/ though I disagree on a major point - even the red queen was flat. I wanted to find this Riche-esque forehead chick interesting, but outside of being fickle and screaming offwithherhead...well that's it, we just described her entire role. Even more dull than the red queen was the white...really? That's it? The movie was 3-d, but the effect was mediocre. I think I've just blown my vip cover on my first and last 3d movie - the effect is no better than the funhouse ride in King's Dominion and from the previews of the other pending 3d disasters, to include a special effect, the first thing to be sacrificed in it's stay - is the script. Each character is...dull. While fascinating to watch as any fractal projected on a club wall, the characters never do much to explain their state or make it entertaining to watch them interact with their various peculiarities. The whole movie is like watching a chess game where you see how each of the pieces moves, but the rook never crosses a bishop or a knight - one moves this way, the other another, but they appear to do it with no rationale or contrast to another. There was one saving grace to the movie, our Alice appears to bring some life to her character despite the limiting script, upstaging the costumed Depp. Oh, and a blue caterpillar is one of the better acted parts and makes some of the only entertaining character exchanges with Alice. Save your $25 super imax 3d xfinity EXtrEmE visa-swipe fandago processing fees and get the 2d dvd for $9.99 in a month, or better yet, just wait until you can glance at the wallpaper-background showing of the movie drunk in the club while you hold an intelligent (by comparison) conversation.
