I should have posted this a while ago but I was too busy procrastinating studying that I forgot. Lo siento. Allow me now to present my Property review course: The Landlord.
Even the singing BarBri lady can't touch that.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Omnibus Mitchell Post
Mitchell: “Love is just a social construct to cover up some rather unseemly biological processes.”
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Mitchell: “You call ME to the stand, an unimpeachable witness!”
Class: *Hearty Laughter*
Mitchell: “That was not supposed to prompt hearty laughter.”
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Mitchell: "[When choosing a car] You can either choose the Yugo, with its tin foil sides or the Lexus, which, if someone looks at you the wrong way, encompasses you in sweet, loving foam...did I just say loving foam? I think I meant life-saving foam. Loving foam...I’d pay a lot for that."
This is to supplement my previous omnibus post of other professors' amusing comments, with the same disclaimer and apology if some of the material has previously found its way into the Law Weekly.
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Mitchell: “You call ME to the stand, an unimpeachable witness!”
Class: *Hearty Laughter*
Mitchell: “That was not supposed to prompt hearty laughter.”
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Mitchell: "[When choosing a car] You can either choose the Yugo, with its tin foil sides or the Lexus, which, if someone looks at you the wrong way, encompasses you in sweet, loving foam...did I just say loving foam? I think I meant life-saving foam. Loving foam...I’d pay a lot for that."
This is to supplement my previous omnibus post of other professors' amusing comments, with the same disclaimer and apology if some of the material has previously found its way into the Law Weekly.
Voice Identification: FRE 901(b)(5)
A week or two into the semester:
Prof. Mitchell: “Mr. Graves, have you heard my voice before?”
Graves: “No.”
*Pause*
Graves: “I tune out during class.”
Prof. Mitchell: “Mr. Graves, have you heard my voice before?”
Graves: “No.”
*Pause*
Graves: “I tune out during class.”
Sunday, May 4, 2008
The Hornbook Cartel
Sometimes I wonder if certain professors don't have contracts with hornbook publishers such that the professor promises to to absolutely incomprehensible in return for a slice of the profits from study guide sales. Not to name names, but having seen every member of my Property class toting an average of two different hornbooks (plus the casebook), I start to wonder how I can get in on that racket.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
An Open Letter - Barnes and Noble Man
Dear Barnes and Noble Man,
I hope you were not offended when Celia and I didn't exhibit zeal to continue conversation with you. We didn't want to be rude, but you did interrupt us in the middle of reviewing for our Con Law exam. Courtesy aside, the point you were wanting to make, we had already made more succinctly about 10 minutes prior to your interjection, and more completely several weeks ago in class. While ordinarily we might have been happy to engage you in a discussion on your skepticism of the political process, we were two law students trying to stay on the healthy side of the exam preparation/psychotic episode line. Trust me, it's better for all involved.
As a side comment, I could not help but notice the "Ask me about Barack" pin you were wearing. It coordinated well with the "O" pin you had affixed to your "Obama 2008" commemorative T-shirt. While your attention to the current national political climate are your apparent desire to engage in related discussion are both commendable, the point I wish to make about your button is that you seem to have either misunderstood what it says or intended to grab a different button. The button you thought you were wearing probably says "Ask me about Barack or I will force my way into your private conversation in order to engage you on a topic about which you are likely sick of hearing and that just may cause you to leap through the store's glass window-front and into mercifully oncoming traffic in order to get away." I might be paraphrasing.
Yours,
-Nathan
I hope you were not offended when Celia and I didn't exhibit zeal to continue conversation with you. We didn't want to be rude, but you did interrupt us in the middle of reviewing for our Con Law exam. Courtesy aside, the point you were wanting to make, we had already made more succinctly about 10 minutes prior to your interjection, and more completely several weeks ago in class. While ordinarily we might have been happy to engage you in a discussion on your skepticism of the political process, we were two law students trying to stay on the healthy side of the exam preparation/psychotic episode line. Trust me, it's better for all involved.
As a side comment, I could not help but notice the "Ask me about Barack" pin you were wearing. It coordinated well with the "O" pin you had affixed to your "Obama 2008" commemorative T-shirt. While your attention to the current national political climate are your apparent desire to engage in related discussion are both commendable, the point I wish to make about your button is that you seem to have either misunderstood what it says or intended to grab a different button. The button you thought you were wearing probably says "Ask me about Barack or I will force my way into your private conversation in order to engage you on a topic about which you are likely sick of hearing and that just may cause you to leap through the store's glass window-front and into mercifully oncoming traffic in order to get away." I might be paraphrasing.
Yours,
-Nathan
Saturday, April 26, 2008
An old thought in a new place.
How do you warn a blind person of danger visible to the sighted? What about combination headset/RFID tag that broadcasts in a short radius the presence of someone for whom visual cues are ineffective? We then install RFID receivers and audio transmitters in key locations: when they detect (via RFID) the presence of a blind person, they transmit the appropriate warning over radio or some other appropriate frequency. The individual's headset picks up the signal and relays the cue aurally. Perhaps there could also be some triangulation and proximity possibilities as well. (Stereo headphones?)
This would seem to be a much better system than Braille warnings that count on a person happening to put their hands in a particular spot. Indeed, the normal operation of Braille in public places seems to be based on the presumption of sight to be able to locate the contextual "hotspot."
This would seem to be a much better system than Braille warnings that count on a person happening to put their hands in a particular spot. Indeed, the normal operation of Braille in public places seems to be based on the presumption of sight to be able to locate the contextual "hotspot."
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