Phil, Alex, and Dave

Cats in the Kitchen

You’re aware that this is our kitchen, right? What makes you think you can take a picture of it?

Seafood and beer risotto

Yum.

Iz on ur deck, drinkin ur coffee

Fixing Firefox redux

If, like me, you spend more than 12 hours a day on the internet, you may want Firefox to stay open even when you click the close button on your last open tab (this was the default behavior before version 3.5). To make it do this, type about:config in the address bar and set browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab to false.

Why we shouldn’t have the death penalty

Texas appears to have executed an innocent man. I realize that I’m a hippy-dippy criminal defense lawyer, but the thought of watching your children be burned alive and then being erroneously executed for it should keep us all awake at night.

Oh, how I love POs

From Farrell v. Burke, 449 F.3d 470:

MR. NATHANSON: Are you saying, for example, that that condition of parole would prohibit Mr. Farrell from possessing, say, Playboy magazine?
P.O. BURKE: Yes.
MR. NATHANSON: Are you saying that that condition of parole would prohibit Mr. Farrell from possessing a photograph of Michelangelo['s] David?
P.O. BURKE: What is that?
MR. NATHANSON: Are you familiar with that sculpture?
P.O. BURKE: No.
MR. NATHANSON: If I tell you it’s a large sculpture of a nude youth with his genitals exposed and visible, does that help to refresh your memory of what that is?
P.O. BURKE: If he possessed that, yes, he would be locked up for that.

That made my day.

Scene in a courtroom

Cast:
Joe Blow, a public defender
John Doe, a 15-year-old criminal defendant

Setting:
A typical district courtroom. 9:15 a.m.
Joe has just managed to unexpectedly keep John out of detention.
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John: “So are you a lawyer or a public defender?”
Joe: “I’m both – public defenders are lawyers. I’m a lawyer who is a public defender.”
John: “Oh.”
(pause)
John: “You should be a lawyer. No lawyer has ever gotten me out of detention.”

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Fin.

Magnolia blossom

Fewer blossoms than last year, but I’m happy we have one tree that survived the ice storm.

Art

Years ago, Shannon got this painting on clearance at Office Depot:

It’s been hanging on our wall for about 7 years now, and it’s one of my favorite artworks. I think it’s a cat and mouse (see the mouse’s tail and the cat’s whiskers? The mouse is blue, and the cat is yellow).

Today I learned that it is a piece of abstract art by Wassily Kandinsky named “Giallo, Rosso, Blu.” I also learned that we’ve had it hanging upside down the entire time.

Cats

Ice storm 2009

I really ought to post something on my blog

It’s been a month and a half, so I figured a new blog post was about due.

Hope you enjoyed it.

Snitches

Regular people
Fat people
Cops
Al-Qaeda
Stuff you squeeze out of a zit
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Snitches

Dave and the Stanley Cup