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July 25: Amendment

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I've been asked to dedicate this CoC to The Dread Pirate's attempt to pass the bar. I always assume one of our forty-seven budding lawyers is in the middle of attempting to pass the bar, though.

66 thoughts on “July 25: Amendment”

  1. Thanks, but I'm not the only one in my shoes. Good luck to my fellow gluttons for punishment.

      1. I can safely say the only two mnemonics I knew were MIMIC (which I already know as Spreigl) and MYLEGS. Thanks for the beer, CoC!

        1. It was my pleasure. I remembered lots of mnemonics, just not how to apply them: MIMIC, OCEAN, MYLEGS, PINE, CON, something about some guy getting ripped off in the airport - or something....

  3. That's nothing. Start calling me when y'all start taking actuarial exams! Then we'll talk. 🙂

    No, seriously, good luck guys.

  4. Good luck guys. Just remember, when you get to the double jeopardy question, the answer is "C".

  5. I just looked at the standings for the first time in weeks. Seattle is the only team in the AL West that is not in playoff position.

  6. Kirilenko, who led Utah to six playoff appearances, reportedly has told Russian media that he wants to return to the NBA this season. His interest in joining the Timberwolves is motivated by the opportunity to continue playing with Shved. Kirilenko and Shved were teammates last season in the Russian League on CSKA Moscow.

    Were the Wolves thinking that far ahead? ... nah.

      1. Without exaggerating, this is five hundred trillion times better than Parise/Suter.

    2. I am so crazy excited for the possibility of AK-47 that I can hardly sit still. This is seriously blowing my mind.

  8. Still haven't heard anything on the job front. Still going crazy. It wouldn't be so bad if things around the current job didn't keep getting worse and worse. Anyone have any recommendations for dealing with frustrating job situations?

    2. Anyone have any recommendations for dealing with frustrating job situations?

      1. Booze
      2. Hookers
      3. Pills
      4. Self-mutilation
      5. Mystical Religious Rituals
      7. Listen to Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti for 36 hours straight
      6. Non-Stop Masturbation

      (in that order)

      Note: None of these strategies changed the frustrating job situation but at least took my mind off the problem for a few days.

      1. Aren't 4 and 6 really just two sides of the same coin?

        (And you appear to have the same numbering technique as downtown St. Paul streets.)

        2. After experiencing the Mystical Religious Rituals, concepts like number and sequence don't mean anything anymore maaaaaan.

      2. Physical Graffiti? I'm not sure about that.
        Try Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II. That should get your head in the wrong place.
        Might also add: sleep deprivation.

    4. Well the good news is that a rejection letter didn't come in the mail today, so I haven't not gotten a job yet.

      1. I've considered resigning by using the company-wide emergency response application. I'm sure the folks in Houston would love to get this on their iPhones: "ERL,7/25@17:00C,Disruption of Service, Superintendent sick of Manager's shit."

        1. Several years ago a co-worker sent a "burn your bridges" email company-wide when he was laid off. When the company is 40,000 - 50,000 people, you're going to tick someone off, and he sure did.

            1. I have no desire to burn any bridges. I do, however, desire to make life better for the people our organization is supposed to be serving, and to the extent that the organization is failing in that mission I may be willing to contact some individuals in order to effectuate positive change. Which might have the effect of burning an individual bridge or two, though it should also help build some new ones.

  9. Nice of the Sox to start the game after lunch break, so I don't miss any of it while escaping work at lunchtime. I'm assuming the free game on MLB will feature homer announcers, in which case I'll mute the TV feed and run an audio of Provus/Dazzle.

    1. Usually the free game lets you chose between either home & away and tv & radio audio, so we should have 4 choices of who to listen to.

  10. To the legions of Chelsea haters out there, looks like The Blues are putting together a nice little team. First Eden Hazard joined the club and now Brazilian youngster Oscar has signed on. It may take a year for the team to be fully integrated but they should be a top line competitor for years to come.

    Also Chelsea playing the MLS All-Stars tonight. It's one ESPN(2?) at 7:30. Should be a fun match to watch.

      1. Alex Morgan taps in for 4-2. I'm not sure who sent the cross along the floor of the 6-yard box, but it was a real nice delivery.

        Update: It was Tobin Heath with the cross.

    3. They typically have to start these team tournaments a few days early to get them to finish before the closing ceremonies. Same is done for Hockey, and maybe baseball/softball before they were dropped.

      /Still bitter, can't even blame Selig.

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    Paging Messrs. sean and hess (or others):

    I'm working on a personal website from scratch. I want a uniform banner across the top of every page. My web designer friend says I should build it in PHP and just call it from each page. That part makes sense. However, I can't find a decent php tutorial anywhere. I've spent half a day futzing around with it and don't understand part 1 of it. If anything, I feel like I'm going backwards. I'm using Bluefish on Ubuntu as my HTML/CSS editor, and it's working great. Any advice on either 1) getting up and running on php, 2) making the page w/o it, or 3) something else entirely would be greatly appreciated.

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    1. If you want the same one on every page, then just putting in the HTML for the image is the simplest. Now, if you want to change it somewhat often or have a lot of pages, then this becomes cumbersome. That is where having a dynamic site is very handy.

      Personally, I am slowly, at a tectonic pace, moving to a static site generator that will automate this so every page has the same layout and I can just write whatever I want for that page. Right now I have a custom-written site generator that is too cumbersome to maintain and has few features.

      1. It's not just an image, but the nav bar too. Is it still just easier to copy/paste to each page? I don't plan on changing it much once I get it down.

        1. That complicates it. If it's only a few pages, then copy/pasting it several times is easiest.

          PHP could do this very easily, so it would be worth investigating that if you grow beyond a small (~5-10) number of pages. However, you need a host that supports PHP. Many do though, so that's the easy part. I'll ask/search around for some decent PHP tutorials.

  13. So, if Nick Blackburn and Jonathan Sanchez ever faced off, they would run out of balls, right?

  14. udachi, kahnmrade.

    3. is this a good move?

      in other news the Wolves were part of a 3 team trade and reacquired Brad Miller. lol

      1. Nope. They didn't get Miller back. Couldn't, per the CBA. And yes, this is a very good move.

          1. Yeah, it's been wrongly reported all day. Miller (well, his contract) would be going to the Suns.

    4. Maybe we should try to get tickets to a game when they're in Chicago or Milwaukee.

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