I recently learned about the work of Nathan Sawaya, a former corporate lawyer in Manhattan who left the practice of law to — no kidding — become a full time LEGO® artist, as he explained here: To ease the stress…
Just changed my living will to specify that I’d like to go this way when the time comes. Just changed it back. I haven’t been able to find any additional details (which is probably for the best), but did confirm…
From What Do They Know?, a UK site run by mySociety.org that makes it easy for people to make Freedom of Information requests or read the results of those made by others: Dear South Wales Fire Service, How many cats have…
Turns out to be easier to give in to the urge to do a year-end “top ten” list than to keep worrying about it (plus I want to justify the recently bestowed “Fun” label, thanks again), so here are the…
— PRESS RELEASE — Lowering the Bar Again Selected by ABA Journal as a Top 100 Blawg The editors of the ABA Journal have again chosen Lowering the Bar, written by Kevin Underhill of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, as one…
In an effort to clear out the stories I flagged but didn’t get around to writing up during 2011, here’s an end-of-last-year assortment that collects some of those, in no particular rank or order. I might or might not return…
Amazon's bots have concluded that based on recent research (see here, here and here), I may be interested in something from the Small Appliances Department, let's say possibly one or more of these snow-cone/ice-shaving machines: I guess that's fair, although (having…
The ABA Journal announced its fifth annual "Blawg 100" list yesterday, and for the second year in a row, the editors have either graciously or mistakenly named Lowering the Bar to that list. Meth use is reportedly rampant over there, and…
That I am lucky enough to not have to shop on "Black Friday." See, e.g., "Customers hit by pepper spray at Wal-Mart describe scene of chaos," Los Angeles Times (Nov. 25, 2011, 2:26 am) (describing a "pepper-spray attack by a…
Since I became Led Zeppelin, my life has improved a thousand-fold. — Led Zeppelin II (formerly George F. Blackburn) Let's say you're 64 years old and just got divorced from your third wife. You're going to want to try to…