Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Pretty Picture

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Michael Froomkin

edwardsobamamotivate.jpg

Can't say I think it will happen, but it would be great if it did. (The other way round would be quite interesting too, although it's a little harder to see Edwards agreeing to it.)

Posted in Politics: US: 2008 Elections | 18 Comments

Spot What’s Missing

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Michael Froomkin

This info-graphic of Coffee Drinks Illustrated strikes me as sadly deficient. Have a look, see if you can figure it out what's missing, then click below for my attempt to fill the gaps.

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Posted in Miami, Shopping | 4 Comments

How Did Bill Gates Know???

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Michael Froomkin

Needlenose has found something odd:

For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file

2.) Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)

3.) Save it as whatever you want.

4.) Close it, and re-open it.

Weird. Really Weird.

Posted in Completely Different | 9 Comments

Why I Doubt I’ll Be Able to Attend the Debate In Person

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Michael Froomkin

The Dean of Students office is a ticket distribution center for the Univision Democratic Forum to take place on Sunday evening, September 9. As many of you are aware, this will be an exciting opportunity to see the Democratic Candidates here at the BankUnited Center located on the Coral Gables Campus.

In accordance with the University of Miami set forth below, our office will distribute tickets to UM Students only on Wednesday, August 29 and Thursday, August 30 from 9:00am through 4:00pm. Each student is entitled to one ticket and must present a Cane Card.

On Friday morning, August 31, remaining tickets will begin to be distributed to UM faculty and staff at 9:00am.

I doubt there will be tickets left on Friday, but in any case I teach 8-9:30 am, so I won't get one.

I wonder if I should ask for a press pass?

Posted in U.Miami | 1 Comment

IF

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Michael Froomkin

If I had a TV, I might have a satellite dish (or cable, I have no idea which is worse).

If I had a satellite dish, I'd definitely want to use the Satellite Alignment Calculator 2.0 to aim it.

Posted in Sufficiently Advanced Technology | 6 Comments

Beats Me

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Michael Froomkin

I've given up trying to understand what all this means (especially as with RSS taking on more and more of the readership, hit counts become increasingly artificial).

But on this list, Most Popular Blawgs of All Time – Justia Blawg Search, I'm #143. While on one of these two lists, I'm chopped liver and on the other #18.

Spotted via Feminists Law Professors, How Big Is It?, where they care about this sort of stuff…

Posted in Discourse.net | 2 Comments