Let’s start off this week with a video:
The reasons why will become apparent. (Also, we have a couple of friends who are students of ti kwan leap.) After the jump, this week’s TMQ:
TMQ watch: October 11, 2011.
October 11th, 2011Stoops to conquer.
October 11th, 2011OK, maybe not so much.
Mike Stoops out as coach at the University of Arizona.
41-50 over seven and a half years, and UA is 1-5 so far this season.
(Hattip: Thanks, FARK.)
Chim chiminey chim chiminey chim chim Chimel!
October 11th, 2011Here’s the case brief for Chimel v. California. I ruthlessly edited it down to only three pages this time.
Chimel is interesting because it helped to define the limits of a search “incident to arrest”. Mr. Chimel was arrested, at his home, and charged with burglary of a coin shop. After he was arrested, the police searched his entire house (even having his wife move stuff around) without a warrant, and claimed they didn’t need one since their search was incident to a valid arrest.
The Court said, “Nope. Doesn’t work like that. ‘Search incident to arrest’ only covers the person and the area under the person’s immediate control. You want to search someplace other than that? Get a warrant.”
We’re wrapping this class up. Next Monday is the final; there should be one more case brief, too.
Your loser update: week 5, 2011.
October 9th, 2011NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Miami (bye week)
Indianapolis
St. Louis (bye week)
Quote of the day.
October 8th, 2011I am happy right now.
Indeed, I am happier than I have been at any point in the past five years.
No, I am not willing to discuss the reasons why (at least, not in public).
I will, however, leave you with the quote of the day:
And with this music video, which seems appropriate.
I am furious, Holder.
October 8th, 2011I’m a little busy, but I’m taking a break from Chimel v. California to throw some linky-love Lawrence’s way for his “Fast and Furious” posts. Especially this most recent one about Holder, which can best be summarized as:
Obit watch: October 8, 2011.
October 8th, 2011I always respected the man, mostly for his ability to make Pete Rozelle and the rest of the No Fun League miserable. I don’t expect you’ll hear a lot of “No, that’s God; he just thinks he’s Al Davis” jokes, but if he did make it to Heaven, I hope he has a decent quarterback.
Siracusa.
October 7th, 2011This isn’t going to become the “All Steve, all the time” blog. (“Don’t mourn: build something.”)
But I really liked this piece by John Siracusa, and wanted to point it out. This will probably be the last Jobs related link, barring something extraordinary.
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(Also, you really should be listening to Siracusa’s “Hypercritical” podcast from 5by5 Studios.)
Important safety tips (#6 and #7 in a series).
October 7th, 2011Number 6: Be very careful using the “reply to all” button in your email client. Indeed, I question the wisdom of even having a self-destruct button “reply to all” button in email clients. You may laugh, but I have seen far too many cases where the “reply to all” button functions very much like a self-destruct button.
Number 7: There are certain words you should probably avoid putting in a professional email. I’m sure everyone has their own list, but I’m also pretty sure that if we merged all of our lists together, “f-cking” and “b-tch”, as well as the conjugate “f-cking b-tch” would be there.
No reason really. Just thought I’d point these out.
(Hattip: Ken over at Popehat.)
Was that wrong?
October 7th, 2011Should they not have done that?
I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing. I mean, if someone had told them it was a bad idea for a guidance councilor to strip search students, and that the Supreme Court had ruled it was illegal, then the Atlantic Community School District might not be out $300,000.
You know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of school districts, and I tell you, people do things like sending 12-year-old boys out to act as decoy buyers so they can bust other kids for selling pot all the time.
Noted.
October 6th, 2011With a hat-tip to Mike the Musicologist:
The Death Factory
See here for more on Joe.
I want to ride in the car…
October 6th, 2011…John Wayne drove.
Earlier this week, Lawrence noted the Heritage auction of John Wayne’s stuff.
Today, the HouChron kindly informs us that one of John Wayne’s cars, a “1966 International TravelAll”, is for sale on eBay. The “Buy it now” price is a mere one million dollars.
In one of those “only in Texas” things, the car is actually owned by a state legislator from El Paso who says that he only drove it to church on Sunday a few hundred miles.
“It’s got the original seat that John Wayne passed gas on,” Pickett said.
Yeah. I think now we know why Rep. Pickett went into politics instead of sales.
A fool lies here who tried to hustle the yeast.
October 6th, 2011Interesting piece in the LAT about Bacardi, the specific strain of yeast they use to make rum, and how the Bacardi family played “keep away” when Castro took power.
Tranströmer! More than meets the eye!
October 6th, 2011Tomas Tranströmer has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature.
I admit to being unfamiliar with the works of Mr. Tranströmer. I am sure he is a very nice gentleman and fully deserving of the award.
However, I wanted to make note of Mr. Tranströmer’s win because of this LAT piece from yesterday. Ladbrokes was apparently giving 5-1 odds that Bob Dylan would win this year.
I might have to see about putting a few bucks on Pynchon in 2012.
Edited to add: As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly posted this before FARK posted their headline.
Obit watch: October 5, 2011.
October 5th, 2011Because it is expected, even though it is all over the news: Steve Jobs.
Edited to add 10/6: Both John Scalzi and Wil Wheaton have nice tributes up at their sites.
ETA3: I generally don’t solicit charitable donations here. But I would like to note that the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research gets four stars (the highest possible rating) from Charity Navigator. There are worse things you could do with your money than make a donation to them; if not in memory of Steve Jobs, perhaps in memory of Randy Pausch. Or Benoit Mandelbrot. Or one of the other 419 people whose death from pancreatic cancer was notable enough for Wikipedia.