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captainsblog* As always seems to happen for me, the Jeopardy! test tonight was quick, if not painless. Despite my remembering it otherwise, it is NOT multiple choice, and I blanked on literature, simple geography and popular culture as often as I hit. I suspect Alex's lunch money is safe from me for another year.
* I've essentially given up on trying to save my missing two-ish weeks of email, and will either give my original guru one last shot at it if I make it to Rochester tomorrow (a decision to be made for me by another client, who either did or didn't send several important checks before tonight), or else just reinstall Outlook and start over with an 18-day gap in my legal life. Hey, it worked for Nixon on a smaller scale, and nothing bad ever happened to him, did it?
* If I do make it there,I'll make it anywhere I promise to pay a visit at Highland Hospital, where ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
luckycee will be waiting for, and hopefully not worrying too much over, her hubby's spinal fusion surgery tomorrow. There may be Dinosaur takeout in tow, if I can get it past the guards- or a ride down to Court Street if I can get her out. If you're the praying type, Jim probably wouldn't mind the extra agape.
* In case you lost track of the story of the dude in Brooklyn's Prospect Park who found the amazing lost roll of film? It's still a mystery. There's been a bit of an undercurrent train of thought, begun not long after the story first broke, that it was all a hoax, the "finder" actually doing it to toot his own film-production biz. Most of that suspicion turned on the quality of the pictures on the roll, but as one commenter to that link aptly noted: People seem skeptical that a film maker would find professional quality film in the park. Except they forgot that the location is PROSPECT PARK! I dare anyone to draw a square block anywhere in that area and not find at least three aspiring musicians, a couple of actors, a film maker or two and perhaps a model.
* Speaking of films, I still have Emily's first 30-second short that I'd asked her to bring home last week so I could take it to the home-movie-to-DVD place near my office. Which I did. The guy took one look at it and said, "I can transfer it, but it'll come out like shit. Go to David's on the Boulevard. They have the equipment to really do it right." He gave me directions, but they weren't really needed; David Photo developed and provided the camera-ready photos for the law school newspaper I edited 30 years ago. (Further confidential to the kid who's reading this: BAD WOLF. Hint hint.)
* Mo Hassan was convicted of second degree murder in record time after the jury got the case yesterday. Perhaps most damning to his defense was his introduction of this shocking video of the victim taunting him immediately before the commission of the crime:
(Now that he's been convicted, I can say that.)
* I'm forgetting something, but at least I don't have to phrase it in the form of a question. Gnight:)
* I've essentially given up on trying to save my missing two-ish weeks of email, and will either give my original guru one last shot at it if I make it to Rochester tomorrow (a decision to be made for me by another client, who either did or didn't send several important checks before tonight), or else just reinstall Outlook and start over with an 18-day gap in my legal life. Hey, it worked for Nixon on a smaller scale, and nothing bad ever happened to him, did it?
* If I do make it there,
luckycee will be waiting for, and hopefully not worrying too much over, her hubby's spinal fusion surgery tomorrow. There may be Dinosaur takeout in tow, if I can get it past the guards- or a ride down to Court Street if I can get her out. If you're the praying type, Jim probably wouldn't mind the extra agape.* In case you lost track of the story of the dude in Brooklyn's Prospect Park who found the amazing lost roll of film? It's still a mystery. There's been a bit of an undercurrent train of thought, begun not long after the story first broke, that it was all a hoax, the "finder" actually doing it to toot his own film-production biz. Most of that suspicion turned on the quality of the pictures on the roll, but as one commenter to that link aptly noted: People seem skeptical that a film maker would find professional quality film in the park. Except they forgot that the location is PROSPECT PARK! I dare anyone to draw a square block anywhere in that area and not find at least three aspiring musicians, a couple of actors, a film maker or two and perhaps a model.
* Speaking of films, I still have Emily's first 30-second short that I'd asked her to bring home last week so I could take it to the home-movie-to-DVD place near my office. Which I did. The guy took one look at it and said, "I can transfer it, but it'll come out like shit. Go to David's on the Boulevard. They have the equipment to really do it right." He gave me directions, but they weren't really needed; David Photo developed and provided the camera-ready photos for the law school newspaper I edited 30 years ago. (Further confidential to the kid who's reading this: BAD WOLF. Hint hint.)
* Mo Hassan was convicted of second degree murder in record time after the jury got the case yesterday. Perhaps most damning to his defense was his introduction of this shocking video of the victim taunting him immediately before the commission of the crime:
(Now that he's been convicted, I can say that.)
* I'm forgetting something, but at least I don't have to phrase it in the form of a question. Gnight:)
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