damn the muse

You know you're a masochist when:

You find yourself eerily drawn to the Texas Board of Law Examiners website and gasp in relief and slight despair when your realize that results aren't up early. Then you decide to look at the re-application form just to see what it asks for and hiss in disgust when you notice you have to go through the whole process of proving you're disABLED just to get accomidations. So needless to say you didn't read through the entire re-application form and decided that maybe that extra passport photo that you couldn't find that last time you needed it for the MPRE is better suited this time on the MPRE.

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No early results yet. This is good and bad.

Stay tuned. On thursday I'll be a red-headed temptress to step into my greek goddesss role for Halloween. I was going to be Medusa but I found out too late that my costume came sans the head of snakes. Oh well. It would have looked tacky anyway.

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A 14 year old student is expelled from school for writing a fictional account of a student who falls asleep and dreams about killing a teacher. The story was clearly fictional, and yet the student was expelled. Obviously, free speech is no longer recognized in the public school system.

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Fair warning. I may sound hysterical in my blog entries for the next two and a half weeks. Why? Bar results come out on the 6th, and I'd be lying if I said I was calm.

I wish there were an easier way to deal with it all.

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Ouch! When I was there they threatened to eject us from the game, but that never happened, even when the students started throwing a dead octopus and fish. It was unbelievably gross and had absolutely nothing to do with the fun of throwing marshmellows at each other. Neither does planting rocks or coins in the spongy things, unless you're throwing it at the USC band. ;-)

In all seriousness, I never throught the administration would get serious about the situation, but seeing how ugly its gotten, I don't blame them. At the same time, don't kill the marshmellow tradition. Especially when USC and their stupid band is involved. After hearing their fight song played over and over and over again, you really can't blame us Domers, ahem former now Alumni. My row, we hit a few of them too when they lined up after their performance at halftime in '99. It was sweet, and we beat them too.

Let's not mention Saturday.

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This lawsuit should make sellers think twice before selling their products and claiming them to be %100 when they actually aren't.

I'm actually cringing. Could someone please take the woman and the lawyer and shoot them for me. No, just the lawyer for being a money hungry bastard, though I'm sure the woman is suffering extreme irreperrable mental harm due to the damage caused to her taste buds because of the lack of fruit in the jam.

Seriously, reading this reminded me of a discussion I had with a friend of mine. Lawsuits like these, they make us look bad. What harm did she suffer? Did the jam make her ill? Send her to the hospital? No. If she was so displeased she could have taken the jar back and asked for a refund.

Now there's going to be this DTPA action because she has sensitive taste buds, and the point is, to sue over something silly like this only goes to show that there are some really lousy lawyers out there who do not deserve to have a license. Not when they're bringing frivolous actions like this one. Not when there are lawsuits out there making a mockery of the very same judicial system.

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The server move seems to have gone smoothly. The only mildy painful thing was reinstalling all the scripts, cgi and php, the hardest being the dreaded mailing list. Never has any script given me as much grief as that one, and this time the culprit was the permissions. I can safetly blame my server for that one, and fortuneately I figured it out, but I was so close to pulling my hair out, strand by strand.

The one thing left for me to upload is my personal site, which is painfully missing. The thing is I can't bring myself to do it. I hate the layout. I hate the site. There are tons of writings that I need to add, and the site itself has my email all over it without the spam protection and of course my spam intake is increasing at an alarming rate. Yes, I'm having a personal website identity crisis. It was bound to happen.

And I am so amused.

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An appeals court in Washington is being asked to throw out a ruling that would force one lesbian to split her assets with her lover. Homosexual marriage isn't recognized in the states, but some states are beginning to recognize some rights regarding homosexual relationships, so it will be interesting to see how the court will rule in this regard.

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See, I am evil.

via mellow drama

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I just had a geek moment. I reinstalled moveabletype on the server, and I was about to upload my entries when I thought, I wonder what would happen if I hit rebuild. My blog just magically reappeared. I love moveabletype.

This is the ultimate geek moment of the day. Now I'm off to see Angel. Must get my Whedon fix. It's a drug.

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Alright. So here's the deal. Blog entries will be sparse for the next few days while I move servers. Keep your fingers crossed and here's hoping that I don't lose the last 300 entries.

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I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.

When the media first reported that a student had discovered and published a way to circumvent the copyright protection on the new cds I knew there was bound to be trouble, and here it is. Except this is a good thing. Let SunnComm sue under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and then let's see the judges finally tear this act apart and rule it unconstitutional for violating the First Amendment.

Days before representatives from BMG came foward admitting that they new of the flaw in the copyright protection scheme, and honestly how can SunnComm claim that there has been circumvention when all the student has done is used a simple Windows function. One that any Windows user is familiar with. If the fact that he published his findings is at issue, then First Amendment clearly is at issue, and I really, really want to see them try to argue DMCA legitimately. So much so that it fails.

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Beware those preachers. I tell you they're crazy. Especially if you get them near one of those nasty nude beaches.

In Wisconsin of all places the 3rd District Court of Appeals ruled against a minister and fined him $1000 for using derogatory language towards a woman who parked near a nude beach. We're too assume she was a patron of the beach, and he, a chosen of the Lord, deemed himself constitutionally protected enough to call her unworthy things to dissuade her from practicing other freedoms. Oops, guess he was wrong.

Bible verses and profanity do not a $1000 fine pay.

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Microsoft is facing another lawsuit, this time for all the flaws found in its software. The claim is based on the fact that the software is vulnerable, and when Microsoft releases warnings and patches about these vulnerabilities, they're so obscure and incomprehensible that it puts the ordinary user at a disadvantage while giving the hacker an advantage to obviously exploit the vulnerability.

The lawsuit is seeking class action status, but what I find interesting is the end result. Year after year it seems Micrsoft has been more interested in releasing newer versions of its software, and yet they're less stable. Granted, as the article points out, the software maker can't be held completely responsible for other people's malicious actions, but it should be penalized for its own negligence, and there's no doubt that the company has been irresponsible with its products. The new OS alone has so many security patches alone that it makes me wonder if perhaps they should have waited a year before releasing it.

In a day and age when privacy and information are transmitted over wires, it's important that the software that allows for such communication does not falter or isn't hijacked by some virus, and thanks to Microsoft, that isn't possible yet. Not unless you have the latest patch installed.

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An incident like this makes me twice as ill, and of course it had to happen in Texas. It's rather obvious that it was a hate crime. A group of white men take a mentally challenged African American man to a party, and the next day he just happens to just show up beaten to a pulp. It's a little too suspicious to have been some drunken brawl of some sort.

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I *heart* The Practice. It hasn't been this good in ages, and Chris O'Donnell is yummy in a scary kinda way. I wonder how they're going to bring him down.

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It's the glasses. It has to be the glasses. I'm going through this adjustment period and I just can't be witty. I can be atrociously dull and dimwitted, but not funny. What's wrong with me? I can't see!!

For instance, take this article about free speech. It's rather baffling that we can call the Taliban and Saddam terrorists, but should we insult our dear, sweet, presidente in writing, the shirt must be turned inside out. TERRORIST (see, subliminal) And the leaders of our country call this freedom? Actually, they do because that's what the judges are for. I bet George W. wasn't too pleased. That amuses me.

In all seriousness, if the nation's children can't even critizice their leaders in a half hearted manner, where or where are we headed for? France!!!

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SiteFinder is no more at least for now. After a stern warning from ICANN which claimed the service violated their contract, VeriSign shutdown the new service until it could investigate the matter. The company is also facing three lawsuits because of SiteFinder.

Everywhere normal net users are breathing sighs of relief as the internet starts behaving as it should now that Verisign isn't monopolizing it anymore.

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There's nothing more amusing than seeing the government not get its way, and then sitting back and watching the attempt at a hissy fit.

Denied. The prosecution cannot seek the death penalty against Zacarias Moussaoui. This stems out of the prosecutions failure to follow the judge's previous orders to allow the defense to interview witnesses that are vital to the case.

Sanctions. Ya gotta love them.

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Every story has a beginning, or in Angel's case, a second beginning. Parallel's anyone? Blond damsel in distress runs away from blood sucking fiend only to be rescued by a blood sucking fiend with a double entendre and an indemnification contract to boot. Nice touch, Joss. One thing though.

The hair has got to go!!!! Someone grab some shears and give my boy Boreanaz a haircut. He's a vampire, not an aging human who looks like he's nearing forty. It was utterly distracting.

New Characters

Knox Loved him as a vampire in Buffy and I'm hoping he'll get a chance to shine on this series. I already like the tension he's managed to create just by being Fred's assistant. Wesley isn't too keen on it obviously, and it's apparent that he still wants her but we knew that. Who will she hook up with this season? I'm taking bets...

Eve I think she qualifies as the next Scrappy Doo that deserves to die painfully and horribly. I admit I like the way she was introduced. It was an interesting twist on the whole 'Eve' tale, and you just have to love Joss and co's sense of humor, but I have a feeling she is going to become annoying fairly quick. They need to bring Lilah back.

Harmony She doesn't qualify as new but she is new to the series, and I loved her introduction. Afterall she's just an undead girl trying to make her way in the city. She's the role Cordelia used to play, and it never hurts to have a bit of comic relief injected into the show. Harmony is a good character for this, and I liked how they used her to explain Cordy's whereabouts. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean we'll know if Cordy will ever return from her coma.

Spike "Blondie Bear." My god next week cannot come soon enough. That's all I really have to say between pants and sighs and the laughter that erupted after that line. Angel and Spike duking it out. Only one word can describe it. Sweet.

The story

I admit I have my reservations. I'm not to fond of this new direction Joss is taking his characters. I prefered the hotel or even the small office setting with just a small band of friends helping the helpless. Now it's full scale and they aren't helping the helpless necessarily. You could say, well this is the twist, but it risks on being to open and uninvolved. I don't know. I don't want there to be that many new characters and too many storylines. I don't want the characters that we know and love to change for the sake of gratifying some stupid network.

That's not to say Gunn's change was uncharacteristic. It was, and boy was he ubercool and slick as a lawyer. Praise to my people. It makes you wonder what kind of consequences he'll be facing in the future for the knowledge he posesses.

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Here's another broken record. Global music sales are down and p2ps are the obvious targets of finger pointing. What the industry leaders have also failed to point out are that the fall in sales are due in part to the lousy music out there and a boycott that has been around for over a year.

No RIAA people, we don't think Britney Spears is as classy as U2. Not everyone wants to hear trash, spend ridiculous amounts of money on trash, or allow their children to be brought up by trash.

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Ouch. That infamous couple, who were arrested in a New York Cathedral after calling into a radio show, are no longer such. He has died of a heart attack.

Out of respect for the dead I'll refrain from making any sarcastic remarks, but it's right there. Poor guy.

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