Selfish Crab

hows law school

Selfish Crab — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:25:08 +0000

I have made the executive decision that I need to use the word “fuck” and other swear words more often in my writing. Here is an example:

Fuck law school and its infinite store of disappointments, regrets, and melancholy.

Yes, I know three of those words are synonyms. However, (1) fuck you, and (2) not unlike ice cream, sadness comes in many flavors, and in law school, you just get to try them all. In fact, it is a veritable world tour of the 7 land masses of misery. If sadness was a sugared confection, law school is a golden fucking ticket, tucked away behind a chocolate bar, granting you access to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate I-have-chosen-a-career-of-shit Factory. Did I mention I recently joined my college reunion committee? I plan on setting up a Reunion Day lecture event, entitled “Hi Would You Like to Be More Pathetic: 5 Reasons You Should Leave a Career Actually Creating Something Useful: an Engineering to Law Primer”. Tickets are on pre-order via a custom sundial registration form coming to you soon.

Selfish Crab — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:26:55 +0000

Video: Trailer for Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, which is slaking both the sudden thirst for vampire stories and the longstanding appetite for prequels.

See also, Trailer for Star Trek (prequel + director of Lost).

basket-ball & flag rush

Selfish Crab — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:35:48 +0000

Photo: now-Dodge Gymnasium at Columbia University circa 1908 (via kottke). The semi-circle room, second-level running track, the distinct cross-hatch rail design, the stone columns (now covered with cushions), it’s all there, and is now over 100 years old apparently. The students pictured are playing a brand new game called “basketball” (invented 1891).

See also: Flag Rush in 1910, a tradition wherein sophomores stake a flag and defend it from an onslaught of freshmen. Taken in front of Hamilton Hall.

Happy Halloween

photographic crab — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:08:57 +0000

Halloween shop employees by selfish crab.

A simple list of “do not mix”

Selfish Crab — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:21:38 +0000

Alcohol. Driving automobiles.
Sleeping pills. Operating heavy machinery.
Chatting with parents. Partitioning your hard drive for dual-boot.

Because sometimes you misread the small white-on-blue text labels and select the wrong partition to reformat as NTFS and you wind up blowing away your entire laptop.

spiderman in the wild

photographic crab — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:12:19 +0000

spiderman in the wild by selfish crab.

Things I Learned this Week 2008-10-29

Selfish Crab — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:01:47 +0000

Until the 1960s, Brooklyn, NY produced 20% of the nation’s beer. [source]
The city of Shabim, Yemen is an ancient city laden with towering buildings made of mud (mud!!), up to 5 to 11 stories high. Thankfully, rain comes infrequently. [source]
In designing its interrogation program after 9/11 (criticized by many as torture), the CIA turned to its own internal experts, who had studied Cold War-era interrogation methods designed to elicit false confessions (good for propaganda). [source]
President-elect Obama’s new chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is the brother of Ari Emanuel, the basis for super-agent Ari Gold on Entourage. [source]

photographic crab — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:01:04 +0000

Film Forum by selfish crab.

Brooklyn Bridge

photographic crab — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:00:30 +0000

Brooklyn Bridge by selfish crab.

bouquet

photographic crab — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:35:27 +0000

bouquet by selfish crab.