Category: Miscellanea

  • Site Rebuild

    I learned last night that this site was hacked somehow. I don’t know if it was due to a vulnerability in WordPress or a WordPress plugin or, more likely, a vulnerability in the many, many other scripts and add-ons that I had accumulated here over the last 14 years of running this site. As a…

  • Fascinating New Brain Research

    Researchers have observed never-before-detected brain activity in deep coma states.  This has obvious implications for end-of-life decisions, but also (as the article points out) for trauma patients who are placed into comas for medical reasons.  Very interesting stuff.

  • Last Day of Biglaw

    Today was my last day as an associate at BakerHostetler. I have really enjoyed getting to know the wonderful people there over the last year and change. Tomorrow, I will be starting in my new position as a staff attorney at the Texas First Court of Appeals, here in Houston. I am looking forward to…

  • Make Yourself Happier

    I love mind-hacking and ways to improve my life without doing anything radical, and this post from the Buffer blog is right in line with that: 10 simple things you can do today that will make you happier, backed by science  I can testify from personal experience that many of these work; I’ll have to…

  • August Reboot

    The last few months have been completely crazy — I worked well over 300 hours in July alone — and this blog has once again fallen by the wayside. It’s time to reboot it. I plan to roll out a new design fairly soon, and I am going to up the posting frequency significantly. Stay…