Ed Cottrell

  • Law school applications and a really big tree

    The good news: my law school applications are all in. Now, I just have to wait (my Ph.D. applications are going to get finished on Wednesday of next week). The not so good news: a huge tree (about 60 feet tall, 3 feet thick at the base, and 1.5-2 feet thick for most of the…

  • The Election

    Congratulations, President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Congratulations, America.

  • The End is Near, of Intelligent Life, Anyway

    A friend, who is a grad student at a major, well-respected university – names of student and school withheld, for reasons which will soon be obvious – reports that a student in a class she T.A.’s asked for a word definition during an exam. The word: “monogamy.” Shocked, my friend asked the student if he…

  • Join the Firefox Revolution!

    I did it; I ditched Internet Explorer as my primary browser. “What?”, you ask, “How can you do that? You’re a web developer!” Well, it’s simple: I use the great and free Mozilla Firefox as my primary browser, with Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Opera as backup browsers for testing. Mozilla Firefox is Open Source, meaning…

  • LSAT Day

    I took the LSAT today (October 2). I think it went really well. I’ll find out on the 25th whether or not that’s true. Meanwhile, one major reason I haven’t updated this often is that it has gotten unwieldy. I plan to give my site a complete overhaul, just as soon as I can finish…