A Brief Interlude of Amusement
Mostly because I feel like it and this is MY blog, today's post has nothing more than a selection of links to stuff I found today (after working hours, of course) that sorta cheered me up and which I thought might amuse others as well.
Lately I've been a bit grumpy and a tad more depressed than usual, perhaps in part due to my capitulation to the realization that we really are entering the long Winter months I despise so much. And work has recently been both busier/wearing and less intrinsically fascinating - a decidedly bad combination - so it's time for some attitude adjustment. Come along for the ride!
- Washtenaw Jail Diary (Ann Arbor Chronicle) - what is it about being in jail which really brings out the brilliant writer in those who have such a gift? This is an ongoing installment series about a Twitter feed of recollections by an individual jailed in the Wastenaw County Jail in Ann Arbor, MI that began in April 2009. Well written. And if you're feeling down. this will certainly make you feel infinitely better about your particular situation or circumstances while still bringing a smile to your face. Hat tip to Above the Law
- A Real-Life Big Brother Poster (Business Pundit) - as in George Orwell's 1984, not the CBS TV reality Series - supposedly appearing outside a London Tube station. I just thought this was interesting.
- New language for those Mutual Releases exchanged in settlements so clients will be protected if interplanetary travel ever takes off commercially - Read about it at Legal Blog Watch's Contracts: Throughout the Universe, From the Beginning of Time post or in the original WSJ post "Lawyerese Goes Galactic as Contracts try to Master the Universe" leave it to lawyers to add yet another phrase to several others that already cover whatever's remotely likely to happen. Still I like seeing that creativity is still out there among the lawyer class and i suppose folks also laughed about reserving rights beyond the shores of Europe at one time.
- Nagging by one's spouse bad enough to want to go back to jail or get a divorce? Apparently in some cases, YES,according to this story in The Times On-Line (that's the London U.K. one)
