Thanksgiving Cheerleaders
Originally uploaded by themarkpike.

A friend of mine sends out a Thanksgiving email every year where everybody submits a note about what they’re thankful for. She compiles it and then sends it out to the massive list.
This was my contribution for 2006:
family, friends, food on the table, long distance phone calls, handwritten words, intramural sports, [...]

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For those of you who are clamoring for more videos about the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, you’ll have to be patient. I’ve been focusing on my Criminal Law course this week, and it’s a lot more difficult to make lighthearted jokes about, well, murder and stuff. Though, O.J. and Fox News Corp. has kind [...]

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In which the protagonists resort to bathroom humor to help them memorize the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Pardon us if you find this project stinky, but it’s really helping us learn things.
Rule 13 is all about counterclaim, so we chose to highlight this one by utilizing the oldest blame game in the world.
Odor in [...]

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The Rules are starting to get more complicated, so I had to get some help.

Today, Rob from Charlottesville calls me up to offer assistance with Rule 11. And you know I’ve got Rule 12 on lockdown. Defenses and objections are my forté!
Once again, if you’re watching these and you’re not a 1L law student, you [...]

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If you’re watching these and you’re not in law school, step away from your computer slowly.
Actually, you’re pretty smart to watch these things. I’m providing you with the cheapest law school experience in the country. Although, you pay for what you get.
Here’s Rules 8-10. It’s about to get interesting. Rule 12 is going to be [...]

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I’m still on pace to learn them all before my exam.
For your viewing pleasure… 
I’m assuming this is only mildly interesting for a grand total of 3 human beings in the entire world. It’s a bit of an experiment. It’s more for me than you, but you’re the one who keeps reading these words.
Let me know [...]

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I am possibly the biggest dork in the world. I’m okay with that.

I present you with a video I made in the beginning of my effort to learn all 86 Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in time for my exam, which is in less than 25 days.

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 1-4 on Vimeo

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While watching the election results trickle in this evening, there was one glorious moment where I was able to believe that my singular act of democracy was quantifiable and truly mattered.
I was able to make a screengrab from CNN as evidence that this actually happened:

Jim Webb is for Lovers. Virginia is for Lawyers.
This is going [...]

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From the makers of plastic frisbees comes a giant leap forward in coffee brewing technology — the aerobie aeropress coffee maker.
I had read about this bad boy on the Internet earlier this year over on Boing Boing, and now it’s cool enough for the folks at Cool Hunting, so I guess it’s about time it [...]

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