What do Jews do on Christmas day? Great question.
I attempted an answer in this quick video vignette. It appears that we order Chinese food and watch football games we don’t necessarily care that much about.
Though this ethnography is not the definitive documentary on the subject, there is a high-degree of accuracy in random sampling. In [...]

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DC-ilhouette

Originally uploaded by themarkpike.

My friend’s apartment has one of the best sunset views in the city, so I thought I’d snap a quick shot with the built-in camera on the BlacBook.

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Do Not Use Your Shift Key!

Originally uploaded by themarkpike.

“Do Not Use Your Shift Key!” I think that’s what this sign says down at the oceanfront in Virginia Beach.
It’s actually supposed to encourage boardwalkers (boredwalkers?) to refrain from using inappropriate language. Or maybe it’s to let [...]

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… when I’m busy making plans.
Mark’s Holiday Tour 2K6-2K7:

December 15-17: Virginia Beach, VA
December 17-22: Washington, DC
December 22-25: Virginia Beach, VA
December 25-31: Happiest Place on Earth, FL
January 1-?: New York City, NY
January ?-?: Suggestions-ville, USA (Population- You)
January 12-14: Atlanta, GA

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TiVo for Studying on Vimeo
I think I might have discovered a brand new way of studying that doesn’t take up as much time. You basically just leave a video camera running on your book, and then you later just watch it in fast forward. It totally works. I’m not sure why nobody else has thought [...]

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Twas the night before Crim Law, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring. So there’s clearly no actus reus, because that would require a voluntary act (i.e. stirring). Though, one could interpret the lack of stirring as an omission from a mouse, if the mouse is physically capable of stirring and had [...]

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My words feel a bit like lukewarm alphabet soup right now. It’s tough to write coherently in the hours following my very first law school exam.
Speaking of which— let’s just hope that my professor has a good sense of humor and respects jokes about personal jurisdiction. Civil Procedure is hilarious. Trust me. If the lawyer [...]

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I Put the Stud in StudyingOriginally uploaded by themarkpike.
A Pulitzer Prize winning photo, capturing the rare moment that the endangered species studious maximus hits the books.
You might be wondering what the basketball on my desk is…
It’s the prize I received for *drum roll* winning the first annual torts poetry contest! My professor decided to [...]

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