- When I graduated from high school, the last name of the last person who walked across the stage to receive a diploma began with the letters “Zw.” Clearly, the order was alphabetical. I attended a law school graduation on Saturday and I have no idea how they determined the order in which they called the grads, but it certainly wasn’t from A to Z.
- I know Ford is planning to discontinue the Lincoln Town Car after this year and after it has been in production on a similar chassis for roughly 32-years. Still, couldn’t they update a few things without a major investment in engineering or tools? Ford does make a transmission with more than four gears for that engine. Using it would improve the vehicle’s mileage. And it wouldn’t take any engineering at all to substitute a more sophisticated radio in that hole in the dash, would it? I mean, the only way to listen to an MP3 in that so-called luxury car is with ear phones on the MP3 player you bring with you.
- Do you need a lawyer with an LLM in transnational business and some experience in China? I’d be happy to pass along your inquiry to the lawyer I watched receive that degree on Saturday. Comments in this blog are moderated, so your contact information won’t become public if you contact the Sisyphus Project in regard to this matter.
- The curb strip in front of my house is 45 inches wide. Most if not all of the curb strips in my town are about the same width. My power mower cuts a 21-inch swath; that”s fairly common for a home lawnmower. A 45-inch wide curb strip doesn’t take 2.14 passes with the mower to cut, it takes 3 passes. How much imported oil could we save if all the curb strips took only two passes to keep tidy?
- By the way, shouldn’t a power mower cut power and not grass?
- During remodeling currently taking place at my house, we’ve discovered some knob and tube wiring. The house is over 100-years old. Almost any knob-and-tube wiring still in service is heavily overloaded. For that and other reasons, it’s a fire hazard and I’m replacing it. To do so, I have to give the electrician access to part of the attic. The question is exactly how much of the junk in my attic do I have to move out of the attic to replace the wiring?
- There are two other questions as well. Will my wife and children let me throw some of that stuff out? And if I can dispose of enough junk will the house stay on its foundation or will it float off like a giant hot-air balloon?
- Does anyone here have an effective strategy for quickly adjusting to a three-hour time zone change? I find myself going to bed very early by California standards, waking up for a few hours about three hours after I hit the hay, then going back to sleep until 6 or 7 in the morning. It kind of works, but not effectively, and I’m in California just long enough that while I haven’t adjusted completely to the time zone shift, I will have to do some adjusting again when I get back to New York.
