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Thursday, November 26th, 2009I soo loved these as a kid, they were a huge improvement over the stuffed pumpkin we had before they were invented! PS: was was raided vegetarian and have still never had a hot dog or a hamburger, although I have come to enjoy sushi.
Photo by Ms. Emily Meeks
Cherry Street Coffee House: Portland v. Seattle
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009I miss Portland, I have been in Seattle for several years now and still struggle to find good community based spaces. I was recently in Cherry Street Cafe and offend by the staff. here is the letter I wrote Cherry Street:
I was a local patron of the Cherry Street Coffee House’s, on an average week [...]
Seattle Information Technology Use
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009The city of Seattle recently completed an Information Technology Access and Adoption report covering Computer use, Broadband adoption, Cell phone use and other tech access. The most interesting finding for me related to adoption of tech cross cultures (slide 5) and civic engagement (slide 15). The slides hit the highlights:
Seattle Access IT Stats
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Chess Intro Books
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009As I start working on curriculum for the upcoming 8 week chess class I am teaching at Perkins School. One of the things that I am doing for the class is a series of 1 page recommendations on chess books. I will be covering Chess 101, tactics, endgame, strategy, and game collections.
This [...]
Teaching Chess Again
Monday, October 5th, 2009In a little over a week I start teaching chess again after a 4 year break from the game. I stopped playing back in 2005 to seriously pursue a career in the law, copyright and activism. It has been a long haul through law school, and I am sure I made the right choices, [...]
SJI – Part 3 KeyNote: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
Monday, September 14th, 2009The keynote was amazing, O’connor voiced strong support for appointment system for judges. At the federal level judges are appointed for life. At the state level most states have the popular elections for judges. O’Connor asked several pointed question “Would we ever see rullings like Loving, (the case that ended legal Prohibitions on Interracial Marriage) [...]
State Judicial Independence Conference – Part 2
Monday, September 14th, 2009The second panel which was very entertaining, but a bit on the rambling. A few of the quotes are up on twitter @Sarterus. Here are some of the highlights:
How do we structure a system where the money is spent on 21st century voter pamphlets online that actually educate voters? – Margaret Chon
This question brings forward [...]
State Judicial Independence Conference – Part 1
Monday, September 14th, 2009Seattle University Law is hosting a conference today on Judicial Independence. The focus is examining the tensions between judicial electioneering and justice “for sale”. Speakers for the conference include Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, distinguished state court judges and legislators.
The first panel is covering the case Caperton v. Massey
In 1998, Harman Mining Company filed a [...]
Student Rights: Tinker & Technology @ SU Law
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009Sarah, Gwen and I are at the Seattle Univeristy Law CLE on Student rights. The focus of the CLE is on the 40th anniversary of Tinker v. Des Moines, the landmark Supreme Court ruling for student rights. Speakers include ACLU-WA Cooperating Attorney Christian Halliburton, who is an Associate Professor at Seattle University. Here is [...]
DC Net^2 Tuesday: miriam’s kitchen
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009The focus of this month’s DC Net^2 Tuesday is focusing on a DC nonprofit, miriam’s kitchen (MK), fund raising.
Here are some of the suggestions I made:
Expand you Meta Data: Keywords & Description should be added to the site the Page rank is good but they are not showing up in the right searches
Use social media [...]