Anybody else going through the bar preparation process want to share how messy and note-laden their room has become?

Nobody ever wants to see Pac-Man crying… it’s just too sad.

I saw a bunch of these posters in Hollywood and was drawn in because they decried the shooting of what appears to be a ten year old by the LAPD. “Yegads,” I thought, “how did the LAPD manage to shoot a ten year old?”

As I got closer I noticed that the man was 21 when he was shot, not ten. The poster’s maker used an 11 year old photo. Now, look, I have a lot of sympathy for the friends and family of anyone shot and killed by anyone, but it’s awfully misleading to use the picture of a child to draw people in to your rally.

The story itself, according to the LATimes, is that Chaudhry was sleeping in the bushes outside an apartment building when two police officers approached him and asked him for ID. There was some interaction and then he stabbed one of the officers in the hand. The officer then shot Chaudhry three times in the stomach.

The family seems to question (1, 2) the official story, but doesn’t really provide an alternative one. They mostly seem mad that the police took a full month to notify them of the shooting (seems like a fairly reasonable complaint considering that he had ID on him).

I just thought the use of the picture in the poster was interesting.

UPDATE: Thanks to a commenter, here’s a more recent picture of him from Facebook:

McCain’s supporters show how their lively, dynamic campaign is poised to take America by storm:

Amazing picture via Reddit.

Click to big-ify

What kind of car was actually parked there? Not a Ferrari.

A friend (does he want to be named?) recently sent out this picture from his 2001 daily calendar. Very prescient:

If you can’t read it, it’s the September 11th, 2001 page from A Gorey Year and reads “T is for Titus who flew into bits — from The Gashlycrumb Tinies, by Edward Gorey.”

Yikes.

I’m still in the process of getting all my old pictures online, but I’ve updated the navigation system. You can access it in the Pictures link at the top of the page, or right here:

I’m going to have to start working on maps for New Zealand, Australia, Thailand and Japan.

BarBri is expensive: joining BarBri can cost over $3,000, just trying to snag the books on eBay can cost you over $700. Yesterday at lunchtime the books for this summer’s New York bar exam arrived at Georgetown and by 7:30pm they were already being put to effective use:

Yes, the box is full of books. Click to big-ify.

I know ONE door that’s going to be passing the bar.

And is that Tom Skerritt sitting next to Naziville? Who would have expected it?

One of the unique things about DC is that a lot of the local advertising is geared towards products and services that you never see advertised in other parts of the country. Presumably these types of ads are geared towards government and military purchasers who have different needs than your average startup. I, for example, am unlikely to require any sort of services geared towards naval fleet optimization… but apparently some people do:

I sincerely hope that the people who need to purchase such services are already well aware of any valid vendors and aren’t simply making decisions based on who has the most convincing subway ad along their route to work.