Hockey, Wine, and Ice Cream
I had two grueling depositions today. In between I made some of that microwave soup as a quick meal and managed to pour boiling water all over my left hand. I said a very bad word and did the second… Continue Reading
Author: Burt Likko
Serious Literary Content
Oh my not-God. I love this recent judicial opinion so much it’s difficult to even describe. An excerpt, describing the subject of the case, a fine piece of modern literature entitled The Silver Crown (content below the jump debatably NSFW but mainly… Continue Reading
How Metadata Could Have Squelched The Civil Rights Movement
Perhaps it would be of interest to the ongoing discussion about NSA accumulation of phone use metadata to see how some math gets mixed with metadata in a relatively simple universe. Professor Kieran Healy does just that (found via memeorandum) using… Continue Reading
A National Holiday Celebrating A Poet
For its national holiday, Portugal has selected the birthday of Luis Vaz de Camões, the poet who wrote Os Lusíadas, the national epic celebrating the voyages of discovery. Like many great artists, Camões struggled financially during his lifetime but has emerged over… Continue Reading
Monday Trivia No. 117 (Randy Harris wins!)
A Midwest-focused puzzle this week, in honor of our recently-concluded Leaguefest: Iowa has 29.40%, putting it far ahead of North Carolina (13.77%) and Minnesota (11.92%). No other state reaches the double digits in terms of percentage. Single-digit percentages, in descending order,… Continue Reading
Out Of My Usual Loop
It’s a shame we have to leave Leaugefest 2013 early. But so it goes. We’ve taken a whole week and most of it was with family. Family time is important but not always relaxing. Neither, as it turns out, was… Continue Reading
Lameo Likko in Chicago
So Mrs. Likko and I are in Chicago. And I feel SUPER lame. On the one hand, we’ve already had some great food. If you follow my Yelp account you’ll see where we were. (Same name as my pseudonym.) But… Continue Reading
Pastoral
Antecedent to Leaguefest, Mrs. Likko and I are visiting with family in Wisconsin. Obviously, being on vacation presents a more relaxed sort of world view. A time when money and calories matter less than “real time.” A more relaxed pace… Continue Reading
Sandstorm
I’m not so good at this Photoshop stuff: Yesterday I took these three pictures with my phone from a point about two miles from my home, near the California Aqueduct. The wind at that location was about 25 miles an… Continue Reading
Ask Burt Likko Anything, 2.5
Tod Kelly asks me for the “[f]ive worst horror movies of all time… Not just badly made, but so unwatchable, boringly bad that even as a bad horror movie aficionado you would rather punch kittens than have to sit through them again?”… Continue Reading