October 2009 - Page 3 of 3 - Memos and Mirth

dogs

First taste of winter

October 10, 2009

It is 5:30am. I have been asleep for exactly 3 hours.¹

I wake up because I feel hot ~~dragon~~ dog breath on my cheek. I open my eyes and glare at Harley.
Harley (nudging me): “I need to go pooooooop.”
Me: “It’s snowing outside. I need sleep.”
Harley: “And I need to release! I need a walk. Now.”
Me: “Nono, you don’t understand. It is cold and SNOWING outside! Hold it! BACK TO BED!”
Harley: “Pooopy time. 5:30 a.m. is POOOPY time!”
Me: “Seriously it is SNOWING!”
Harley: “Listen. You have two options: let your balls drop, get off your ass, and take me outside, or kennel me and mop up my brown river of stink tomorrow.”
Me: “I will kill you.”
So when we get outside…

…Harley stops and looks at me like,
Harley: “Wait! It’s gross and cold…”
Me: “SEE! I told you so! God dammit! I told you so!”
Harley: “I’m a dog. I can’t actually understand a word you say to me.”
Me: “Understand this: you dragged me out of bed and I’m murderous. YOU BETTA SHIT.”
He certainly understood that.

Law School

Ms. Tuggle

October 9, 2009

This is from a case I came across today. And no, I did not make up any of the names:
“He testified that Ms. Tuggle told him that the defendant said McGory had shot at the defendant’s brother on one occasion and had chased the defendant with a machete earlier on the day of the shooting.” State v. Holmes, Tenn.Crim.App.,2009.

Ms. Tuggle had seen the defendant get out of his car and attempt to gun McGory down.

McGory was a quick thinker however, and used a friend as a body shield…and here I thought Law & Order made this stuff up…

Harley the Ripper

October 8, 2009

I heard the scratching, but couldn’t get to the bed before the sheets were ripped:

humor / Law School / pop-law

Alternative Legal Career: Hooker

October 7, 2009

My newest post over at The Shark is about a Stanford law graduate who took an alternative route and used her JD to launch a high-end call-girl service.

Highest hourly rate? $1,300. Read the post here.

Joel / Minneapolis-St. Paul

Minnesota Wild

October 7, 2009

Joel took me to my first Hockey game tonight: The Minnesota Wild season opener vs. the Anaheim Ducks.

There was action:

Suspense (They came back from 3-0 and the game went into overtime!)

Drammy:

Oh and of course a pile-up:

I took an offensive amount of pictures. I will post them soon.

Boomkat List

Throwback Jams

October 6, 2009

These are the 25 songs that I started my teens with. Quite a few of these are still the jam.

Tok Tok vs. Soffy O – Missy Queen’s Gonna Die
Guano Apes – No Speech
Mia – Alles Neu
ATB – Don’t Stop
Guano Apes – Kumba yo
Phats & Small – Turn Around
Lexy & K-Paul – Let’s Play
Rollergirl – Dear Jessie
Dahool – Meet Her at the Love Parade
Korn – Twist
Westbam & Dr. Motte – Sunshine
Blümchen – Herz an Herz
Marilyn Manson – The Beautiful People
ADULT. – New Object
Fettes Brot – Da Draussen
Slipknot – Wait and Bleed
DJ Scot Project – Overdrive
Republica – Drop Dead Gorgeous
Fiona Apple – As fast as you can
Wamdue Project – King of Castle
Lambretta – Bimbo
Brooklyn Bounce – Base, Beats Melody
Orgy – Blue Monday
Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
Hilal Cebeci – Ipe Ipe

My first concert was a Slipknot show in Kansas. That was amazing. The band was an hour late so girls in the audience randomly got on stage and started flashing. As a 13 year-old living in Wichita, I could have not possibly have felt more badass at that moment.

Toktok vs. Soffy O started my love of electro-music, and I’ve always had a soft spot for the cheesy disco-house like Phats & Small’s “Turn Around.”

I heard “Turn Around” for the first time while vacationing in Zandvoort. That was an important vacation, because while in Zandvoort I was also exposed to ATB (Don’t Stop and 9pm/Till I come) and ATB quickly became my favorite DJ. Probably because a huge crush on him.

Dreamy.

humor / Life

The secret family recipe

October 5, 2009

I guess it’s easy to keep the family secret recipe a secret when your bean cans are impossible to open.

I came home for lunch and wanted to add some beans to my leftovers, but the can was so irregularly shaped that the normal can opener only made a few whole holes.

So I used the smaller can opener, which I obviously don’t know how to use and…

Fail.

I eventually got it open. I apologize to whomever sits next to me in Real Estate.

picture of the day

The Rowers

October 4, 2009

Harley and I walked around campus today.

We were on the Washington Avenue bridge when I heard some shouting coming from the river: “COME ON! PUSH IT! PUSH IT GOPHERS!”

I looked down and saw the most intense women ever:

Now, these women are hardcore several reasons:

Rowing looks hard.
The chanter/cheering lady is was totally channeling Jillian Michaels and I’m sure they wanted to smack her with an oar, Springer style.
It’s barely 50 degrees and they are wearing hooters shorts on the Mississippi river.

You go girls.

And I took a ton of pictures. I’ll edit and post the rest later.

RSS/Facebook readers: click here if you cannot see the pictures. The images link to larger files.

dogs / humor / picture of the day

New Kicks

October 2, 2009

So Aldo is one of my favorite shoe stores at the Mall of America.

One day I decided to go to their website, clicked on clearance, and OH MY GOODNESS is that a $10 pair of pimptastic sneakers?

And gasp, another pair.
And another.

Until…

Oops.

blog theory / Just Sayin

Weeding my twitter

October 1, 2009

I have two twitter account.

My @dennisjansen account is for friends, news feeds, and celebrities that I follow closely. It also updates my facebook status, so my tweets are less frequent.

I update my @dennisjansen more frequently, add people more freely, and use the account to interact without cluttering up my friend’s facebook feeds.

I’ve taken the approach of adding everyone who adds me on @dennisjansen, and this is a mistake, because not all twitter-friends are created equal.

Here is an example of the types of tweets I see through @dennisjansen:

These are the types of tweets that I see on @dennisjansen:

Needless to say, I have to wade through a lot of crap on the @dennisjansen account.

The point of the @dennisjansen account is not the amount of followers, but the ability to interact/network with more people. All off these marketing, news-aggregating, all around crappy twitterers are cluttering my feed, and some weeding is in order.

I’m going on an unadd campaign!

See also:

These people are not worth interacting with or following.