Looking to move on up?
If so, you’ve better have a lot of case on hand. According to Forbes magazine, the median price tag of a home in the most expensive zip code in the US (94027, (Atherton, CA) tops $2 million dollars. You read that right, that’s the median home price.
If you don’t [...]
Looking to make a career change so you can start making the big bucks?
Are you a college student trying to pick a major?
Are you just plain nosey about how much money your neighbor really makes?
Whichever it is, you can never have too much information. Below is a chart [...]
-Includes only individual campuses of four-year universities.
-Numbers are the sum of undergraduate and graduate students.
As of Fall 2005:
1. 51,712: Arizona State University – Tempe, AZ
2. 51,175: University of Minnesota Twin Cities – Minneapolis, MN
3. 50,504: Ohio State University – Columbus, OH
4. 49,650: University [...]
Q: What does it mean to be “upside down” on a loan? I keep hearing this term on talk radio shows. (Like Dave Ramsey.)
A: Usually used in the context of car loans, the term “upside down” means that the car is worth far less than the amount of money owed on the [...]
The Pandora music service updated their code last night. If you’re a Pandora’s Jar user, you may have noticed that the Pandora player is no longer appearing on your Pandora’s Jar page.
Not to worry – here’s how you fix it.
Locate your Pandora’s Jar directory. If you followed my instructions when you set it [...]
Texas Judge Samuel Kent has gained nationwide notoriety owe to his propensity to write humorous orders and opinions.
This Judge Kent classic doesn’t disappoint, as he denies a defendant’s request for transfer from Galveston to Houston due to due to claimed travel inconveniences, assuring Defendant that “the trip [to Galveston] should be free of [...]
This has to be one of my all-time favorite cases.
Penned in 1999, it’s quickly becoming a law school classic as Legal Research instructors across the country have their students track down the case in “How to use the Reporter” exercises.
At my law school, the reported that contains this case flips right [...]
Getting rid of that old computer? You might want to consider either hanging on to the hard drive or making sure that it’s been completely erased before you do so – your personal data may be at stake.
If you’re like most computer users, you probably have a few files on your computer that you [...]
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times – most practicing attorneys are about as emotionally advanced as a fourth grade student. Looks like there’s a Judge in Florida who agrees with me.
From CNN:
NEW YORK (FORTUNE) – Faced with the inability of two bickering attorneys to resolve even the most [...]
If you’re looking for information on how to use Pandora’s Jar, check here for my article called How to save music from Pandora using Pandora’s Jar
Lemme guess – Pandora’s Jar was working just fine for you, but then all of a sudden it stopped working?
The reason is that the Pandora Music Service changed [...]
Big cities are one thing – I have a list of the largest cities in the US here. But big Metro areas area a completely different breed of animal.
There is a lot of disagreement over exactly how the measure “Metropolitan Area” should be defined. Some cities include only their immediate neighbors, while others [...]
The top four largest cities in the United States – New York, LA, Chicago, and Houston – aren’t going to be unseated any time soon. But change is afoot as the nation’s population shifts towards the Southwest part of the country.
Of the top 10 largest cities, 7 are in California, Arizona, and Texas. [...]
The Pandora Music Service is pretty cool – you tell Pandora which artists and songs you like, and Pandora then plays music that it thinks you will like, based on your stated preferences. It’s a fun way to discover new music, though there are a couple of limitations.
The biggest limitation is that [...]
I hate rebates. I’ve been burned so many times that I don’t even bother buying products that are “discounted” by a rebate. The way I look at it, if a store wants to knock $50 off the price, they should knock $50 off the price. I’m not going to jump through hoops [...]
New York City may not top the list of largest cities in the world, but it rounds out the top three on a list of “largest metropolitan areas.”
Joining NYC on the list, we have Los Angeles coming in at 12, sweet home Chicago at 25, and Miami at 42. Miami as the [...]
You thought New York City was big? O RLY?
Here’s a list of the 30 most populous cities in the world – you’ll note that exactly eleven of them rank ahead of good-ol-NYC in terms of total population.
Not only that, but you’ll also notice that New York is the only U.S. city [...]
“It’s a hard line to tow.”
That’s how the email ended, making me grin ear-to-ear as I pictured the sender pulling a large load with a rope tied around her waist.
The phrase is “toe the line,” not “tow the line.”
It’s an easy mistake to make, as WorldWideWords.org points out:
It’s correctly [...]
Why is Windows XP filled with so many annoying features?
In what might be the most annoying software innovation ever, Microsoft has riddled Windows XP with balloon popups. “Take a tour of Windows XP!” “A wireless network is available!” “A new program has been installed!”
No matter how you slice [...]
