After my big trip to Russia earlier this summer, it made sense to keep our family vacation local. We spent 3 days in the Sierra Foothills, then I took a father-son overnight camping trip with Jacob to Angel Island, then…
[See my photo gallery for this trip.] For people who came of age during the Cold War (like me), the idea of taking a vacation to Russia is intimidating and surreal. For decades, I was propagandized that Russia was The…
Gillum (Davies) v. Gillum, 2011 WL 2084148 (Ohio App. Ct. May 27, 2011) The parents are divorced, and mom has custody of the kids. The dad is now trying to obtain custody. There is some mildly amusing discussion about which…
You may recall that my son’s school took an official school field trip to In-and-Out Burger as part of their lessons on food distribution chains and economics. I sent a polite but pointed email to the school principal explaining why…
[Introductory note: next week my son Jacob’s class is taking a school-sanctioned field trip to In-N-Out Burger during normal school hours. We have decided not to participate in that field trip. I sent the following email to the school principal…
Last month, we held the inaugural Internet Law Works-in-Progress event at Santa Clara University. Over three dozen Internet law scholars participated in the event. A few observations: Insatiable Demand for WIP Events. I was nervous about launching a new works-in-progress…
State v. Komisarjevsky, 2011 WL 1032111 (Conn. Super. Ct. Feb. 22, 2011) In a sexual assault and homicide case, the defendant asked the judge to ban the media from posting tweets from the courtroom. Connecticut court rules explicitly prohibit “broadcasting”…
Earlier this year, I gave an informal talk to our faculty and staff about how I use blogging and my personal website. My talk slides. As you can see, I made one basic point: like-minded people may be interested in…
I love trying new vegetarian restaurants, but the Royal Greens Vegetarian Restaurant in San Jose (on De Anza, very close to the Cupertino border) did not rock my world. My wife and I tried three dishes: * kung pao chicken…
Sunol Regional Wilderness suffers from several branding problems. First, calling it a “wilderness” is overly generous. Most of it is a working cow ranch. It also is along the flight paths for both SFO and Oakland airports, so planes constantly…