skepticlawyer

23 Comments

1. skepticlawyer
   Posted February 7, 2007 at 9:58 pm | Permalink

   Crossposted from Club Troppo - and it took a while, too (even for me).

2. melaleuca
   Posted February 7, 2007 at 10:03 pm | Permalink

   Hell, Skeptic. You are incredible.

   If there was a blog logie you’d have to be one of the hot favourites.

3. JC.
   Posted February 7, 2007 at 10:28 pm | Permalink

   Have to agree with mel here, SL (unfortunately). You’re pretty damn good. The best blog gal I ever met.

   Seriously, stop wasting your time with boring law, get back to writing novels etc. You’re too good a writer to be wasting your time…. but not blogging by the way.

4. skepticlawyer
   Posted February 7, 2007 at 10:42 pm | Permalink

   Thanks Steve & JC. To be fair I’ve worked as a subeditor, so I can do things like this fairly quickly. Even so, this represents about three hours of solid work. I haven’t eaten tea, I haven’t had a shower, and I’ve missed House - one of the few shows I watch.

5. fatfingers
   Posted February 7, 2007 at 10:57 pm | Permalink

   From what I can hear from the living room, House was good but sad at the end.

6. skepticlawyer
   Posted February 7, 2007 at 11:17 pm | Permalink

   Looks like everyone’s reading. That’s good - I’ll have that tub now

7. JC.
   Posted February 7, 2007 at 11:18 pm | Permalink

   Yea I watched it fats. Some idiot hit himself tripping on a rake and ended up dying from a hemorrhagic stroke tnat they couldn’t see on an MRI. House realized the guy was a total twat and figured out what he had done.

   Yep… sad, sad story.

8. Mark Bahnisch
   Posted February 7, 2007 at 11:31 pm | Permalink

   Yes, very nice work, SL. Glad to see the baton picked up (and passed on in due course) - I’d have been very sorry to see Missing Link go, while fully understanding the demands on Ken’s time. You’ve done a great job and it’ll be interesting to see different perspectives in the picks and commentary.

9. fatfingers
   Posted February 7, 2007 at 11:40 pm | Permalink

   Yet again Old Man Joey can’t help dogging my heels, even when I post on the surely-uncontroversial topic of TV shows.

   That is the real sad, sad story.

   When are you going to get a life, soon-to-cark-it Joe? You haven’t got much longer to enjoy it, you know. Your senility is already far advanced.

10. skepticlawyer
    Posted February 8, 2007 at 12:02 am | Permalink

    Enough with the snarks, JC & ff. I’m rawther pleased with this post and am happy I’ve been able to convince Jason to give it a bash once in a while, and hope that Mark can step in occasionally after June when his teaching commitments lighten up.

11. JC.
    Posted February 8, 2007 at 12:03 am | Permalink

    Fsts.

    Ok, sorry, but I couldn’t help it. Just don’t take it too personally. Apologies if I upset you.

12. fatfingers
    Posted February 8, 2007 at 12:22 am | Permalink

    “Enough with the snarks, JC & ff.”

    JC started it. JC always starts it. It’s a sickness.

    “Ok, sorry, but I couldn’t help it.”

    Yes, you could, but I understand that self-control is difficult at your age, witness the colostomy bag.

    “Apologies if I upset you.”

    All you do is exasperate me. When you upset me, I’ll let you know.

13. skepticlawyer
    Posted February 8, 2007 at 12:28 am | Permalink

    And I take it that comment means ff has finished it, natch

14. fatfingers
    Posted February 8, 2007 at 12:43 am | Permalink

    Natch.
    By the way, thanks for the Missing Link post. I found some interesting blog posts that would never have graced my screen otherwise.

15. skepticlawyer
    Posted February 8, 2007 at 1:01 am | Permalink

    I tried to track down interesting blogs that people hadn’t necessarily seen before, as well as drag out some old favourites. Bear in mind, too, that I had Ken’s google feed reader to work with, which really is a nice bit of technology. You can create your own news service with it - seriously.

16. Gary Sauer-Thompson
    Posted February 8, 2007 at 6:15 am | Permalink

    Sceptical Lawyer,

    you may be interested in this post on philosophy.com on Justice Antonin Scalia and interpreting constitutions

17. Gary Sauer-Thompson
    Posted February 8, 2007 at 9:09 am | Permalink

    sorry that should be Scepticlawyer.

18. skepticlawyer
    Posted February 8, 2007 at 1:12 pm | Permalink

    Thanks Gary. I’ve got another Missing Link to do for Friday, so I’ll get onto it then. Also Graeme, you should check out ML - you may get a pleasant surprise!

19. Darlene
    Posted February 9, 2007 at 5:19 pm | Permalink

    Good job, Ms Skeptic.

    You have lifted the bar high (too high for some of us, but we can but try).

20. skepticlawyer
    Posted February 9, 2007 at 5:21 pm | Permalink

    Friday’s effort is over there now, Darlene - and you’re featured, too!

21. fatfingers
    Posted February 9, 2007 at 6:31 pm | Permalink

    Skepticlawyer, I followed the link to Adrienswords’ post, and it was mildly interesting. However, I couldn’t help but notice that you commented:

    “ff and Birdy often have excellent entertainment value, but not much else I’m afraid”

    when Adrien had been talking about Melaleuca and Bird, not me.

    While I thank you for thinking I have entertainment value, I am a bit hurt that you don’t think I contribute much else.
    Unless it was just a slip of the fingers and you were actually talking about Mel?

22. skepticlawyer
    Posted February 9, 2007 at 7:47 pm | Permalink

    Sorry, I thought it was you stoushing, but if it was Mel, I’ve engaged in a serious case of mistaken identity! Mind you, you and JC do get a run on at times, just like Birdy and Steve.

23. fatfingers
    Posted February 9, 2007 at 8:47 pm | Permalink

    Yah, fair enough. JC’s developed a real chip on his shoulder recently. Maybe it’s just that time of the month.