http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/business/20tele.html?hp

I post an awful lot now that I have time. Anyhoo, just a thought about the end of this article, where this poor old man has lost his financial freedom, at the hands of his own relatives, no less. This is absolutely deplorable. Tony Unspach and his extended family, who pitifully leave their grandfather, great-grand father, and father 50 dollars a week of his OWN social security fund (which is a monthly $800 check) can be considered the most greedy, horrifically disrespectful people ever born.

It's his money. Yes, he was bilked out of thousands by fraudsters posing as individuals in charge of his account. It's still his money, not yours. The "extra" $600 you keep from his social security is not rightfully yours and more critically, even if that money is not enough to cover his expenses, it is your obligation to provide for your elderly relative. Stop trying to hoard it all for yourself and ensure yourself a nice fat inheritance because that is by your actions, what you are doing.

May karma come to avenge your actions and may your children leave you to rot, penniless, in a nursing home.

So it has been decided. After toying with the idea of getting a custom ride (an IndyFab), I have finally settled on pure badass race stock: A C'dale SystemSix frame. I haven't decided whether i'm going to pimp it out with campy record (mmm...campy record) or go with a little more of an affordable mongrelizing of it with my current parts from Class Ring. I envision:

SystemSix Frame
These nifty EC90 handlebars that I have
Specialized Toupe saddle
These awesome Ksyrium SLs that I have
Camy Record almost everything else
Some non-Record cranks.

Bitching. I hope it weighs in at 16 pounds...

"To scribble a name on a sheet of paper is easy; to attend a meeting where pacific opinions are more or less rhetorically reiterated to people who believe in them is also easy; and to write a cheque in support of those vaguely acceptable opinions, though not so easy, is a cheap way of quieting what may conveniently be called one's conscience."

Marvelous.

There are a lot of things I could write about right now. I have done some things in the last few days:
-Finished Pirrhana
-Graduated, whipped my apple core at Barnard
-Made scones and other assorted goodies
-Received my passport (fuck you, Canada)
and a host of other things. I could write about the life changing experience riding someone else's bike was, and why I want a new one (or at least a new frame).

But I won't. I am, however, going to go find my core now, for 15 minutes, for the rest of my life.

A restaurant owner opted to kick OJ Simpson out of his steakhouse in Kentucky, refusing to serve him. His reasoning is because of "events that he did in the past" and that he disliked the "attention he still attracted."
I am reminded of Dershowitz at this point in time, and in Letters to a Young Lawyer, where he explains that every defendant is worthy of the most vigorous defence within the bounds of the law and if found to be innocent, then IS. About the wrongful death suit that Simpson is guilty of in civil court? Well, he is skirting paying that by keeping his primary residence in Florida, which does not demand that he sell his primary home or his assets in trust to pay civil damages, also within the bounds of the law. Dershowitz perhaps put it most rightly that the justice system is not about the truth, it's about fairness and process - and THAT is why we allow evidence to be excluded based upon the method that it was collected. Fairness.

Apparently some people still have not learned how to play nicely in the sandbox, and I hope that steakhouse owner Jeff Ruby suffers the consequences of it. I hope they take your liquor license. You may dislike OJ, but he is fair and square with the law.