I had a chance to play with a digital camera yesterday, so I thought I’d share some views from the 19th Floor. This one is looking west towards downtown Minneapolis. The tall building in the center is the IDS Center and to the left is the historic Foshay Tower. When the sun sets in the evening, the play of the light off the glass and steel can be really beautiful. I’ll try to get a shot of this view at dusk sometime. And here is a view looking south towards the suburbs. Not as interesting, I must admit.
And here’s me. I need a haircut.

So Fox dropped its lawsuit against Al Franken. How their lawyers were able to choke down their professional pride to pursue something so laughable, I’ll never understand.
Taking my brother out for a beer later. Mmmm, beer.

My brother is coming for a visit tomorrow. He’s 3 years younger than me and a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell, so we don’t see each other very often. In fact, he’s leaving soon to spend a year in Europe. When I asked him what he wanted to do, he said “Play computer games!” That kind of surprised me. We used to be gaming buddies when we were kids, but I thought he had outgrown that stuff. But I shouldn’t talk. I certainly never grew out of it. Maybe I’ll take him to the State Fair too. He can pig out on Pronto Pups and mini donuts. My blogging shouldn’t be affected, but it might be a little lighter.
I set up my wireless network today. Every computer-related task should be this easy. Now my system won’t be tied up by my sister when she stays with me in September. That girl can chat on AIM for hours and hours.
My friend Allison sent me a CD with some great music that included some Australian artists. Stuff like Christine Anu, Endorphin, and george. Awesome stuff. The US music scene is wonderful, but the good material never gets any airplay. I hope radio is more diverse Down Under.

I was just reading this advice to students who are starting their first year of law school. I wish this had been around back in 1995. When I entered law school, I thought it would just be a slightly more difficult version of college. And most of college had been extremely easy for me. I quickly discovered how wrong I was. It probably took me a whole year to learn how to think and study like a law student should. But that first year also served as a much-needed kick in the ass for me. I needed to realize that I wasn’t as smart as I thought I was and that there were lots of people smarter than me. That first year was also my first year away from home, so I attribute some of my poor performance to general “Doing Whatever the Fuck I Want” Syndrome.
The Web can still weird me out sometimes. If you go here and scroll down, you’ll see that I’m someone else’s footnote (except he spells my first name with the oh-so-European C). It’s an article I wrote in law school and you can probably still find it on Lexis-Nexis. I must admit that it’s one of the better things I’ve ever written.

I’m discovering that scripting a comic is much different than writing standard prose. It’s almost like writing two simultaneous narratives. One part is the visual: the scene, the angle, the descriptions of people and places. The other part is the actual dialog, which has to be kept tight so it won’t clutter up the pages. It can take twice the amount of time to spit out a script for one comic book page as opposed to a page of straight prose. But I’m having a good time with it.
By the way, any artistic types interested in collaborating on a strip for Her? Susannah keyed me into the opportunity and I think it could be fun.
I’ve been jonesing for a gaming fix. Maybe I should pick up the Warcraft 3 expansion. Or I could just re-install Civ 3.