Kaulapi World

Finished up my Corporations exam tonight, and I’m officially done for the summer now. As usual, I’m not sure how to gauge how I did. If its anything like how I did this past year, then I’ll be pretty happy with the results whenever they come in. I have to say that this is one of those classes that I think I got a lot out of regardless of how it turns out on paper. In all honesty I never thought I would find a class on corporate law as interesting as I did, I think part of it was the professor, but also the content of the course kept me pretty engaged in the material all these hot summer nights.

On the flip side it was pretty hanging tough through the last couple months or so, it was really like my spring semester didn’t end and carried on through the summer. looking back I realize that I have gone through the equivalent of 1 and 3/4 of law school, which would make me unofficially a 2.75 L going into the fall semester. not too bad considering this is my third year of night school, at this rate I may have the option of getting out a semester early, finishing 3.5 years total while working full time. It was really non stop, going for about 2 and a half years, I’m surprised I haven’t lost my mind just yet.

I’d like to think that I may finally be getting a real hang of things, at least the surprises and volume of material doesn’t seem as crazy, I’m able to read things quickly and get to the bottom line pretty quickly. All skills that might come in handy one day for sure. One thing for sure, It’ll be nice not having to rush out to catch a train at everyday during rush hour to head up to class, or lugging my laptop and textbooks everywhere I go. I’ll enjoy it for about a month before the next semester starts up again.

Earthbox update, I set up a flickr account to post some of the pictures. The humidity and heat are doing the plants well, the goya is now climbing up the net mesh and tomato plant stalk. I ended up saving some seeds from the chinese bitter mellon in place of the cilantro. we’ll see if that one sprouts as easily as the okinawan goya.

Linkes 7/5/07 - 7/16/07 (Law school notes edition)
Greatest boom ever, or just another bubble?
7 Sacred Pools of Oheo on Maui.
Web Back Machine - blogs and websites engraved in e-stone.
$12B a month. nuff said.
Talk about lowering the security clearance standards.

Update on the earth box project, some hits and misses. The tomato plant has shot up and appears to be doing very well, there are some flowers forming and maybe even the start of tomato or two starting to form. Both Thai basil plants are doing ok, one of the Italian basil is doing very well, shooting up like the tomato, but the other one is droopy and appears to be being attacked by some small bugs. Meanwhile the cilantro croaked pretty quickly. Of course the one that I’m paying the most attention to lately is the bittermellon which has sprouted above the soil and is climbing up. The past couple of days have been pretty mild, but I’m sure the heat and humidity coming next week should do it good.

So far its been a fun little project, little or no effort on the part of the amateur grower, the concept of the earth box as being idiot-proof has been pretty true so far. I realize that this started a bit late in the summer, but we’ll just see how far it goes. With this crazy weather I figure we’ll try to keep the box going outside until October or so since it stays pretty hot in DC for a while. That is unless there’s some freak snowstorm in September, but this isn’t Wisconsin so I don’t think that’ll happen.

A couple of days ago for the 4th I came across this citizenship test online and took it really quickly just for the hell of it. Although only got one wrong, and even that one was because I got tripped up on substantive and procedural due process rights (7th, 15th) some of them I think would be pretty hard. Hana got 4 wrong, but even she knew the significance of the various phrases, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. I wonder how many Americans, both naturalized and natural born would fare on this test. I also wonder how many hard core, anti-immigration advocates would do on this test, and what would that say about their cherished citizenship that they exclusively hold for themselves. Part of what I’ve been picking up on all the immigration bill debate is that the opponents of immigration reform aren’t being sincere when they say that they want “legal” immigration” and are only opposed to “legal immigration.” Behind all of the rhetoric is this darker motive of striving to keep a certain ethnic, religious, and political makeup.

Racism is alive and well in America, and the immigration bill debate is just another example of how the similar . In some ways its tricker nowadays when racism is buried under political arguments hidden under a legal argument. I suppose you can advocate that racism and prejudice has a legal precedence. It definitely has long track record in our history as a nation.

Linkes 7/2007
Smart Money tips when to buy stuff by day of the week
Creepy letters to investment company
Contractors outnumber troops mercs
Ajono communal brew
Housing post on suburbs
Ramen Blog all kinds of noodles
Advice to Realtors on how to sell stuff in the new market
False sense of security in a home?
Myth of Home Ownership and what it means for us
Costs of mortgaged suburbia 3 trillion?
Daily Show Dick’s move
All we need are frickin laser beams
Whole Foods or Whole Paycheck?