Jim Lipsey

The Federal Courts don’t mess around. Get eliminated from a jury pool during voir dire and they’ll make you come back the following week to try again. I was quickly rejected the first time around, but those who know me will be surprised to learn I didn’t end up 0 and 2 the [...]

I’ve been using Backpack for a few months now. It’s a web application that’s hard to describe, yet has become indespensible. Basically, the service provides a very simple interface to maintain a set of pages, each of which can store notes, images, files and links. Along with these pages is a ‘reminder’ [...]