Adam Engelhart

Pending Litigation

I’m considering filing a Section 1983 lawsuit against LexisNexis. Why, you ask? Well, see here–they have abridged my Constitutional rights!

(Yes, I know the statute isn’t really on all fours here. I plead comedic necessity.)

Add comment January 28th, 2007

Another funny band name

Came up with this one while out to dinner with Joe:

• Name: The Carbolic Smoke Ball Company
• Genre: Pink Floyd covers (based in Madison WI)
• First album: The Plaintiff at the Gates of Dawn

1 comment January 6th, 2007

Signal Flags

One of my areas of low-level geekery is encodings (I say “low-level” because I usually decide to move on to something else in ten to twenty minutes), and I found a variation on the international maritime signal flags that at least a few other people will probably like. This is the sort of joke that could easily be carried to extremes.

Add comment November 14th, 2006

That’s a bit morbid

I got a rather macabre spam just now:

On further inspection, it turns out they’re referring to dead mortgage leads.

Add comment October 19th, 2006

Drew goes forum-shopping

Drew (of the dubious invention I blogged earlier) has made another comic that’s kinda about law. For my part, I don’t think the big table would have personal jurisdiction, but I am unfamiliar with the rules of civil procedure involved here.

Add comment October 16th, 2006

Legal Band Names 2

Here’s another list of law-inspired band names. If (for some inscrutable reason) you dig this sort of thing, you might find my prior post on the subject interesting:

2 comments October 3rd, 2006

Another dispatch from Achewood

So a while ago, Achewood ran this comic where the popup text said "You owe yourself a YouTube search for Klaus Nomi". Having no prior experience of Klaus Nomi’s work, I performed that search, and have concluded that Klaus Nomi simply can not be explained with science.

Add comment September 30th, 2006

Rainy Nickel

This one is a really terrible science joke and an homage to xkcd. Did I mention that it was a really terrible science joke?

Add comment September 27th, 2006

Adam’s old cell phone RIP

Don’t know exactly how it happened (I guess I must have walked into something with it in my pocket), but my old cell phone’s screen got smashed on Monday, with the surprisingly pretty result shown above. Alas, it was not nearly as practical as it was beautiful, and so I went off to check CNet’s reviews and then to the Verizon store to upgrade to the LG VX8300. I was thinking I’d change carriers, but a thread on the Metblog a while ago seemed to reach a consensus that Verizon had the best reception in SF, and I wanted to get a new phone as soon as possible. It’s been working out fairly well. My main complaint is one endemic to all Verizon gear–they lock out a whole bunch of interesting and useful stuff, with technologies like BREW and crippled Bluetooth implementations. But there is hope for the tinkerer who wanders in the strange land of CDMA: BitPim.

BitPim gives you read/write access to all the data on the phone, letting you transfer pictures, add ringtones, add contacts, and browse the filesystem, all via USB or Bluetooth. I’ve only started playing around with it, but it looks very promising indeed. Now all somebody needs to do is hack BREW so anyone can write apps for it.

3 comments September 26th, 2006

Amusing spam of the day

From: Morgan Stanley Fidelity <basilanih3@virgilio.it>
Reply-To: morganstanleyfidelity1@o2.pl
To: undisclosed-recipients
Date: Sep 24, 2006 6:07 PM
Subject: MAKING A REQUEST

My Dear,
I am Morgan Stanley,Funds Manager of Fidelity Investment
International.

No, I don’t think you are.

Add comment September 24th, 2006