{"id":693,"date":"2008-03-21T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/03\/21\/friday-notes-one-foot-out-the-door\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:55:38","slug":"friday-notes-one-foot-out-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/03\/21\/friday-notes-one-foot-out-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Notes: One Foot Out the Door"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking forward to the end of a most miserable week. Combine days of fever, a raw cough, and poison ivy all over for an especially<\/em> good time.\u00c2\u00a0 Off for a weekend in Raleigh, shortly, and I am working hard to convince myself that I’ll be all better when I get back.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

I’m a big fan of Larry Lessig, and think that he can be credited with a good chuck of the progress we’ve made in imparting the importance of IP laws to the general public. He always found a way to get to the core of the issue in a plain and understandable way, without dumbing it down. So I’m at something of a loss to explain the extraordinary naivet\u00c3\u00a9<\/a> that he seems to be demonstrating with his new Change Congress<\/a> project.\u00c2\u00a0 I think maybe he’s been hanging out with us techno\/law dorks too long.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

Brilliant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

Had a chance to sit down with Amit Singh<\/a> earlier this week.\u00c2\u00a0 This fellow Arlingtonian recently announced for the Republican primary for the 8th Congressional District seat (yep, he wants to run against Rep. Jim Moran).\u00c2\u00a0 I’d hoped to get our interview up this week, but it looks like I’ll have to push it to next week.\u00c2\u00a0 It’ll be worth it, I think – he’s not the kind of Republican we’ve been hearing from over the past 8 years.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

Among the many things I didn’t do (that I should have) this week was point you to Vivian Paige’s take<\/a> on Geraldine Ferraro’s words.\u00c2\u00a0 Well worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking forward to the end of a most miserable week. Combine days of fever, a raw cough, and poison ivy all over for an especially good time.\u00c2\u00a0 Off for a weekend in Raleigh, shortly, and I am working hard to convince myself that I’ll be all better when I get back. ~ I’m a big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t