This is just a 'life of Eric' post. I promise I will wrap up the Tale of the Jury Trial soon, but I have a case of the I-dohn-wanna's about it, which I'll just have to push through, probably on Sunday. Good things happening! For instance, I am going to Disney World! Next weekend! I …
Month: February 2026
Cross Examination, Part 2
So I covered in Part 1 who the players were as far as the crime. As far as the trial, we had: The judge. He was from Central Casting, older, silver hair, and we found out when we ran into him in the hallway, quite tall. He was avuncular and funny. But he also took …
Dam Busters
Paul Krugman, in his email newsletter, always ends it with a 'musical coda', a video of a song he wants to share, maybe related to the email content, maybe not. This is mine today. https://youtu.be/kvyaLAdLmo4?si=ewgSn1lKlORIZjip And who is this adorable bear conducting? His name is Ben Palmer. *makes notes to google-stalk him later* Anyway, the …
Cross Examination, Part 1
OK, so I've gone on about the jury duty and the voir dire and what a pain it was to find lunch in Kew Gardens, but I couldn't talk about the trial until it was over. Well - it's over, as of Tuesday. Here's a good summary of the crime. Parolee allegedly guns down mother's …
Freezing, Thawing
The freezing part is of course that we're stuck in the worst cold snap that NYC has seen I think since I moved here 30 years ago. I don't remember it ever going down to single digits pretty much every day. The mildly amusing part is that, since I live in a radiator building, the …
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