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Coming Around the End of the Fourth Semester

(c) Colin Nisbet 2006 (c) Colin Nisbet 2006 (c) Colin Nisbet 2006Tomorrow is the first of my law school exams. It seems as if I just took last semester's a few weeks ago. …
Olympic Torch Run (into Trouble)

I couldn't help but think what would happen if the team carrying the Olympic Torch through the outskirts of Pyongyang happened to pass along a group of starving North Koreans.
A Photo a Day: Anonymous Letters to a Home Away from Home

(c) Colin Nisbet 2005This hostel in Singapore connects me directly to where I am in law school probably more so than any other hostel or hotel where I stayed for the duration of my 500-day trip around Europe and Asia. …
Weekly Photo Challenge: What's On Your Feet?

This weeks subject is suggested by stixandstonzThat's my foot in the tip of the Doc Marten in the picture. I'm standing on the upper level of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. (c) Colin Nisbet 2005More like what was on my feet. …
Always Bet on Black

Action hero turned tax evader, Wesley Snipes got punk'd for real by a California judge who handed down the maximum sentence not for the actor's portrayal of Simon Phoenix which spawned the inspiration for Dennis Rodman's…
Law School Beat: Gearing Up For Finals

The semester proved more difficult that I had anticipated. I figured since I had my beast of my War Crimes seminar paper (all 80 pages) out of the way, I'd be fine with taking 16 hours of credit - what I took last semes…
Weekly Photo Challenge: What's Cooking

Furtherthoughts came up with the theme for this round of the Weekly Photo Challenge: What's Cooking?Here's a picture from Luang Prabang in Laos. Every night, they have the night market, geared toward both tourist and na…
What is in your fridge?

I just answered this Featured Question, you can answer it too!An empty tupperware bowl with blue lid. An empty french press coffee maker with grinds still in the bottom. Two plastic containers of mustard. An unopen…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Zoom In

(c) Colin Nisbet 2008I sat on a plane for fifteen hours on my way to Asia last month. I slept three hours but they were broken into 20 minutes here and there. While Jodie Foster's latest flick, The Brave One, would b…
Oh, the places you'll wish you won't go...

Remind me sometime when I'm not too tired or overworked to tell you about the time I laid someone out with a stale McChicken sandwich at 3 AM just after getting jumped by a car full of Turkish immigrants. And that it ha…
Hard Times A Risin'

Read today online that the IMF says we're heading into a recession. The numbers have been bobbing up and down over the past several years, a little more severely as of late. I'm cutting back. Worried about law school …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fall Colors

Assipassi recommended this week's photo challenge: FALL COLORSI took these two pictures in October 2006, just under two months since I arrived to Cleveland and began law school. I had only been in the United States for…
Facebook as way of life...and weapon

Continuing the spiraling downwards Facebook rant, I thought I'd turn my attentions toward its applications - those microscopic black holes that once were the relegated to the minds of sci-fi writer extraordinaires, whose…