More to come later. For now–see Sandefur’s post.
I need some help/advice from any tech/geeks out there. I am going paperless and scanning lots of paper documents into PDF files.
I have a Visioneer scanner. It sucks, but still. I use it with Adobe Acrobat 6.0 (which also sucks, like all things hardware and software) to scan lots of documents into PDF. This is very slow. The worst thing is it invokes the PaperPort 8.0 Scan Manager, which is slow, and also, it pops up a damned scan manager screen every time it scans the next page. I can get nothing done on my PC when it’s scanning, it ties up the whole GD screen.
I want a better way to simply scan documents into PDF. Faster, and does it in background. And works with my stupid Visioneer scanner. I think I only need better software/driver. I was thinking of buying PaperPort 9.0 Deluxe. I don’t care about its ability to do document management but I want a simple, easy, fast way to use my scanner to create PDF files, in the background. Is that too much to ask?
Any advice or recos from geeks out there would be appreciated. Please don’t tell me to get a new scanner or mail the docs to Thailand to do it on the cheap. Don’t fight the hypo, people.
A few useful works:
- Working with Contracts: What Law School Doesn’t Teach You, by Charles M. Fox (PLI)
- A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, by Kenneth Adams (ABA)
- The Elements of Legal Style and The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style by Bryan Garner
Following up on recent posts about humorous voicemails and emails, here’s another humorous voicemail. The story behind the voicemail is explained here, and in the letter below.
Mr. Kinsella:
I stumbled over this website courtesy of an article about the
recent humorous voicemail and couldn’t resist writing you to share something amusing that happened to our company.
Our Austin-based company, Despair Inc., produces cynical humor products- including parodies of motivational posters
called Demotivators.
Anyway, our logo features the 🙁 emoticon–which we
obviously did not invent but nevertheless submitted a trademark request for to the USPTO.
To our surprise (and our IP lawyer’s amazement), we received a
trademark for the symbol in printed matter class of goods.
As a joke, we wrote a fake press release about how–in light of our trademark on the 🙁 symbol–we planned to sue several million individuals who had used the symbol in email of late.
It was mostly meant as a rip on frivolous IP lawsuits. But
because of some clumsy reporting and overzealous netizens, it ended up becoming a gigantic outrage to many thousands of people who missed the joke.
The most amusing contact we received came in the form of a late-night voicemail from someone who sounded very drunk.
http://www.despair.com/frownies.html The voicemail is linked in the page above. It is expletive-laden and frequently incoherent–but provoked gales of laughter and ultimately, the desire to share the joke with others.
We bleeped out the expletives–as we’re a pretty family-friendly
website–but even without them, it’s a very amusing and
confusing listen, though admittedly, for a somewhat select audience.
Hope you enjoy it.
Cheers,
Justin Sewell
Despair, Inc.
Bay of One Hundred Fires, the new novel by retired Houston attorney (and my former mentor) J. Lanier Yeates, is “a frighteningly realistic geopolitical thriller that cannot be put down.” Or so says one distinguished commentator–namely yours truly, who was lucky enough to read it in manuscript form.
In addition to being an attorney, “On active duty in the United States Navy during the Vietnam years, J. Lanier Yeates served aboard the guided-missile destroyer, USS Mitscher before joining the pre-commissioning unit of the nuclear-powered cruiser, USS California, where he supervised the installation of the ship’s hightech, long-range, air-search radar system.” Order your copy today–!
In Bay of One Hundred Fires, author J. Lanier Yeates weaves a chilling tale of what Saddam Hussein might have done with the deadly weapons many believed he had. [A] poor Cuban family from Cienfuegos is swept into a battle between the Navy and a global terror network. To complement its firepower and 21st century technology, the Navy calls on a young lieutenant commander and maverick CIA analysts.
The Navy has one more weapon to leverage its powerful assets: Hoss Mueller, the skipper of the re-born USS California.
Coda: More info in this press release.
Re recent posts about humorous lawyer voicemails, I was reminded of this story: Elite Firm Summer Associate Sends E-Mail Boasting Of Laziness to Partners [registration required].
Re my previous post, Chicago Sun-Times reporter Eric Herman has picked this up story and is running with it, in F-bomb-dropping attorney gets worldwide notoriety [alternative link].
Coda: others have picked it up too, including this one from The Chicagoist, Lawyers Drop F-Bombs?, which includes some decent gossip about the “victim” and interestingly, some off the cuff defenses of the angry attorney. Another discussion forum is on MyShingle.
My latest book is Online Contract Formation. It went to the printer this month, and is published this month by Oceana. It provides practical advice about legal issues related to formation of contracts through online means, from a multi-jurisdictional perspective.
Forthcoming in December is International Investment Political Risk and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide.
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