What if you launched a new weblog, but no one could come? A few minutes after we posted two nights ago on the birth of prof. yabut’s journal, our weblog server went down and stayed supine for well over a day. [Clearly, a clicked server does not boil any sooner.] However, as Mr. Olson has taught us, we probably shouldn’t complain — much less sue — over the disruption of a free service. We shall, instead, bemoan the inevitability of Murphy’s Law. On the other hand, lawyers are expected to be skeptics, nay-sayers and yabuts, so we thought we’d inaugurate this new weblog with a counter-intuitive attempt at optimism. After pulling teeth, the best we could muster were the following reform amendments to Murphy’s Law, from Bob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology column (week of April 22, 2004)
“If anything can go wrong, it will, but in correcting it you will stumble upon a lucky break you wouldn’t have encountered otherwise.”
“Everything takes longer than you think, which is a good thing, because if it took only as long as you thought, you wouldn’t be doing it right.”
“You will often find something in the last place you look, but along the way you’ll discover a valuable item you didn’t realize was missing.”
I’m not too sure we could get this Bill through Congress (where’s the pork?), nor stay this sanguine very long here at pyj. We shall see.
Despite the source of the above Amendments, please be assured that Prof. Yabut (a) has never said “what’s your sign?” to anyone. (2) has literally only spent two minutes in California in his whole life; and (3) only picks up Metroland, the local alternative newsrag, for the movie listings (and the articles!), not the “adult” ads and classifieds.
P.S. Although we wouldn’t pay full-price ($7.99) for Murphy’s Law for Lawyers: Wronging the Rights in the Legal Profession!, by Arthur Bloch, Tom Glass (Illustrator), the used copy at $0.50 is tempting for our next office grab bag.
don’t forget our haiku news: The second installment of Jim Kacian’s Haiku Primer is now available, here. To read the first installment, too, click here.