http://blog.scottcaplan.com Gens Una Sumus Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:50:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've heard that some interviewers and hirers have started googling candidates. Well, if you've googled me, and you've figured out that I'm not this guy from Oregon, thank you for your interest, and welcome to my blog! This blog is a personal venture where I post anything I want to ... http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/09/23/hello-employers/ Just thought I'd let people know what I'm taking now that I'm choosing my own courses.Copyright:  In looking at my classes, especially given that I'm waiting until Spring to take either Tax or Corps, I wanted to have a solid blackletter law class. Having decided on IP, I had to ... http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/09/23/courses/ This post details some of the steps I have to take both before and after the actual deletion of my account. They are in the order I thought of them while writing this post. Not all my friends that I would like to read this blog. I'd doubt if three of ... http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/08/08/im-quitting-facebook-part-iii/ As promised, this post has some comments about the discussion started by this post on Wired. If you haven't yet read it, go read it now. The comments I have to make about it are three-fold: first, what I think it's not suggesting; second, two of the complaints I have ... http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/08/08/im-quitting-facebook-part-ii/ Like any good Ivy-leaguer, I have a facebook account. I am about to delete it, because I no longer approve of facebook. This post explains why I'm deleting my account, and the next one will have my comments on the recent post in Wired, and the last one will explain ... http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/08/07/im-quitting-facebook-part-i/ I came across this list of words the BBC doesn't want people saying. There are more than seven.I was rather surprised to see how high on the list "nigger" is for the BBC, since, well, American TV seems to have no problem with it. During one of the breaks during ... http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/08/01/bbc-curse-words-contains-adult-language/ Burt Kaufman passed away yesterday. I had the privilege of being taught mathematics and computer science by Mr. Kaufman and of studying under the IMACS curriculum for ten years. In the course of those ten years, he enriched my mind and my life, as he did for countless students, parents ... http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/07/08/in-loving-memory-of-a-legend-burt-kaufman/ There's other more important things that I'd like to post about, but this caught my eye when I was reading a link from The Forward. Maybe it's me, but isn't this logo just disturbing? Link: Republican Jewish Coalition. http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/03/31/a-very-quick-post/ My friend Alex Lee just started a blog. He of course did this after having witnessed the enormous success of this one..... Since I imagine that many of my friends will be starting blogs at unspecified times in the future, I'm also making this a new category. http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2007/01/02/welcome-to-the-readwrite-web/ Yeah, so I said I'd be writing some more stuff in the near future. I lied. And don't think that because now I'm writing that all of a sudden I'm going to keep my promise. There's one very simple reason for this: exams. I have my first law school exams ... http://blog.scottcaplan.com/2006/12/28/im-a-liar/