Law Nerd: About Law, Nerds and the Author

<TABLE border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" background="im/notebook.gif" align="right"> <TR> <TD><IMG src="im/space1.gif" width="140" height="2" border="0"> <TD><H1>Law Nerd</H1> <font size="+1"><DL> <DT>Law</DT> <DD>The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.<BR>            Charles Macklin. 1690-1797. <DD> <DT>Nerd</DT> <DD>1. [mainstream slang] Pejorative applied to anyone with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals.<BR>2. [jargon] Term of praise applied (in conscious ironic reference to sense 1) to someone who knows what's really important and interesting and doesn't care to be distracted by trivial chatter and silly status games.<BR>            <A href="http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/" target="_top">The Jargon File, v.4.0</A></DD> <DT>Author</DT> <DD><A href="resume.html" target="_top">1. What I do.</A><BR><A href="http://www.vex.net/~maverick" target="_top">2. Who I am.</A></DD></DT> </DL></font> </TD> <TD><IMG src="im/space2.gif" width="15" height="2" border="0"> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> <hr> <p><a href="about.html" target="_top">[about]</a><a href="law.html" target="_top">[law]</a><a href="nerds.html" target="_top">[nerds]</a><a href="art.html" target="_top">[art]</a></p> <hr> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P>