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Why does Civic Duty come at the worst times?

Jerry Glover — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:04:42 -0400

I recently received a jury summons. It was marked as Standby, as were the two other summons I have received since living in this location in Atlanta. As the previous times my standby group had been not required, I figured the third time would be the charm. Indeed, that was the case and I ~~wasted~~ spent all morning waiting to see if I would be needed/assigned to a jury pool. I hit the jackpot (the odds were very much against me) after lunch and went to a courtroom for voir dire which is lawyer talk for "which of you suckers will vote my way?" Sadly, they did not complete the process today which means I have to go back tomorrow for more of the same. If I'm really lucky, I could be stuck in a trial for a week!

Of course if mentioned any details about the case here, I could be disqualified.... hmmmm.. sooo tempting.

I am just kidding. Jury duty is an essential part of our civic duty and a key part of our US Constitutional guarantees for individual rights. It did come at a very inopportune time however, as I had plenty of regular work to do, plus Notes 8 beta testing, a server to configure for Domino 8 testing, trying to get better up to speed on plug-in development as well as needing to explore other development platforms too. *sigh* Anyway, I promise some real live Notes, Domino, and generally technical posts on here soon.

A Cartoon Network indeed

Jerry Glover — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:47:32 -0400

Last week's fallout over the Boston Lite-Brite terror scare has left me embarrassed for hometown Turner Broadcasting..

My name is not unique, but I am #1!!

Jerry Glover — Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:20:20 -0400

Via Rich...

HowManyOfMe.com

There are:
199
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

There may be 198 more of me in the US, but I am the number one Jerry Glover at Google!

Hitchcockian Moment

Jerry Glover — Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:05:14 -0400

As I approached the stairs a few minutes ago, I was temporarily mesmirized by the sight from the adjacent window which looks out upon a smallish garden area of the neighboring property. Never in my life have a seen more than one robin at an instance. However, at this moment in the garden, there were easily a dozen or more, acting fairly agitated flitting here and there through the space. Alfred Hitchcock would be proud.