A short experiment in blogging links: http://www.kstehle.com http://boardgamer.wordpress.comTumblr (3.0; @katiest27)http://blog.kstehle.com/<p>More posts at <a title="boardgamer.wordpress.com" href="http://boardgamer.wordpress.com">boardgamer.wordpress.com</a></p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/66818600http://blog.kstehle.com/post/66818600Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:12:07 -0500<p>I decided to start a blog about board games.  Playing them, buying them, re-playing them.  Please check it out at:</p> <p><a target="_blank" title="boardgamer.wordpress.com" href="http://boardgamer.wordpress.com">boardgamer.wordpress.com</a></p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/65438282http://blog.kstehle.com/post/65438282Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:06:00 -0500<p>Yesterday, I finished my last exam in law school.  But long experience has taught me that it’s not over until…..the register posts the grades.  So I have another month to wait.  But at least I’m not studying Patent Law in that month!</p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/65426847http://blog.kstehle.com/post/65426847Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:46:18 -0500<a href="http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/217463-abbott-targets-human-trafficking-pushes-for-tougher-laws">TX Atty Gen calls for stronger Trafficking Laws</a>: <p>Happily he included a call for stronger protection for trafficking victims.</p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/60737054http://blog.kstehle.com/post/60737054Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:35:26 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1547003_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.anobii.com/books/0050bf668b1175a1ca/">The Soul Weaver by Carol Berg</a></p> <p>I enjoyed this book, just as I’ve enjoyed the previous 2 in the series. Some of the plot devices are getting old, but I really do like her characters. However, she seems to get some sort of perverse pleasure out of making you cry - then making it all better - over and over. </p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/1547003http://blog.kstehle.com/post/1547003Sat, 05 May 2007 02:57:04 -0400<a href="http://www.fabulist.org/archives/2007/04/streaming_fabul.html">Fabulist!</a>: <p>This is a fun little site that I ran across - collects interesting music I’ve never heard before - but I like a lot of it.  And it has a flash/podcast radio thing that now is playing in the background.  Fun.</p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/1546842http://blog.kstehle.com/post/1546842Sat, 05 May 2007 02:51:32 -0400<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/1470327_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.anobii.com/books/00e096831d2802649a/">Alta by Mercedes Lackey </a></p> <p>I read this book the other day (April 27th).  Here’s a quote I like:</p> <p>“And truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.  When those in power intend to abuse that power, they look to an outside enemy in order to trick their people into pressing the means to their own abuse into the hands of the abusers.  If an enemy does not exist, it will be manufactured, and all manner of horrors attributed to it, so that anyone who demands truth and accountability is set upon as being unpatriotic.  And so that, when someone said to be an enemy is found, there will be few questions asked about guilt or innocence, and many faces averted when he is taken away.” - p 294 </p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/1470327http://blog.kstehle.com/post/1470327Thu, 03 May 2007 02:35:54 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/1470026_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.anobii.com/books/01a39d71fc61227734/">The Shape-Changer’s Wife by Sharon Shinn<br/></a></p> <p> This evening I read The Shape-Changer’s Wife while outlining for Church & State.  It was decent - I gave it 3 out of 4 stars on anobii.  It kept my interest - I like these “The [somebody]’s wife” books.  I think it strikes an interesting balance to write a book about the wife of someone notable enough to be called “THE [sombody].”  They often portray her as the more interesting character, although she is the un-famous one.  I like it the type of book, and I did enjoy this one. </p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/1470026http://blog.kstehle.com/post/1470026Thu, 03 May 2007 02:25:01 -0400<p>Today was beautiful enough that I almost thought I was back in Los Angeles. The trees are pink! I love it. I’ve been hiding in my room, studying for finals, hoping that everything will stay in bloom until I could re-emerge. </p> <p>Although I did see one of those guys pretending to be a bronze statue in the park today. That was amusing. Perhaps not as amusing as the crazy 70 year-old sitting on the bench next to me who dressed like he was 16 (cargo pants, hiking boots, wallet with a chain, iPod in hand).</p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/1469854http://blog.kstehle.com/post/1469854Thu, 03 May 2007 02:15:25 -0400““It’s just a shout out to God””<br/><br/> - <em>Professor Feldman, on “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance</em>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/1194231http://blog.kstehle.com/post/1194231Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:49:54 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/950330_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This evening, I watched Pride & Prejudice between studying for Crim Pro and studying for International Law.  It’s one of my favorite books, and the BBC production was one of my favorite movies, so I was a bit hesitant about another version.</p> <p> But - although it isn’t quite as faithful to the book, I think it conveys much more emotion than the BBC production and its characters have more humanity.  Austen’s characters are fantastically real, and this version does a good job of bringing out some of their under-played characteristics.  For example - Mary Bennett, Mrs Bennett, and Caroline Bingley are all sympathetic and perhaps like-able characters in this version.  And Mr. Collins is wonderfully ridiculous.</p> <p>Yay for Pride & Prejudice! </p> <p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0414387/iid_945740.jpg.html?path=gallery&path_key=0414387&seq=2">Pride & Prejudice Photos</a></p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/950330http://blog.kstehle.com/post/950330Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:02:28 -0400<p>Ate at Rocky’s in Little Italy this evening.  The service was okay, the food was very good, and the company was even better (yay!).  In fact, the food was so good that I actually finished it.  It’s been a long time since I’ve finished food when eating out - they usually serve too much and then I get bored with eating.  But their Carbonara was amazing.</p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/923949http://blog.kstehle.com/post/923949Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:12:28 -0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/898710_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.anobii.com/books/01da521b07fc0d8905/">The Plot to Save Socrate </a></p> <p> by Paul Levinson</p> <p>Finished this book today, in between studying for Crim Pro and International Law.  It was interesting - about time travellers who want to go back grab socrates right before he dies.  It’s full of questions about what would happen if they altered the time-stream - interesting, but got a little tired of it.</p> <p> the plot kept moving and the pieces all fall together at the end.  But - character development was poor (especially for the only female character)   </p> <p>But it was entertaining - so not a complete waste.  Worth reading just because it’s different from my normal novel. </p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/898710http://blog.kstehle.com/post/898710Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:50:59 -0400““You dwell in my mind like a household spirit. All that I think is followed with, ‘I shall tell that thought to Eddi.’ Whatever I see or hear is colored by what I imagine you will say of it. What is amusing is twice so, if you have laughed at it. There is away you have of turning your head, quickly and with a little tilt, that seems more wonderful to me than the practiced movements of dancers. All this, taken together, I’ve come to think of as love, but it may not be.<br/> It is not a comfortable feeling. But I find that, even so, I would wish the same feeling on you. The possibility that I suffer it alone - that frightens me more than all the host of the Unseelie Court.””<br/><br/> - <em>One of my favorite descriptions of love.  In <i>War for the Oaks</i> by Emma Bull.  p 251.</em>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/600620http://blog.kstehle.com/post/600620Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:47:26 -0400<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/557506_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.anobii.com/books/00e1e07fc488a78042/">aNobii: His Majesty’s Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1)</a></p> <p>I finished this novel late last night.  It was very engaging - I finished it in a few hours.  </p> <p>It’s a re-telling of the Napoleonic wars, but with dragons (so they have an airforce).  I don’t know a lot about military command relationships, so I don’t know how realistic that was, and some of the inter-personal relationships were a little strained, but his relationship with his dragon was believable.   Although I’m not a big fan of battle scenes in general, the rest of the book made up for it. </p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/557506http://blog.kstehle.com/post/557506Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:47:46 -0400<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/nyregion/02cnd-loan.html?ex=1333166400&en=03eab57501a4c0a4&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss">Inquiry Into Student Loans Is Resolved - New York Times</a>: <p>so that’s where all that money citibank charges me is going…</p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/537382http://blog.kstehle.com/post/537382Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:17:17 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/514378_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.anobii.com/books/01703e7a1d497fc7a2/">aNobii: The Elder Gods (The Dreamers, Book 1)</a></p> <p>I started this book the other day.  It seems like a perfect school-time read.  It’s interesting enough to continue reading, but engaging enough to take the place of schoolwork.   </p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/514378http://blog.kstehle.com/post/514378Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:19:05 -0400<p>I also finished “A Rumor of Gems” the other day (see March 29 entry).  I was surprised - it was a random pick from the library shelves, and my expectations weren’t very high.  But it was amazingly imaginative.  Every time I thought I had her world figured out, a new aspect would be introduced.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.</p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/494916http://blog.kstehle.com/post/494916Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:59:02 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/494791_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://moma.org/">MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art</a></p> <p>I went to Moma with my parents, who were visiting for the day. This is a piece from the exhibit “Comic Abstraction.” It’s called “Boom” by Gary Simmons. It’s huge - takes up quite a bit of the wall.  One of my favorite pieces for the day. </p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/494791http://blog.kstehle.com/post/494791Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:52:19 -0400<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/494639_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.anobii.com/people/01c06a2eb6346608c1/">My Shelf on Anobii </a></p> <p>When Darkness Falls - Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory.</p> <p>I finished this book this evening and I’m sad that the series is over. </p>http://blog.kstehle.com/post/494639http://blog.kstehle.com/post/494639Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:41:24 -0400