The title to this page is from the fine prose of Justice Cardozo in his "Flopper" opinion. Murphy v. Steeplechase Amusement Co., 250 N.Y. 479, 483, 166 N.E. 173, 174 (1929).

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Michael Kwun

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All of the pictures I've linked to are tremendously out of date, but so it goes—it's a rare vanity webpage that's actually current.

One last thing I'd like to mention is that my nephew Dylan is active these days in Marin Freedom, which is a youth basketball organization. Go visit their site!

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law talkin' guy

The California bar exam was the last step I had to take to become a lawyer. Well, the bar exam (three days of medieval torture) followed by four months of waiting (California releases the results of the summer bar exam on the Friday before Thanksgiving), followed by a swearing-in ceremony, and continuing legal education courses for as long as I want to keep practicing law.

But anyway, once I officially became an attorney, I spent some time as a litigation associate in Los Angeles, then clerked for a federal district court judge for a year in Oakland, then settled down for a several year stint at Keker & Van Nest, in San Francisco, followed by several years at Google, in Mountain View, and then a return to San Francisco when I joined EFF as a Senior Staff Attorney.

More details are available for the truly bored/curious.

professional geek

That was back in the dark ages of the world-wide web. Internet Explorer and Netscape were non-existent. Pretty much the entire web was useless vanity pages (which still describes a lot of the web, including this very site) and geeky computer resources. It was during these nascent days of the web—in February, 1994—that I first took a crack at web-authoring. Back then, someone with no artistic talent (me) could get in on the action. I helped do the web-work for the League of Conservation Voters website. I worked on LCV's original web presence, the 1993 National Environmental Scorecard. I mainly focused on debugging some of the weirder problems we had with the HTML, but I also worked on the overall design. I also spent inordinate amounts of time doing various graphic bits. I did some QA work, too—testing the site on the various browsers out there at the time. Like I said, this was pre-Netscape and pre-MSIE. I tested the site using an early version of NCSA Mosaic (Mac, Windows, and X11), MacWeb (Mac), and Cello (Windows). At the time, the LCV Scorecard was a lonely oasis of useful non-tech content on the web . . . .

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• Many years ago, in what was perhaps my first serious introduction to the concept of adult responsibility, I was part of the Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan, a student-owned, student-operated corporation that owns and manages a boatload of houses (twenty or so these days). During that time, I learned how cool co-ops are in general, and I learned a lot about the student co-op movement in the U.S. and Canada from the folks at NASCO, the North American Students of Cooperation.

• I like to cook when I have time. Sometimes when I bring a dish to an event, someone will ask me for the recipe for whatever I've brought.

• My hair these days is pretty conservative, but in the past I've hit both extremes in hair length. For example, I started off law school with a big long mane o' hair, and then one night I shaved it all off, leaving only shiny baldness.

• I was one of the original supporters of the Amazing Netscape Fishcam.

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