Relentless march of Progress

In keeping with our dedication to providing the best infrastructure and state-of-the-art equipment here at the Partially Caffeinated Institute, our facilities management team recently invested in a new caffeine production system.
This brings the total number of coffee-manufacturing platforms at the Institute to five, although some of our methods have fallen into disfavor due to inefficiency. We have also abandoned the old burner warming system because, well, it results in charred brews.
So far the new thermal repository has been a significant technical advancement over previous methods.

The truth about law school

So all my finals are over. Worst time ever. To all my readers who want to know what my life has been like in law school, I think this video sums it up better than I could:

Tribune falters

The Tribune Company went bankrupt before my former employer, GateHouse Media. Who knew? But it can't be long now...
The great part about the Trib company is that the $8.2 billion deal to take it private was financed in large part through a loan against the employee's pension plans. Of course, the employees had no say in this and now the equity that their pension leveraged in the company is worthless. Of course, that douchebag Zell will get a shot at recouping the $500 million he put in, while the employees won't. Ah, capitalism...