Publication . . . Dan, congratulations on your first publication. I attempted to understand it, but had difficulty. Perhaps it was due to lack of effort (indeed, I did not try _that_ hard to understand it), but I think that one of the main reasons was that I got hooked up on the abstract, which spoke of "the tribology of joint replacement prostheses." I confess to not knowing what "tribology" is. My first thought was that it was the study of the scholarship of Laurence Tribe . My second thought was that it was some degenerate form of a Paula Abdul album that I once received from Columbia Records after I failed to send in my response card declining the monthly offer in time (excerpt: "NOW YOU ASK ME WHAT IT MEANS. WHY IT'S THE STUDY OF THE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN YOU AND ME ). My third, and most enlightening, thought, was that I had no idea what you were talking about. So I decided that I would wait for an explanation of "tribeology" before devoting any more time to attempting to understand the publication. I hope that an explanation is forthcoming. And yes, it has been a while since people have posted (excepting your weekly criticisms of Randy Fasani, ROB, how 'bout an answer?), but people do read. And people do post.

In keeping with the theme that Dan has established, here is a link to the first published opinion by my judge that I had some part in shaping (note that you need acrobat reader to view b/c it's a pdf file). It's not "my" publication or opinion because it's my judge's, but lots of the work of a clerk is to research and, often, to write a first draft of an opinion. I can't say how much or how little contribution I had to this opinion (it's bad form), but it was one of the cases that I worked on for my judge. The facts are pretty interesting. Enjoy.

Finally, an administrative note: To make a link on your submission, just highlight the text that you want to turn into a link, and then click on the little globe icon or hit ctrl+shift+a and then type the http address into the dialogue box that pops up.
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