Geeklawyer is packing his bucket and spade, and copy of the White Book, and pissing off to Lithuania to indulge his geek nature. He will also be drinking too much beer (shut up Ruthie), eating poor quality East European food and not entirely walking it all off in Lithuania’s equivalent of the Lake District. Therefore despite losing serious amounts of weight recently he expects to return to the UK looking like an American.
He will also indulge in a spate of geek postings entirely unrelated to the law. Lawyer readers may therefore wish to look away - or read only Ruthie’s posts (if she can be persuaded not to talk about rappers :).
Bon vacances ! I shall look forward to your bulletins.
Shame it isn’t somehwere a bit further away with a dodgy internet connection. However the Geeks are probably launching their own satellite as I speak, as a challenge, but also to make absolutely sure they are not disconnected…
You say that but one year, in Belgium, we did set up a satellite ground station. Though it was a diddy one. And one of our specialties is extended wireless networks over lengthy distances and faraway hills.
I make an invaluable contribution to these efforts: I sneer at everyone and mock their efforts in an invariably successful attempt to motivate them to succeed whatever the cost: just to shut me up.
Most excellent. So while waiting for the captain of aeroflot flight ‘rather optimistic’ to Vilnius to finish his pre-flight wodka, might a lascivious lawyer longing for lustful lakeside Lithuanian lolitae find the aforementioned free moment?…
“But a couple of people have asked me about this so I will blog on it at some point soon, when I get a free moment.”
http://geeklawyer.org/blog/2006/07/11/bpi-chasing-uk-filesharers/#comments
Oh dammit. That’s the problem with the Internet its public and people can remind you of things you promised. Damn.
Charon QC. Thank you. I shall let you know what the Lithuanian equivalent of Rioja is like, though it is not entirely my preference: I have, I am ashamed to say, a somewhat feminine taste in alcohol. I prefer very sweet white, preferably dessert wine, mead, sweet cider & perry. Though I draw the line very firmly at Babycham!
Despite the foregoing I do like manly beer: Real & highly alcoholic. Lithuanian beer can be very good I am told and I shall quaff heartily and frequently in between hacking code and stomping around at high speed in my sturdy walking boots.
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You beat me to the bucket and spade - enjoy!
Miss H
I actually think..I’m going to miss you.
And what do I do if the spammers attack whilst you’re away?
An interlocutory injunction …
Or failing that email me.
And what if I am over refreshed and start posting late at night with my new keyboard where all the letters seem to be in different places. Will Ruthie correct my typos?
Geeklawyer - we both got a mention in The Lawyer. Good grief…blogs in the mainstream legal press…. I shall have to sharpen up my act! Lawyer link on my blawg.
Lithuania!… now I met a very interesting young woman from Lithuania - she certainly knew her beer!
The Lawyer! Eek. No pressure then…
Charon: I like to think your typos give the blog character.
I have been granted the power to do most things on the blog, except, of course, to edit Geeklawyers posts…
“eating poor quality East European food” - muahahah. Do you know ANYTHING about Lithuanian “poor quolity” food? I dunno where are you from, but I bet, that our food is MUch of a higher quolity than yours.
Geeklawyer adores the Zeppelin (cepelin?)
cepeliniai…and I think you were amused by the notion of salad…remember that picante salad in Palanga? all cheese and some garlic sauce?
ah. Lithuanian salad I *can* take the piss out of: who ever heard of a salad with nothing green in it for fuck sake!! just cheese & garlic, . v.nice but not a salad