Category Archives: Personal

Video of “Lessons Learned Too Well: The Evolution of Internet Regulation”

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

The law school has put the entire video of my installation into the Laurie Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein Endowed Distinguished Professorship up online. Unlike my prepared text, the video version allows you to see the other presenters, including my good friends Vice Dean Patrick Gudridge, Prof. Jonathan Weinberg and Cindy Cohn, as they do their job and vastly exaggerate my accomplishments. There’s even a surprise guest appearance by Prof. David Abraham at the end.


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Free Drinks! (Repost)

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

All you have to do is listen to a lecture first, starting at 5:30 on Monday, April 4, at the Lowe Art Museum. RSVP by March 30th — that’s tomorrow — to events@law.miami.edu.
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Free Drinks!

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

All you have to do is listen to a lecture first, starting at 5:30 on Monday, April 4, at the Lowe Art Museum. RSVP by March 30th to events@law.miami.edu.

Froomkin Lecture Invitation (click for larger image)

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Off to New York — Maybe

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

My flight to New York this morning was canceled, and I was rebooked on a later flight, one that will cost me some socializing time, but should still get me to town in time to see Al Pacino in The Merchant of Venice. I have, I think, the second-worst seat in the house, very back row, one seat away from the far right. Given this is a hot ticket, I’m probably lucky to have it, even at this inflated price, easily the most I’ve ever paid for a theater ticket in the USA. As the ticket is non-exchangeable and non-returnable, a very late (or canceled) flight could be very expensive indeed.

Anyway, if you are reading this around 11:00am, and it hasn’t been updated, I’m probably on board waiting on the tarmac….

Update (3:30pm): Made it.

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Lucky Me

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

While you were having your vacation I was, among other things, enjoying various bits of diagnostic medicine, most of it fortunately not too invasive. Most of the tests were routine, one — that my doctor called “semi-routine” — was due to an inconclusive result of a routine test, and one was an ordinarily routine test made more salient as it would also rule out various unpleasant possible diagnoses not inconsistent with my condition. I might have been tempted to call some of it defensive medicine, except that with my recent history there do seem to be reasons for what otherwise might seem an excess of caution.

Anyway, all the results are now in, and they’re all good.

So here, to celebrate, is a video about luck:

Maybe I belong in the video?

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Richard Holbrooke, RIP

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Michael Froomkin

Another, if rather grim, reminder of how lucky I am to be doing so well.: Veteran Diplomat Richard Holbrooke Dies. 

I’ve read that if you don’t make it to the hospital within an hour of the aorta bursting, that’s pretty much it for your chances. I walked in maybe 20 minutes after the back pain started, and ended up collapsing in the receiving area of the emergency room while answering the paperwork questions. Which if you are going to pick a place to collapse is not such a bad choice.

Since my discharge from the hospital, I’ve met a lot of medical personnel and EMTs who tell me that a burst in the aorta is one of the things that they train for, over and over — but not something they see that often. And clearly, a walking, talking, fairly hale survivor is even more unusual.

Earlier: Aortas in the News.

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