I am possibly finishing my Christmas shopping this weekend (possibly just continuing it), doing some other shopping, sleeping a lot (god willing), and probably going to a going-away party tomorrow night.

I can try a search Aims, but my court records access is limited.

An arraignment is where he's formally notified of the charges and given a chance to enter a plea.

Yup. Mine too. Sorta don't want to go because I feel like a miserable loser who's cranky and doesn't want to be around people, but it's at Carrabba's

Ours is just at the library, but we all bring food. Yours sounds funner!

I'm so sorry about Lewis's uncle.

Basically, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has supposedly forbidden NASA employees from talking to the Obama transition team without getting clearance first.

Apparently Griffin is mad because Obama is considering scrapping the "back to the Moon" program....

I'm really hoping that this administration can do away with some of the "nah-nah-nah-nah I can't HEAR you" in American politics. Someone fire that fuck.

Thanks, Perkins.

Sparky, insent.

Aims, some court records are public and can be accessed online.

This weekend is putting up the tree and Christmas shopping.

I found out what the charge was.

I'm really hoping that this administration can do away with some of the "nah-nah-nah-nah I can't HEAR you" in American politics. Someone fire that fuck.

If they keep Griffin around until the Moon Base is done, I bet Griffin goes there. Then he'd be all, "Nay-nah-nah you can't fire me because I'm on the Moon!!"

An article on the online availability of court records: Online Rebel Publishes Millions of Dollars in U.S. Court Records for Free

If you want to search federal court documents, it's not a problem. Just apply online for an account, and the government will issue you a user name and password.

Through the postal service.

And once you log in, the government's courthouse search engine known as Public Access to Court Electronic Records or PACER, will charge you 8 cents a page to read documents that are in the public domain — a fee that earned the federal judiciary $50 million in profits in 2006.

With its high cost and limited functionality, critics call the system an absurdity in the era of Google, blogs and Wikipedia, where information is free and bandwidth, disk space and processing power are nearly so.

"The PACER system is the most broken part of our federal legal mechanism," says Carl Malamud, who runs the nonprofit open-government group Public.Resource.Org ."They have a mainframe mentality."

Now Malamud is doing something about it. He's asking lawyers to donate their PACER documents one by one, which he then classifies and bundles into ZIP files published for free at his organization's website. The one-year-old effort has garnered him 20 percent of all the files on PACER, including all decisions from federal appeals courts over the last 50 years.

Spill, Aims!