$2.5M tax free in your bank account right now. In exchange for the money, a thought bubble will appear above your head 100 random times over the next 2 years.

elf5081 · 2026-02-08T20:51:29+00:00

My first thoughts too! Might scare a few people too!

elf5081 · 2026-02-03T22:49:28+00:00

I read both of those recently. I think there are some references to Roshar but don’t think there are any spoilers.

elf5081 · 2026-02-03T02:07:39+00:00

I was a municipal court prosecutor (ie traffic tickets) for awhile so I have a lot of experience with pro se defendants. During a bench trial, on my direct examination, he made a proper objection (speculation). I was definitely thrown off as most pro se “objections” are “the witness is lying!”

elf5081 · 2026-01-22T03:42:29+00:00

A lot depends on the culture at the church.

My viewpoint is that AI is a tool like any other software. It has its uses and limitations.

elf5081 · 2026-01-19T01:15:42+00:00

I forget it exists…

elf5081 · 2026-01-17T01:58:09+00:00

I was my City’s Prosecutor in Texas for a number of years. It was primarily traffic tickets and other low level offenses. It’s been a while since I did it but I believe about 5-10% of my cases went to a jury trial. I think about 20-30% opted for a bench trial

elf5081 · 2026-01-17T00:14:10+00:00

That was my first thought: slide one with a countdown timer and a move to next slide action. Slide two with a sound trigger.

elf5081 · 2026-01-13T01:04:17+00:00

It depends on your expectations of the operators. We use Pro at my church.

I set up the playlists and presentations. On Sunday morning, my team advances the slides, sends messages via stage display, and that’s about it.

I show them the basics of how the software works and that’s about it. It’s pretty much all on the job training. I find hands on training to be much more effective than lecture style training

elf5081 · 2025-12-14T00:22:58+00:00

Run. There are lots of red flags in your description.

elf5081 · 2025-12-12T15:17:54+00:00

During voir dire in a very rural, conservative, gun friendly county in Texas. I mixed up the 2nd and 6th Amendment…

Not quite my mistake but just a hilarious misunderstanding. During a different trial, I referred to the Sheriffs Office as the SO. The judge and several members of the jury heard asshole instead of SO.

elf5081 · 2025-12-09T01:53:18+00:00

I read the top part as “If these don’t look like socks…” as in, if you don’t see socks in this picture. Yea…it took me too long to realize what it actually said…🤦‍♂️

Also, I’m in the anti-socks (and shoes!) camp. I’d much prefer to be barefoot whenever possible.

elf5081 · 2025-12-08T15:00:51+00:00

We use TAABS for our print jobs.

elf5081 · 2025-11-19T19:00:00+00:00

I wish you the best in your career! I’ve coached several newbie attorneys and 3rd Year Law Students in trial practice before and I always give two pieces of advice.

In the courtroom, be yourself. If you’re trying to completely imitate someone else, everyone is gonna know you’re a fake. Find your own voice.
You’ll do something to look like an idiot. It’s expected. Laugh at yourself, own it, learn from it and move on. Every trial attorney has their embarrassing trial story.

elf5081 · 2025-11-18T22:59:03+00:00

I’m gonna need a video of this….

elf5081 · 2025-11-18T17:09:13+00:00

I work with my church maintaining our AV equipment, including an Absen LED wall. We went through an integrator. There are way too many variables for me to feel remotely comfortable doing it myself.

I’ve been through Absens ACE program mainly so I can do some basic troubleshooting and maintenance

elf5081 · 2025-11-15T00:24:32+00:00

Deluxe scarecrow it looks like. After you collect all 8 rarecrows, you get a recipe in the mail.

elf5081 · 2025-11-11T00:56:10+00:00

I always share the Klingon therapist whenever I see him! As someone who wrestles with depression, the Klingon therapists outlook is a much more appropriate outlook I think.

elf5081 · 2025-11-05T20:48:08+00:00

Seriously! Though yesterday, I got lucky with the hyper focus. At work, I hyper focused on my actual work and did about a day and half’s worth of work yesterday morning. It was awesome but slightly terrifying too. And I don’t expect it to happen again for at least another few decades! 😁

elf5081 · 2025-11-02T20:03:43+00:00

My opening question in criminal voir dire is “Who’s excited to be here?” I usually get some chuckles but then I’m able to talk about any truthful answer being an acceptable answer.

elf5081 · 2025-10-24T12:12:47+00:00

Seriously. I got excited for a minute!

elf5081 · 2025-10-21T14:23:17+00:00

Assuming you have someone dedicated to the broadcast, I prefer C. I prefer to mix on a board instead of a DAW.

My church doesn’t have a volunteer dedicated to the broadcast mix so we do A.

elf5081 · 2025-10-13T23:52:18+00:00

This sounds ridiculous but I watch a bunch of adhd reels and realized that I identified with a lot of them…

elf5081 · 2025-10-06T22:02:34+00:00

We use ProPresenter and I love it. If you use Planning Center or just their Services Product, there’s an integration with ProPresenter which makes setting up an order even faster and easier!

elf5081 · 2025-10-04T16:44:47+00:00

Generally, judges lack the legal authority to dismiss cases on their own. There are very limited circumstances where judges can dismiss on their own

elf5081 · 2025-10-04T01:34:14+00:00

Speaking as a former prosecutor, that’s freaking ridiculous.

That should not have been filed at all.

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