Category: Power & Positionality

Attention Jurors

“We ask jurors in the hallway to come back into the main room. Have a seat and make yourselves comfortable.”

Here we all are, waiting . . .

“This is the end of your service.” Hurray!!!

They are going to give us a “Proof of Service,” which means that we do not have to serve again for a minimum of 2 years, and realistically we will not be called again for another 6 years. According to the laws of the State of New York, we will not again have to serve for 2 years. However, it is the practice within the County of New York (which is comprised of Manhattan) that we will not be called back for 6 years.

Wonderful!

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Another Day Waiting

Wait.

Waiting.

Stay here and wait.

Go to lunch and then come back here to wait.

So are the challenges of being on jury duty for a second day.

So far they have kept us here without any new cases and, in fact, little indication of what to expect for the remainder of the day. This seems like it would be a wonderful activity for a contemplative or meditative sort, one who uses such times as opportunities to reflect and grow internally. I wonder if they ever considered yoga sessions here, since people have been surprisingly quiet.

Granted, I see myself as a reflective practitioner, both theoretically as well as practically. I like the act and reflect and revise and act cycle (which can also have evaluative elements, among others, included), but there is a limit to the amount of computer work I can do while using an insecure wifi connection that has been iffy at best today. Of course this could always be worse, and I did use lunch as an opportunity to eat in Little Italy today . . .

Ahh, there was just a call from a courtroom, so they will again shuffle our ballots (like shuffling cards, literally) and call a group of us.

I will hurry and post this and then continue to post, as possible, via Twitter. I have grown to like that microblogging moblog application!

 

Strategies at Jury Duty

I learned two strategies for handling jury duty:

  1. Be among the last into a courtroom. If they run out of seats, you get dismissed and sent back to the larger pool.
  2. If when they call your name in the larger pool, if you are not present (perhaps in the restroom), they send somebody else and you remain in the pool.

Whatever the case, those of us still in this room were just dismissed for lunch.

BTW, I am making even more entries in this liveblogging experience with Twitter, where I can be found at

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Computer Attack in the Courthouse

I just uploaded my last liveblog post using ScribeFire, and will have to use it a bit more before I state that Windows Live Writer (WLW) is easier to use. I really liked Ecto, but without future Windows development and new features in WordPress that it does not support, why would I want to continue using that? Ecto is a really great program, but it needs a new version. BTW, I would gladly pay for it . . .

I just got a firewall notice that it just defended me against a cyber attack. That is ironic–criminal and malicious cyber attacks

while serving in my role as a prospective juror.

They are finally calling us . . .

 

Wifi Trouble at the NY State Supreme Court

While wifi worked well for a short time this morning, it seems to now be down. I will continue to liveblog using Windows Live Writer and upload as network access becomes available.

I am typing this in a small room they have off to the side with some cubicles and some laptops. Very glad I brought my own.

Now that I am thinking about this, I believe my liveblogging experience here during jury duty will help my upcoming liveblogging presentation at Northern Voice 2008. I was planning to just talk about liveblogging using Ecto (formerly my favorite liveblogging and offline blogging application), but Ecto has not been updated in some time and does not run very well with Windows Vista. Their website states it will be updated, but the only indication I have for this is the set of Mac-based screen shots. I will thus plan to learn a lot about Windows Live Writer as a liveblogging tool, and will probably explore FireFox’s ScribeFire more as well.

Wifi is available again, so let me post this . . .