A few years ago, my kid was heavily into the Fortnite video game. The game is a first-person shooter styled game, meaning you have the point of view of your player. Your player parachutes into a battleground to combat other players for rewards. You can customize your player and even make him or her perform […]
Other than during his stint in the Marine Corps and his time in college and law school, my dad lived in Kimberly. After my great-grandfather emigrated to the Village, he was a third-generation lifelong resident. That is until he started having health problems. While my folks’ had a beautiful house, there were 15 stairs between […]
This fall has been very different in our household this year – both our children have gone off to college. We miss them terribly, but my wife and I have played a lot of canasta and we have tons less dishes and laundry. Our daughter goes to UW-Eau Claire, and the school has had an […]
I caught a ‘Simpsons’ rerun the other night featuring Bart creating an online comic strip called ‘Angry Dad.’ The cartoon mirrors Homer’s real life anger issues and quickly became the single most popular non-pornographic website of all time, making it “the 10th trillionth overall.” While hilarious, the joke reinforces the fact that adult content is […]
Over the last two weeks, I’ve written about both musicians’ and authors’ concerns over the increased use of artificial intelligence to create new music and literary works. They are worried about their talents being used to create new works that they are not being compensated for. Well, if authors can take any comfort in the […]
Last week I wrote about musicians being worried about artificial intelligence creating new music using their fabricated voices. Well, singers aren’t the only ones worried. Jane Friedman is an author who has written several books and has consulted about working in the writing and publishing industry. She recently told CNN that a customer looking for […]
A few weeks ago, some of us at work were discussing the lawyer who used ChatGPT to write a brief for him. Unfortunately, the artificial intelligence program cited cases it fabricated, landing the lawyer and his firm in hot water. One of my friends then said that AI is getting out of hand. He then […]
A while back, I wrote about Taco Bell challenging Taco John’s rights to “Taco Tuesday,” the trademark it has owned for 34 years. David Olsen, the owner of a Taco John’s franchise in Minnesota, allegedly coined the term in the early 1980s as “Taco Twosday” for his promotion of two tacos for 99¢. Other franchises […]
My kids are very fond of reminding me that I’m old. I don’t understand their abbreviated words or the acronyms they use when texting. And I certainly don’t understand emojis. I will often send a heart emoji along with a text to my wife. Or, if my buddy, Pearl, asks if I want a ride […]
Occasionally, I will get calls from clients indicating they’ve run into some problem with their neighbor, such as they installed a fence over their lot line. I refer them to our litigation section, and our litigators explain the steps involved in a lawsuit, such as taking depositions of the parties involved, writing the complaint, briefing […]