Recovery
Posted on | March 26, 2008 | No Comments
I’m back up and running thanks to two things:
1.¬† The guys at The Mac Shack in Boulder who understood my situation and for a small rush charge installed a new 160gb hard drive in my Powerbook in one day for a parts and labor total of less than $400 (and two trips to Boulder).¬† I’m glad they’re planning to open a store in Fort Collins – although I don’t want to have to see them for this kind of thing again anytime soon.
2. Apple’s “Time Machine” back-up system (part of the latest operating system).¬† All I had to do was boot off the system disk and go to the Time Machine application. There was a selection to restore the entire system from back-up – which warns you that it will wipe your disk and set it up as of the date of the back-up you choose, but that’s exactly what I wanted. One click of a button and 2 hours later (after the restoration process was complete) it was like nothing bad had ever happened. Only I now have about 60gb of hard-drive space I didn’t have before due to the upgrade in size of the new drive.
CRASH
Posted on | March 22, 2008 | No Comments
Hello,
On Saturday, my hard drive terminally crashed. Luckily, I have everything backed up, but it will be 3-6 days before I can get the drive replaced. The only issue should be delayed email responses. If you need me, call 970-493-1070 and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
Thanks for your patience.
-Kevin
2008 National Prospective Law Student Study Launch
Posted on | February 7, 2008 | No Comments
We’re launching the 2008 National Prospective Law Student study over the next few days.
If you are a prospective student checking to see if the survey is legitimate, good for you! You can take a look at past results by clicking the research link at the left.
If you have any questions, feel free to email me.
admit-l welcome
Posted on | January 7, 2008 | No Comments
I’ve heard there has been some traffic on the admit-l listserv today. If you’re visiting the site due to that discussion, welcome!
What about Wooden Pencil and Kevin Houchin?
Many of you may remember me from my days at Stamats Communications back in 1998-2001. I gave several presentations for LSAC including the summer workshop series on integrated marketing back in 1999. I left Stamats to go to law school at The University of Iowa. Then moved to Colorado where I started my own practice and continued my law school branding work.
I hope you will participate in the 2008 National Prospective Law Student Study. As I stated in the email that went out last night, it’s free. All I need is your DIRECT INQUIRY list, which will be kept strictly confidential and used only for this study.
A bunch of law schools have already submitted their lists for this year’s study. The last time I conducted the survey (back in 2005), we had around a dozen schools participate. I’d like to double that this year. The larger the sample, the better and more useful the results.
Each participating school will receive a report showing how their list matches up to the aggregate results. This kind of data would easily cost you $15,000-$20,000 to attempt on your own, and wouldn’t have as large of sample. This is truly a win-win situation for the participating schools.
If you have any questions, just shoot me an email at kevin.houchin@woodenpencil.com.
Back on Track
Posted on | December 4, 2007 | No Comments
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the intersection of law, business, creativity, and spirituality. I’ve been listening to some recordings of Joseph Campbell and reading his work, along with a lot of other great thinkers. Here’s what I’ve come up with:
Law enables Business
Business is the vehicle for our Creativity
Creativity fuels the spark of divinity within our Spirit
Spirit should inform Law
Here’s a visual model of what I’m talking about:
When you see it this way, you also see that Law effects Creativity – in a left-brain (law) v. right-brain (creativity) sort of relationship. Business and Spirit also interact in a quasi-kabbalistic way with Spirit on a “higher” plane manifesting on the material plane in the form of business.
I think it’s worth examining these relationships, especially in the areas of the overlap.
How can we get more spiritual influence in our legal policy? Should we? I’m not talking RELIGION, I’m a firm believer in the separation of Church and State. I’m talking about SPIRIT - or at least the golden rule, should infuse all of our laws. Can we overcome the greed and short-term self-interest that seems to motivate our law-makers and lobbyists working behind the scenes? Maybe that’s naive, but I think we need to start somewhere.
How can we get more people, especially small business folks (the backbone of our country and future), to understand and engage in the aspects of the law that KEEP them out of trouble rather than waiting until they’re neck-deep in bad stuff to ask for help? It seems that people get upset that legal fees cost so much – but they usually are only engaging with lawyers AFTER they’ve gotten in trouble. I can guarantee that it costs way more to get out of trouble than to avoid it in the first place.
How can we get more spiritual inspiration happening in our businesses? Maybe that’s simply through the Creative process itself. Maybe the role of Creativity is simply to channel a spiritual aspect of existence into our daily lives, which tend to revolve around business. Maybe our arts organizations need to take on more outreach programming (if possible) rather than constantly trying to just get people to come to the museum, symphony, etc. (Of course I recognize that many arts organizations already do great outreach programs.) How can we get more Creative inspiration infused into our legal framework at the national, state, and local levels?
I think if you have read books like Dan Pink’s A Whole New Mind, watched Shift Happens on YouTube, engaged in Bruce Mau’s thoughts of Massive Change or even just been allowed to lift your head up out of the cubical and take a fresh look around – these questions should be bubbling in your subconscious.
To use some of the language of Joseph Campbell, I think American Culture is hearing “the call” of the “hero’s journey” into some challenges that we need to face head-on, or be forced to face in a bad way (much like those small business owners who wait until after the trouble starts to create a plan). Maybe an understanding of the interactions above might help us in that quest.
I’m no expert on these topics. I’m as guilty as the next person (maybe more so) of waiting until I’m in trouble to start finding a way out, but I think these issues are too important to ignore. Maybe that’s just me, but I don’t think it is this time.
I’d really like some feedback on this topic and I’ve enabled the commenting feature on the blog again (thanks to some blog-spam software that seems to be working). So, feel free to chime in with your thoughts on this or other things I should be considering. I’m going to keep exploring and writing on these issues and hearing (and sharing) some different perspectives would be great.
2007 (Now Jan, 2008) National Prospective Law Student Study
Posted on | November 19, 2007 | No Comments
Several law schools communicated that they would like to participate in the study, but that due to heavy recruiting travel commitments, they couldn’t make the list-provision deadline I had set.¬† So, to make everyone’s life easier I decided to move the study date into mid/late January.¬† This will allow more schools to participate and increase the direct inquiry list size for each school, giving us all better data.
To participate in the study or for more detailed information about the project, just email me at kevin.houchin@houchinlaw.com. You can also call me at 970-493-1070.
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Kevin E. Houchin is an attorney, artist, teacher, author, and principal of
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