Al Robert Jr.

Married to Monica and raising our little man, Micah, in New Orleans, Louisiana. If I seem unfriendly, it's only because I'm shy.

I read too much, but it sort of goes with the job. I'm a lawyer helping small businesses navigate the tedium of bureaucracy and litigation. I'm also working on Task Launch.

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"According to an operational study of National Football League teams prepared for The Wall Street Journal by Boston Consulting Group, the typical NFL season requires 514,000 hours of labor per team. That’s about eight times the effort it took to conceptualize, build and market Apple’s iPod, according to BCG, and enough time to build 25 America’s Cup yachts. If both Super Bowl teams dedicated themselves to construction rather than football, their members could have built the Empire State Building in seven seasons."

Factoid of the day: Super Bowl edition | Daniel Pink

Amazing (and a little disturbing).

Tuesday, February 9th 2010 11:53am

"It speaks volumes that it was harder to get a hotel room in New Orleans this weekend than it was in Miami or Ft. Lauderdale. I don’t think that’s what happened in Indianapolis this weekend; in fact, I doubt that’s ever happened in a city that sent a team halfway across the country to play a football game; that inbound flights were more more crowded than out."

Chris Rose Commentary: Ain’t no place like home ::FOX 8

Tuesday, February 9th 2010 11:50am

NFL - Best Fans on the Planet

Tuesday, February 9th 2010 11:39am

(via fuckyeahneworleans)

Monday, February 8th 2010 10:57am

"I can’t say we ever saw that coming at all,” Colts center Jeff Saturday said. “They just outplayed us."

Colts’ supporting cast can’t do little things right, contributing to loss

Monday, February 8th 2010 10:46am

"You represent a team making its first Super Bowl appearance in 43 years, in a city that was mostly destroyed by a hurricane in 2005, and you don’t sit back and wait for something good to happen."

Manning blinks, Brees captures title - NFL - Yahoo! Sports

Monday, February 8th 2010 10:35am

"Look around the stadium,” linebacker Scott Fujita said. “It was like 6- or 7-to-1 (Saints fans). The black and gold just poured into Miami.

“The whole world was behind us. This was bigger than just a game for the Saints. We are the world’s team."

Who Dat? It’s the Super Bowl champ Saints - Super Bowl XLIV- nbcsports.msnbc.com

Monday, February 8th 2010 10:16am

"It was New Orleans 31, Indianapolis 17; Chutzpah 1, Conservatism 0.

“We’ve been a team that kind of lived on the edge all year,” Pro Bowl safety Darren Sharper(notes) said in the Saints’ rowdy locker room after the game. “We’ve had great, gutsy calls at the right time. To win a world championship, that’s what you’ve got to do.”

Added outside linebacker Scott Shanle(notes), who broke up Manning’s fourth-down, goal-line pass to Wayne with 44 seconds remaining to make the victory official: “It takes [expletive]. Scared money doesn’t make money. Taking risks, that’s been our nature all year. It’s the reason we’re here."

Living on the edge pays off for Saints - NFL - Yahoo! Sports

Monday, February 8th 2010 9:55am

"Had I but one wish for the churches of America I think it would be that they come to see the difference between charity and justice. Charity is a matter of personal attributes; justice a matter of public policy. Charity seeks to alleviate the effects of injustice; justice seeks to eliminate the causes of it. Charity in no way affects the status quo, while justice leads inevitably to political confrontation."

William Sloane Coffin, Credo (2004) (via squashed)

Sunday, February 7th 2010 1:35pm

Haiti Through The Lens of U.S. Air Force Photographers - My Modern Metropolis

Friday, February 5th 2010 10:37am

Nawlins: 1903 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive

Thursday, February 4th 2010 9:12pm

Beware the ice shark.

Thursday, February 4th 2010 1:10pm

"Every year, Electronic Arts runs a Super Bowl simulation within their video game, Madden NFL. And five out of the last six years, the game’s results have predicted the Super Bowl winner correctly. The simulation’s only miss was the Giants’ Super Bowl XLII victory over the Patriots, and even Nostradamus couldn’t have seen that one coming. This year, Madden NFL predicts a close Saints victory, with a final score of 35 - 31 over the Colts."

Saints Win Super Bowl, says Madden NFL - Plugged In - Yahoo! Games

Thursday, February 4th 2010 9:07am

"People asked me a question and I gave my opinion,’’ Fujita said. “People say, ‘That’s so courageous of you.’ To me, it’s not that courageous to have an opinion, especially if you wholeheartedly think it’s the right thing. For me, standing up for equal rights is the right thing to do.’’"

Solid backing by Saint - The Boston Globe

Wednesday, February 3rd 2010 4:32pm

There is clearly a debate to be had about the extent to which law schools should teach about the practice of law alongside the substantive law. But the survey’s indictment of law schools, even if justified, obscures a bigger point — no one has much clue what we are training tomorrow’s lawyers to become.

A decade from now it is likely that lawyers will be undertaking at least some jobs that do not yet exist, using a range of technologies that have yet to be invented. Worryingly, it is far from clear who in the City is taking the time to think systematically about the long-term future of legal jobs and legal service.

The way lawyers do business is changing - is it time for them to plan ahead? - Times Online

Sunday, January 31st 2010 9:21pm