This post is mostly about research and writing and only tangentially about me

I was browsing my referrer log (admit, you do it too) and came across this post:

So I'm on page 14 of my 25-page research paper and a few minutes ago I hit a wall. I was trying to find the research paper I had read about a month ago by Stephen Bainbridge, a UCLA law professor. The only things I could remember were (1) that it was written by Professor Bainbridge, and (2) that the figure "$87,000" was in the paper somewhere. After searching in my web history and the files I had downloaded from SSRN, I gave up. Well, sort of. I then had the last-ditch idea to just google it. So I typed in "Bainbridge $87,000" into the search box and...voila

He found this. Which prompts a couple of thoughts:

• Is the day coming when Google will replace Lexis and Westlaw as the first choice for doing legal academic research?
• I have yet to find a really satisfactory online substitute for good old 3x5 cards. Take notes on cards, arrange them in order, and start writing. Keep big bankers boxes full of hard copies of the papers to be cited by your side. There must be a better way than this.
• Who remembers stuff like, "the figure "$87,000" was in the paper somewhere"?