Fastcase for the iPhone: Have We Died and Gone to Heaven?

So there I was, doing research on dedicated terminals thirty years ago.

The computer research that was available to lawyers then was critical to my survival as a bankruptcy law clerk, because I hadn't yet come to understand that convoluted area of the law.

Some might say I have not yet; opinions differ, you know?

So two in the morning, as often as not, would find me at the Bankruptcy Court, or actually, upstairs at the District Court, where the super-duper computerized legal research center lived.

And I was able to learn the stuff that my Judges wanted me to tell them, and I was able to spend hundreds of dizzy hours surfing bankruptcy law!

Mwwwahhhhh-ha-ha-ha-haaaa!

Seriously, I expected an FBI agent to tap me on the shoulder and ask me why I was spending so much of the government's money researching bankruptcy issues on the dedicated computer-terminal thingie with the thigh-thick cables and the speed like molasses.

Fast forward to today.

Many things today are not as good as they were back in the good old days, formerly known as "these trying times".

Inflation makes a car today about a zillion times more expensive, and wages have not kept pace with inflation, and that's bad for everyone who works for a living in the United States; it's also bad that the big three automakers are no longer in the United States.

And there's a deep economic depression gripping the United States, even as a bunch of commentators pretend that it's over and that happy days are here again!

But one thing is waaaaay cooler than it used to be in the Good Ol' Days!

And that's the Fastcase application for the iPhone.

I'll write more about this when the deep and profound lust for legal researching power in my iPhone makes it possible for me to maintain coherent thought again, but come on! Is this cool, or what?

p.s. did I tell you that the application is My Favorite Price? For FREE??????

Oh, yeah.