Ken Adams
@adamsdrafting.bsky.social
Specialist in contract language and the contract process. Here, mostly pizza and whatever catches my eye.
Today's awkward usage: "hiatuses"
August 13, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Today's awkward usage: "hiatuses"
Corporate Counsel Now has just published my article "Merger Agreements Are Poorly Drafted." It's at corporatecounselnow.com/merger-agree.... Seemed like a good excuse to see whether there's anyone here interested in that sort of thing. @lu.is @mattboyd.bsky.social
Merger Agreements Are Poorly Drafted
Are M&A contracts fundamentally flawed? Scholar Kenneth A. Adams argues that copy-paste drafting and legalistic language create costly inefficiencies — and offers a smarter path forward.
corporatecounselnow.com
April 22, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Corporate Counsel Now has just published my article "Merger Agreements Are Poorly Drafted." It's at corporatecounselnow.com/merger-agree.... Seemed like a good excuse to see whether there's anyone here interested in that sort of thing. @lu.is @mattboyd.bsky.social
This Greek Easter, the instructions were clear: "Two tsoureki!" I complied, using the usual recipe. #breadsky
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/gree...
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/gree...
April 11, 2026 at 4:24 PM
This Greek Easter, the instructions were clear: "Two tsoureki!" I complied, using the usual recipe. #breadsky
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/gree...
www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/gree...
I can confirm that the Hasselbeck-potato-gratin hype is real: it's the best potato dish I've ever made. I was too busy eating to take pics. #foodsky www.seriouseats.com/hasselback-p...
Hasselback Potato Gratin Recipe
This holiday-ready Hasselback potato gratin recipe delivers all the creamy, cheesy decadence of a classic potato gratin but with infinitely more crispy edges.
www.seriouseats.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I can confirm that the Hasselbeck-potato-gratin hype is real: it's the best potato dish I've ever made. I was too busy eating to take pics. #foodsky www.seriouseats.com/hasselback-p...
This apple pie awaits us. I followed Claire Saffitz's serious recipe in @bonappetit.bsky.social. But at my wife's request, I made the top crust out of leaves. www.bonappetit.com/recipe/best-... #foodsky
November 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This apple pie awaits us. I followed Claire Saffitz's serious recipe in @bonappetit.bsky.social. But at my wife's request, I made the top crust out of leaves. www.bonappetit.com/recipe/best-... #foodsky
As usual, I spent all day cooking. But not as usual, everything worked out! Including my first attempt at these sourdough dinner rolls,using the recipe from The Perfect Loaf. #breadsky
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
As usual, I spent all day cooking. But not as usual, everything worked out! Including my first attempt at these sourdough dinner rolls,using the recipe from The Perfect Loaf. #breadsky
Nuts.com has caught shrinkflation. In a shipment I received yesterday, organic Medjool dates and organic dried cranberries were in 13-oz bags instead of one-pound bags. The cranberries cost $0.79 per oz instead of the $0.72 per oz I paid in August. I'm not complaining, just observing! #foodsky
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Chocolate-pumpkin marble cake looking good so far. @bonappetit.bsky.social recipe: www.bonappetit.com/recipe/choco... #foodsky
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Chocolate-pumpkin marble cake looking good so far. @bonappetit.bsky.social recipe: www.bonappetit.com/recipe/choco... #foodsky
Sesame seed rolls, using Charlie Anderson's recipe, as usual. www.charlieandersoncooking.com/recipes/arti.... Italian sub to follow once they've cooled. #breadsky
September 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Sesame seed rolls, using Charlie Anderson's recipe, as usual. www.charlieandersoncooking.com/recipes/arti.... Italian sub to follow once they've cooled. #breadsky
Apple cake with caramel glaze, how it started (before the glaze) and where things stand now. Here's the recipe:https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/caramel-apple-snacking-cake-recipe
September 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Apple cake with caramel glaze, how it started (before the glaze) and where things stand now. Here's the recipe:https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/caramel-apple-snacking-cake-recipe
For the first time, I saw a chunk of guanciale (cured pork jowl) in a store. Heck, even finding it diced in a plastic package is rare enough. So of course I bought it. I see spaghetti carbonara in our future. Mad props to Iavarone Bros. for stocking it, as well as capicola (aka gabagool). #foodsky
September 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
For the first time, I saw a chunk of guanciale (cured pork jowl) in a store. Heck, even finding it diced in a plastic package is rare enough. So of course I bought it. I see spaghetti carbonara in our future. Mad props to Iavarone Bros. for stocking it, as well as capicola (aka gabagool). #foodsky
Some days what's required is lots of pasta, cheeses, and bechamel sauce topped with breadcrumbs, accompanied by a token vegetable. Today was one of those days. #foodsky
September 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Some days what's required is lots of pasta, cheeses, and bechamel sauce topped with breadcrumbs, accompanied by a token vegetable. Today was one of those days. #foodsky
My first-ever chicken francese, using Not Another Cooking Show's recipe. www.notanothercookingshow.tv/post/chicken.... Shoulda added more sauce! #foodsky
September 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
My first-ever chicken francese, using Not Another Cooking Show's recipe. www.notanothercookingshow.tv/post/chicken.... Shoulda added more sauce! #foodsky
Chicken liver with onions: my first time ever eating, and first time ever making, a liver dish. I used the first Youtube video I encountered (although it features beef liver): youtu.be/_SgpjsPZ32Q?.... I ate it without a problem! #foodsky
July 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Chicken liver with onions: my first time ever eating, and first time ever making, a liver dish. I used the first Youtube video I encountered (although it features beef liver): youtu.be/_SgpjsPZ32Q?.... I ate it without a problem! #foodsky
I just used the phrase "Gallic shrug" in one in a series of new writings that are meant to be more accessible. Oops.
At some point accessible crosses over into dreary. If everyone can effortlessly digest what you've written, it's gruel.
At some point accessible crosses over into dreary. If everyone can effortlessly digest what you've written, it's gruel.
July 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I just used the phrase "Gallic shrug" in one in a series of new writings that are meant to be more accessible. Oops.
At some point accessible crosses over into dreary. If everyone can effortlessly digest what you've written, it's gruel.
At some point accessible crosses over into dreary. If everyone can effortlessly digest what you've written, it's gruel.
Is "chalk up to" (as in, "He chalked up his mistakes to his inexperience") too fuddy-duddy for an online world? (Mind you, "fuddy-duddy" might be too fuddy-duddy for an online world.)
July 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Is "chalk up to" (as in, "He chalked up his mistakes to his inexperience") too fuddy-duddy for an online world? (Mind you, "fuddy-duddy" might be too fuddy-duddy for an online world.)
Reposted by Ken Adams
This would be an extremely bad idea. It will not satisfy them. It will acknowledge that they are right about something. It will empower them. Literally nothing that anyone should do, should be oriented towards placating this administration.
Exclusive: Harvard leaders have discussed creating a center for conservative scholarship as the school fights the Trump administration’s accusations that it is too liberal.
Harvard Explores New Center for Conservative Scholarship Amid Trump Attacks
The Ivy League school has discussed an effort to ‘support viewpoint diversity’ with potential donors. Harvard says the initiative ‘will not be partisan.’
on.wsj.com
July 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This would be an extremely bad idea. It will not satisfy them. It will acknowledge that they are right about something. It will empower them. Literally nothing that anyone should do, should be oriented towards placating this administration.
July 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I didn't know that the rabbi was the mayor! And I like that he uses the royal "we" to refer to himself. 🙂 (Dangling participle)
June 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I didn't know that the rabbi was the mayor! And I like that he uses the royal "we" to refer to himself. 🙂 (Dangling participle)