Just As I Thought
Fun Stuff

Portrait of the Artist

Ah, that day when my friends Sara and Lance and I went to the Hirshhorn gallery to see the Laurie Anderson exhibit, and turned around to discover that we were being followed by… Laurie Anderson.

April 24, 2023
The War with the Customer

The free ride is over

Back when I got my first Prius — way back in the mists of time, 2000; when a Prius was a leap of faith — I was happy to get free service on the car. It was nice — bring it in every 6 months for  [more...]

November 24, 2004

On the Board

Right = Wrong

Up next: statues in every town square

I sometimes feel that my blog should just be named “Hypocrites Central.” Remember back around the time of the Republican convention, when Clear Channel refused to display the billboards of a progressive  [more...]

November 23, 2004
Fun Stuff

Check it out

I purchased the coolest software today — Delicious Library, a cataloging program for books, music, and movies. The killer part of this app is the ability to use my iSight camera to scan barcodes: scan the code  [more...]

November 22, 2004
The War with the Customer

Let’s do more lines

It’s ironic. The quality of television resolution has increased over time, from rudimentary pictures at only 50 lines to today’s 1080-line HDTV. With changing standards, producers risk obsolescence of their  [more...]

November 22, 2004
The War with the Customer

Wheels within wheels

The length to which advertising has infiltrated our lives is seemingly endless. I just turned on last week’s Will and Grace on the TiVo. Before the show, there was a short promo as usual — but in the past  [more...]

November 22, 2004
Right = Wrong

One year left

Well, it appears that I’d better make the most of the time I have left: an advertising insert in Friday’s Washington Post claims that the average life span of a homosexual is 39 years. That leaves just 9  [more...]

November 22, 2004