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

What are they celebrating?

Those of you click those links to the Washington Post website will see innumerable Toyota ads, displaying the 2004 Prius. Next to that image, in big letters: “HELP CELEBRATE WITH SPECIAL SAVINGS!” Hmm. I  [more...]

June 19, 2004

On the Board

Right = Wrong

Communication is key

One of the big stories this last week was the poor communication and botched decision making on September 11, which was illustrated by audiotape of decisionmakers not making decisions. Of course, no one expected  [more...]

June 19, 2004
Right = Wrong

Soma, anyone?

BoingBoing reports on a bizarre program from the Bush administration which — if we weren’t living in such bizarre, fascist, big brother times, would be laughable: President Bush’s family has made a lot  [more...]

June 19, 2004
The War with the Customer

I guess they were using DCCCII.XIB

From MacFixIt: Intel using iBook in commercial? MacFixIt reader Brian Fountain reports that Intel is using an iBook in one of its more recent TV spots: “I was watching the SciFi channel last night (Wed. June 16)  [more...]

June 18, 2004
Right = Wrong

Another death

The wires are reporting that Paul Johnson has been beheaded by al Qaeda. A lot of people like me — liberal (at least, that’s the label the right has stuck on us, and I ask you — what wrong with  [more...]

June 18, 2004