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
Right = Wrong

Lock up all the scientists

Remember the sci-fi miniseries “V”? The one where the aliens rounded up scientists who could have exposed them? From Scientific American: In February his White House received failing marks in a statement  [more...]

April 27, 2004

On the Board

General Annoyances

I got the power

This explains it: for a month or so since I’ve had an 800 number, I’ve gotten a few calls that are hang ups. Today, I got a call from a chatty lady who informed me that the operator had given her my 800  [more...]

April 27, 2004
General Annoyances

Train me

After dropping Sara and Lily off at Baltimore-Washington Airport, Jen and I spent some time at the Baltimore Aquarium. First stop was the dolphin show, where my attention was captured not by the mammals in the water  [more...]

April 26, 2004
Right = Wrong

What a charmer

Here’s what Randall Terry had to say yesterday: Randall Terry, the founder of Operation Rescue and an antiabortion group called the Society for Truth and Justice, dismissed the significance of the lopsided  [more...]

April 26, 2004
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Yeah? Screw you.

While I was out today, exercising my freedom of speech and assembly, I got the following page on my mobile: Sorry, can’t continue reading it even though I agree with your outlook. Too much profanity for an old  [more...]

April 25, 2004
Fun Stuff

Foreign Tongues

Today’s Style Invitational asked entrants to run a phrase through the Google translator, then translate it back to English again: Third runner-up: I never yet met a man that I didn’t like. (From Spanish) I  [more...]

April 25, 2004