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

Do the math

Wow — here’s a more concrete example of the difference between the cost of cable and satellite. Today I received in the mail a couple of new smart cards for my satellite receiver. Once I activated them, a  [more...]

April 3, 2004

On the Board

Right = Wrong

Her money’s still green

I love these kinds of stories: Marlene Baldwin knows business. She learned from the best business minds in the country. Chief executive officers. Business owners. The rich and famous. So it comes as no surprise that  [more...]

April 3, 2004
Right = Wrong

Good news, bad news

Let’s see the spin on this one: evidently there were more than 300,000 new jobs in March. But unemployment also grew. So basically, it seems that the new jobs were offset (and more) by the loss of jobs. Weird  [more...]

April 2, 2004
General Annoyances

Trumping Google

I’ve finally figured out why I’m getting so many g-mail messages from my g-world site: if you search for “Send G-mail” on Google, my page comes up first in the rankings — before  [more...]

April 2, 2004
Fun Stuff

Call me 22206

This is perhaps one of the funniest April Fools jokes today, from NPR: Late last year, the Federal Communications Commission, the FCC, ruled that phone customers would soon be able to keep their telephone numbers with  [more...]

April 1, 2004
Right = Wrong

Daschle lets it out

Wow — read this amazing statement from Senator Daschle. He rips into the Bush administration on just about every front that we’re concerned about, from the politics of personal destruction to evading  [more...]

April 1, 2004