Just As I Thought

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.

InDesign InDaHouse

I’m a fickle and tempermental guy. After using PageMaker for years, I dumped it in favor of Quark XPress when PageMaker wasn’t being improved enough for my tastes. Now, after forking out huge sums of cash to  [more...]

On the Board

R.I.P.

I just watched a program on The Travel Channel about famous food factories. Among them was the Ben & Jerry’s plant in Vermont, which looks like a great, fun destination. They have a Flavor Graveyard, where  [more...]

Who am I? By the numbers

Another web personality test, this time Enneagram. I have no clue what most of the yammering and psychobabble means, but this part is plenty clear:  Conscious self Overall self Take Free Enneagram Test It seems  [more...]

Just As I Said: Musings on Audblog

My first audio entry, in response to the burgeoning Audblog phenomenon. (Transcript in the extended entry.) TRANSCRIPT: Never let it be said that I didn’t jump on whatever bandwagon rumbled by. Welcome to the  [more...]

Only little people pay taxes.

A piece in today’s Washington Post illustrates how bizarre and unfair the federal tax structure is – and it’ll just get more unfair when Bush’s tinkering is done. Consider the following two  [more...]

So, what brings you here?

Now that Thom has clued me in on how to find them, here are some of the searches that have landed people on my site in the last week: $80,000 income tax exclusion for Americans who work abroad ammonia bleach (A lot of  [more...]