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

Life... Don't talk to me about life.

All revved up and nowhere to go

Since yesterday, 8 blocks of Constitution Avenue along the Mall in D.C. has been closed because of a strange man who drove a tractor into the Constitution Gardens pond. Although there was no mention of it when the drama [more...]

March 18, 2003

On the Board

The War with the Customer

The critical Windows flaw: installing it

Crimony, a lot to write about tonight. Microsoft today warned of a “critical Windows flaw” that could allow an attacker to gain total control of a PC. Is this critical flaw #8450? It seems that there’s [more...]

March 17, 2003

Right = Wrong

Shielding liberty by taking it away

Uh, oh. In conjunction with tonight’s Orange alert, Tom Ridge has announced another blow to civil liberties concealed with an appropriately “patriotic” name: Operation Liberty Shield. That’s like [more...]

March 17, 2003

Life... Don't talk to me about life.

The War Begins…

Bet you thought I was talking about Iraq. Well, like Mr. Bush, I must make a preemptive strike against a perceived threat: my ex has started a blog. Anyone who reads my thoughts in juxtaposition to his may on occasion [more...]

March 17, 2003

Right = Wrong

Molly Ivins on journalism: “Bring out a dunce cap”

March 17, 2003

Right = Wrong

New Mexico: Protector of Liberty

This is an incredible event: the state of New Mexico house of representatives has passed a bill to protect civil liberties, aimed squarely at the insidious USA PATRIOT Act! Read the text of the bill on the New Mexico [more...]

March 16, 2003

Fun Stuff

Throwing up Latin signs in the station

A train station in Wallsend, UK is posting signs in English and Latin as a way of calling attention to their ancient history, according to the Guardian newspaper. But the sign for the “way out” has been [more...]

March 16, 2003