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
Fun Stuff

Font Remembrance

Isn’t it amazing how the Internet works? Way back in, oh, 1991 or so, I created a font called “Generation” for use on the videotape labels of my Star Trek: The Next Generation tapes. I gave it to a few  [more...]

March 4, 2003

On the Board

General Annoyances

Chopper 4: Money Well Spent

I’ve referred to the ridiculous use of news helicopters before – particularly the pointless “Chopper 4” here in Washington, DC. Today I was amused by another example of this wasteful gimmick: on  [more...]

March 4, 2003
Fun Stuff

And one more makes 3

Today I sent a FedEx package, and when I printed out the label, it said it was generated on 03-03-03 at 3:03 pm. Cool.

March 3, 2003
Right = Wrong

You must be kidding.

Oh, THIS is a good one. In New Hampshire, an outspoken anti-gay state representative has been nominated to the New Hampshire Human Rights Commission – which is responsible for enforcing the state’s civil  [more...]

March 3, 2003
The War with the Customer

Saved by the .exe

Today I bought a new scanner, fed up with the buggy old one that only runs in OS 9, and then only sometimes. In the box with the new one was an AOL 7.0 disc, touting 2 free months. I haven’t used AOL since 1992  [more...]

March 2, 2003
Fun Stuff

Birthdays are relative

As I watch these new Deep Space Nine DVDs, questions pop into my head that didn’t appear almost a decade ago when I first watched this show. Most of them are nitpicky continuity questions and plot holes caused by  [more...]

March 2, 2003