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.

Today, the Washington Post’s Gene Weingarten gives us a vignette of life in Washington: the plight of a starling as it finds itself trapped in the display window of a drug store. It has a happy ending, and [more...]

February 14, 2003

On the Board

Fun Stuff

Automated love

It’s the love story of the new millennium – instead of boy meets girl, how about phone system meets phone system? Would you like to hear the audio from NPR’s Morning Edition? Say “Yes” or [more...]

February 14, 2003

Fun Stuff

Meet me in an undisclosed location

Happy Valentine’s Day!

February 14, 2003

The War with the Customer

Some things are more important than terrorism

From NewsBlues (subscription required) via DCRTV: We heard from an extremely agitated DC newsie who claimed that last night, while the US was preparing for war and bracing for potential terrorist activity, WTTG-5-Fox [more...]

February 14, 2003

Right = Wrong

And I’ll use a gyrocopter

February 13, 2003

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

Is it terrorism or pranksterism?

My commute is usually 13 miles, taking about 45 minutes. Yesterday, it was 30 miles, and an hour and a half. Someone spotted a “suspicious package” near the bridge into D.C., and the police shut it down [more...]

February 13, 2003

Right = Wrong

The end is nigh?

There is a rumor here in the D.C. area, evidently spreading through the government contracting community, that the government has specific information that there will be a detonation of some kind of chemical weapon [more...]

February 13, 2003