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.

Your Vote Counts

This is an interesting statistic printed in Sunday’s Washington Post: evidently, Al Gore managed to garner “more votes than any Democratic presidential candidate; more votes than any Republican presidential  [more...]

On the Board

Yo Quiero That Voice

I wonder who does the voice for the Taco Bell (and now, GEICO) chihuahua? I’d like to hire that guy to do the automated attendant prompts on the voice mail system in my office instead of the irritatingly cheerful  [more...]

Are you an effective citizen?

Do we get the government we deserve? [As the Onion reported, “You know, they say people get the government they deserve, but I don’t recall knife-raping any retarded nuns.” – thanks, Kirk] Maybe  [more...]

OS X on X68

This entry on yesterday’s edition of Macintouch is very interesting in that it plainly states that the OS X system “Darwin” runs on Intel processors: Apple Technote TN2063 (written for programmers)  [more...]

Einstein Was Right

It just occured to me that if I continue waking and sleeping on Eastern Daylight Time – I still haven’t adjusted to the end of Daylight Savings Time – I will be waking at 3:30am and falling asleep at  [more...]