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

Restore the startup chime on your MacBook Pro

First it was the happy Mac icon. Now they've come for the oh-so-familiar startup chime on our laptops.

April 5, 2018

On the Board

Fun Stuff

Interview with the creator of the Mac startup chime

Jim Reekes, the composer of the Mac startup sound, talks about the creation of that sound and his work on Quicktime and other audio features.

April 5, 2018

Right = Wrong

The loophole that enables Sinclair to own so many TV stations

Those "conservatives" are wily, slimy, and slinky when it comes to the cracks they can flow into.

April 4, 2018

General Annoyances

“Hysterical, cowardly, inhumane, and deranged”

Trump’s warnings—in CAPITAL LETTERS—about the dangers posed by a caravan of 1,000 Honduran asylum seekers were hysterical, cowardly, inhumane and deranged in equal parts. My @PostOpinions column: — Max Boot [more...]

April 4, 2018

General Annoyances

NYPD cop shoots and kills man in Brooklyn

April 4, 2018

General Annoyances

Self-driving car deaths raise the question: Is society ready for us to take our hands off the wheel?

Probabilities and perspective. It's fundamental.

April 4, 2018

Fun Stuff

A wonderfully mechanical display

Do you have a spare $1,950 lying around?

April 3, 2018