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.

They should have named it TARDIS

With the name “Time Machine,” I guess I should have realized the similarity sooner: Every time I run Time Machine I expect to see Steve Job’s face zooming in and the familiar dum-de-dum dum-de-dum  [more...]

On the Board

Where In The World is Carmen Blog Reader?

The other day, on a whim, I added one of those widgets to track my readers’ locations and was amused to see the wide variety of places people are visiting from. Some of the locations are puzzling, though. So, if  [more...]

This website is now out of the closet

For years, my webserver has lived quietly in the closet of my spare bedroom. Until this morning. I feel like it is a child that’s gone off to college. It now lives at a professional data center somewhere in Santa  [more...]

Wednesday Shorts

A few items that have been sitting down there in the dock waiting for commentary. Big Government Gets Bigger An article in the Washington Post from a year ago takes a look at the growth of the Federal government —  [more...]