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
The War with the Customer

It’s the little things

Here’s one very cool, unsung feature of the iPhone: when you receive a call from someone not in your address book, it naturally displays the number — but it also has the intelligence to tell where the call  [more...]

June 30, 2007

On the Board

Fun Stuff

What a difference a day makes

It seems like just yesterday that the internet — blogs and mainstream media both — were abuzz and overloaded with stories about the iPhone. Rumors, speculation, loving, hating. And today, there is a blissful  [more...]

June 30, 2007
The War with the Customer

Stirring up the stagnant waters

We are not living in particularly innovative times; the technological movement in our era is of a refining nature rather than an inventing one. The iPhone is not a new invention, it is simply a refinement of the  [more...]

June 28, 2007
Fun Stuff

But it still cost $100 to join Costco

Two years ago, I bought a box of kitchen trash bags. I believe it had something like 200 bags in two rolls of 100. Today I finally used the last one of the first roll. I think this is the first time that buying in bulk  [more...]

June 26, 2007
General Annoyances

What kind of first impression?

Sometimes I am mean. Just really, really, really mean. Like this morning. When I posted an entry here making fun of someone else’s design “skills.” There was no call for it, really, other than me being  [more...]

June 26, 2007