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

In praise of simplicity

When one looks for information, speed and clarity tends to be far more useful than glitz and glam. Just a note for you interface and web designers out there. Let the user get to what they need with a minimum of obstacle  [more...]

February 2, 2007

On the Board

Right = Wrong

News of the Duh

This is an actual headline on the Washington Post website right now: Iraq at Risk of Further Strife, Report Warns National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq outlines increasingly perilous situation in which U.S. has little  [more...]

February 2, 2007
Right = Wrong

Molly Ivins’s Joyful Outrage

Perhaps the sole bright spot after the passing of Molly Ivins is reading the tributes, the anecdotes. From E.J. Dionne: Molly Ivins’s Joyful Outrage By E. J. Dionne Jr. Friday, February 2, 2007; A15 She explained  [more...]

February 2, 2007
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

She shook the walls

Molly Ivins Shook the Walls With Her Clarion Call By Maya Angelou Special to The Washington Post Friday, February 2, 2007; C01 Up to the walls of Jericho She marched with a spear in her hand Go blow them ram horns she  [more...]

February 1, 2007
The War with the Customer

Studio 60’s Burning Problem

If there is a video display anywhere on the set of NBC’s “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” you can darn well bet that it will be permanently etched with the (horrible, ugly) logo of the fictional NBS  [more...]

January 30, 2007