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

The next big thing

Well, we were all expecting an Apple cell phone — but instead, we got a revolution. The fact that the iPhone has a phone function is almost secondary to the really important part: this is a tiny, portable, touch  [more...]

January 9, 2007

On the Board

The War with the Customer

The Green Apple Blues

The Apple trifecta for today is complete with this entry. Greenpeace. Oh, boy. Well, they have been lambasting Apple for some time now over the computer maker’s environmental impact; and now they plan to stage a  [more...]

January 8, 2007
The War with the Customer

Sneak a peek in the back room

This just in: the Apple retail stores — or, at least, one of them — have pallets of merchandise secreted away in the stock room, smallish boxes individually wrapped (?). My source says that the boxes are a  [more...]

January 8, 2007
The War with the Customer

A versatile letter

“X” isn’t just ex anymore. When Mac OS X debuted, it took us Mac nuts a while to transition our pronunciation of ex to ten. Still, we managed to do it and now it’s second nature. But now it seems  [more...]

January 8, 2007
Fun Stuff

Fanboy Heaven

The revival of Doctor Who in 2005 was, all told, more immediately successful than the revival of Star Trek in 1987. Still, that Star Trek revival had an incredible longevity, resulting in 24 years worth of spinoffs  [more...]

January 6, 2007