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
Right = Wrong

Those Conservative Family Values

The Republicans — the vociferous, ultra-right conservative brand most often — love to spend gobs of time telling us all what a family is, how we should behave, and who we should love. Of course, all the  [more...]

December 6, 2006

On the Board

Right = Wrong

A Lesson in Spin

The Washington Post puts it this way: “Culture Shock on Capitol Hill: House to Work 5 Days a Week.” Now, I am the first person to admit that, while I worked 5 days a week, I generally spent as little of that  [more...]

December 6, 2006
The War with the Customer

The Simple Interface

Let’s talk this morning about how incredibly sucky and annoying the Windows interface world really is. Now of course, you’d expect this from me, a Mac user since 1984. But seriously, just a few moments using  [more...]

December 4, 2006
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Ghost Town of Childhood

Yesterday the weather warmed back up to the 60s, so I took a little spin and found myself at Edenvale park. Or, as I remembered it from my childhood, Frontier Village. What used to be the parking lot of this 1960s era  [more...]

December 3, 2006
The War with the Customer

Or just use the word “cold”

Dear NBC 11 Weather Plus Chyron operators: Please invest in a dictionary. For your edification, I present a list of alternatives and the correct spelling of same: cold, wintry, freezing, frozen, icy, glacial  [more...]

November 29, 2006
Fun Stuff

More Digits Than Fingers

I wonder how long it will be before the telephone system in this country adds another digit. I ask because as of today, I — one, single person — have a total of six telephone numbers.

November 29, 2006