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
Fun Stuff

Halley’s exhaust

Right now, Earth is passing through a field of debris shed by Halley’s Comet. This debris is raining down on the planet — but burning up as it hits our atmosphere, and I’ve been outside in the  [more...]

October 21, 2006

On the Board

The War with the Customer

Don’t fool with my coffee

Ah, another customer service story. I’ve had a Tassimo drinks machine for more than a year now, and I love it. This is the gadget that makes drinks like lattes and tea and whatever by using little pre-measured  [more...]

October 20, 2006
The War with the Customer

Too much, too late

I feel like a traitor. Today, I cancelled my TiVo service after umpty-up years. And I really felt bad for the nice lady who cancelled it for me. She tried to sell me on the new Series 3 by extolling its features —  [more...]

October 19, 2006
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Maybe the moon

A couple of days ago I posted my theory about earthquakes — that the large and memorable ones happen sometime around the middle of the month, from the 15th to the 18th. Well, on the 15th there was a 3.1 here near  [more...]

October 17, 2006
Fun Stuff

Years of reading to do

I was thinking about posting something here to commemorate the first anniversary of buying my little California house; I figured I'd do something like comparison photos or something. So I looked back at my entries in  [more...]

October 16, 2006