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

Please wait 15 minutes to read this blog entry

Seth Godin writes about the silly frustration and poor customer service of Ticketmaster’s website: the screen that comes up when trying to buy tickets claims that “your wait time is approximately 15 minutes [more...]

June 6, 2006

On the Board

The War with the Customer

A little something for the living room

Yes, you really can get anything on eBay… including a life-size wax figure of Walt Disney. Or, at least, they claim it’s Walt Disney. Here’s a picture of Walt Disney: Now, the description of this wax [more...]

June 6, 2006

Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Harry Homeowner Strikes Again

Would you believe it? I’m 39 years old, and today is the very first time that I ever mowed my own lawn.
A lawn I own, with a lawnmower I own.

June 4, 2006

Right = Wrong

Liberty and Justice for Some

I’ve been watching a 9-hour series on C-SPAN documenting the Capitol building. One of the striking things that all involved keep saying is that it represents openness and freedom and the expansion of our liberties [more...]

June 3, 2006

Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Tread lightly, for you tread on my atmosphere

June 2, 2006

Life... Don't talk to me about life.

The word is “intelligence”

I am a guy who rails against poor spelling… but I have never heard of the words that they’re throwing at the pre-teens at the National Spelling Bee — “rubasse”? What the…? I am both [more...]

June 1, 2006

Fun Stuff

There’s a tool for everything

Amazing, this human ingenuity. There are guys from AT&T in front of my house right now, removing an old telephone pole. They’ve got a truck with a boom on it, at the end of the boom is a circular grabbing [more...]

June 1, 2006