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

It doesn’t take much to make a customer happy

The annoyances I listed last week about the Blackberry still hold, but the device is genuinely useful — its usefulness diminishes as the service costs go up, however. The dealbreaker for me was the $65/month cost [more...]

May 9, 2006

On the Board

General Annoyances

You can’t go home again, apparently

My weekend back in DC left me with one very disturbing and uncomfortable impression: I am now homeless there. It’s one thing to visit other cities that you don’t call home, but going back to a place where [more...]

May 9, 2006

Fun Stuff

Weekend Shoot Shots

Here are a few pics from this weekend’s 48 Hour Film shoot. I’ll have the whole story for you tomorrow, as well as a link to view the film. We had Tom Kochel, a professional photographer, documenting the [more...]

May 8, 2006

Fun Stuff

Where is Nutkin?

Here I am! Here I am! I’m holed up in a little office a block from the White House, creating graphics and editing and whatnot for a film… we’re starting today, and it has to be finished tomorrow, so [more...]

May 6, 2006

The War with the Customer

Sour berry

May 4, 2006

The War with the Customer

19,000 miles to go

For the first time in my life, I am learning the value of joining frequent flyer clubs. Starting tomorrow, I’ll be starting a jetsetting lifestyle — this weekend, I’ll be back home in DC working on [more...]

May 3, 2006

The War with the Customer

Because there’s more money to be made by keeping it dangerous

Maybe I’m stretching, but I think that this is an example of what’s wrong with our over-sued society: I just saw an underwriter commercial on PBS for an insurance company. The gist of the commercial was that [more...]

May 2, 2006