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

On the Board

The War with the Customer

Three hours too early

Well, I’ll be damned. Here I’ve gotten used to a three hour delay for everything, and then just now I turned on the TV… and discovered that the Academy Awards™ has been on for 40 minutes, live. I  [more...]

March 5, 2006
Fun Stuff

Citrus Sighting

I looked out my office window today to see this — my first actual orange on my little Valencia orange tree! There has been a lot of fruit on it all along, but this is the first time that any have moved from green  [more...]

March 5, 2006
The War with the Customer

Slim down your MacBook

One thing that I noticed right off the bat with this MacBook Pro is the disc space: even though this laptop has 20GB more disc space than my previous model, the free space was the same. Something was taking up a huge  [more...]

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

Microclimates, indeed

It has been a weird weather day here. This morning, it looked like rain, but didn’t rain. We did, however, get a decent amount of snow on the mountains. It was strange, here in the valley it was clear and sunny  [more...]

March 3, 2006
The War with the Customer

A Target VIG

Boy, that new Motorola SLVR has a crappy camera. This is the second time this has happened to me: I stumbled upon a newly opened Target! Yes, they opened a Target in downtown San Jose today and I was driving by  [more...]

March 1, 2006