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

How to kill PBS

Is this one of those right-wing conspiracies? So, Bush submits a budget that a) counts revenues from the auction of the analog television spectrum — which is supposed to become available in 2009 when broadcasters  [more...]

February 7, 2006

On the Board

Fun Stuff

Ah, now I remember

I often lay awake wondering why? why did I move here? why did I quit my job, why did I leave my friends and family behind? what was i thinking? But then, even if I had no other concrete or good reason to move, I think  [more...]

February 7, 2006
Fun Stuff

The dream commute

Today’s interweb meme is the sped-up video of a commute, specifically from San Francisco to Cupertino. Eh. It’s been done before. Specifically, by me just about exactly five years ago, a couple of months  [more...]

February 7, 2006
The War with the Customer

The planes, the planes

I know I should be writing about the Bush Budget and how it continues to cut important domestic priorities — especially ones that he pledged to improve just last week — while still not repairing the deficit  [more...]

February 6, 2006
Fun Stuff

Solar energy

The northwest side of my house has three windows, and these have trellises installed outside them. When I bought the house, there were lavender bushes along this side, and they grew up the trellises providing some  [more...]

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

Event nc40183076

It occurs to me that I might have had a fun career as a cartographer. I remember that as I kid, I was very good at maps and such, especially with those standardized tests that gave a reading of my spatial skills. Maybe  [more...]

February 4, 2006