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

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

I kept telling myself that I would wait to decorate my house until someone else on the street did it first; but I went ahead and did it on December 1 — and damned if I wasn’t the first person. Granted, I [more...]

December 3, 2005

On the Board

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

But where was Cindy?

After the last credit flashed on the screen, the station announcer said, “You’ve been watching ‘A Very Brady Christmas!'”… and a little voice somewhere inside my head added, “you [more...]

December 3, 2005

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

I’d better start learning the roads around here

Last night while out with old pal Julie and her husband Jason, we took cabs to shuttle back and forth to Palo Alto’s hip, happening University Avenue. Both cabs were driven by 50ish victims of the tech boom and [more...]

December 3, 2005

The War with the Customer

This restaurant is appropriately across the street from Winchester House

This is a fuzzy, blurry, badly aimed camera pic. Just go with it. Seen at Chili’s at Santana Row, San Jose: this obviously non-functional ersatz door — which is placed about 4 feet off the floor, over a [more...]

December 1, 2005

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

Strumming my own guitar

December 1, 2005

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

Wendie Jo Sperber

She was one of those supporting actresses that I love, the ones whose names I remember. Wendie Jo Sperber died on Tuesday after an eight-year battle with breast cancer. I first saw her — like many people — [more...]

December 1, 2005

The War with the Customer

I might drive up the road to TiVo HQ to deliver this

Dear TiVo, Mac OS 10.4 — also known as “Tiger” — was released in April, 2005. That’s 7 months ago. It was announced nearly a year before that. And yet, your TiVo Desktop software still does [more...]

December 1, 2005