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
Fun Stuff

Farsight

Mark Morford’s last column was basically a sales pitch for the Apple iSight, the camera that interfaces seamlessly with iChat to enable videoconferencing for the rest of us. I agree wholeheartedly with his  [more...]

October 9, 2005

On the Board

General Annoyances

Oh, the games people play

Yeah, California real estate is pretty crazy — to find a comparable (actually, smaller and less nice) place to my home outside DC means paying at least $150,000 more than I sold my house for. And people here are  [more...]

October 9, 2005
Fun Stuff

Big time, big screen

Well, well, well — after all those years languishing in the continuum, the revival of Doctor Who was so successful that finally someone is going to make a movie — although, we’ve heard this before: The  [more...]

October 7, 2005
General Annoyances

GOOD MORNING SAN JOSE!

I don’t know, maybe the folks here do their business on Eastern Standard Time. By 9:30pm, the streets are deserted and every house is dark, and this morning at 7am sharp, I thought there was some kind of disaster  [more...]

October 7, 2005
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

The Lost Frontier

I was driving around this afternoon, looking at neighborhoods up near downtown San Jose — more on this later — and on the way home, drove down Monterey Highway. It was one of those deja vu moments which I  [more...]

October 5, 2005