Just As I Thought

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.

Elephants always forget

I generally work best when poking at authority and complaining about our government, and as every other site on the net gives links to charities, I’ll forego that in favor of more tidbits from Daily Kos: Update:  [more...]

On the Board

Maybe he should have rehearsed first

Yesterday I watched a bit of Bush’s walkabout in some relatively dry patches of Alabama, I watched a briefing where he stood impassive with a bit of a smirk as various members of rescue teams told him of the  [more...]

When they get it right…

Did anyone know that the Mars rovers are still working and sending back data? If I remember correctly, they were supposed to function for just a few months. In fact, they’ve been working for 20 months. For the  [more...]

Stupid Prius Tricks

Aha! Another Easter Egg backdoor trick to mod the Prius. Lots of people have been bugged by the way Prius limits your interaction with the computer system while in motion — while a driver should not be distracted  [more...]

Who ya gonna call?

CNN just showed three phone numbers for hurricane relief — for 10 seconds. Meanwhile, there were graphics littering screen showing the time, the anchor’s name, a crawl across the bottom, “LIVE”  [more...]

Smells like old times

I walked into the garage and opened the door, and the unique smell of the garage flashed me back to 1981, to the smell of my grandparent’s garage which is still there, about a mile away from my house. The freshy  [more...]