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

Oh, I call hypocrisy on this: quotes from the George W. Bush camp in the 2000 campaign — when he was running against Al Gore, but decided instead to focus on Clinton. Victory means exit strategy, and it’s [more...]

August 17, 2005

On the Board

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

Let’s all beep like the birdies beep

I live in a relatively new community, where another phase is undergoing construction farther up the hill. All day, I hear intermittent beeps as trucks back up. But it wasn’t until this morning that I realized what [more...]

August 17, 2005

The War with the Customer

Let’s get shallow

I wonder if the design of computer user interfaces hasn’t reached it’s plateau? I keep seeing very strange new file browsers based on 3D space, the latest of which can be glimpsed here. Just one glance at [more...]

August 16, 2005

The War with the Customer

The Microsoft Strategy

God, no wonder people are so wary of computers. It’s all Microsoft, a company which trumpets “ease of use” but has no real idea what that means. Example: On MSNBC, I just clicked the “Free [more...]

August 16, 2005

The War with the Customer

Timing is everything

August 16, 2005

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

Love, strange love a star woman teaches

The soaring, otherworldly voice behind the Star Trek theme has died. Loulie Jean Norman was the soprano who lent the futuristic, spacey wordless voice to the Star Trek theme in 1966. In order to save money on royalties [more...]

August 15, 2005

Right = Wrong

The garden path

Okay, just one more: this is from William Raspberry’s column this morning, describing another troubling thing about John Roberts. …a friend — black, conservative and Republican — [was] laying out [more...]

August 15, 2005