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

The War with the Customer

What do I do with the other three fingers now?

How’s this for an interesting fact? Even though San Jose is the 10th largest city in the country, you don’t need to dial an area code to call other people in the city. This is another thing that I find [more...]

August 11, 2005

On the Board

General Annoyances

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Well, I’ll be damned. Remember how, when I first moved in here, I complained about the once-a-week, only-what-fits-in-the-bin trash pickup? It turns out that this is just fine. I have a small trash bin and a large [more...]

August 11, 2005

The War with the Customer

Take this box and stuff it

Here’s an example of the stupidity of large corporations: FedEx has sent a cease and desist letter to Jose Avila, a guy who’s created an apartment full of furniture using FedEx shipping boxes. He started a [more...]

August 11, 2005

The War with the Customer

Clean up in the bunion aisle

I was just admonished by a television commercial to find a certain product in “my foot care aisle.”
Just wondering. Have you ever seen a “foot care aisle” at any store you shop in?

August 10, 2005

Right = Wrong

Hullo, Possums!

August 10, 2005

Fun Stuff

Maybe Dubya wants to clone her

I just saw a headline on washingtonpost.com that I had to read twice:
Rice Genome Fully Mapped
Now they can make more of her, I guess.

August 10, 2005

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

Problems of the aged

In less than a week, I’ll be so close to 40 that, especially in gay terms, I might as well be dead. I can feel the twinges of mid-life crisis beginning to creep into my doddering, graying head. For instance, it [more...]

August 10, 2005