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.

But what are the fringe benefits?

I’ve been grousing a lot lately about my lack of a job, but in reality I have enough to keep me working full time lately. The main problem is that I’m not reaping a paycheck. I work pretty much 10 hours a [more...]

August 10, 2005

On the Board

The War with the Customer

And that’s the way it is

I was going to make an amendment to my Peter Jennings post, pointing out that I gave short schrift to the fourth anchor, Jim Lehrer. You’d have thought I’d have remembered him, having worked at WETA and then [more...]

August 9, 2005

Right = Wrong

Learn from the past

I hate to rehash old lies, but remember when the White House constantly harped that they simply couldn’t have ever imagined that someone would fly planes into buildings? Even after a CIA briefing weeks before [more...]

August 9, 2005

General Annoyances

Where’s the Blinovich Limitation Effect when you need it?

Many moons ago — for that seems an appropriate phrase — I created a Quicktime VR “experience” that allows visitors to wander through Doctor Who’s TARDIS. It’s over in g-world. I named [more...]

August 8, 2005

General Annoyances

Editorially Prophetic

August 8, 2005

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

Peter Jennings

Sadly, Peter Jennings has died. Am I the only one who had visions of him at home, recuperating from cancer treatments and working from home? This is pretty shocking that he’s died, taking with him the last vestige [more...]

August 7, 2005

General Annoyances

Talkin’ about this generation

As I stood this afternoon at the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets in San Francisco, a Motorola RAZR mobile plastered to my ear, speaking over the Cingular network, wearing a black t-shirt and jeans from Old [more...]

August 7, 2005