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

General Annoyances

Well, this is a pretty good setback for NASA — after all that work, the external fuel tank once again shed a great big piece of foam, very nearly as big as the one that doomed the Columbia. So, the fleet — [more...]

July 27, 2005

On the Board

General Annoyances

And they got Al Capone for tax evasion

I could have entitled this entry “Maybe he was watching for the real killers.” O.J. is back in the news: A U.S. District Judge in the Southern District of Florida has ordered O.J. Simpson to pay DIRECTV [more...]

July 27, 2005

General Annoyances

It gives “on demand” a whole new meaning

Perusing Comcast On Demand today, I was intrigued to come across, buried in the menus, a “Dating On Demand” channel. Of course, like most of Comcast’s On Demand offerings, it’s pretty much [more...]

July 26, 2005

Fun Stuff

The view from up there

It was an addition to help ensure safety, but the addition of cameras to the Shuttle made today’s launch so much more interesting and enlightening — watching live pictures from the orbiter instead of just a [more...]

July 26, 2005

General Annoyances

True Life Adventure

July 25, 2005

Right = Wrong

This is not the future we hoped for

Welcome to Iran: In Iran, mullahs’ henchmen publicly hanged two young boys in Mashhad. One was 18 and the other was a juvenile. Before the hanging the boys were each flogged 228 times while the executioners wore [more...]

July 24, 2005

Fun Stuff

Home of the near future

I’ve been doing a bit of research for yet another attempt at renovating and updating g-world — I’m planning on regenerating it into a more camp, googie, late 50s motif — and I came across this [more...]

July 24, 2005