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
Fun Stuff

Good design is key

Wow – this is an amazing piece of industrial design, and one that I hope comes to the marketplace sometime soon: the universal Optimus keyboard has a tiny LCD screen in each key — the label on each key  [more...]

July 15, 2005

On the Board

Right = Wrong

Oh, I Love Trash

Hypocrisy frustrates me no end. You can tell, can’t you? Usually, it’s right wing hypocrisy that gets me riled up most, simply because they’re in power and their hypocrisy is so blatant. For instance:  [more...]

July 15, 2005
Fun Stuff

Hi, Robot

Just when I was bemoaning my lonely existence, Jann and Mike showed up at my door this evening for an impromptu housewarming, with a bottle of sangria and… a Roomba! Wheeee! It didn’t take long to figure out  [more...]

July 14, 2005
Right = Wrong

Back off

Remember how George W. Bush distanced himself from his old buddy Ken Lay? Using Clintonian tactics, he parsed his words carefully and came up with an assertion that Lay had “supported Ann Richards” for Texas  [more...]

July 14, 2005
The War with the Customer

This is how the madness begins

Gadget Freak Syndrome is about to strike again. I wish there were some cure; poverty never did it in the past, and now that I have some cash, it’s worse than ever. I tend to never get around to vacuuming the  [more...]

July 13, 2005
Fun Stuff

Career Path

There are people out there, like Jason Kottke, who have literally made a career out of blogging. As I sit here in front of the Powerbook, unemployed but with a safety net in the bank, I wonder: would anyone ever pay me  [more...]

July 13, 2005