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

Fly the famished skies

Okay, so, a few more annoyances from yesterday’s flight to complain about, since it’s 4am here and my body thinks I should be out of bed and getting ready for work. While I was sitting at the gate starving  [more...]

March 10, 2005

On the Board

The War with the Customer

First Class Interruptus

So much for first class. Oh, I got to experience the cushy, wide seat for 50 minutes, but when the flight arrived in Charlotte and I sat in my seat waiting to take off again, the crew announced that there had been a  [more...]

March 9, 2005
General Annoyances

No compliments, please, we’re British

I’m getting really, really tired of the unsatisfied British geeks out there — the ones who have insufficient lives such that they must spend every waking moment trashing whatever new take someone has on a  [more...]

March 7, 2005
Fun Stuff

No More, You Know

The real pitfall of cleaning house and junking unwanted stuff is that you sometimes run across something that takes you off on a tangent. Today, it was four videotapes I found in a pile on the closet floor. They were  [more...]

March 6, 2005
General Annoyances

It’s in code

Yesterday I opened up the Yellow Pages — by the way, does anyone use phone books anymore? This was the first time I used that book in years — and this is the page it opened to: What a fantastic sense of  [more...]

March 5, 2005