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
Right = Wrong

Maybe he’ll be self-adhesive

Where are all those politicians who embraced putting Ronald Reagan on every school, municipal building, airport, and bus station across the country? Is it no longer a quick route to voter popularity? Has gay-bashing  [more...]

February 27, 2005

On the Board

The War with the Customer

Not so sweet

I loathe artificial sweeteners. First off, I haven’t found one yet that doesn’t make me sick in some way. Saccharine tastes horrible and gives me a headache. And possibly cancer. Nutrasweet gives me horrible  [more...]

February 27, 2005
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Jef Raskin

Jef Raskin, who is generally credited as the creator of the Macintosh computer, died yesterday. He was 61. Much of his work has been on the creation of “humane interfaces,” which points out a major  [more...]

February 27, 2005
General Annoyances

A commonwealth of scofflaws

Spurred on by the story of a couple of guys who are visiting the US to break some of our more… well, stupid laws, I looked up the laws in Virginia. You know, my home state, where lawmakers recently tried to outlaw  [more...]

February 26, 2005
Fun Stuff

The Permissive Post Office

As I go through the house cleaning and tossing… um, throwing out unneeded stuff, I came across this letter. I can’t remember if I posted it on my blog or not, but it was amusing enough to show it one more  [more...]

February 26, 2005
General Annoyances

Extremely stubborn and suspicious

So, I got a couple of wrong number calls this afternoon from someone who sounded like a crotchety yet somewhat jolly old man. The first time he called, I told him he had a wrong number, and then he just kind of went  [more...]

February 26, 2005