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

Fonted History

Back in the late 80s/early 90s, I had a brief dalliance with creating fonts, and had some success… well, not financially or anything, but I did get noticed. I was even included in the Mac Shareware 500 book for  [more...]

January 27, 2005

On the Board

Right = Wrong

They can’t help themselves

I found this one on Fark, and laughed and laughed. A pious, religious couple of Baptists accidentally bought a porno film that they thought was a Doris Day movie. When they twigged that it was a shocking, immoral, lewd  [more...]

January 27, 2005
Right = Wrong

Big Sister

Oh, the hypocrisy: you all know by now (I assume) that PBS has yanked an episode of “Postcards with Buster” from the air because it features a segment with kids who have lesbian moms, who prepare a meal and  [more...]

January 27, 2005
The War with the Customer

Weather’s moving in

Here’s another annoyance with digital television: many of the stations here in DC are using the multicasting capabilities of DTV to deliver several channels at once. For instance, WRC-DT broadcasts one HD channel  [more...]

January 26, 2005
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Philip Johnson

He designed buildings like others design clothes — with a bit of whimsy and a lot of creativity. He was also gay. He died yesterday at age 98. I have always found it somewhat bizarre to contemplate sermons about  [more...]

January 26, 2005
The War with the Customer

Raising the fees

So, Cingular today launched a service on its mobile phones for video — you can watch news, sports, entertainment, etc. on your tiny little phone screen. Okay, well, this sounds rather cool at first until you  [more...]

January 25, 2005