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

He should have used Powerpoint

When Steve Jobs gives a keynote, his presentations always seem flawless — in fact, most people with Macs wonder just how much they’ve souped up his presentation computer, because we can never get ours to  [more...]

January 7, 2005

On the Board

The War with the Customer

Beam me up, Andrea

Well, we knew it was coming — the last nail in WUSA-TV’s coffin. WUSA, our channel 9, has been imploding slowly but surely for years, letting their top news talent go one by one, until they recently let  [more...]

January 6, 2005
General Annoyances

It’s a compulsions

My office is in Silver Spring, Maryland. All our forms, all our publications, our letterhead, our business cards — they all say Silver Spring. So what mysterious force is it that compels people to send their mail  [more...]

January 6, 2005
General Annoyances

Poke my eardrums out

It’s day two of the fan. Yesterday, one of the fans in the Mac here in my office which runs our website started to whine. Loudly. Annoyingly. (I decided this morning that it sounds like a swarm of metallic cicadas  [more...]

January 6, 2005
Fun Stuff

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I want one of these. Really. First, the power: I sauntered into my branch of Hollywood Video, stepped up to the wall of 12 giant TV screens simultaneously pumping out a Bruce Willis action flick, aimed my trusty new  [more...]

January 6, 2005
Right = Wrong

Use a #2 pencil

The Post reports: Condoleezza Rice should expect few surprises when she faces the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Jan. 18 and 19 for confirmation hearings on her nomination to be secretary of state. Committee  [more...]

January 6, 2005