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

Watching Bradley Whitford do the splits and this interesting gymnastic move on today’s Ellen DeGeneres show makes me think that he’s obviously fun in bed… but for a straight guy, this pose seems pretty [more...]

January 5, 2005

On the Board

The War with the Customer

Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb

So. I found a picture of the back of the Roku thingy, and discovered that it has a set of component inputs–sweet! It can pass through a 1080i component source, so suddenly I don’t need another set of [more...]

January 5, 2005

The War with the Customer

The Plug Deficit

You know, on a whim — the way these things usually work with me — I was thinking of buying a Roku PhotoBridge HD1000. This is yet another set-top box that streams media to a television. The cool element to [more...]

January 5, 2005

The War with the Customer

To speak to an operator, press “G”

I have a toll-free 800 number, which enables some of my relatives to call me without paying long distance. At least, that was the original goal. In practice, it serves as an annoyance, ringing off the hook with wrong [more...]

January 5, 2005

The War with the Customer

What’s in a (mobile) name?

January 5, 2005

Right = Wrong

They’ll pay for this

It seems that the office supply store Staples has decided to pull its advertising from news programming on television stations owned by Sinclair — you know, the ultra-right wing company that made headlines by [more...]

January 5, 2005

Right = Wrong

Ten Questions

The Center for American Progress has come up with a brilliant list of ten questions for Bush’s AG nominee Alberto Gonzalez, including such blunt winners as: Are there any circumstances under which you believe the [more...]

January 4, 2005