Just as I thought | Gene Cowan's weblog

2010

August

I’m a rebel, a maverick

Again with the constitutional scholars

Real Amuricans Hate Freedom

People Who Can’t Hear Themselves Speak

The Tyranny of Judge Walker

A Short Look at Getting Reel

Shocking Revelations about Electric Cars

July

Now Hiring: Husband

iPerfection

More bars, more money

June

The a la carte airport

The Do Not Call List

This entry is just linkbait for people searching for Apple iPhone 4

Pay Per Plug

At least there’s no equivocating

May

Short term memory loss

Microsoft’s marketing team must get paid by the word

This is how I get a reputation

Keeping you secure

I’m sure Apple’s kicking themselves over it

It’s not just Flash

April

Some real mavericks, you betcha

Divided we fall

This is one sexy bigot

Oompa Loompa Loopidy Lost

Proper Names are Not Allowed in Scrabble

Post-Label

A very open closed system

This one’s for Douglas Adams

March

The brake is the wide pedal in the middle

February

Washington Post, Spammer

When scams meet data mining

The Return of Fuzzy Math

Brain like a used tea bag

That about covers it

This has got to be a parody. Right?

Battle of the Network Connections

Monday Math

January

Physically, but not emotionally

What’s another $30 between friends?

Let the peanut gallery throw stones

One of the World’s Most Blurred Women

Idle Speculation

Paradobe

How to get a graphic designer drunk

Tales of Stupidity

Scenes from a courtroom

Anatomy of an Earthquake

Good to know it’s not Lex Luthor this time

Bing? Bong.

2009

December

Ahead of my time

That’s why we get our dog food from China

Hair Today

Here’s why newspapers shouldn’t open comments online

November

In my head: Commute, November 17

In a mirror, snarkily

Bigotry: it’s always with us

Like most Republicans, he had his fingers in his ears singing “blah blah blah”

No Hope

October

Windows 7, as in 1987

It’s customer service, silly

And you thought it was the 21st century

Goulish Delights

The Newest Worst Ever

September

The big-government bureaucrats fail us again

Commuting on the precipice

Welcome to 1952

Here’s to the crazy ones

Can’t quite figure out who they’re protesting against

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc, persevero

She said, he said

The Big Black Man Is Coming For Your Children

August

The End Is Nigh

In which Gene reflects on his old age

The World Is Not Responding

July

Of iPhones and Hype

You know what sucks?

Under the bridge

I don’t watch enough TV

You’ve gotta be kidding

Bravo Bugs Me

That’s Entertainment

All About Marcia

June

If only God were on Facebook

Stages of grief, step three: profit

The Carpal Tunnel Tax

Wild Ad

Mash-up Mania

You know what Big Hands mean

Golly, why didn’t I think of that?

May

Government by the credit card generation

This is not 20/20 customer service

Sexy, Microsoft-style

I choose optimism (today, at least)

It’s a West Wing World

East coast, west coast

It’s that time of the month again

Southfork was smaller on the inside than the outside

Tricks of the Trade: The Cult of the Right

April

Unfortunate mistake or clever design? The jury is hung

Is this thing on?

The Foot of Death

She was saving the petroleum for her commute

The people want you to stop calling

Air freshener included

Hey, kids! Let’s put on a protest!

March

The Link Retirement Home

Is someone keeping count of all this?

Alone and scared on the exit ramp

Of MMS and Apple

AT&T sucks. But you knew that, didn’t you?

The more things stay the same

Why I’m not blogging these days

The Disneyland Story

February

Looking Up

This has happened before and will happen again

Mare, dog and pony

Boost your self-esteem by laughing at the beautiful

86 Prop 13

They paved paradise and put up a 3,000 sq ft McMansion

By your logic, I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away

If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by Bush

If you’d kept your mouth shut we might have thought you were clever

Smallest, largest… size isn’t everything, you know

January

Don’t trust them! They’re just like us!

Oh, you wanted a network with that?

Don’t Peak Too Soon

Let’s improve our word power

Hey hey hey, goodbye

Bush Burnout

I used to think that the day would never come

The Facebook Report: 2008

Change v Politics as Usual

Facts v. Bush

We all knew the Doctor and Rose were… you know

The Worst Monday of the Year

2008

December

This Week in Southern California

Eartha Kitt

Dental Plug

We’re gonna need a bigger display

Read this again on December 22, 2009

Let’s get pragmatic

Remember: Bush is still wreaking havoc

The hilarious result of mega-bank mergers

And my house is an estate

Going to Work Gay

Crunching the numbers

Ain’t got nothin’ to say

Overstatement

November

A Very Black Friday

Pardon Me

A bigot by any other name

Mixed feelings (as usual) about Hillary

Bemoaning the rerun

Bush Continues Unabated

Give a man 700 billion fish

Harry Weese, ahead of his time

What Would Gene Drive?

Wahh! They’re being mean to me!

As built by Sirius Cybernetics

HWJV?

Stock up and hunker down

The classic BUT of the bigot

A few questions

I can’t believe it

It’s bigoted discrimination. Pure and simple.

October

Pay no attention to the short-timer

Time Shakes

8 Minutes on Prop 8

The smart guys’ time has come

The Customer as Criminal, continued

86 101

Truth and Consequences

Maybe his wig was in the shop

Hit and run

Of Propositions and Proposals

The Fonz is Cool Again

The mafia is Catholic, after all

How do you parody parody?

MacBook Pro Unibody 2008: Kneejerk First Impressions

Just this guy, you know?

Powell’s real message is so much more important

It was just food to her

Let’s be liberal with our money

The New World

Ignorance and Racism: This is McCain’s America

And now, a double entendre from our sponsor

They’re not gonna talk about it

In black and white (and red ink)

Know your enemy

Thank goodness for the wordsmiths

Soon we’ll need new gas pumps, too

A perfect storm for Obama?

Pallin’ around with terrorists

How to be a maverick

September

I was so much more interesting 7 years ago

Lucky at lunch

How not to design for mobile

Things that make you go ew

Our Buddhist Wheel of Politics

Don’t be evil

Morning Preemption

Palin’s Experience in Just 12 Minutes

We could have had it all

Some Straight Talk

Welcome to Amerika

“This is fun,” says re-educated citizen

Our most relentlessly photogenic president ever

No, it’s NOT OK.

Land of the free, home of the stupid

Smells like Volkswagen

First America, then the world! Bwah ha ha ha ha!!

See? There WERE minorities on the floor at the GOP convention

There’s no shortage of other porn stars to write about, don’t worry

$10,000,000 well spent

Fight! And then hug the big invisible elephant and make up.

Hey, Big Spenders

Life Happens: The Turdblossom Way

Call Me Dr. Science

August

New! Improved! Now with Same Old, Same Old!

Communique via Long Distance Telegraphy from Mr. McCain, Esq

I’m not feeling so fine, George

Why I need two beers this afternoon

This has been preying on my mind

Del Martin

Greetings from the shelter

As long as he doesn’t get married

Saddle up for a bumpy ride, pardner

Made especially for you

Pining for the 1G

Dreams of a starving artist

How to win clients and influence designers

Trailer Park Typo

No hurry. Just wondering.

The market works wonders. Just like with gas.

On Network Integration

In commiseration with Mac

Today’s birthdays

As good an interface as the dock

Is that a rocket in your pocket?

Renew now before it’s too late

There’s always one catch

Treatment for addiction

July

Drilling into our wallets

It’s all about location

Perhaps a life makeover would be more useful

Mathematics is for eggheads

Ahoyhoy

A quick precis

iPhone 3G Impressions

To 3G or not to 3G

I guess I have a dirty mind

Isn’t it great having a frat boy as president?

Fun with screenshots

Emptiness on the calendar

June

Some of us can move on, others can’t

Rosalind Aguilar

Dody Goodman

Evolution of a neighborhood

The Vast Wasteland

People should not be scenery

The conservatives are too liberal

Wii… press A… press A… Fit

Google searched and searched, and finally got lucky

Equality Rocks

All Along the Watchtower

San Jose Smokin’

Quake Time of the Month

They go together

‘Cos it’s a dry heat

I have a $4 bridge to sell you

Hey, bigots: hold your nose and take the cash

AT&T gets richer

Reporters are about as good as analysts

Analysts don’t know nothin’

Heresy, he said

Alien Incursion

Under the radar, controlling Sesame Street

May

(Headset) too little (patent) too late

Joseph Pevney

Alexander Courage

Capitalizing on ignorance, fear, and bigotry

Sydney Pollack

Dick Martin

Now we know what Tommy Puett is doing

They just can’t stand to see happiness

That’s what they call “ROI”

The Cowan Way

Hot Dog

It’s always safe to talk about the weather

The bigots are mildly upset

Lunchtime at the Silver Creek Corral

Disasters far away and close to home

Here’s why the phone company is so rich and powerful

This is why I don’t stay up past 10

Conservatives: it’s all about ignoring the very, very obvious

Year Three: A Report

A Prairie Airport Companion

April

I don’t think “better late than never” applies

Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

The end came so quickly we didn’t even notice

I guess this appeals to the few die-hard nuts still voting Republican

Unless they get Dana Carvey back

PCification

It’s the planet’s time of the month

At least I haven’t blown myself up yet

The website that watches you back

Goodbye, Minute Rice

We need some of those bird stickers

Clean the bathroom and wash the linens, George

Pollinate while you can

How the mind wanders

I bet my blog is blocked in China

It’s ALL about politics

We slipped past 1984 without a whimper

This is how spoiled my dog is

The neighbor’s grass is always less green

The U.S. establishment media in a nutshell

March

All the typos that’s fit to prnit

There Is No Underwear In Space

They See You (all the way around)

This is why I’m irritable in the morning

Whoever said that sci-fi geeks were tech savvy?

A ringing endorsement

Politically Hairy

Adherents of the Repeated Meme

Now you know why I follow her

What air is worth

On five years of pointless war, the surveillance state, and the new depression

Why I’m still driving with $4 gas

But it’s an honor to be nominated

It’s highly addictive!

Whatever, just make sure we get cheap shoes

Why can’t politicians keep it in their pants?

Give a man a fish…

Daylight Spending Time

Shut up and drive

Local trumps local

Too much C, not enough Y

Where there’s a but…

February

It’s a Kid’s Life in the Royal Army

Ah, the ressurection

They should have been blocking information 7 years ago, too late now

Pointless ramble on a Sunday morning

Person equals something to be sold

Anyone keeping count?

Transactivist judges

50 is the new 30

End of the same old-same old?

How will he pay for the 100 years in Iraq?

At last, I know who I am

It was a pain to build, but what craftsmanship

A Tale of Two Logos

I said I wouldn’t write ‘til I got work

January

Are they blind or just more perceptive?

Who is at fault? The lender or the borrower?

Television Today: A Treatise

I think the rainy season has begun

Suzanne Pleshette

Allan Melvin

Don’t throw out those old videotapes

Best of San Jose: Get High

Livin’ on the EDGE

In praise of AT&T

They were too repressed in the 60s

He’s Going Home

2007

December

Perhaps they’re duplicates from the alternate dimension

He’s Leaving Home

Ticking off time

Worlds Long Gone

It’s really no mystery

I yearn for the transporter to be invented

The Real Estate Rollercoaster

Ryan Lang says…

The Three Year Itch

Press 1 for… no, wait, press 4

California Misadventure

You’ve got to love a tall man

Guns and Churches

Question Time: everything is fake in TV land

There’s a movie coming out, but don’t tell anyone

Gosh, maybe the Kindle IS the easier way to read

Bring Your Own

This is the 5000th entry

Star Trek keeps going and going and going and…

Old Job Week

November

Only true geeks will get this one

The Same Only Worse

Yahoo will be writing utility checks to Google one day

Next Up: Presidential Idol

Mind Your Mouth

Sometimes it is easier to do it yourself

Time for an ex-Congressman registry?

Verity Lambert

Geeky for Helvetica

Lightspeed Briefs: As Seen in Your Dreams

This is what we’re fighting for

We need a rat trap

Digging up the past

This ship is taking a long time to go down and has a lot of rats

Christmas Creep

That’s some long green

No more squeezing the Charmin

It’s possible that I own too many Apple products

Everything falls apart

One day’s waste

Happy 5th Blogiversary

I live in a pricey neighborhood

Just because I’m a geek

We broke it, we bought it

Green Wine

It’s as accurate as computer dating

Buy now, pay later

The things we do to the earth

Good thing that nothing unexpected ever happens that a president might have to deal with

License for anything

Fly the cheap skies

The Campaign of the Past

Let’s waterboard Congress

Five and Ten

In Defense of Writers

Digging in to a new book

Just use soap, for crying out loud

One more (yawn)

No one is better than anyone

This post has absolutely nothing to do with earthquakes

I don’t want to title this one “Can You Hear Me Now?”

All the wit that’s fit to print

October

The Day After

Uh huh… all shook up

WHOA

Bright spots on TV, but sadly fleeting

Of Guffaws and Geezers

Storm Chaser with a lot of time on my hands

They should have named it TARDIS

Where In The World is Carmen Blog Reader?

This website is now out of the closet

Lighten up, Apple

I need a wider screen

Wednesday Shorts

I can see my house from here

Bringing back the romance of train travel

California is on fire

Every one of them makes me sick

This is what kind of geek I am

Talking out of their… feed?

Maybe reading by candlelight would be more efficient?

Customer annoyance. Delivered.

Real California Cheese

Wish I was as strong as them

Do it. Feel it.

When Aliens Attack

The Wrong Person for the Job: The Bush Mantra

Republicans, gas prices, and hypocrisy

But errors in dialogue boxes are completely fine

The Long-Gestated Cat

Classic signs of fascism, continued

How to present a film festival with a Mac (cheap)

Next up: Gold Medal in Skating

Thank goodness I’m not the only one annoyed by this

Our own terrorists

“Offline” is On

Syndicated snickers from my east coast correspondent

What if you couldn’t marry the person you love?

Bush Bashing Tuesday Morning

Under the tires of history

Good news, everyone!

Spam as art

Media notes for a new season

Do me a favor, will ya? You won’t regret it.

September

What didn’t he know, and when did he not know it?

Spamming in new boxes

Less than Non-Human

Clickety Clack

Time to turn off the comments

A moment of silence has never been more appropriate

Alice Ghostley

Bits and pieces before bedtime

Brett Somers

A tie is not always a tie

Home again, home again, jiggety jog

Dissing my old hood

What is the statute of limitations on September 11?

Now THIS is what I call luck

“I am NOT a Republican!”

Turn on, switch off

Where there’s haze there’s fire

I am somewhat mollified

Suddenly, control doesn’t feel good

Left, right, what’s the difference?

I’ll stick with “Old Phone,” thanks very much

Yaw’ gonna DIE in there!

Finding a way out

Hip, Happenin’ September

The rich get richer

August

Picture Pages

I go to Reno… de Janeiro

Livin’ Average

Glad he’s not gay, we don’t want him

At least he kept his mouth shut

Leopard Speculation

Schadenfreude: less filling

Glutton for punishment

How does he know? He wasn’t there.

We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the phone company

Design should be for function

There are no more Johnny Carsons

This is what my brain wiring looks like

They miss us

So? I mean, Bush spent more than a year on vacation

Still, it’s better than letting gays marry

Soviet Safeway

There’s a reason cavemen died out

Need for Speed

Ruminations on a birthday

Code cracked, my patience also cracking

Goodbye, ‘Boy Genius’

A Certain Age

Turd Blossom wilts

The more things stay the same

Apple Simplicity isn’t all that simple

It works for elevators

For the man who has everything

It’s all about the length

Things on top of other things

All Things Reconsidered

Our plunging journalistic talent

Boring Edition

July

At least I can’t smell it 30 miles away

130,000 breath mints, please

How the other half works

Trapped

The World Needs More Walgreens

The Yellow Line of Death

It’s a family thing

Use the tubes instead

President, heal thyself

Ay Caramba

Irrational pessimism

Ahead of my time, I suppose

Those eyes

Look to the skies

I am officially terrified

Ass calling the kettle ass

Mania

Not Shaken

Friends in low places

The Luck O’ the Irish

I guess most good designers must be Democrats

Maybe he’s undercover for the OSI

Hidden Neighborhood Treasures

The hilarity of un-funniness

At least I know it’ll get recycled

Oh, you’ll pay. Cents at a time, my friend.

Propaganda Central

Tales of the unsurprising

The future was better a long time ago

Getting used to the 411 in my pocket

One year since I became old

Hope no one has a pacemaker

A serpent visitor

At least laws still apply in nature

iPhone nice touches, part two

Nothing new to report

Above the law

Hints and tips for iPhone web design

Fate’s metaphors

The opposite of anticipation

June

It’s the little things

What a difference a day makes

Somewhere in Africa people are waiting hours in line for water and rice

Stirring up the stagnant waters

Blind Consumerism

But it still cost $100 to join Costco

What kind of first impression?

Everyone else is doing it

You get what you pay for with free TV

Packs of Wild Dogs

Michael James Keenan

The Flip Flop Spender

Beats putting it up on blocks

Predisposed to believe what they’re told

Anticipation… whoa whoa whoa

Not too proud of San Jose

It’s a small Mac world

Comforting creatures

I need to raise my prices

Binge and purge of an early adopter

The future is reading

Sunday Night at the Movies

The Plots Thicken

May

Education! Intelligence! LIVE!

At least it wasn’t an education speech

But does it do the dishes?

Last of the Bee Lords

No, not THAT kind of pirate

The Wheel: My Lost Theory

This curve goes the wrong way

Charles Nelson Reilly

We knew he knew

They’re just on vacation

Of inconsistency in interfaces

Dick, Dykes, and Diapers

Moving in the 21st Century

This is the weekend that was

We lead, they follow

The Great Beyond

Cuteness factor five

Baghdad on the James River

Going Through Customs

But is it art?

Just add boiling Evian

You call that a knife?

Gaming the System: another example of Bush administration sneakiness

Antic-i-phone-tion

Can’t see what’s in front of our faces

From Beyond the Backyard

Little bird of sorrow, fly away

Trapped in a marketer’s web

Today’s hot tip

Who’s On 1

Size is relative

April

Sometimes the flies are worse than the…

The News In Brief

Roads are not fireproof

Gutless Wonders

Slip the bonds

Daylight Becomes Electrical

Why phone numbers are running out: I have them all

The goat is being scaped

One word: Plastics

Goodbye Kitty

Frustration lies in the way of understanding

More proof that John McCain is addled

Brits and Wheelchairs

Bad news is good news for CNN

If they can fire Don Imus, can’t they fire Dick Cheney?

A witty title eludes me

Jose and Clara, exhibitionists

Jump on the bandwagon before it’s too late

But who’s counting?

How does my garden grow

Or when pronounced as “A”

Why? Wednesday: Cosby Button

How to win a war: make them hate you

Victor Kiam was right

Frustration. Delivered

Parse the President, Part II

Daylight Smugness Time

Off the hook

But is William Daniels in the trunk?

Your Neighborhood Earthquake

March

Tree City, USA

When pets and geeks collide

On registration and pledges

Welcome to the Third Dimension

Realities of Planet Earth

The San Jose Story

Sex Sells

The things you see when you don’t have a camera

It’s not the size, it’s the seats

Molly Ivins: Democracy and Diversity

Let’s Play Parse the President!

Return of the bubble

Patio Spy

Getting Things Done with Dolores

Where’s the outrage?

Silicon Valley Scenes

Because he’s hiding

Bozo on tour

The art of the non-apology, continued

How California Steals from Citizens

Buried in bits

I Blame Ben Franklin

Or is it Carma?

This is called “karma”

John Inman

Accentuate the positive

The Safeway Shopping Basket

Microsoft Time Machine

iPhone’s surprising killer feature

That’s okay, we have comments on you, too

Take your peach mango salsa and stuff it

Semaphore Solved

In Preparation

You couldn’t buy placement like this

February

Home Too

Nice place to visit, but wouldn’t want to live here

Spring is coming, I promise

Music Power

Two Weird Things

Jobs is in the details

Can’t do this with Windows

The Wacky World of California

In praise of simplicity

News of the Duh

Molly Ivins’s Joyful Outrage

She shook the walls

January

Goodbye, Molly

Studio 60’s Burning Problem

In defense of the rerun

Here’s to Molly

He is arisen

The Blogging Revolution is Over

Brutal fairytale

I think they got “reduce” mixed up with “expand”

The frog in the boiling water

No nerds allowed

Farewell, Kate

A picture is worth a thousand blogs

Almost every kernel resurrected

What the White House IS successful at: shifting blame

New Name, Same Great Taste

Are they still claiming to be “fair and balanced”?

The Successful Target

The answer to that brown Zune

The next big thing

The Green Apple Blues

Sneak a peek in the back room

A versatile letter

Up and Down in Palo Alto

Get your local news from another city

Fanboy Heaven

We need a hero

Very Disappointing

Welcome to the Mad World

We’ve been waiting for this day for a long time

The blame has been shifted

From the files of Police Squad

I got an A

Good for the Goose, Bad for the Gander

Kiss This Christmas Goodbye

Cramming for the test

Sailing the High Accountan-cies

Golden Delicious

2007: The Year of Glitches

2006

December

The New Colisseum

The Last Decent Man?

A billion dollars cents at a time

Grim Milestone

Dreaming of a White Out Christmas

Guess that means “nature” won over “nurture”

Spice Boy

Mad for Video

Where’s the quantum computer already?

Side effects (or cures)

W=V

No news is good news, they say

Fun with Marion

Why Katie is in the wrong job

The Weather Is Always Warmer on the Other Side of the Country

The appropriate word is “duh”

Still voiceless after all these years

At least the video isn’t in WMV format

Goo-covered Friday

Why I’m not hip

Water Discovered on Earth

More pots, more kettles, still black

Fake Spaces

I read the news today, oh boy

Self-Fulfilling Film

Those Conservative Family Values

A Lesson in Spin

The Simple Interface

Ghost Town of Childhood

November

How to improve anything

Or just use the word “cold”

More Digits Than Fingers

Where the Right is Wrong (again)

Signals from above

I always find the depressing parts

Seeing the light

A bitter pill(s) to take

You’re a mean one, Mr. Cowan

The First Thanksgiving of the Second Half of my Life

The Car of the Past

Why you need a good designer (part two)

Being Fuelish

Bumper Stickers Come True

Where is home at Christmas?

Maybe they should charge extra for the remote

What is it with Florida?

The C Student Joins a Study Group

A little housekeeping

Supermarket Dreams

Mark Sums It Up

Stick out your neck, ignore the basket

One more reason to start smoking

Is this a dream?

Can’t seem to get happy yet

Out of the shadows and into the harsh light

The November Surprise

She should have held Toto

Talking Points Tonight

We project a winner

Sufferin’ until suffrage

They make the laws, they don’t have to follow them

One ringy-dingy… two ringy-dingies…

Fool me once, fool me twice, will we be fooled again?

Spicy Saturday

Mobility

1 year, 3 stents, and 36,000 big ones

A bumper crop of DVDs

Using it up

The Horsemen of the Apocalypse Stick Together

Bed, Bath, & Bye Bye

Why you should hire a conscientious designer like me

October

Spooky

Turn the clocks back, turn the server forward

Fear of Losing Power

No Gray (Matter) Areas

Kill the Television

I’m disgusted

Our World Today

I don’t think that’s the consumer message they expected

What was wrong with a slip of paper?

Early Adopters Snookered Again

Square to circle

Halley’s exhaust

The difference between sci fi and fantasy

Don’t fool with my coffee

Too much, too late

In the News: Christopher Glenn

Maybe the moon

Years of reading to do

Autumn becomes California

Paper and stickers and stamps, oh my

Making a volcano out of a molehill

This is how change arrives

The Big One (Seven)

How to Spot Truly Vicious People in Church

Our destablized world and welcome to it

Everything Falls Apart

Duck and cover your ass

How much is too much?

Hairy politics

This is how we become poor

Misleading ads, chapter 38

The end of the future

Andy Warhol was right

The Dry Look

That liberal media again

Another closet for Foley to come out of

George misses Martha

Following the steps

I anticipated this. What took so long?

Slopy

Couch Potato Juke Box

September

Just like all conservatives look the same

Vocabulary of our times

Support our [Chinese] Magnet Manufacturers

TV Renaissance?

Gave it the finger

Interpretation

Another boring post about the weather

Irony in the epidermis

The era of confirmation

Bring back green stamps

Either will work

I believe Republicans call this “flip flopping”

Creating a generation of sheep

The cute guys with the unusual names

Hooray! I’m overweight!

Sorry I missed it

Public Throughway

Ann Richards

First Pluto, now this

A Short Plug

1 life down, 8 to go

Things are looking down

The big anniversary

Dick Says…

A Preview of the New Fall Season

Maybe they should show Urkel reruns instead

That’s not news to me

The Two-Faced Media

Tellin’ Ellen

Won’t Somebody Think of the Guppies?

The slow but steady march

Why TiVo’s Series 3 will be their swan song

They’re Number Two

Be all that you can be

San Jose: Capital of Salmonella Valley

Spellng Counts

August

What chocoholics will do for a fix

We Hope You Will Enjoy The Show

No end to our consumer culture… and we’re paying for it

As if terrorists would advertise before getting on the plane

Paging Dr. Craig, stat

We’re (both) Number Two!

Just call it channel four

Dear Comcast

A special kind of madness

The late, late film review

The Bush Legacy: cities in ruins

And then there were eight

Use only as directed

Just another crappy Wednesday

Where’s Dean Martin when you need him?

But Butt

Reading Into the Paper

All presidents should be shipped by crate

Why there are so few overfed singers

Scaredy Cats

How many times can I say 40?

The down side of weight loss

Convenient Fear

Wild Weekend at Gene’s

At least my blood is thin

Instant Heart Attack for the Now Generation

The importance of maintenance

Party in hospital room 378

Miracle Weight Loss System

Not enough hours

July

Sometimes it rains in California

When geeks collide

I miss Ben and Jerry (mostly Ben)

Over there, over there

Who are all you people?

While Rome is burning

Still hot, but could be hotter

It’s not the heat, it’s the air conditioning

We do more before 10 o’clock

First steps

Bite-sized pieces add up to a larger meal

They shouldn’t send these to people with heart conditions

Talkin’ bout the weather

I had a heart attack

What’s to come

Still here

That’s what they call a wake up call

Hundreds of miles away in a few steps

It becomes apparent when you become a parent

You’d think they’d want MORE piracy

The loneliness of television

Hiding it in the trash

That’s more like it

The Adherence of the Repeated Meme

I think it’s marigold

Not In My Backyard

Here’s the new world we live in

Zen and the art of doing dishes

Call Me Cowan

Celebrity ain’t what it used to be

Our Patriot Act

Sunday Morning with Gene Cowan

June

Saturday Night Speculation

And now, a consumer complaint

What is this, Consumer Reports?

Electrifying Customer Service

Intrigue and Big Fish at the Hip Joint

Free entertainment

I need some E Tickets

It’s a disposible consumer world, I guess

Moving right along

Maybe it’s just me

Page 1 of 5 pages 1 2 3 > Last »