A Strange Anniversary

Today is the tenth anniversary of the IPO at Covad. Covad is a CLEC (competitive local exchange carrier) where I was the 39th employee when I joined the company in 1997.  I was fresh out of business school, and after Pacific Bell recruited me as ISDN Product Manager (do you remember ISDN?), the founder of [...]
January 22, 2009 0

Signs it’s Sisters Bingo Night

I am not covered with lesions, by the way.  I got dab’d at Sisters’ Bingo (the dab is used to stamp appropriate numbers on the bingo card – that colorful creature in the first photo is a dab).  The theme was pajamas, so the new Restoration Hardware robes made their first public appearance. And, the [...]
January 22, 2009 0

Obama Street

Last night, some prankster renamed Bush Street in San Francisco to Obama Street.  Very funny.  I have faith that taking Obama Street is the route to Solution Street and Easy Street.  Even Google Maps can’t answer that question!
January 20, 2009 2

Obama’s Proposed Gay Rights Agenda

At noon on the dot, www.whitehouse.gov switched over to the new and improved “Obama-ized” site. On the lengthy agenda is a number of items regarding our community and what Obama intends to do to improve our rights.  Encouraging! Support for the LGBT Community “While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in [...]
January 20, 2009 4

Vanna White, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor and a whole lot of laughs

Rich and I attended Celebrity Autobiography last night — part of the 2009 San Francisco Sketchfest.  My friend Rachel was in town and I try to attend most of her performances.  The line-up for the show was pretty amazing: Rachel, Lorraine Newman (an SNL legend), Michael McKean (This is Spinal Tap; Laverne & Shirley), Annette [...]
January 20, 2009 1

Good bye and Good Riddance

He’s finally outta here.  I can’t believe it is actually happening.  The most destructive U.S. president in history is moving out.  Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out!
January 19, 2009 1

Does this count as an on-time arrival?

As you probably know by now, a U.S. Scareways A320 Airbus crashed into the Hudson River today shortly after leaving LaGuardia.  Is it just me, or does it seem like U.S. Airway’s has had a number of planes crash into water in the New York metro area? Thankfully, everyone survived (even the plane, which floated [...]
January 15, 2009 2