I hate technology. I have no landline. I have no mobile phone (it's currently almost literally thrashing around in the throes of death). I'm nearly useless now.

[The manned launch is] sort of economic advertising, which says if our technology is reliable enough to send up our people, it's reliable enough to send up your satellites.

Four years ago, I wondered who the hell was voting for Bush ( a common phenomena here in the Bay Area). And then I found out that some of my friends voted for him.

Who has time to manually spam web sites? That can't be very cost effective.

I have seen few things as beautiful as a 6:30am lift-off from San Francisco International Airport in the autumn. From above, the rippled fog layer laps against the shores of the foothills like a voluminous cotton ocean.

I've tried electric drum pads, but I hate them. I even had a huge, double-bass electronic kit in my last apartment that I played on through headphones, and I had that for maybe two days and that was it!