The San Jose Mercury News just sent a bill Lenny for subscribing to their newspaper! This would be less surprising if Lenny was actually a real person rather than just a disembodied, barely coherent set of voice snippets on my answering machine setup. There’s really not more smarts to it than that; everytime there’s a…

Since my previous post about Lenny I’ve had some comments complaining about cruelty to telemarketers (no, really). I do have some sympathy with the position; the guy calling me is just trying to do his job and get through life as best he can, and inconveniencing people through illegal cold calling is just an unfortunate…