I parked in front of this shop while running an errand this afternoon. I feel unworthy of extraordinary banana pudding.

The US House is set to vote on bill to make daylight saving time permanent

The ⁠United ​States used year-round daylight saving time during World War ​Two and enacted it again in 1974 to reduce energy use. But it proved deeply unpopular and Congress repealed ​it later that year.

I’m sure it will be extremely popular this time. ⬅️ sarcasm

The “Eliza effect” refers to our “tendency to treat responsive computer programs as more intelligent than they really are. Very small amounts of interactivity cause us to project our own complexity onto the undeserving object.”

‘Dead Dolly Lane:’ San Diego County’s creepiest roadside attraction. “… the site is a private driveway transformed into an evolving folk-art installation lined with hundreds of dolls, doll heads and broken toy figures attached to fences and posts. What looks at first like a scene from a horror film is actually a long-running folk-art installation created by local artist Toni Fusco.”

While I was signing up for the Masterpiece on PBS newsletter, a dickover interrupted me to prompt me to sign up for their newsletter. I have achieved dickover nirvana.

Why Were Superheroes Popular? Charlie Jane Anders has a few interesting theories.

Inside AT&T’s industrial IoT logistics play. Telcos like to talk about going beyond mere connectivity to find new revenue streams. AT&T isn’t just talking. The operator IoT provider Wiliot are building an industrial IoT supply-chain and asset-tracking business. My latest on Fierce Network.

Minnie is back to her old self. A somewhat stiffer version of her old self, but we are delighted to have her back.

Her appetite has returned and she is eating regularly now. Rather than feeding her once a day, as we did most of her life, today I have given her three or four small meals, and it’s only 11 am. She’s got the spring back in her step again. She doesn’t even need the anti-nausea med or appetite stimulant. However, I have discovered I am a wiz at pilling the dog and giving her liquid medication, and these are skills I expect I will need again.

I’d like to get her on a healthier diet. She’s eating all meat and a little yogurt now, which is the doggie equivalent of subsisting on Doritos and Mountain Dew. I’ll tackle that problem after she’s had a little time getting back in the habit of eating.

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Nominating the guy with the Nazi tattoo, a downwardly mobile career, a record of shitposting on Reddit and public denunciations by women was not a great idea for the “vote for us because the other guys are incompetent Nazi misogynist failures who post too much crap on social media” party.

When I make life decisions, I want certainty. I want to know I’m making the one and only right choice.

I’m learning that life often doesn’t give us that, especially for the bigger decisions. You know you don’t have enough information to make a good choice — let alone the right one — and you have to decide anyway.

This blows.

Upscale AI, a pure-play AI networking startup, has $500M funding and ambitious dreams: building open-standard silicon, systems and software for AI scale-up and scale-out. My latest on Fierce Network.

Larry is my spirit animal. “I’m obnoxious and disliked, you know that sir.” Please enjoy this song from the 1972 movie musical “1776.” youtu.be/09A6oY5cb…

The vet diagnosed her with kidney failure after a routine blood test, a little more than two weeks ago. Transitioning her to a prescription food has proven to be challenging. When we brought her home as a puppy, it took me a few weeks to learn her rhythms, but ever since the...

Unpopular opinion: “1776” is a timeless classic that Americans will watch in a hundred years. “Hamilton” is very much of its time; viewership will decline and in a generation it will be nearly forgotten. That is not necessarily a criticism of “Hamilton.” It is OK for things ...

Overheard: “Today we celebrate the PDFing of “Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx””

I loved “Song Song Blue," a 2025 movie starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as a Neil Diamond tribute act from Milwaukee around 1990, based on a real-life couple. This is not a sentence expected I would ever write. The music is great — as the characters point out, everybo...

I realized recently that I enjoy running errands. Buying gas, going to the store, picking up groceries. I would’ve made a great 1950s housewife

I thought I looked badass walking the dog this morning, but then I got in the car, glanced at myself in the rearview mirror and saw the front brim of my hat was pushed up the entire time. So instead of looking badass, I looked like a simple country cousin from the Beverly Hillbillies.

Also, I was wearing black socks with shorts.

How should we remember Trump once he leaves the White House? Medieval Venice offers one answer for what to do with Trump’s image and name that he’s plastered everywhere. “There are certainly odd historical parallels between an 80-year-old leader attempting to take over a republic because he felt personally insulted and our current political situation.” By David M. Perry at the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Was the Declaration of Independence Better Before the Edits? Not a great headline on this excellent article; it’s actually a history of the writing of the Declaration and subsequent generations' interpretation of the document, up to and including Abraham Lincoln (whom a college literature professor of mine said was the only American President who was also one of the greatest writers in the English language.)

By Jill Lepore, who is always worth reading and listening to on podcasts, on the New Yorker.

County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’

I recently rewatched “Animal House,” a movie I absolutely adore, and was talking to a friend about it and how The Young People don’t get that movie. “It’s stupid and offensive!” they say, and I respond, “Yes! And it was stupid and offensive then too! And it was great!”

My friend said, “Yes, back then we liked being offended.” And I said, “Yes! That’s exactly right!”

I never really thought of it that way before. Being offended can be hilarious, if you’re of the right mindset. Many of us love offensive comedy the way many love horror movies — nobody actually loves being chased around by a guy in a leather mask in a chainsaw but make a movie out of that and it becomes a cult classic.

And speaking of offensive: I rewatched “Animal House” in 5- and 10-minute bursts on my iPhone over the course of a week or two, which will be highly offensive to cinephiles.

A woman belts out “Bohemian Rhapsody” in Minionese at the premier of “Minions & Monsters.” Freddie Mercury would have loved this, according to folks in the replies.

Selecting text on the iPhone is both easy AND enjoyable.

— Nobody, never

Every so often I think it is a good idea to roll my linkposts into a single daily digest and give it a clever name like “Mitchipedia.”

MORGAN FREEMAN VOICE: It is not a good idea.

When I was a kid, I loved the Stainless Steel Rat series by Harry Harrison. The main character of the series is James Bolivar “Slippery Jim” di Griz, a master thief turned elite police agent in an interstellar civilization in the distant future. The first several books of th...

SDN pioneers return with $15M GPU networking bet. A16z leads a $15M Series A to upstart Netris, funding a platform automating GPU networking and multi-tenancy for AI cloud operators. By me on Fierce Network. A homeowners association in San Marcos, a suburb of San Diego, is ...

Minnie is on medication now and I’m getting good at giving it to her without it being too stressful.

Not stressful for me. It was never stressful for her. She finds receiving the liquid annoying but she likes the tasty pill pocket and doesn’t notice its cargo.