Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only:
Deadwood Star Trek:TOS The Odd Couple The Mary Tyler Moore Show MASH Hill Street Blues ER The Pitt Doctor Who Bob Newhart Show Buffy the Vampire Slayer Angel Firefly The Sopranos Mad Men
This list is biased toward shows I loved when I was a child, teen and early 20s because shows hit harder then.
It sucks about Joss doesn’t it?
Normalize paywalled websites offering day passes for $1, payable easily through services such as Apple Pay and Google Pay. The day passes would not automatically renew by default. This would be the online equivalent of going into a newsstand and buying a single issue of a magazine because the cover looks interesting. It would be great for readers, a great source of revenue for publishers and help push back misinformation (because journalism costs money to produce, but bullshit’s free).
What’s your favorite “I’m alone so I can finally be weird” activity?. A gratifying Reddit thread.
Writer Stuart Heritage at The Guardian rounds up American movies that had better titles in foreign languages. In China, “Pretty Woman” was “I Will Marry a Prostitute to Save Money” and “The Full Monty” was “Six Naked Pigs.”
I went for a medium-length walk downtown, starting in the Gaslamp, up through Little Italy and back down the Embarcadero, during which I found myself passing through an art street fair in Little Italy. I pushed through, because the agenda of the day was walking rather than browsing. But I couldn’t resist stopping at this one booth of outstanding scrap sculptures. The artist is Adam Homan.
We have started watching Grimm, a TV program about Portland police who fight monsters while wearing fabulous leather jackets.
Physical AI’s network demands are telco opportunities — Robots with onboard AI aren’t smart enough, pushing intelligence to the network and creating new opportunities — and challenges — for operators, according to Mobile Experts. My latest on Fierce Network.
When Automattic bought Tumblr, I hoped that Automattic would turn Tumblr into a universal platform for personal blogging. Instead, it remains the niche product that it’s been for many years.
I think the only reason Automattic keeps it going is the same reason I remain active there – I just plain like it. I like reading the weird posts (I’m a weirdo too!) and seeing the memes and GIFsets and vintage photos. I browse it at bedtime and other periods of downtime.
Matt Mullenwegg has a gajillion dollars, so he can afford to keep the whole site going for his own amusement the same way I, a middle-class guy who types for a living, can afford $69.99/year for Tumblr Premium.
Just once in my life I want to:
I talked with James White, VP of AI for F5, about the state of AI post-Mythos. We talked about how Mythos proves AI is grown up and can do real work.
Mythos, he said, is on the leading edge of a new class of AI models specialized for specific tasks.
My latest on Fierce Network.
