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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.
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.
Why Were Superheroes Popular? Charlie Jane Anders has a few interesting theories.
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.
‘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.”
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.”
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 But it proved deeply unpopular and Congress repealed it later that year.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