Mitch's Blog

Penn professor Emily Wilson thought she’d sell 1,000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold more than a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.

The Last Days of the Southern Drawl. “Young people are losing their southern accents. By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.” By Annie Joy Williams at The Atlantic.

Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Stupid-Americans Reject Vaccines. Via John Gruber on Daring Fireball, who quotes Isaac Asimov: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

ME (leaving offsite meeting): “Where can I wait for an Uber?”
HER: “Where did you park?”
ME: “What?”
HER: “What?”
Then we talked about insomnia. I knew I’d found another member of the tribe.

I’m currently running a test of whether I can work in back of a moving uber without getting nauseous. I can’t read while in a moving car but so far working on a laptop seems to be ok

I know that business etiquette has grown more relaxed over the years but I think starting meeting by puking is still a faux pas.

Travel is great but when you are home you don’t have to deal with automated soap dispensers so that’s a plus.

Cirion deploys agentic AI across its Latin America network to predict outages and cut alarm noise up to 92%. Find out how Cirion Technologies put Grokstream’s Grok AIOps into production across 105,000 km of Latin American fiber. My latest on Fierce Network.

The missus tells me she only learned I bought a new computer bag by reading my previous post. Please pray for me at this difficult time.

Bag habit: mitchwagner.com