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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.

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:

  • Enter a meeting room where middle-aged men and women, wearing business suits and military uniforms, are sitting around a long table, talking animatedly.
  • They grow silent when I enter the room and stand to attention.
  • I tell them “be seated” as a take a seat myself, at the head of the table.
  • Once everyone is seated and giving me their full attention, I bark: “Give me options, people!”

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.

I was raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason this month.