¶RIP John Madden.

¶“Like working on a jammed desk drawer, the ground crew could push or pull harder on devices to try to unstick them. Or imagine gently shaking that drawer to loosen the clutter lodged in it. The crew could also initiate a low-level vibration — a “shimmy” — by firing its rockets in different sequences.”

¶So the ground crew can built in the “push harder” and “shimmy and shake” options, but what if it needs a good, swift kick to get things moving?

¶“Even if no one else reads my blog, having an idea harvester and an archive of years of writing gives me something no one has had before. No one.”

¶Except Daystream.

¶I understand Dave Winer’s excitement about his Daytona (and now Drummer) project, but to claim “no one” had something like his new feature simply because he’s not aware of it is sort of naive and, well, arrogant. It’s like every inventor that comes to me for a patent application, claiming their invention must be new because they’ve never seen anything like it in stores before. Nine times out of ten a simple patentability search reveals something really close to what they’ve got. Did Dave make a search before writing that claim? Or is he just making a judgment based on the various blogging and writing platforms he has used or is familiar with?

¶I mean, damn, one of the main reasons we started Daystream was because of the frustration we had when looking for content on someone’s wall.

¶I’ve tried to engage with Dave over the years, but he’s never responded to any of my efforts. I’m not in the club, I understand that…and I’m ok with it.

¶I experimented with his Fargo product a few years back, and swore I’d never use anything of his again after that experience—trying to follow his projects was like trying to untangle a bowl of spaghetti before eating any of it. And then he killed it.

¶So, yeah, his current Daytona and Drummer projects look interesting, but I’m blissfully happy with the “idea harvester and an archive of years of writing” that Daystream has given me for over a decade. And I don’t care for spaghetti much.

¶“The most satisfying editing for me is the removal of misinformation.”

¶Not all heroes wear capes.

¶In a rare moment of bipartisanship, the House and Senate have passed by unanimous consent a bill that would give the chief of the US Capitol Police unilateral control to ask for support from the National Guard or federal law enforcement in the event of an emergency.

¶Please tell me they titled this bill the Trump is the Reason (TREASON) Act of 2021.

¶According to a survey released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, this group — commonly known as the “nones” — now constitutes 29% of American adults. That’s up from 23% in 2016 and 19% in 2011.

¶“If the unaffiliated were a religion, they’d be the largest religious group in the United States,” said Elizabeth Drescher, an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University who wrote a book about the spiritual lives of the nones.

¶The nones are growing, thankfully.

¶I’m still not entirely sure what the so-called metaverse is, but I know one thing — I don’t want Facebook to control it.

¶Yes, vaccine inequality is “a key reason for the emergence of the new omicron variant,” but vaccine hesitancy shares part of the blame, too. And this report ignores the possibility that the Omicron variant originated in another country and was merely first detected in South Africa. It’s entirely possible that the biological origin of this variant lies in a country where hesitancy to take the shot has stalled vaccine uptake despite widespread availability. I expect we’ll see more reports like the Dutch study that came out earlier this week, showing the presence of the Omicron variant within a country before the initial reports from South Africa.

¶Vaccine inequality is a major problem, but so is vaccine hesitancy.

¶I might need to alter my morning routine a bit in the coming years.