In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called. I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years. "Nobunaga." He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly. "Perfect. Banana, party of one." Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now. Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands. I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready. It woke. It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master. He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room. "BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!" A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me. All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!" So tell me honestly. For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came. When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana? Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

It looks like voters will get a say on whether to maintain the tax on income over $1 million that was passed earlier this year- and I look forward to the public having their say on this important policy. To be clear, this reform of our regressive tax code included expansion of tax credits for working families, relief for small businesses, and investments in K-12 and affordable childcare. One more thing voters should know: so long as I am Governor I will veto ANY attempt to lower the threshold or raise the rate of this tax-- we are asking those who make the most to pay a little more, and providing relief to workers and small businesses. Let's keep it that way.

Sugar Bowl ski resort in Tahoe is selling its old gondola chains for $10,000 each Dimensions: 68” W x 52” D x 72” H Cabin Weight: 420 lbs Arm Weight: 230 lbs Includes: gondola cabin, arm, and one door key

AI shouldn't put California truckers out of work to pad Big Tech's profits. As governor, I'll reverse the DMV's autonomous trucking rules and keep human drivers on the road.politico.com/news/2026/03/03…

Maybe don't take this one to the drive-thru... bringatrailer.com/listing/19…

Interesting, saw all this criticism of MLS last night when San Diego goalie Duran Ferree had a flub not nearly as bad as this. What do you got to say now ?

Thought: Microsoft should kill the Copilot branding, and start over.

👀WOW😱 With just 4 days left of the session WA Senator Hasegawa drops this game-changer. Literally, changing the game. This is "we don't like that you might win the game, so we are changing the rules." A direct attack to shut down Let's Go Washington and others funding commonsense initiatives in WA. Never a dull moment with Washington democrats...will they suspend all the rules and rush this through in order to change the rules? 🤔 h/t .@Susan_Dupres

Washington governor says he’ll sign millionaires tax geekwire.com/2026/washington…