‘s Christmas time?
The new keyboard has provided me with some exciting novelty over the past week’ from the satisfactory clickety-clacking of the keys to the very cool and exciting RGB backlight. There’s a bunch of issues around the Enter key area though. They’ve had to scooch a lot of keys into a small space and have doubled up. I’ve spent the week apologising to everyone for hitting Enter when I intended to hit apostrophe with my little finger. It
‘s very annoying.
Anyway, the body is elastic and I’m sure I’ll get used to it. Do you think there should be a name for the day your iPhone battery turn to shit? You know how when you get it it holds charge for like a week for the first six months and then one day, out of nowhere goes ‘I’m going to go flat now because you looked at Instagram for two minutes.’ It’s not even a gradual decline it’s a sudden and irreversible change, usually caused by a software update and as with many of Apple’s opaque practices, the clinch is in the patronising way it’s done and not explained. One of the many parts of the logic of obsolescence – the assumption that you want, need or desire progress. What if I was perfectly happy with everything, Apple?
Oh my god you know I didn’t get out ahead of this one so yet again there’s not much to say, we’re in catchup mode at the moment (the royal we) and I have no time to procrastinate by reading or writing about intellectual matters.
Short Stuff
Here are the short things. Really, white men like me with nothing to say shouldn’t be allowed the microphone but I own the domain so that’s what’s going on rn.
- There are two books called ‘Atlas of AI’ now which tells you a lot about how we’re conceptualising or trying to talk about AI. I have one of them and it’s pretty good. I’m sure the other one is too.
- I’m still not getting on with Clubhouse. Neither is accuracy apparently.
- Justin Pickard sent me this article on cheating in Zwift a while ago. Racing in Zwift is highly unregulated and unmonitored despite being now official as a result of Covid and bicycle racing has always been riddled with cheating and corruption so that’s both of those worlds smashed together.
- Another one from the Pickard post is this incredible fantasy film that is almost entirely done on blue screen. Can’t wait to see it.
Ok, I know. This is another disappointing week for hardcore Revell Reckons. Crystal says I owe you so I gotta get this done. I love you, see you next week.