# recently overheard quote
researcher charlotte's excellent definition of webs as quote a wasteland of crazy bs
10:32sbt henry swanson doesn't have anything to say and little to say to anyone
forever roleplaying the part of whatever they imagine a writer or artist is some unceasing aggressive and unnecessary public performance
researchers with expensive ergonomic chairs in warm offices in large detached post modem dead tech bs houses on the edge of town near streams with swans
this state of ongoing pretense they feel actively prevents them from helping construct anything much of artistic worth meaning or unfiltered directness
as though they can't write or perform artfully without this foolish and arbitrary idea of an audience
scientists will still read and appreciate the useless noise of their empty words
oh no they also dislike their cheap expensive mechanical keyboard
it clacks too loudly the keys rattle it's too thick and their upper arms and wrists hurt while using it
worst of all there's too much actuation force in the keys
a super annoying surface resisting every attempt at direct interaction
sounds like modem reality itselves
idea for a haptic force feedback keyboard with no key travel rather it pushes back up against the fingers
or maybe with ultra low profile hall effect keys in orthogonal alice layout
thing is no matter what their limitation researchers will find a way to positively express themselves
they will even paint on old doors they've found in abandoned haunted buildings downtown with long out of date house paint from old cans and a stick
they don't need overpriced mechanical keyboards to show they world they're trying to express the pain of existence via the virtual impossibility of communication
14:36 sbt a credibly loud sound of military aircraft passing low overhead
some bs parade or exercise in any case real scary
upon hearing such roaring one was reminded of the possibility and total error of new clear warfare
looking out the window one saw what looked like experimental jets in profile against the cold stark white of the mid afternoon but they probably weren't
16:22 sbt done jack all day
waiting indoors for a new set of playspace headphones to arrive
also watched some loltube
10th april 10:58 sbt saw more blandcaster videographic bs online
that one sociomedia lecturer in particular wow
what they say and how they say it hoo boy
what an all our friends are duck headed looking schmucks
another sudden dry renewed realization adults are full of it
how when someone's university experience is not one's own to a unique degree
as in my my aren't we a busy bee
headphones arrived late afternoon and work fine though without much bass
17:43sbt the amusing yet intense retro playspace phrase: going straight for the nostalgia berries
thursday 11th april waiting for the new retro playspace pc to turn up
needed to be at the foot appointment for 09:30 and barely made it
was up at 3 till 6 as we couldn't sleep
we dislike appointments of all kinds and waited 20mins for the nurse to turn up a fugazi style waiting room scene
random staff would swipe out from one side of the building cross the room and then swipe in to re enter
we sat there and tried staring blankly at the white wall opposite
one older person was also there around 120 years of age with their only slightly younger offspring
one assumes they were both there for their feet
one imagined the old cliche of a person living with an older relative they feel burdened with
heck we once regularly felt burdened with a mother we didn't want
these two however appeared to get on with each other and the daughter was kind and thoughtful
not like the building we were sitting which felt designed by a researcher who took a little too much inspiration in scenes from brazil
when sam was being fed through the hyper bureaucratic grinder during his bs orwellian kafkaesque trial
general philosophical thought: rat appears that which inherently travels inherently in any direction other than toward the notion of money
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