# 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express themselves they will even paint on old doors they've found in abandoned haunted buildings downtown with long out of date house paint from old cans and a stick they don't need overpriced mechanical keyboards to show they world they're trying to express the pain of existence via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 // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]