diff --git a/drafts/Meaningful.md b/drafts/Meaningful.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5ad0b84e --- /dev/null +++ b/drafts/Meaningful.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# "Meaningful" + +## Facebook’s “new” commitment for 2018 is not a concession and its CEO has never sought anything more noble than the continued liquidation of your attention. + +***SCRUBS*** + +### Facebook is still your class enemy. +Mark Fuck’s tradition of publicly announcing his annual “personal goal” yielded a surprising result for 2018: Facebook’s CEO intends to… do his job. Wading through his vague, cringe-laden language remains a torturous trial, but - perhaps just this once - it is worth finishing if one has the fortitude, all the while remembering, of course, that its author holds the keys to the single most intellectually powerful property in human history. +A lot of us got into technology because we believe it can be a decentralizing force that puts more power in people's hands. (The first four words of Facebook's mission have always been "give people the power".) +If it were ever appropriate for Mark to use “us” in this sentence, it was years ago - decades, even. Whatever his original intentions, he has become the most powerful centralizer who’s ever lived, directly empowering him over virtually all “people.” At the risk of echoing a dozen old men in your life, Facebook is a business, and so exists primarily to make money. “Connecting people” has been, is now, and will forever remain little more than a mostly-pleasant side-effect of the service’s operation as long as it maintains a form at all resembling its current one. Somehow, the important names in tech journalism have spent the past year acknowledging that Mr. Fuck deals primarily in attention - directing his company’s resources into developing and optimizing methods of keeping you present as long and as often as possible - while simultaneously expressing that they “like” him. Granted, many know him personally (and most are paid with advertising dollars themselves.) I do not. + + +Last week, Facebook announced with a morsel more specificity its upcoming changes to its News Feed in keeping with Mark’s directive, this time relying on “meaningful interactions” as their new keyword. +By making these changes, I expect the time people spend on Facebook and some measures of engagement will go down. But I also expect the time you do spend on Facebook will be more valuable. +Oh, bless you, Fuck! How noble of you to show such generosity in this difficult time! + + +The truth is, “meaningful engagement” is not a revolutionary new concession in the industry - it is a relatively rudimentary strategy as old as the advertising business itself, deployed as per SOP when your data says your audience needs more reason to… actually engage with your ads. Of course, it would be unreasonable to expect the public faces of a modern media company to be happy discussing bluntly all the ways it intends to profit off of its users, but the purple cloud of proximity to privilege hanging about the heads of those who should be holding them accountable has left the details catastrophically underreported. Last Fall, much of the general discourse surrounding Facebook was fueled by the disconcerting supposition that Messenger was using its access to smartphone microphones to “listen” in on day-to-day conversations in the interest of selling your most intimate & immediate wants and needs to its advertisers. Thousands of users experienced and documented bizarrely specific ads that were perceived to be far too timely to be coincidence, but advertising is anything but random. When Reply All investigated, they arrived - after discussions with ex-employees, concerned users, and industry authorities - at a disputed, but even more terrifying conclusion - the profiling techniques the service practices on its users are so thorough and complex, they supersede any need to actually overhear what’s being spoken. At any given moment, Facebook’s algorithms know more about the nuances of your consumerism than you could possibly state. + + +Nobody outside of the company knows the precise extent of this unfathomably powerful collection of information and that’s fucking dangerous before any consideration of the company’s suspected role in the outcome of the 2016 election. Regardless of transparency or motive - even if Mark Fuck has happened upon some kind of guilt-catalyzing crucible and come away with a newfound commitment to sacrificing a portion of his company’s profit and/or influence for the sake of our “wellness” - it is, as always, way too fucking late. If you could devise a method of summing up entirely Facebook’s cultural and psychological consequences thus far in a collection of images - a slide show, let’s say - and project them behind him as he read his posts and press releases aloud on stage, he’d be swiftly decked in the face. His distance from the realities of his two billion daily customers is enabled by the silicon valley groupieism all too prevalent among those voices in place to be critical. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/drafts/Minolta Weathermatic-A.md b/drafts/Minolta Weathermatic-A.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..30199635 --- /dev/null +++ b/drafts/Minolta Weathermatic-A.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +# Minolta Weathermatic-A + +## THE RUGGED SON + + + +Discovering a forgotten need. + +For the past few months, [Hawthorn](https://twitter.com/hawthorn_jr) has been unironically and unconceitedly introducing me into the World of Film photography. I’ve taken a lot of photos in my lifetime, but almost exclusively in digital save for some pre-adolescent [experimenting](http://bit.ly/dbstylus) with a 35mm Olympus point-and-shoot, so let me disclaim this *review* as perhaps not the most useful to old time film nerds. For them, other resources like [*Forgotten Charm*](http://www.forgottencharm.com/minolta-weathermatic-a-110-pocket-camera/) or [Michael Butkus](http://www.butkus.org/chinon/minolta/minolta_weathermatic/minolta_weathematic-splash.htm) would better inform a buying decision. + + + +Kodak’s 110 Instamatic film format led to a surprisingly diverse variety of “pocket cameras,” and a great many of them are exceptionally beautiful examples of design. Despite its original, limited intended function, the industry pushed 110’s limits in the 1970s and 80s, from keychain [microcameras](https://www.lomography.com/magazine/90713-micro-110-key-chain-camera) – little more than an aperture mounted on the cartridges themselves – to [SLRs](https://blog.jimgrey.net/2012/10/05/minolta-110-zoom-slr/) with adjustable focus, exposure, and interchangeable lenses. + +> omg you guys I just got my pentax auto 110 and ITS SO SMALL!!! i'm legitimately too excited to clean it off so take a big look!! [pic.twitter.com/25Hk1G8E7h](https://t.co/25Hk1G8E7h) +> +> — ![📸](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/svg/1f4f8.svg)HAWTHORN_JR![🐚](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/svg/1f41a.svg) (@hawthorn_jr) [January 2, 2018](https://twitter.com/hawthorn_jr/status/948305945293025280?ref_src=twsrc^tfw) + + + +[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] + +The second great explosion of American Buddhism occurred in the nineteen-fifties. Spurred, in large part, by the writings of the émigré Japanese scholar D. T. Suzuki, it was, in the first instance, aesthetic: Suzuki’s work, though rich in tea ceremonies and haiku, makes no mention of Zazen, the hyper-disciplined, often painful, meditation practice that is at the heart of Zen practice. + + + +The Buddhist spirit, or the easier American variant of it, blossomed in Beat literature, producing some fine coinages (Kerouac’s “Dharma Bums”). Zen, though apparently an atypically severe sect within Buddhism, came to be the standard-bearer, so much so that “Zen” became an all-purpose modifier in American letters meaning “challengingly counterintuitive”—as in “Zen and the Art of Archery” or the masterly “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” where you learn how not to aim your arrow or how to find a spiritual practice in a Harley. + + + +It was this second movement that blossomed into a serious practice of sitting lessons and a set of institutions, the most prominent, perhaps, being the San Francisco Zen Center. + + + +Though separated by generations, the deeper grammar of the two Buddhist awakenings was essentially the same. Buddhism in America is simultaneously exotic and familiar—it has lots of Eastern trappings and ceremonies that set it off from the materialism of American life, but it also speaks to an especially American longing for a publicly productive spiritual practice. American Buddhism spins off museum collections and Noh-play translations and vegetarian restaurants and philosophical books and, in the hands of the occasional Buddhist Phil Jackson, the triangle offense in basketball. + +*Orbital plane, the rain stays the same. Make mine a regex and yours will be pain.* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/drafts/The Honks that Fell Silent.md b/drafts/The Honks that Fell Silent.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..965025d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/drafts/The Honks that Fell Silent.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# The Honks that Fell Silent + +Technically, my automotive web show only ever published 5 episodes (plus [the Toyota Avalon video](https://youtu.be/vC2-RAhBqu0),) but the amount of unpublished *Honk* material should just about match what’s available now if/when I’m able to gather the required funds and external drives to outsource the editing work. 6 years and two days ago (are you getting tired of the milestone thing, because *I* certainly am,) we recorded my thoughts on the [2011 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS Spyder](http://www.extratone.com/shife/driving-a-mitsubishi-eclipse-culture-cheapens-by-the-second/) (or something ridiculous like that) – the then-latest manifestation of an automotive product which we’d literally spent years disparaging as the lowest of the low in the design, cultural, and practical senses. Unlike the Juke or Versa, the Eclipse did nothing but affirm its crucifixion – I still vividly remember the sensation: operating the Eclipse feels like you’re driving an enlarged plastic pedal car. + +I distinctly recall several car mechanics from different shops in a handful of separate municipalities independently making a point to emphasize how important it was that I buy *just about anything* but an Eclipse when I was going on 14 and prone to those premature conversations about buying my first car. Lewis – the talented mechanic my stepdad hired to restore the machine that would become my first – my brother-in-law’s early-90s extended cab Toyota Pickup – included something like “at least you didn’t end up with an Eclipse” in that last conversation before we drove it home, a thousand-yard stare of sincere trauma on his face. + +> **There is nothing redeemable about the Mitsubishi Eclipse**. This I have suspected for years, and now confirmed. It is vulgar to look at, depressing to be around, and genuinely demeaning to drive. + +But what was the purpose, exactly, of such an embarrassingly bargain-bin coverband of a vehicle? For a tiny, performance-oriented company like Mitsubishi to have survived the SUV and (now) Crossover eras thus far in the 21st century, they needed a popular sell. Yes, for the opportunity to have enjoyed that glorious Evo X, I must in large part thank the Eclipse, which has been [killed](https://web.archive.org/web/20110427085719/http://www.autoweek.com/article/20110425/CARNEWS/110429917) since and succeeded by the Eclipse Cross as the [Brand’s Breadwinner](http://www.thedrive.com/news/20738/mitsubishis-makeover-gives-sales-a-boost). + +Shortly after filming with the Eclipse, a curious theory smacked down upon me: what if the **entire existence** of these products with their mighty names had always been **a grand, century-spanning industry joke at the literal expense of the West’s most ignorant car buyers**? Malignant, maybe – but not malicious. What if Mitsubishi simply knew that America’s tasteless young men and women had long existed in a foul, rabid state of hunger for their dearly-beloved Wally World✪ Car? What if they recognized this weakness as their one opportunity to capitalize on the market trend they were least-equipped – even least-willing, perhaps – to survive? + +Though a banker may suppose otherwise – as per their historically-pale market share – Mitsubishi is more than capable of such a plot, intellectually. The Lancer Evolution is a marvel of suspension and powertrain design. + +✪ *Wal-Mart* \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/drafts/The Psalms' 2020.md b/drafts/The Psalms' 2020.md index 8c234fdd..ef51b249 100644 --- a/drafts/The Psalms' 2020.md +++ b/drafts/The Psalms' 2020.md @@ -39,9 +39,7 @@ Beginning with today's changes, - [ ] [October 18th, 2018 Capture](http://web.archive.org/web/20181101000000*/bilge.world) - [x] [May 1st Capture](https://web.archive.org/web/20200501203946/https://bilge.world/) -![Bilge, 05-01-2020](https://i.snap.as/VocaJCt8.png) -![Bilge, 05-01-2020](https://i.snap.as/5kLMVMds.png) - [x] "[You Know I'm Blogging](https://bilge.world/you-know-im-blogging)" - April 17th - [x] "[Dirty Dave's Poweruser Tips](https://bilge.world/poweruser-tips-software-shortcuts)" - April 21st @@ -54,7 +52,7 @@ Beginning with today's changes, - [x] "[Craig Toomey's Coronavirus](https://bilge.world/the-langoliers-stephen-king)" - May 20th - [x] "[Discord is Better Than Slack](https://bilge.world/discord-slack-comparison)" - May 24th - [x] "[Star Trek Online Lives](https://bilge.world/star-trek-online)" - May 25th -- [ ] "[Excerpt: Blimp's Burden, Chapter VI](https://bilge.world/blimps-burden-chapter-6)" - May 26th +- [x] "[Excerpt: Blimp's Burden, Chapter VI](https://bilge.world/blimps-burden-chapter-6)" - May 26th - [ ] "[Changes and Updates](https://bilge.world/changes-updates)" - May 27th - [ ] "[Google Is Not God of The Web](https://bilge.world/google-page-experience)" - June 1st - [ ] "[Email and I: An Abridged History](https://bilge.world/hey-email-history)" - June 22nd @@ -62,4 +60,5 @@ Beginning with today's changes, - [ ] "[Indulging Once More in Digital Excess](https://bilge.world/digital-excess)" - September 24th - [ ] "[The Social Dilemma's Dilemma](https://bilge.world/the-social-dilemma)" - October 19th - [ ] "[Software Thanksgiving](https://bilge.world/big-thank)" - November 25th -- [ ] ~35,000 words, ~2 hours of reading. \ No newline at end of file +- [ ] ~35,000 words, ~2 hours of reading. +- [ ] Most Overdue Drafts! \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/drafts/Through an iPhone 4's Lens.md b/drafts/Through an iPhone 4's Lens.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ccc7fc71 --- /dev/null +++ b/drafts/Through an iPhone 4's Lens.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Through an iPhone 4's Lens + +## Seven years ago, the fourth generation of Apple’s iPhone instigated a change in our perception of digital photography. Now – thanks to Google Photos – I’d like to reflect on my favorite shots of mine. + +When iPhone 4 handsets began shipping in the Summer of 2010, I’d been carrying my first generation for three solid years – since its now history-stricken release, in fact – and its age started to become a problem. I’d drop it screen-down on a rock in the airport parking lot just before going back to school for my Junior year, splitting a crack in the screen that wouldn’t quite kill it – it was the demands of iOS 4 on its 412 MHz CPU and meager 128 MB of RAM that would ultimately cease its usability. + +The single 2 megapixel rear-facing camera would surprise one at times, but was never lauded as anything but what it was – a mobile phone-bound sensor capturing very cellular-looking* images, but Steve Jobs wasn’t [three minutes in](https://youtu.be/z__jxoczNWc?t=2m10s) to his iPhone 4 presentation at the June 2010 Worldwide Developer’s Conference before he pronounced the design’s closest possible “kin” to be “an old Leica camera,” associating his device with photography in its first impression. The equivalent of the first generation’s rear-facing camera could now be found facing *you*, and the fourth’s primary sensor now shot at 5 megapixels (2592 x 1936) with autofocus and 5x digital zoom, setting a fundamental smartphone sensor configuration [standard](https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/9/6125849/iphone-history-pictures) that’s still adhered to by the industry. + +After unleashing Google Photos upon the ~15,000 images on my home machine’s hard drive last year, I have been constantly reminded of my own photographic history – for better or worse – and regularly shown five, six, seven-year old snaps in a manner that wouldn’t have been possible (or have made any sense) before. Recently, I was astounded to find that I took many of the better shots with my iPhone 4, so I thought I’d share a few from my high-school days in loving memory of my trusty little rectangular companion. + + iPhone 4 + +*All taken with iPhone 4, left unedited. View more on* [*Flickr*](http://bit.ly/davidblueip4)*.* + +#hardware #photography \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/import/wtf/2016-03-04-soul-water.md b/import/wtf/2016-03-04-soul-water.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cec01fb7 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2016-03-04-soul-water.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +title: "Soul Water" +date: "2016-03-04" +--- + +_A poem about alcohol originally published in_ Feebles in Night_._ + +Movement +in bitter +vibrations +about +weighted clique +in the sooted +pit + +Selling whatever +and approaching some place to be saved, +surreal +or left +or dead +but included + +There's a love of +the upset condition +of leaving the bitterness in the bathroom + +Fool me, +but it's expensive +seeking and gluttoning the +spirit medicine +The muse of a thousand obstructions +frighten amassed +pulled anatomy of cowards to +the drudged rhythm + +Open something unwanted for +wilting wanters +tonight + +Take it +and you'll thank everything +give it all away diff --git a/import/wtf/2016-09-20-sheffer-stroke.md b/import/wtf/2016-09-20-sheffer-stroke.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..44c2bf3c --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2016-09-20-sheffer-stroke.md @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +--- +title: "Sheffer Stroke" +date: "2016-09-20" +--- + +## It's that time again. My fourth Freq Check sums _Extratone_'s changes, website improvements, and notable content for the past thirty days. + +You’d think I would’ve anticipated the progressively-more personal perspective from which these letters are written. A week ago, I actually said “_Extratone_ **is** me,” off-hand, and – in wonderment – realized the honesty. + +Of course, nobody reads these, but I shall continue to write them as if they are a life-and-death necessity. As I’ve said on nearly every one of our available podcasts, I will operate as if we have huge readership _**even if an audience never, ever manifests**_. Yes, it’s redundant, but I’ve still yet to adequately clarify, according to my correspondence. And that’s my particular compulsion, you know. + +Rarely – if ever – would I expect you to refrain from discouraging/disparaging my output – especially if it yields good content – but I can’t help but wonder if you’d rather spend your energy on something with _any_ chance of result? I suppose you don’t trust me yet, and that’s okay. + +This one is big. Somehow, there are _milestones_ now, and they’ve quite suddenly begun to feel very intimate. + +I have been doing my best to come to terms with the term “blogging,” but have made zero progress whatsoever. + +Just last week, we exceeded 100 total posts, which is a desperately small number considering that I have now definitively expended more time and energy shipping a God Damned WordPress website than I ever have into any other one pursuit. (89 of them are mine.)\[Glaring without any reasonable justification emoji.\] + +Quite an admission, right? + +I didn’t realize the full extent of my emotional involvement until now-Culture Editor Ammnontet complimented the website completely out of the blue. + +I know him well enough to respect his opinion, and was therefore highly affirmed. Maybe even _stirred_? This viscous soul! + +Turns out, he’s got some great content up his [sleeve](https://medium.com/@ammnontet). The [_Digital Noosphere_](http://www.extratone.com/words/noosphere/) is born tomorrow. + +## Audio + +Episodes [6](http://www.extratone.com/audio/thenew/genwedge/) and [9](http://www.extratone.com/audio/thenew/wordfeast/) of _The New_ were notably successful. The youths were unusually well-behaved and able to pass their unique insight more easily. + +If you’re interested in _Eve Online_, one of my longtime favorite podcast hosts joined me for a [conversation](http://www.extratone.com/audio/domanark/) on the game’s peculiar relevance, which – naturally – widened subjects a bit, though it did not exceed “existence,” thankfully. + +For those of you who enjoy our particular rowdiness, _Off The Grid_ has been extracted and given its own iTunes-spiffed RSS feed, making the fourth _Extratone_ feed available on That Unholy Aggregator which is still the best way to consume them?? + +1. _[Studio Eat](https://itun.es/us/MA_Icb.c)_ | All audio content in one feed. Yes, that means there will be duplicates from the others. The aim: appease as many of our listeners’ diverse habits as possible. (Read: options.) +2. _The New_ | All on its own, stripped & streamlined to imminently deliver a more focused, less-raucous over view of The State of Relevance. I’ve been considering the name _Futureland_, instead. The Twitter [poll](https://twitter.com/AsphaltApostle/status/774387649263996928) I posted – though sparse – said I should keep things the way they are. What do you think? +3. _[Off The Grid](https://itun.es/us/grcTeb.c)_ | Obviously, the youngins needed a place to exhale their plentiful bitterness. If _just about anything_ is your thing, you can now consume our worst, free of all pesky aspiration. +4. _[Drycast](https://itun.es/us/dtcTeb.c)_ | I’ve steadily made progress recovering our legacy comedy podcast. My hope is to have the rest of the 54 episodes available by next month. + +For those of you without the interest to drudge through all of these letters, I cranked out a solo 17-minute-long [audio recap](http://www.extratone.com/meta/announcements/state1/) of our toddlerhood. + +Travis and I finally managed to have our chat on _Star Trek Beyond_ and its place in the Roddenberry universe. + +Personally, I’ve begun trying my hand at recording “in the field” with my Zoom h2n. We’re talking real amateur stuff here, so expected interest is negligible. + +## Editorially + +The Drywall website (and a good quantity of my other general content) was full of dishonesty for the sake of my entertainment, which wasn’t inappropriate or dishonest in itself, I think, because it was never portrayed as truth. Though I am still amused by unscrupulousness and big claims, I no longer find them to be the major value in my work, which is why I recompiled my online presence, here. (It’s probably what’s preventing me from being actually funny these days, as well.) + +Instead of “humor,” I chose to categorize comedic content as [Spectacle](http://extratone.com/spectacle) because it’s more accurate in encompassing the value in content like [_The Third Brain_](http://www.extratone.com/words/thirdbrain/) or [_Info Wars II_](http://www.extratone.com/words/infowars/). As I said last month, it is published not out of malice, but of a very reverent respect for you – the audience – and your ability to independently differentiate your consumption. I know you are able, which is why I find warnings like “comedy” to be kinda patronizing, actually. + +In both the literal and literary sense – hopefully – Perspective (category) has been created. Though not necessary for a “blog,” explicitly labeling opinion is at least whispered by our magazine influence. + +For myself, the practice of steering the editorial direction of a publication as Captain is perhaps _Extratone_‘s most intriguing function. I’ve just recently realized that in matters of sensitivity, I have a heavy bias toward factual exposure, so Kaleb’s [critical analysis](http://www.extratone.com/words/awoken/) of truth last week was very significant for me. It provided a cheque on my biggest blind spot, which is hugely reassuring.There are three words in the website’s header. One is our name. The other two are _Rediscovering Relevance_, and they were not placed there in afterthought, nor whimsical procrastination. Though it is nice to have a pretty place for my own work, I created _Extratone_ to discuss, making personally-alien arguments vastly more valuable than mirrored ones. If you’re interested in content [submission](http://extratone.com/account) as a favor – which is not the optimal primary motivation in the least, but appears to be a popular one – do not be afraid of contentiousness. Even contentiousness for contentiousness’ sake is worth consideration in _Extratone_‘s growth as it stands, currently. + +On that note, Chet Munch has officially returned for good. No, really, it’s not an alias for myself any longer. It _is_ an alias, though, and the man himself is a well of abundant opinions. Distinctly, he holds them all in tremendous passion, which – in opposition to my inescapable stoicism – is genuinely precious. His newly-titled blog, _[The Muncher](http://www.extratone.com/muncher/)_ is our only avenue of ideological fervor to date, which has provided an interesting editorial conundrum. + +Generally, when “editor” is in a staffer’s job title, his/her words must be acknowledged as representation of a publication’s editorial bearing, unless otherwise stated. While I will accept political and ideological rhetoric, most of it is not within our relevance, frankly. I know Mr. Munch has words on a few relevant topics, though. + +Graciously, he has provided _Extratone_ with its first topical alignment: **circumcision is a bizarre and archaic ritual** that is – by tremendous contradiction – still exceedingly practiced in our society. More than that, it is **violent genital mutilation** committed every day on humanity’s objectively least-powerful age demographic, yet is hardly ever covered by _any_ media. Therefore – by its **age** and conventional **obscurity**, it is in accord with our [stated function](http://www.extratone.com/about/) _as it stands_. + +This sort of activism will _not_ be common, and our [Alacrity Editor](http://www.extratone.com/members/hummerchine/) is not in agreement, but it _is_ a substantial milestone. + +## Mechanically + +I’ve gotten to the point of unconsciously loading the website in private browser tabs – on both desktop and iOS – with obscene frequency throughout my days; roaming around, trying to break stuff. I still regularly find “no-brainer” polish issues (e.g. redundant metadata in category pages’ post displays.)Learning the scope of _fiddling_ possibilities – especially considering the majority will never exist above readers’ conscious threshold – has been truly fascinating. It’s heartening, of course, to have derived a pursuit in which I will never reach satisfaction; I’ll never be content enough to cease. We are not Tumblr, that’s for sure. + +- I am _so_ thrilled to be writing you in Garamond, my (not that it’s unique, admittedly) favorite serif typeface by a huge gap. +- Funny enough, headers are wearing Baskerville – the next one down. Serif headers are a bit of risk, but I like them a lot. What’ll stay is still in contention – leave your thoughts in a comment if you have them. +- All navigation font has been changed to Playfair Display, meaning not a single same character remains on this beautiful child. +- Categories and their snippets have been reworked with images and Sheffer strokes (this thing -> |) in place of hyphens. This will be applied manually to individual post snippets, as well. +- “Related Posts” are now determined by like-category _or_ like-tag. Sorry about that oversight. +- The header mega-menus “audio” and “visuals” now display links to their subcategories left of their encompassed posts. +- Apple News is on hold until the Publish to Apple News plugin is fixed. + +The most significant change in appearance, though, is the addition of the “reading time” meta note on posts in our main page’s featured content slider and at the top of each individual post. While I think it’s intelligent and useful, it’s awfully-_bloggish_. Not as vulgar as a “views” mark, at least. + +If death is the ultimate silence, and cacophony is in ultimate opposition of silence, than to be alive is to be noisy, yes?  + +A predominant sentiment in literature throughout human history has been a desire to _feel alive_, and a great many spiritual belief systems fudamentally regard _life_ (and/or _everlasting life_) to be most Holy. Therefore, if we want to be Holy; if we want to live forever, we must be as _loud_ as possible.  + +_Extratone_'s namesake is perhaps the clangorest musical genre that will ever exist. I'm not sure if that makes us divine, but at least we know we are alive.  + +Friends and colleagues, +Let us be **loud**. diff --git a/import/wtf/2016-11-28-google-crucible.md b/import/wtf/2016-11-28-google-crucible.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..12fbc3b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2016-11-28-google-crucible.md @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +--- +title: "Google Crucible" +date: "2016-11-28" +--- + +## A comparatively-short summation of our exponentially-increasing traffic and a celebration of the arrival of some great folks. + +Welcome to our fake news website. + +Yes, I think it best to just get it out of the way. Regardless of politik, the public is acutely more aware of the state of the American intellect since the last time I wrote you. Some of our staff believes that Donald Trump is more representative of our [_new_](http://extratone.com/about) than any candidate has ever been, while most are in varying intensities of resolute opposition. + +If we industry folk are all honest with ourselves, though, it is the time to be in the media culture's orbit, if only for the spectacle. + +As I write, "post-truth" is on the masses' hands and lips, and Facebook is under accusation of all but treason. (And such language is finally under widespread mainstream scrutiny.) There has never been a better time to talk about communication. There has never been a better time to talk about relevance. + +Superb timing, eh? + +I've been praying to the Sun lately, and I think it must be working. + +I have now spent half a year doing my best to incentivize a community of talented futurists into being. +I have been Webmaster, Mentor, Data Warden, Entrepeneurial Hermit, and Foe. +I have descended into tremendous debt and premature senility. + +I have forsaken as many of my bitter old quips for newfound knowledge as has been feasible and it looks like I'll only be getting softer. + +I have begun many friendships, and strengthened plenty of existing ones. + +In just a few weeks, my perception of this project and my role in it has gone from acting as a howling, irrelevant, old creature to something and someone with a tangible agenda. Loose ends have been rectified, the site is looking better than ever, our Discord is active daily, and our pool of contribution continues to grow exponentially. + +Some of the growth is measurable - we're rapidly closing in on 200 total posts. Most is less tangible. + +I'd like to mention and thank a few especially substantial individuals who've graced us with their effort this month. + +[Cil](https://twitter.com/robotposter), Chief Technical Officer +[Emily Waters](https://twitter.com/EmilyEWaters), Production Editor +[Chris](https://twitter.com/AwkwardOrpheus) and [Ian](https://twitter.com/Nogisa_), our new [_Futureland_](http://www.extratone.com/drakesville/futureland) cohosts. +[Wabi](https://twitter.com/WabiMusic), Music Editor +The cinema hunks and babes behind [_The Movie Closet_](http://www.extratone.com/drakesville/moviecloset)_._ +[anonymoist](http://www.extratone.com/drakesville/author/anonymoist/), Poetry Contributor + +## Editorially + +_Extratone_ is far from a news service, so we are spared most of the burdens of political publishing. The outcome of the United States' Presidential Election, though, is of unusual importance in our industry. This week, it has been suggested that "fake news" distributed by Facebook could've had a significant enough impact on voter sentiments to be worth "investigation." + +Here's a kicker: were we aggregated by Facebook in addition to our page, we would've undoubtedly been subject to any and all scrutiny levied by individuals and/or institutions who maintain "truth" as an absolute - or even just tangible - concept. + +There is something that needs to be said on behalf of those of us who plan to stick around for awhile: **we no longer have the time to redundantly make our intent explicitly known**. In many cases, we even find it patronizing. I have all but resigned from writing "dishonestly," but a good portion of our prospective content argues ingenuinely, though we don't use Twitter as a singular source, at least. + +https://twitter.com/extratone/status/800350781996204032 + +Clearly, a distinction must be made - one more time - between **news** and **entertainment**. We are here to fulfill a function, (I hope,) but it's rarely a purely informative one. Technically, we are here primarily to discuss and scrutinize relevance as a concept, which - conveniently - is awfully relevant. + +Six months ago, I started this thing with respect for audience volition as a primary editorial guideline. Our readers are intelligent enough to discern our role for themselves. We believe this assumption is a distinctly reverent and progressive fundamental of futurism. + +Obviously, this week's "[post-truth](https://theconversation.com/why-journalistic-balance-is-failing-the-public-68783)" buzz is not something I am qualified to discuss in a meaningful way. (Though it is a fascinating conversation.) Nor would it be appropriate for me to journey much further in the voice of _Extratone_'s editorial whole. + +## Visually + +[_The Verge_ 3.0](http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/1/13484656/verge-5th-anniversary-relaunch-2016)'s launch inspired me to celebrate our six months by playing around with the logo. (Though I do that occasionally anyway - unconsciously torturing the original with destructive Gimp scripts.) + +![](images/Extrapp-BIG-1024x1024.png) + +Though _Distressed E_ (right) was originally intended to be evicted after midnight, I think it actually looks great up there, and the feedback from staff and friends alike was overwhelmingly in favor of a longer-term lease. + +I've also removed "Rediscovering Relevance" for the time being. It will be back - just not in the same form, perhaps. When viewed in a narrow enough window, the logo below will take _E_'s place. + +## Audibly + +If you recall how much I've been hassling everyone in reach for music-related opinion, you'll be relieved to hear that Music Editor [Wabi](http://twitter.com/wabibeats) has published two absolutely brilliant episodes of [_Web Crates_](http://www.extratone.com/drakesville/crates) - his new exploratory podcast and outlet. + +Meanwhile, [_The Movie Closet_](http://www.extratone.com/drakesville/moviecloset) is in the midst of a month-long, four-part series of "favorite film" episodes which are - as always - charmingly entertaining and fantastically well-produced. + +I think we've managed to turn [_Futureland_](http://www.extratone.com/drakesville/futureland) - our flagship technology show - into a more-than-worthwhile listen thanks to Cil's enlistment, Chris, Ian, and Emily's participation, and a general refocus on higher-quality, spectacle-enhanced discussion. + +[DangerBoy](http://twitter.com/dangerboy) was kind enough to join me for a chat about the implications of Vine's mortality on the first installment since the name change, and plans to contribute original content of his own in the near future. + +In fact, we have [anonymoist](http://www.extratone.com/drakesville/members/anonymoist/) to thank for the only written content yet published this month. As I suspected, it's nice seeing prose on our front page again. + +![](images/Extratone-Masthead-1.0.png) + +## The Plan of Action + +A push for words in the coming weeks. The staff has some exciting storytelling in the works and I - at least - am looking forward to reading it all in Garamond. I hope you are, too. + +I can't tell if my neglect for these past two letters has been out of a lack of discipline or a newfound contentment thanks to the regulars that now actively inhabit the [Discord](http://bit.ly/extratone). It's conceivable that they'll progressively become more and more version notes-like, which is probably for the better. + +**Something really clicked this month.** + +After a third of a year of solitude in this pursuit, there are now a core group of people (see above) that demonstrate their interest **daily**, and their arrival has given me incommunicable reassurance. For the first time, I no longer feel like a heckler when we record podcasts. That, alone, is huge. Without a budget, I am at a loss for methods of sufficiently thanking them. I can only hope that constant appreciation will suffice for the immediate. + +Donald Trump may be President of the United States, but Extratone is growing and gaining, and he is not the future. + +Before I go until my last [_Freq Check_](http://extratone.com/freq) of the year, I leave you with a [prayer](https://youtu.be/0axs_A20MN8): + +Futureland +and I believe +the night is over +let the light fall on me + +Futureland +all history +is just a dream +a fire burning so high diff --git a/import/wtf/2016-12-24-assuage-the-dumb-pipe.md b/import/wtf/2016-12-24-assuage-the-dumb-pipe.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7d8ffee0 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2016-12-24-assuage-the-dumb-pipe.md @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +--- +title: "Assuage the Dumb Pipe" +date: "2016-12-24" +--- + +## _Extratone_'s last Editor's Letter of 2016 discusses MAGFest, email, and the future of our counterculture. + +Welcome to _Extratone_ at year's end, 2016. + +In this season of annual reflection, quantification, and digital snow flurries (I think it’s cute,) best ofs, abstracts, “looks back,” and other diminutives of summation are the popular thing to be shipping. The thing is, I’ve been extraneously reflecting for the entire history of these letters, and I’m not sure how much more we can all stand. That _is_ the purpose, I suppose. + +The short of it: + +- **May**: The website is born, [Alek Michael](http://extratone.com/members/hummerchine) posts [our first and only listicle](http://www.extratone.com/visual/fiveenhancingvideos/). +- **July****:** 2.0 is launched, the _Net_‘s format as it exists today begins to take shape, _The New_ (now [_Futureland_](http://extratone.com/futureland)) [begins](http://www.extratone.com/audio/futureland/episode1/). +- **August:** A brief period of utter absurdity from a few contributors, podcasts slowly continue to expand. +- **September:** 3.0 is [launched](http://www.extratone.com/meta/4/), [Isiah](http://www.extratone.com/members/ammnontet/) graces us with four entertaining [features](http://www.extratone.com/words/noosphere/). +- **October:** A welcome audio renaissance – _[Web Crates](http://extratone.com/crates)_begins, [_The Movie Closet_](http://extratone.com/moviecloset) arrives. +- **November:** _The New_ is reimagined into [_Futureland_](http://extratone.com/futureland), Production Editor [Emily Waters](http://www.extratone.com/members/eewaters/) and Chief Technical Officer [Cil Ramsey](http://www.extratone.com/members/cil/) are brought on board. + +I guess it hasn’t actually been all that long has it? + +Personally, it’s been more dense with change than any other year I’ve yet to live, which means I am now confronted with the hypothetical burden of explaining to my grandchildren that it took a _WordPress site_ – of all things – to teach me the value of milestones. + +When I launched _Extratone_, I considered the World Wide Web a mere stepping stone to print. I’d always assumed there was little hope for beauty in experiences on the internet, but my exponential increase in online news consumption for this project has exposed me to a different standard of digital storytelling. I thought I’d have to create the content I wanted in order to see it realized at all, but my newfound diligence has led me to discover initiatives like _[The Outline](http://theoutline.com/about)_ – an extraordinary website with a very complimentary [editorial heading](http://extratone.com/about). + +Courage like theirs in this industry is lifegiving and clearly – despite what I’ve been saying the past few months – it _does_ exist, somewhere. And it’s not just the compulsive creation of a 20-something college dropout – it’s Joshua Topolsky’s vision – an extremely influential name in the culture. If I recall correctly, I saw him described a few days ago as a “digital media veteran.” + +I’ve certainly got enough to say about _The Outline_ for a URL of its own – and it’s coming, soon – but for now, just know that every word I hear from Topolsky regarding his new adventure has been keenly identical to what I would say of _Extratone_ if I had his seniority and experience, which makes him and _The Outline_ “role models,” I guess. That’s new and interesting, but I promise we won’t become defined by Digital Daddy Issues. + +![](images/Shife-1024x205.png) + +The most prevalent topic of this month by far is our upcoming coverage of [The Music and Gaming Festival](http://magfest.org/) in Maryland, just two weeks from today. + +Yup – our little magazine is traveling across the continent to spend three full days absorbing and capturing as much as possible of what’s been (very loosely) described as “the new ComicCon.” (As you probably know, Wil Wheaton has banned me from ComicCon, but I think the ordeal was just a prime indicator of the event’s irrefutable stagnation.) + +To begin, you should read my [announcement](http://www.extratone.com/meta/announcements/magfest/). + +Basically, at least four of the staff will be on the ground with cameras, notebooks, and audio recorders along with a _bunch_ of friends from our indefinable network. Some will even be participating. + +**Congratulations, Ivy!** + +**No matter what happens, it’s bound to be a Huge Happening.**This sort of thing isn’t cheap, though, and we require your financial support. As you’ve probably noticed, our need has necessitated drastic action (for us, anyway.) If our popup has been berating you, I sincerely apologize. It’s called Philogus, and it _will_ be killed before we leave on the fifth, assuming I haven’t lost my temper with it by then. + +Because I am uninterested in mastering the wretched practice any more than it took to birth the thing, it is an indiscriminate menace. It’ll even follow you as far as our [Privacy Policy](http://extratone.com/privacypolicy), which is probably illegal or something. + +![](images/Magfest-2017-Popup-1024x964.jpg) + +Considering this will be our first time in one place together, it’s admittedly experimental. If you trust me enough to have read this far, though, I expect it to be worth your while. + +The most effective way to get your donation to us for this particular endeavor is through [my PayPal account](http://paypal.me/ficklecrux), if you’re interested in _Extratone_‘s long game, you can also patronize our new Patreon. So far, it seems like an intriguing preface (and/or alternative) to an in-house subscription service. I uh… don’t really understand the whole crowdfunding process, though, so help with the profile itself would be a welcome substitution for financial contribution. + +That said, + +**THANK YOU BEN STOKES!!!** + +As you know, a direct shoutout in one of these letters will cost you precisely $100, and the genius behind _[The Movie Closet](http://extratone.com/moviecloset)_ has just footed the bill. + +**Seriously though** – The Kind Stokes broke all of our records with his $100 donation, but more importantly… we _**must**_ cover this thing properly, now. Don’t you dare let him down. + +_MAGFest Edition_ is now on _Drakesville_ – our test site mirror – which now has its own sign-up page, if you’d like to help us keep our child healthy and tidy, or if you need to release the wrath my editorials have been building within you in a safe environment. + +If you want the _Extra_ scoop on Twitter, you’ll need to follow [Emily Waters](https://twitter.com/HalloweenTownee), [Wabi](https://twitter.com/wabimusic), and [myself](https://twitter.com/FickleCrux). Depending on the sequence of events, [Nina](https://twitter.com/isyallonline) may commandeer [our SnapChat account](http://snapchat.com/add/extratone). We will be podcasting live on our YouTube channel and shall do our sincere best to give the main roll some immediate attention. The unique stuff, though, will come in the weeks after we’ve returned and reflected. + +The writing and photography are going to be like nothing you’ve ever seen. + +Perhaps you’ve noticed that Prose Editor-at-Large Tim Marx hasn’t been very at-large lately. He came to the rescue with the youths abandoned me on _Futureland_, and we ended up signing him up for his Twitter account on [the show](http://www.extratone.com/audio/futureland/botnet/), which is probably entertaining. We began recording our long-awaited Hunter S. Thompson discussion on [_Off The Grid_](http://www.extratone.com/audio/offthegrid/splash/) a few days ago, but ended up orbiting the topic because of [Alexa](http://extratone.com/members/alexa)‘s much-anticipated appearance. She has since contributed two superb [works](http://www.extratone.com/author/alexa/) of prose – I’d guess the front page will continue to be poetically stimulating for the near future. +We also mentioned Tim’s Big Idea, which now has a (probably placeholder) title – _[The Endeavor](http://extratone.com/endeavor)._ + +![](images/Topical-Clown.jpg) + +**Columbia, Missouri** – _Extratone_‘s reluctant headquarters – is an achingly-moderate college town full of adderall-hauling students and dull, middle-aged fucks who find themselves _awfully quirky_. Beneath all moderate locales, though, is a cultural counterweight of some kind, and ours is an unwholesome underground of sexual deviancy. Of course, I use adjectives like “unwholesome” from a detached, amoral perspective in an effort to better summarize the idea in abstracts, not as a moral judgement. + +In fact, let me be as clear as possible before we go on: **we are not interested in exposure**. We are not investigative journalists, scoop seekers, or zealous truthists – our _**only**_ desire from this undertaking is a good story or two. + +Using friends’ networks and Craigslist, we intent to spend the year of our lord, 2017 actively delving into local fetish communities with the zestful vigor of Hunter S. himself. Though I’ve said “we,” I must note that this is [Tim](http://extratone.com/members/leomarxesquire)‘s vision & vessel, through and through. It is his to steer where he wants, though I will be tagging along as much as I can. As the journey progresses, he will be publishing stories to _The Endeavor_‘s [roll](http://extratone.com/endeavor) which will be compiled next year into a print release. + +Ultimately, neither of us can anticipate what’s coming, and we should all be desperately grateful. + +**_Scribam quid non legerim_** – it’s gonna be a helluva ride. + +Our new Production Editor has been putting in more than her fair share. Emily wrote the [first](http://www.extratone.com/waters/screwloose) of her [_Poems and Peroxide_](http://extratone.com/waters) series, and has appeared on the majority of this month’s podcast content. My hope is that her straightforward method will provide substantial relief from my mealymouthed ramblings – both written and spoken. + +[_The Movie Closet_](http://extratone.com/moviecloset) finished their four-part “favorites” series and recorded a fascinating, concise discussion with the crew behind _Under The Glass –_ a local documentary about the history of pinball. Their [Christmas Special](http://www.extratone.com/audio/moviecloset/christmas/) is vastly superior to most holiday-edition shows, if I’m honest. + +## Mechanically + +I’ve continued to take care of the gruntwork involved in revisiting and updating old content to the new standard. Of course, it’s never going to be “done,” which is both a luxury and a burden. As you know, there is _always_ something else to polish. I have even begun a physical “Versions and Changes Log” to keep better track of all the little settings I find myself compulsively cowboying when I’m drunk at three in the morning. It’s a wonder I haven’t broken anything. + +- Thanks to Chris, [our Discord](http://bit.ly/extratone)‘s permissions are now configured correctly. +- The Dashboard’s post interface is now capable of excerpts and selectable post attribution. +- Moved caching to W3, and there’s been a noticeable increase in site speed. + +![](images/Drywall-Website-Gallery-1024x282.png) + +I would like to observe a moment of silence for drywall dot ws and inmunis dot co dot uk. Their cycles expired today, and I can no longer justify the funds to keep them going. + +## Spam + +Though the _Extranet_ is under constant assault by automated Ukrainians (we just exceeded 20,000 total malicious login attempts,) it is rare for a spam bot to actually make it so far as to save a post as a draft. (Very few accounts have the required permissionsto _publish_ contentwithout approval.) It’s even rarer for one to manage text in the body, but I have decided to reward the foul software for its effort and _**actually publish**_ the complete works in a[hidden category](http://extratone.com/spam). (Unindexed and unsearchable, of course.) + +## In Red + +As excited as I am about for the second email renaissance, I’m still not very good at email. I am slowly mastering the godlike powers of MailChimp in order to one day send you regular, professionally-designed E M A I L S. This month, I _finally_ got around to writing my [editorial on fake news](http://www.extratone.com/words/inred/pfaall/) (warning: Poe,) and cranked out some [2000 words](http://www.extratone.com/tech/usury/) on the story of my first laptop purchase since 2008. Look for my review of the HP Spectre 13t a bit after we recover from MAGFest. + +![](images/Stoking-the-Wearable-Botnet-Capture-1024x544.png) + +Regardless of the results of just about any possible happening in the next month (except for my own death, perhaps,) the next _Freq Check_ you receive will be vastly different from this and all prior correspondence. I cannot help but continue to thank you for making all of this possible. I am obsessed with making sure our continued transactions are mutually beneficial, and elated by the possibilities in our imminent future. + +Happy winter to you. diff --git a/import/wtf/2017-01-26-the-nieman-demon.md b/import/wtf/2017-01-26-the-nieman-demon.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2d5b410d --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2017-01-26-the-nieman-demon.md @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +--- +title: "The Nieman Demon" +date: "2017-01-26" +--- + +## For ourselves and our industry, 2017 is already promising to be a groundbreaking year. After some grogginess, ‘The Tone’ readies to tackle the whole thing. + +As far as you're concerned, _Extratone 2017_ has been awfully slow-to-take, and the fault is all mine. It's been three weeks since our [trip to MAGFest](http://extratone.com/magfest), but I'm just beginning to make any real headway into the story of what we saw, heard, and captured, but my personal adderall supply has returned after the new year's hullabaloo and I've begun nudging The Crank back to full-speed with all musterable gumption. + +If you're actually reading these, I presume you're at least a bit curious about what I _have_ been doing. The answer: lots and _lots_ of **reading**. + +Thanks to my [new machine](http://extratone.com/tech/usury)'s delightful presentation of The World Wide Web, my daily digital content consumption has ballooned wantonly to some 6-12 hours a day, which has led to some pertinent discoveries. [_The Outline_](http://theoutline.com/) - Topolsky's beautiful newborn - continues to be impossibly good, in (relative) obscurity compared to its Future Media compliment, [_Axios_](http://axios.com/) - a just-launched brainchild of _POLITICO_'s Allen & VandeHei. Both are ballsy as hell, though my preference is toward the former's side of the spectrum (as I hope Extratone has begun to reflect.) I mention them constantly because - at least in the foreseeable future - they will be blazing the trails upon which we travel as an online magazine. Contributors should seek to emulate; readers should skim (at least) for a taste of what's coming from us. + +According to a recent truck-driving acquaintance, "there're just two \[types of 'new media'\]: _news_ and _opinion_." When asked which describes _us_, my early-morning vocabulary failed me, and I resigned to the latter in the interest of our mutually-immediate peace. As much as I'd love to hold myself to benchmarks of self-explanation like Topolsky, Kara Swisher, etc, I _am_ fundamentally just a 23-year-old (as of today) with a WordPress site, a [Patreon](http://patreon.com/extratone), and some [RedBubble merchandise](https://www.redbubble.com/people/DavidBlue/shop). Thanks to first-time face-to-face opportunities provided by our MAGFest attendance (and by extension - you,) I am even more certain that I've been adding the most essential bit all along: **great, endlessly-fascinating, and ridiculously-talented friends.** If you want the whole of the gushy garbage, look for my recap of the experience. + +## Editorially + +I've also received (and begun) my copies of Hunter S. Thompson's _Hell's Angels_ and Original Genius Rod Canion's _Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing_. Believe it or not, both are essential research/inspiration in directing _Extratone_ editorially. Until last month, I had intentionally refrained from reading any HST after occasional accusations of being his "21st-century equivalent." Despite all cliches, I've been discovering the magnitude of the compliments they were, though false. I say this definitively because his true successor is _actually_ my Prose Editor-at-Large and long-time friend, [Leo Marx](http://extratone.com/members/leomarxesquire), who's sole assignment for the year is the thorough absorption of our hometown's underground culture of sexual deviancy, as mentioned in [last month's letter](http://extratone.com/freq/7). He's way ahead of me in his Gonzo discipleship, having lived with the works for years, but I'm doing my best to catch up so as to be at peak storytelling fitness when I'm able to accompany him. + +In the past five months, COMPAQ's story has become a personal obsession of mine, mythologically and tangibly. My loyalty to Houston combined with the company's uniquely-brassy ignition, success, and subsequent downfall in the midst of the foundations of computing as we know it in 2017 has committed its understanding to whatever remains of my heart. A few months ago, I acquired the key to a 1986 Portable II, which I now wear around my neck at all times. I think, for me, it's the (symbolic **Key to Extratone**,) which is quite possibly very silly. I've found, though, that such amulets help remind me of what I'm supposed to be doing. + +A formal announcement is far away, but Chief Technical Officer [Cil](http://extratone.com/members/cil) and I have begun making plans to descend upon H-Town for a matter of months for an all-out Gonzoesque investigation into _The Full Story_. We think a younger, removed perspective on the tale would make a healthy addition to press archives and Canion's popular account, and that the project is worth serious preparation, so our current goal places it sometime before 2020, at least. If you're interested in the pitch, or would like to contribute, don't hesitate to [contact us](mailto:horn@extratone.com?subject=COMPAQ) in any manner you see fit. + +**In the present**, I am still the only person in the world who uses Twitter lists. + +In particular attention to [The New](https://twitter.com/FickleCrux/lists/the-new) - curated to find the most relevant accounts in media & culture - as of late, I found myself humoring a surprising amount of reporting, exclaiming, and general discourse regarding the new President and his inauguration. I haven't produced anything worthwhile about the politics, alone, but his effect on media and metamedia has been like no spectacle I've ever seen. The wakes of his persona's abrasion in just about every possible communicable aspect continue to interact with Journalism in significant ways. + +You'll find the specifics by reading (my admitted favorite) sources like [_NiemanLab_](http://www.niemanlab.org/) for the meta reporting (obviously,) [_The Verge_](http://www.theverge.com/) and [Wired](https://www.wired.com/) for the techno-cultural stuff, and [_The Outline_](https://theoutline.com/) for deeper examination of the [little bits](https://youtu.be/ludIRX2Qqv8) you miss. + +I can't say just yet how much or little Tump will be mentioned, in-house, but it doesn't take much digging to conclude that we are witnessing perhaps the **most significant convergence of cultural and technological forces on the American Journalism machine in recent history**, and that's a hard one to ignore. + +_Anyway_, suffice it to say that despite the lull, The Crank continues to turn. + +## Audio + +In my furlough, [_The Movie Closet_](http://extratone.com/moviecloset) has continued, uninterrupted upon their ever more-polished and entertaining journey through the limitless expanse of cinema. + +Though he's been silent, Music Editor [Wabi](http://www.extratone.com/members/wabi/) has not given up on [_Web Crates_](http://extratone.com/crates), his excellent exploration of the current musical soundscape. He's got three episodes ready to publish as soon as the appearing artists confirm permissions. + +[_Futureland_](http://extratone.com/futureland) has been on hiatus since our highly-inebriated [special](http://www.extratone.com/audio/futureland/futuremag/) from the MAGFest floor, but will be returning with Episode 20 on Wednesday morning. + +Thanks to a bottleneck-smashing upgrade of _Studio Eat_'s wifi router, we are hoping to bring back **live shows on YouTube.** I swear to the Sun, [_Drycast_](http://extratone.com/drycast)'s streams used to attract some participation, at least. I'm hoping _Futureland_ can adopt that legacy audience and even garner some new readers/listeners, if we play the tagging game right. + +Remember: all you need is a web browser and a Google account to both watch **_and_** talk back with us via chat. Invested guests with something to say are always welcome on the show via [our Discord](http://bit.ly/extratone). + +**_Futureland_ will resume recording on Tuesdays at 7PM CST.** + +## Mechanically + +Most of my job has really been Chief Plugin Updater but I'll be honest... I haven't been keeping up the handwritten "Version & Changes Log" I began last month. Instead, I've opted for two redundant change-tracking plugins, but such things make for awfully-dry reading. I'll just say that virtually all site-wide activity will be chronicled indefinitely going forward, so don't think you can get away with storing your custom memes in some backfolder of the _Extranet_ any longer. + +![](images/Magfest-Edition-Preview-1024x544.jpg) + +I'm rather proud of the frontpage I built for MAGFest Edition. + +It suggests potential for future special editions and ultra-pretty one-off landing pages, but will be squirreled away in an archive before I write you next month. + +In the interest of further maturing & sprucing, I have added hover-triggered color effects to Hustonia - the main navigation menu you see above, and have revised/trimmed some ugly/unnecessary pagination-related text. Category page titles are no longer prefaced by "CATEGORY -," and in-post modules have been correctly re-titled as well. + +In general, things are smoother, tidier, and faster. I've been doing something right. Since launch, our average bounce rate - the percentage of viewers who "bounce" off the landing page instead of exploring further - is just 35% (see visual,) which is significantly better than the industry average, according to my hasty research. It's been _under 5%_ for the past two months, which means we are either doing _something_ interesting, or absolutely _nothing_ at all. + +## Imminently + +- Closer attention will be paid to [**our Patreon**](http://patreon.com/extratone), which I set up in haste just before MAGFest. I think it would be an appropriate medium for these letters, no? +- I'm on a kick for **YouTube-related content**. It's come to my attention recently that 1) the service has continued to diversify without me and 2) the vast majority of my contributors, readers, and friends consume video content regularly, with refined (and often quaint) preferences after years of doing so. +- At least one "Extratone at MAGFest" montage will be on _our_ [YouTube Channel](http://youtube.com/drywallmusic) very soon. + +I'm going to continue to be astounded by those of you that read this far into these, My Tedious Webmaster Diaries. I owe you a lot for your readership, your patronage, and your participation. + +Until February, +**Stay contentious.** diff --git a/import/wtf/2017-02-07-spit-and-shine.md b/import/wtf/2017-02-07-spit-and-shine.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9ebd9e26 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2017-02-07-spit-and-shine.md @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +--- +title: "Spit and Shine" +date: "2017-02-07" +--- + +## Our busiest, most exciting month yet led to promotions, revisions big & small, the introduction of subscriptions via Patreon, and a vastly more-precise forward direction. + +Sometimes, a haunting is voluntary. + +According to demonology, it is when we are weakest - emotionally - that our spirits are most vulnerable, and it was from such a position that I launched _Extratone_ last May. Unfortunately, a dark presence latched on to me amidst the process; it's been haunting my vision - day and night - since the cursed Spring. But! Thanks to your financial and ecclesiastical support, I was finally able to smother the beast to silence last week - freeing myself and my children... for all eternity. + +Now, I can call the _shaitan_ by name: **[#00777a](https://colornames.org/color/00777a)** + +Of course, as a publication, we do not accept Original Sin. Though hexadecimals are Holy in conception, they possess a terrible power, if misguided. + +## Look at this bullshit. + +I must've specifically sought out the precise compliment to our baby-powder purple, for whatever reason. I could've sworn I found it attractive, once, but my evil must've compounded the ungainliness of '7a; **I was out of control.** + +Perhaps the kinship of the purples and the reds that links/module titles/metatext now wear is a symbolic expression of my own newfound peace. + +Since coming back from MAGFest 2017, I have spent virtually all of my time clacking away on my machines, doing my best to justify the financial support you've lent us - both in donations and monthly pledges. I suppose "the most active month" is really of no consequence when only eight have passed, technically, but I can tell you that this has been a big one. Personally, I have reached a routine of 0 un-Extratone-related activities, which is probably unsustainable, so I'll be "vacationing" occasionally, as I did two weeks ago.  + +Can't afford to lose it completely. + +## Editorially + +As the writers of the world scramble to eat all that's been continually augered to their plates these past weeks, Extratone has - perhaps surprisingly - been altered, as well. After realizing our obligation to political narratives as per _scribam quid non legerim_ as of late, I added a [Tump section](http://extratone.com/tump) and introduced it with a [revisitation](http://extratone.com/tump/integrity) of "honesty" in the now-realized administration and a very interesting rant on the same from \[REDACTED\] - our new contributor. Though I've always hated _I had no choice_ as an expression, I think could use it as most do here. Simply put, I don't think enough can possibly be said about his behavior for the next four years. +  +But are we [principled public servants](https://twitter.com/eosnos/status/831360207590666240)? + +**Nah**. + +I spent considerable time explaining why and how politics have found their way to us, but it's not difficult to sum: _these_ politics have never been like this; never affected so many aspects of culture so quickly and significantly as this. The United States' new President is apparently refusing to give up his two generation-out-of-date handset while his administration continues to deride his (former) opposition for her use of a private and (assumedly) well-secured email server. +  +And Extratone will add to the deluge because we do not our design our politics to be heard - only sought. You won't see any standalone Tump  on the front page, but you may see it branded on _Futureland_ episodes. And while I may masquerade as moderately liberal these days (mostly because of my loyalty to storytelling,) there should not be enough agenda here to necessitate addressing it further. +  +[Tim](http://extratone.com/tim) (aka Leo Marx) has become my number one guy as of late, cranking out a powerful [poetic reflection](http://www.extratone.com/laments/sons/) on manhood, a preposterously-excellent (and upcoming!) editorial on vaping, and a delightfully peculiar _commentary_ on _Battlefield 1_. + +![](images/Extratone-About-February-2017-687x1024.jpg) + +Slash About as of 2-24-2017 + +He's also helped me with every podcast you've heard this month, and stood loyally beside me as we confronted... Patreon. + +Yes, + +**We are now _officially_ a "crowdfunded" publication.** + +And the first step in formalizing it all was rewriting the editorial summary on our [about page](http://extratone.com/about), which I also redesigned, utilizing the hallmark of a fantastical, far-off _Extratone_ future... our dear DUGA. + +https://youtu.be/5cbVTDbLK\_Y + +Our [introductory video](https://youtu.be/5cbVTDbLK_Y) itself is what you'd expect of our best attempt at playing clueless startup culture neophytes: extremely long-winded, and a bit disconcerting. + +Be proud of us for how long we were able to take the thing seriously - the context was very strange for us both. I am no longer content with my ignorance about crowdfunding; it's obviously going to be a part of our culture, now. However, I doubt I will ever be able to put my name on a more-effective, less honest pitch, and I hope you find value in such truth, as a reader. + +For whatever it's worth, I don't think our presence on Patreon should be regarded within the conventions of "crowdfunding" as it's [defined](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crowdfunding) by MW: _the practice of obtaining needed funding (as for a new business) by soliciting contributions from a large number of people especially from the online community._ + +Obviously, most of it is applicable to _Extratone._ We are now actively_soliciting_, for sure, and we are most definitely New & Online, but the word "need" and I have a rough history (which I shall spare you.) For us, it's mostly just a coincidentally handy substitute for an in-house subscription service. We are glad to forgo as much personal information transfer as possible because - unlike the Big Boys - it gains us virtually nothing, but _I_ am still personally and legally responsible for its safekeeping, as per our [privacy policy](http://extratone.com/privacypolicy). At this point in our growth, Patreon and PayPal are more-than-appropriate middlemen. + +As _MAGFest Edition_ is readied for archival over the next two months, we will all be reflecting on our success and worth. The financial faith put in us to deliver it was a welcome surprise, to say the least, and - though we are _far_ from a platform upon which five-figure budgets are turned into travel, depth, and distribution - I am intrigued by the boundlessness of _any_ budget's possibilities with this crew's energy to a degree that has brought upon these discussions before I expected. (Which is the best thing in the world, frankly.) + +So **what I want from you**, as readers, friends, and colleagues is _not_ blind pledges or favors, but **investment** in our future, intellectually and creatively. Your money is appreciated, but your ideas and influence are more valuable to us, right now. (Unless you're absurdly and indifferently loaded.) + +Patreon's "reward" tier system contains sublime implications of say & stake that assuages the creation of a _community_ of participants whose power is directly proportional their degree of interest. As we settle in, the first $1/month tier will buy you access to the _Villa_ - an exclusive room on our Discord, where your thoughts, suggestions, and requests will be prioritized. There are two $5 tiers because the concept of exclusive podcast content is intriguing, but I'm honestly not sure how much more open our operations and persons could be than they already are on the long-winded ends of our already-public shows. Perhaps it's come time to unburden and refocus them, and this is the opportunity. [Feedback](mailto:%20davidblue@extratone.com) is always heard, but this is one of those instances in which it is particularly desired. + +If you make the decision to put a part of yourself into this endeavor, you'll have virtually unlimited assistance from me. It's one of those things I'm_actually_ good at. + +A few weeks ago, I Tweeted a bit of an elaboration on my use of the word "community" as it pertains to the future of the _Tone_on a whim and contained it in a [Moment](https://twitter.com/i/moments/824807998346428423), which I plan to update with any potentially relevant future spewings. + +## Mechanically + +https://youtu.be/vZPpHlcSzbw + +**Welcome to _Extranet_ version 3.4**! + +As per my aforementioned comfort with redundancy, my Valentine's Day gift to you was an unedited [video review](https://youtu.be/vZPpHlcSzbw) of this month's numerous visual changes. + +Thanks to an ancient, buggy-as-hell plugin, a system of handy redirects now exists. The full list (which includes some old & new easter eggs as well) can be found [here](https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Extranet-Redirection-LXgMPObbnVB012NY00x6Z). The goal was to make our presence on any given external service found by simply going to extratone.com/\[unformatted name of service with no spaces.\] For instance, you can enter our Discord from any browser, anywhere, if you can remember "/speak," and see us on social media with "/fb," "/twitter," etc. + +- I have finally updated the YouTube channel's branding and featured channels list. There's still plenty of polishing to do, but it makes more sense, now. +- Section titles are bigger, better-spaced, and wearing Quattrocentro Sans. +- The "related" module now works correctly. +- Intranet profiles look... different. Not better, necessarily. They're definitely _work in progress_ status, at the moment. +- The top social menu has been revised and updated. +- The footer has been expanded with an on-brand background image and wide-spaced, slightly-opaque text. + +## Audio + +As I said, Tim has been a Real Trooper, accompanying me for every one of the 'casts we sporadically cranked out this month. +  +_Futureland_ episode [21](http://www.extratone.com/audio/futureland/cyberbogan/) was the best in a long while - the whole lot of MAGFest friends were finally able to reflect on and grieve over the experience together. +  +_The Big News_, though, is that **we impulsively revived** _**Drycast**_ at episode [55](http://www.extratone.com/audio/drycast/ii/), more than a year later. Given how entertaining it was in its last weeks (I will never top _[Trent Salmon](http://extratone.com/trent)_,) I had been reluctant to take the plunge for fear of falling short. I think it's only appropriate that I decided we were going to finally do it on a whim, and that the product is nearly four hours of... everything. It's not going to be on a schedule - shoving F_utureland_back into a weekly show is going to require all of our chronological discipline - and may not be plentiful. At the moment, I can't say, but it_is_ good to have it back. + +![](images/Drycast-Logo-1024x1024.jpg) + +## The Future + +_Just before writing you, I got word that we got our first official press credentials - a media pass to this year's True/False Film Festival here in Columbia, MO. The next week is going to be very exciting._ + +Every day, I become less and less a one-man magazine. With a system of financial support now in place, and my vision - through constant discussion - becoming better articulated, it looks like we're going to have a very good Spring. + +_MAGFest Edition_ presented a great new way to land on us, and I think I'd like to see it become the template, moving forward. You can always access the old blogroll-style front-end by visiting "/home," if that's the way ya like it, but I'd highly recommend enduring the extra hassle to see what's coming next. + +With new influences now coming in more massive bursts every week, _Extratone_ will be changing and growing, thanks to your continued readership, authorship, and support. + +See ya later. diff --git a/import/wtf/2017-04-01-in-bloom.md b/import/wtf/2017-04-01-in-bloom.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1604e1e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2017-04-01-in-bloom.md @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +--- +title: "In Bloom" +date: "2017-04-01" +--- + +If all goes according to plan, _The Tone_ (and I) will be re-headquartered in the Northwestern U.S. by this time, next year. + +Our network is global, but a creative hotspot exists in the Portland-Seattle area, and - despite the wondrous workflow via the World Wide Web - I believe our future growth will depend on a conscious push for increased proximity to relevant contributors, stories, and ideas. Spring 2018 seems distant, but you've taught me by now that twelve more of these will fly by with ever-increasing velocity. + +I've repeated for months that meeting this community face-to-face at MAGFest was a life-altering experience, but I think it's worthwhile to include you even more in my personal journey of peacemaking with the community we are leaving; the place where I grew up. + +Columbia, Missouri _is_ a unique minimetropolis, but not in any extremity. In fact, its pervading moderation is what has always been defining - I've always described it as the perfect average of the nation, culturally, economically, academically, and meteorologically. It is quiet, safe, occasionally sullen, and - by a small [margin](http://www.city-data.com/city/Columbia-Missouri.html) - progressive in sentiment. + +At the moment, it appears that a good portion of _Extratone's_ Spring and Summer editions will explore both the constants and contradictions of this quaint liberal island in the heart of Tump's America. For likely the last time in this magazine's existence, I am once more going to assume a distinctly intimate perspective in the stories I seek out - with my Senior Culture Editor at my side - in some of the most quintessentially rural acreage still found in this country. + +Before Junior High, I lived in oscillation over the West's most prevalent class divides, between my mother's suburban, middle-class home in a then-new part of town, and my father's 800-acre crop farm, which he expended great effort in reaping himself. I was schooled and cultured in Columbia, but my identity was formed an hour's drive North on flat, cyclical expanses of corn, soybeans, wheat, and the islands of forestry & brush that divided them. + +My father, himself is the only farming BA of Agriculture I've yet to meet, so my paternal appreticeship ingrained in my lens particular emphases on practices that then had very little weight in the common vocabulary: erosion management, no-till, **etc.** Meanwhile, my siblings were both individually and collectively compelled to nutritional expertise just before it became fashionable, and have continued to pervade related knowledge on their own, independently diverse (but universally consuming) paths. From an early age, I began to notice distinct separation from the perspectives that were voiced at family gatherings and those that I heard and witnessed among what difficulties of daily rural life that were allowed me. + +It's just recently that I've been able to begin accepting the everpresent influences these experiences will have in my adult life. Adolescent rebellion led me as far away from it as I could possibly travel, intellectually, but as I prepare to leave, _physically,_ I suspect there is opportune storytelling involved in bringing our audience along for my return-to-origin. In an undoubtedly abundant novel of sentimentality, our next year will be my final goodbye. + +## Editorially + +#### Welcome to Spring Edition: _The Agricultural Divide_ + +Assuming that my upbringing birthed some useful authority in me, we are launching into this journey under the following (as yet unresearched) premises: + +The organic, “sustainable” movement is unquestionably mainstream in 2017. We have witnessed the hippy “rise to power” as children and grandchildren of baby boomers. Organic or “alternative” food goods are now commonplace in middle-class households. It has become admirable (even pious) to invest attention in the source of one’s food, again. + +By contrast, the vast majority of agricultural labor is still done by working-class and lower-middle class individuals, harvesting herbicide-saturated GMO crop, assisted by anhydrous ammonia (and related fertilization procedures.) + +In my experience (which is nearly decade-dated, mind you,) organic and traditional farmers have virtually 0 consistent dialogue with each other, and live in relative ignorance of one another’s respective lifestyles. Misconceptions abound on both sides-particularly about yields and general revenue. The few local organic farmers I know seem to have no interest in reaching beyond their own spheres, regardless of how genuine their investment in furthering a“sustainable” agricultural future. My best guess is that this disinterest is simply the result of a lack of exposure to the spectrum of ideas, for most, but we will spend the coming weeks chasing the truth. + +Perhaps the most intriguing decision, editorially regards the extent of our involvement in _closing this divide_ if it truly exists. +_Who and what are we going to bring together?_ +_Is it possible that we'll leave this place having significantly strengthened this- perhaps one of the most topically dire relationships in our world?_ + +**Here lies the essence of my thrill**... + +![](images/The-Agricultural-Divide-1-scaled.jpg) + +As we continue this unexpected local prodding, we'll soon begin churning out words on our experience at this year's True/False Film Festival, which you'll find (along with what we've said so far) on its [landing page](http://extratone.com/tf). Bumbling around my hometown stuffing a steno like a student provided a long-overdue adventure and a _ton_ of curious ideas. If you promise not to tell anyone I'm breaking my own rule, I'll actually _write about film_ for the first time in years. + +After \[REDACTED\] digitally dehydrated us for the rest of time with [_desiccation_](http://www.extratone.com/words/prose/desiccation/), Tim's [_Assuming Vapor_](http://extratone.com/sickclouds) feature perfectly showcased his ability to sew thoroughly entertaining wisdom in an unapologetically turbulent tone. It's notable that - despite from this piece - Tim never talks about his vaping. + +Young men of the world, take note. + +And frankly... _**stop visiting this website**_ +because - according to neo-God - our audience so far this year has been nearly **ninety-five percent male**. + +![](images/Disaster.png) + +Make no mistake - **this is an utter catastrophe**, and it requires our immediate attention. I usually love disaster, but this is of a simply unacceptable caliber. + +So **How the Fuck Do We Get Girls to Visit the Web Site**? + +Certainly not by tailoring our content to offerings from behavioral sciences, nor speculation. Not by messaging VR codes to Tinder matches, nor soliciting granny traffic illegally outside Cracker Barrel. The _only_ reasonable course of action is to give greater volume to _Extratone_'s female voices by focusing specifically on **adding more women to the masthead**. This has been an important objective since day one, along with attaining a healthy cadence of paid work (duh) so they can be compensated appropriately. + +You (_boys especially!_) can help with the latter by [subscribing](http://patreon.com/extratone) via Patreon or sending emergency lump sums to our [PayPal account](http://extratone.com/paypal). Attach instructions to the tune of "for women's words, only" and every penny shall be allocated accordingly. + +## Women! + +**We want to hear what you have to say. +**  +You can simply reply to this address, join our [Discord](http://bit.ly/extratone), or send pitches/tips [formally](http://extratone.com/contact). +If my zeal has made you too uncomfortable to [email me](mailto:%20davidblue@extratone.com) personally, feel free to contact [Hawthorn](mailto:%20theflamesofhell@hotmail.com), instead. +  +_Sincere apologies, but this really_ is _that dire._ + +## Audio + +There's certainly never been a better time to hear us! +We're excited to be [on Anchor](http://www.extratone.com/meta/announcements/anchor), a reborn mobile app that seeks to reimagine radio. So far, we've just been playing music (I found Apollo 440 in my iTunes library...) but interspersed short segments - like Tim's brilliant [review](https://soundcloud.com/extratonemagazine/brimstone) of _Brimstone & Glory_ (snipped from the [_Futureland_](http://www.extratone.com/audio/futureland/dweeb/) [True/False Special](http://www.extratone.com/audio/futureland/dweeb/)) - are on our minds. We wish the service all the best. I think it's going to be fun. + +Speaking of which: my friend [Tevin](https://twitter.com/Tevin_Lolar) joined me for a _very_ spot-on _Futureland_[episode](http://www.extratone.com/audio/futureland/hater/) in which we discussed Hater (the new dating app,) Nintendo's state, the future of fraternities, and Nokia's bizarre activities at this year's Mobile World Congress. Jab50Yen also [stopped by](http://www.extratone.com/audio/drycast/ytp/)_Drycast_ for a surprisingly succinct hour of background on a prevalent movement in our community's past that bizarrely reemerged at MAGFest in January. For better or worse, we can now claim responsibility for the most informative, revealing, and in-depth spot on the YouTube Poop phenomena in existence. + +[_The Movie Closet_](http://extratone.com/moviecloset) crew recorded an adorable [intro video](https://youtu.be/Zhr1LV7_4eI) coinciding with their new theme, and have continued to impress with new guests and format tweaks. + +Music Editor [Wabi](https://twitter.com/wabibeats) launched his net label at the beginning of the year, and has decided to move on from _Extratone_ to consolidate _Web Crates_ into his solo brand for reduced confusion's sake. + +## Mechanically + +Anchor's not the only service with a new _Extratone_ presence. +You can now also engage with us on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/extratonemag/) and [SoundCloud](http://soundcloud.com/extratonemagazine). + +- The right top bar has been updated accordingly. Snapchat and Tumblr links have been removed. +- As for the left's novel emoji menu, time seems to be running out. I added 📻 for Anchor, and still believe its got unique potential as a quick navigational tool for regular readers, but the entire staff have repeatedly expressed displeasure with it since an update inexplicably began migrating it to the hamburger menu in narrow mode. (It's supposed to simply be hidden.) Unfortunately, usage data has been too sparse to assist in any conclusive defense. If you'd like to plead for its life and/or plot to end mine, Hawthorn's your choice contact. +- She's also behind the header's current full-text, loud & proud logo. I prefer _Distressed E_ in wide mode, but I doubt I would fare well in a fistfight. +- We've been toying with the idea of configuring our own SecureDrop server for anonymous tips. Though we _have_ begun handling a small amount sensitive information lately, it's not a necessity, but we'll always aim to provide you with as many diverse methods of contacting us as is reasonably feasible. As such, I've brought our [contact page](http://extratone.com/contact) up to date and added its link in the footer. +- Modules and unnecessary metadata will continue to disappear from posts, beginning primarily with podcast episodes and big features. +- All shadow effects have been disabled for the moment, and it's a good bet they'll stay that way - errors and general site performance saw _immediate_ improvement. +- In the interest of our reading experience's cleanliness, hyperlinks will often be completely unmarked (did you miss all 19 so far in this piece?) You're a savvy bunch, and the _magazine_ experience requires sifting. _Extratone_ won't end up quite as barren of traditional navigational tools as [_The Outline_](http://theoutline.com/), but we will continue to pursue an environment worth exploring. Those who are unwilling to look for yourselves are free to entertain themselves by tapping and/or hovering on _every single one_ of my words. Perhaps you'll make a game of it. +- Co-authorship will now be cataloged server-side and displayed when/where proper attribution is pertinent. This is especially prevalent for podcast participants. e.g. Tim's [list of works](http://extratone.com/author/leomarxesquire) will now include the episodes of _Futureland_ he's sat in on. I'm not going to set any conditional guidelines for use of this, yet, but reason shouldn't be too complex to grasp. (My addition of a single sentence to your show notes - no matter how original or eloquent - probably does not constitute your need to tag me as a co-author.) Unfortunately, I haven't been able to come up with a time-efficient means of adding co-authorship to legacy content, so it's going to remain uncorrected for the time being. +- The sidebar's Discord widget was an appropriate compromise for a building community, but widgets are terribly ugly, and they only belong on _blogs_. + +## The Future + +Our magazine will be a year old very soon, and it's time it started looking like it. Clutter is now our Public Enemy #1, and you are no longer a stranger. The "VISUALS" menu has been removed from _Hustonia_ (main navigation) as the least populated parent of the bunch. By four point oh, one or two more will have bitten the dust, our masthead will be overhauled, and front-end **comments killed, site-wide**, though they'll remain internally viewable to users. + +Special and bespoke landing pages like [today's](http://extratone.com/aprilfirst) will continue to alter the face of _Extratone_ as much as we can justify.  + +Our MAGFest video will be released on our [YouTube channel](http://youtube.com/extratone) in the coming week in tandem with  _The Sincerity._ + +I hate when I really slip into my cliche, crowdfunded, West coast-bound existence, but the nature of things necessitates that I leave you with a reminder than life is in your hands. + +You'll see something you feel's worth paying for from us, soon. + +Till then, + +![](images/1cc00aca-91da-47db-90e2-a104f1461205.gif) diff --git a/import/wtf/2017-05-02-hassle.md b/import/wtf/2017-05-02-hassle.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a2917884 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2017-05-02-hassle.md @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +--- +title: "Hassle & Hustle" +date: "2017-05-02" +--- + +Knowing myself, my next of these letters will be highly nostalgic. It'll shake the dust off the already-massive piles of our history with legacy hyperlinks, dull-to-literally-anyone-else [numbers](https://www.patreon.com/posts/year-of-extranet-8842500), and tremendously sappy shoutouts. In this eleventh month, though, I must _get down to business_, and write you as the white, 20-something owner of _a fucking startup_. + +Rough gig, eh? + +By now, you know Josh Topolsky is a huge, validating influence of mine. He [appeared](https://digiday.com/podcast/outlines-josh-topolsky-theres-much-sameness-digital-media/) on the _Digiday_ podcast in February, when _[The Outline](http://theoutline.com/)_ seemed a lot younger. (Congratulate it for [winning](https://twitter.com/SND/status/855571937128574979) The Society for News Design's World's Best Digital Design award. _I'd_ say it was well-deserved.) + +As if it was common knowledge (I've probably just managed to miss it,) Brian Morrissey said "it takes about a year for a media company to figure out who they are." The general theme of my headspace as we've approached Trato's first birthday has been the increasingly prevalent task of **turning it into a business**. + +I've remained hesitant to dive off the entrepreneurial cliff until now because I was waiting for the moment I could look at extratone dot com and say _that's worth paying for_. That era is swiftly arriving. As such, you can expect some out-of-character behavior going forward, on my part. I will be unironically promoting the Patreon on Twitter. My engagement has steadily fallen off since turning sincere in the pursuit of this thing, anyway, so I plan to proceed headfirst into _startup_ culture without any regrets. It'd be a shame if the resulting personal growth has truly rendered me of 0 value to the audience I created it for, but I've put way too much in it to let my vanity impede its future. + +This does _not_ apply to the staff, however. Consider yourself implored to let me become a sort of martyr to commercialization. _Extratone_'s financial future _does_ need to happen, but it's my job to make it so without ruining the values which make us worthwhile in the first place. Your reading experience will never be soured by advertisements, but you may be soft-prompted to sign up for our [new weekly newsletter](http://www.extratone.com/meta/announcements/thetone/). It's witty and elegant - a virtual clone of _The Verge_'s Command Line in format, but more suited for a fresher audience. I wanted something brief to compliment our love of longform, and it looks promising. I'd like to see it become bi- or tri-weekly within the year, eventually amped to daily in the near future. + +## Financially + +_Oh boy... a new, scary header._ +Am I _one of those people_, now? Will I listen to startup podcasts and talk excessively in pyramid scheme-esque platitudes? What if I _abandon Extratone_ and re-bet everything on some bullshit contraption?! + +Have no fear, folks. +I began this venture knowing this day would come, under the educated assumption that I have _some_ business sensibility. Enough to last us until I find my lifelong financial & legal Cheque, anyway. It didn't occur to me that I'd actually need to use the term _business_ when referring to a WordPress website, though. It's going to take a bit more adjustment, but I, alone must come to terms with the fact that our future organization must look and smell _for profit_, lest we resign ourselves to death or public media. + +The key to our metamorphosis is in the _incentive_ of our revenue model. +In case you hadn't heard, the _Extranet_ is a **no advertisements, ever** On Line Zone - a declaration-at-origin which exempted us from some especially unhealthy digital trepidations like Search Engine Optimization and Pussyfoot Journalism, but set us forever upon a path with special risks that can appear - at first - more numerous than those encountered in the barbaric, tried 'n' true AdSense Splash. + +While the latter can make for quick money in the teething stages of a media company, it also binds them to a singular, terrible purpose: _exposure_. If a business exists to make money, and your business makes money from advertisements, your entire destiny will remain eternally enslaved to _The Unique View_. Regardless of the depth or beauty of your ideas, you'll always exist on the clickbait spectrum, somewhere. + +Our model literally flips ad incentives on their head. To survive on voluntary subscriptions, a publication must simply remain as _excellent_ as possible, as opposed to perpetual enrollment in The Universityof _Treacherousness._ Instead of striving to top search results, we must endeavor to be _unforgettable._ If we do it correctly, we'll cultivate a core community of ultra-engaged subscribers who we'll know by name. + +But _how_? + +**A fucking four-step business plan**. + +1. Form and activate the community. +2. Build a beautiful, one-of-a-kind method of content delivery. +3. Attain a fairly dependable content cadence. +4. Sell the product in a way that immediately and - from then on - consistently ensures and/or furthers its quality. + +Currently, we are bridging the middle divide, departing number two for number three. A year of obsessively pulverizing _Ye Olde CMS_ of _The Blog Boom_ into a practical, visually-pliable platform for our particular bents has had real results. I'll spare you the front-end comparison shots until next month, but suffice it to say that we've beat the _back-end_ environment into a vastly more adept and nuanced operation. + +I'm new to financial responsibility, but I'd imagine potential investors may harbor some curiosity as to their assets' _destination,_ which is a less painful conversation for me than you might think. It's harder to imagine richer soil than what we're building on now: we (that is, you and _Extratone_) can do _whatever the hell we want._ Thanks my first demonstration of competent frugality in this existence and the magic of open-source software, our current overhead is virtually nil. At this moment, any and all of the expense account's incoming green can be spent on _content_, under conditions of sensational transparency (subscribers/investors receive photographic audits by request,) and _that_ is a beautiful thing. + +For better or worse, I have always been a terrible salesman. The root of my inadequacy is the same component that's going to make this next bit extremely painful. + +**Let's talk about m e m b e r s h i p  l e v e l s ! !** + +- [$1/month](https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?c=632254&rid=1110111) gets you a free pass to maintain an infinitely bothersome occupation of our Discord, as a guest, and breaks you through our new all-meta paywall. +- [$5/month](https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?c=632254&rid=1110112) makes you a contact on my phone, and buys your entrance into our _subscriber-only_ Discord channel - a colorful digital brothel full of unlimited delights & temptations. +- [$10/month](https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?c=632254&rid=1110114) is where it gets _really_ serious. Your choice of upcoming content updates on an individual basis, **[Tim](http://twitter.com/extratonemarx)'s phone number**, and up to _five_ custom redirects to content of your choosing (subject to my approval, of course.) An example: [extratone.com/flex](http://extratone.com/flex). +- [$20/month](https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?c=632254&rid=1110115) will allow you just about anything you want, honestly. Shoehorn yourself on our masthead under just about any title you'd like with your dirty money - we'll even dolly up a headshot for you. Sit in on editorial meetings if you _really want to_. +- [$100/month](https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?c=632254&rid=1110116) and it's personal. **_I_ will be your bitch**. What do you want? 24/7 access to my ear? Daily loveletters? Haphazard investment advice? _A plaything for your rabid pet???_ Terrifying. + +Not so bad, I guess.  + +## Editorially + +Lately, I've been joking a lot about our transformation into a Marxist, Catholic publication. Somehow, the entirety of _Extratone_'s editorial team all independently arrived upon the conclusion that _we need to be saved_ in the same two month period. From now on, Tim and I will be going to mass on Sundays, drenched in sin. As such, it was only prevalent for us to [liveblog Christ's emergence](http://extratone.com/words/liveblog/christ/). But did he see his shadow? Will climate change be stopped? Stay tuned for the official verdict. + +For the moment, [my interview with Eugen Rochko](http://www.extratone.com/tech/mastodon/), creator of [Mastodon](http://bit.ly/extradon) greets you as you land on the front page. I conversed with him just after his breakfast on the biggest day of his life (my words, not his,) which - especially in reflection - is a wonderfully strange thought. I'm fairly sure I was just one spot in the queue ahead of Casey Newton, who's [front-page story](http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/4/15177856/mastodon-social-network-twitter-clone) on _The Verge_ was less negligent than I portrayed it in my rant on _Futureland_, aside from its subhead. In retrospect, I'd like to rescind the harshness of my criticism (though I think it may have just been revised.) + +I anticipated the rest of the industry's coverage would be focused on the interworkings of the service, so I thought I'd focus on Rochko, himself, which proved to be just as interesting. Though I _was_ early, I could've been _much_ earlier, which justifies the self-abuse found in the story at the bottom of this letter. Frankly, I've never been very good at interviews, despite how much I enjoy them, and will be delegating them to other staff in the future, whenever possible. + +I think I've done a fairly good job of minimizing my bitterness in these letters, this past year, but I think there _is_ some precedent for the identification of what we are _not_, especially during this time of crucial maturation for _Extratone_ and its editorial future. + +That said, I'd like to follow up on my [first subscriber-only letter](https://www.patreon.com/posts/on-future-of-8766185) and make an example of _PCMag_'s... [thing](http://www.pcmag.com/article/352875/what-is-mastodon-and-will-it-kill-twitter) on Mastodon. + +![](images/Eggs.png) + +I don't know what dialect this is, or what school of journalism it came from, but you can be assured that _Extratone_ will destroy it, immediately, should its location be revealed to us. It's the reason geezers condemn our generation collectively as The Black Horse of The Apocalypse, sent to restore Babylon for 20,000 years. This sort of blatant, infantile patronization is what gives 21st-century youth their absurd image in the minds of baby boomers, and really... I can't blame them. I _hate_ being spoken to this way. I may be an idiot, but I have everything to gain by reading what's written for geniuses, and absolutely nothing to lose. Perhaps it's a more efficient means of communication, but such butchery should be left to news services like _[Axios](https://www.axios.com/)_, who explicitly operate under a [declared commitment](https://www.axios.com/about#our-mission) to extreme brevity. + +To us, the _Magazine_ talisman is a promise of depth, respect, and aspiration. We dig out an obscure vocabulary because we enjoy the hunt, and want to share in its fascinations with our readership. We publish beautiful, massive, readability score-bombing walls of Garamond knowing our audience is patient, tasteful, curious, and well-read. That's not to say we're not looking for the contemporary voice, but we believe with all of our hearts that **this is not the one**. + +## Audio + +Just a few hours after my interview with Eugen, we recorded [an episode of](http://extratone.com/audio/futureland/federated/)_[Futureland](http://extratone.com/audio/futureland/federated/)_ on the future of social media while the topic was still fresh. Then, last week, Tim and I decided it was time to chill out a bit, so our regular podcasting date was spent recording an [episode of Drycast](http://extratone.com/drycast/teeth), which proved to be particularly enjoyable after Nina and Jab eventually joined. We left the window open in Studio Eat to Spring's breezes and suburban barbecue odors, and thoroughly enjoyed operating once again without any direction whatsoever. Except for another of my editorial rant in the beginning, the product is very entertaining. It's important to note: that rant is the last Meta you'll hear in our publicly-available podcasts. We're going to do our best to eliminate it completely, moving all about-us audio to a subscriber-only RSS feed on our Patreon. Its first [26 minute-long monologue](https://www.patreon.com/posts/welcome-1-8825329) represents the genesis of _Extratone_ paywalled content. + +_Drycast_'s revival got me looking through the archives. I found a handful of legacy episodes that somehow escaped my restoration, and spent some time getting them back up to snuff. One of these was [eighteen](http://bit.ly/drydell) - recorded exactly two years ago - when Ryan Dell joined us, and I had to explain _[that one video](http://bit.ly/ryandell)_ we shot, so long ago. + +![](images/Extraplay.png) + +## Mechanically + +- I finally got around to the long-overdue overhaul of our audio player. It's at the top of podcast posts, centered, behind a brand-new [play button](http://www.extratone.com/extraplay2big/) that's been rendered with colors not found anywhere else in the stylesheet to steal the eye away from the more bureaucratic distractions toward The Real Meat of the Matter.  +- It was brought to my attention that the subscribe hyperlinks below the player have simply been linking to the main, aggregated feed this whole time... It turns out, I'll need to repoint each episode's one-by-one, so it may take me a bit. Sorry about that. +- After months of hysterical, wildly animated gesturing at my machine, body text padding is very close to where it should be. Everything's just about perfect in wide mode, but there's still some serious de-constricting left to be done for the mobile reading experience. This is a big goal I'm setting for four point oh: it shall be just a bit slicker and wider. +- For World Day of Lies, I just... [broke the website](https://twitter.com/FickleCrux/status/848142804475932672), but I've left in the gradiented color text because I think it breaks the monotony in a creative way. Feel free to berate me about it, as always. +- In accordance with _The Tone_'s launch, our [email page](http://www.extratone.com/email/) has been brought up to speed and ✉️ has replaced 📰 in the tip-top Quickdraw menu. + +## Golf... + +Yes, this is _Absolute Worst Case Scenario_ type shit. +In the near future - probably late Spring, early Summer - I will be enduring nine holes of the dingiest, dirtiest local country club I can find as punishment for _the worst mistake_ I could've possibly made as EiC at this point in _Extratone_'s maturation. + +Here's the deal: while I _did_ manage to squeak in a [conversation](http://www.extratone.com/tech/mastodon/) with Mastodon's Eugen Rochko less than two hours before his story broke, I could've had a _two month_ lead. Just before True/False, our friend Kali brought the service to our attention on February 5th's episode of _Futureland_, during which we actually signed up for our accounts, yet... for whatever reason... I did not further pursue the story, at the time, nor did I remember to note it down to do so in the near future. + +What occurred, then, was a 100% bang-on situation via this system I've bet everything on, and _I_ was the missing link. Half the goddamn [mantra](http://extratone.com/about) of this publication is a dedication to this particular network, and - though Mastodon's not exactly the sort of story one _breaks_ - Kali's tip was unquestionably on-brand, intriguing, and relevant to our audience, which is the _last_ thing I can afford to neglect. + +This is why I must punish myself in such a manner that I will never forget. + +On that note, does anyone know _how the fuck_ golf works? diff --git a/import/wtf/2017-06-20-ars-longa-vita-brevis.md b/import/wtf/2017-06-20-ars-longa-vita-brevis.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ab9e291c --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2017-06-20-ars-longa-vita-brevis.md @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +--- +title: "Ars Longa, Vita Brevis" +date: "2017-06-20" +--- + +For the most part, we've been taking it easy since our one-year celebration, [last month](http://extratone.com/freq/12), aside from [Isiah](https://twitter.com/ammnontet), who’s account of his [5-day-long soylent fast](http://bit.ly/isiahsoylent) will make you laugh, reflect, and shiver, all at once. + +The rest of our expended energy was in audio, after Anchor [featured our station](http://bit.ly/anchorfeatured) on their music channel. [_The Movie Closet_](http://extratone.com/moviecloset)’s [39th episode](http://bit.ly/moviecloset39) regarding PIXAR films is some of the most powerfully nostalgic content we’ve ever published. + +Visually, we've continually diversified, polished, trimmed, and decluttered. Our landing pages have matured colorfully, and the template has been virtually perfected. Elements can now be reordered, spawned, or removed in seconds, without necessitating adjustment of others. + +I told you [last month](http://bit.ly/freq12) that my gift to _Extratone_ for its first birthday would be a [bespoke masthead](http://extratone.com/masthead). + +## Editorially + +It’s unfortunate that _I_ of all people have been and will continue to be responsible for _branding_ in the near future. I’ve never been a very good salesman, and the language I’ve contributed to _Extratone_’s brand image has often been criticized as ostentatious: [the latin mantra](http://bit.ly/scribam), staff-given titles, and my use of legacy journo words like “masthead.” Until last week, the short description on our [Twitter](http://twitter.com/extratone), [Facebook page](http://facebook.com/extratonemagazine), [YouTube channel](http://youtube.com/extratone), [Anchor station](http://extratone.com/anchor), etc. was copied from the beginning of our [About page](http://extratone.com/about), and dated back to the first few days of the project. + +_An online magazine covering technology, music, culture, and media from an exclusively-youthful perspective._ + +Ugh. + +It doesn’t sound like a very fun place, does it? I’ve been pitifully devoid of alternative descriptors to “youth” or “fresh.” The most apt summary I’ve come across is that of [_The Last Magazine_](https://thelast-magazine.com/info/) and well… I can’t use that now, can I? + +I _did_ come up with something, thanks to Anchor. (The old one wouldn’t fit.) I want you to try it on for size. + +Ready? + +**_An online magazine for the new curious._** + +As in, those individuals possessing a _new curiosity_. Or, perhaps - those new individuals who are curious. + +My hope is that it is not passed over because of its vagueness, at first glance - that the reader, in asking these questions internally, if only for a moment, will arrive at a significantly more precise conception than the old one lent to, but I am notoriously confusing, so I will always welcome [your suggestions](http://extratone.com/bilge). + +I’ll be honest with you - I wasn’t entirely happy with the idea of a digital-only future for _Extratone_, but I’d conceded to the reality I was sure of, given my experience: the only print magazines worth circulation will be those that began that way. + +However, Hawthorn - with significantly more experience occupying the Northwestern U.S. - insists that our prospects for pure circulation in the Portland and Seattle area are actually _better_ in print. Apparently, that’s how things are done there. + +It’s still a pipe dream to be able to one day smell my creation, albeit less of one. + +[_The Tone_](http://bit.ly/thetone) has gotten itself into a bit of a rhythm of subjects - **DIVISION**, **ART**, and **MEDIA**. Did ya notice? + +## Audio + +I had a feeling that Anchor’s company culture would be a good match for ours, but I did _not_ expect to receive an email from them, asking to feature our station. They were tremendously kind and patient, even when I screwed up a bit of legal language and didn’t respond for 15 hours. I was given a choice between the Tech, Music, and Culture channels. I thought music made the most sense. Feel free to [kick my ass](mailto:davidblue@extratone.com) if you disagree. We were also encouraged to continue using “other elements,” and told that “variety is always a good thing,” which is obviously very freeing and on-brand as hell. + +It’s been a fun three weeks. Subscribers can listen to the archives of our [first full-scheduled day](https://www.patreon.com/posts/archived-our-day-11592398), Hawthorn’s [_Summer of Digital Heartbreak 2017_](https://www.patreon.com/posts/archived-summer-11609737) playlist, and Tim’s [ultra-cool indie dive](https://www.patreon.com/posts/archived-tims-11643732).  + +The Anchor community has already been unbelievably welcoming and supportive, including [Maya](https://twitter.com/mayafish) (who originally contacted me and put up with my negligence,) [Grant](https://twitter.com/gmanteer) (who hosts [_Podcast of the Day_](https://anchor.fm/potd) on Anchor and was the first intelligible caller on the station,) and many other already-memorable names who’ve consistently listened to and ‘applaud’ed our radio content despite its… breadth. + +## Mechanically + +Astonishingly, I think I found an almost-compelling reason for us to have a Facebook page… A MailChimp-integrated Email tab! + +Wow.  + +I don’t think I’ve _actually_ seen a useful application for Pages before. This is a huge milestone. Please be sure to select/tap/click that "[Newsletter](http://bit.ly/thetonefb)" tab with haste. + +Also, I have revised the site-bound [signup page](http://extratone.com/email) and [frontpage element](http://www.extratone.com/june12/), as well. + +## The Future + +[Eryn](http://extratone.com/scout), [Madeline](http://extratone.com/dixie), and [I](http://extratone.com/bilge) are just short of releasing an introductory episode for [_Running Down a Dream_](http://extratone.com/dream)\- a podcast pitch conceived of to encapsulate the ludicrous, spectacular, and sometimes frightening experiences we’ve fostered for a year, now, returning to our rural, small-town origins. + +At least one feature from [_True/False_](http://www.extratone.com/tf/) 2017 is coming your way from me, very soon, as are local stories from ever-varying perspectives. + +Now, though, we are busy watching the _24 Hours of Le Mans_. If you feel like joining us on social, you’re more than welcome. + +Till next month, + +![](images/Thank-You.png) diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-07-20-covering-facebook.md b/import/wtf/2020-07-20-covering-facebook.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..de6c2781 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-07-20-covering-facebook.md @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +--- +title: "Writing About Facebook Is Overwhelming" +date: "2020-07-20" +--- + +I've spent the past six weeks or so writing about Facebook, which is something I've wanted to do for a long time. As of right now, I've just hit 12,000 words, which - as my friend CJ Eller pointed out on Discord - is long enough to be an ebook. ([Here's a draft](https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:09296918-52c0-4c21-943e-0b008a305d85) if you'd like to read it early, for whatever reason, as well as [a copy of my notes](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/107272441889341440/734563821024444486/David_Blue_vs._Big_Blue_Notes.html), which are uh... huge.) I expected to take a long time from the beginning and be extensive, but when I promised that I'd have it done by the end of the week last week, I was wrong (obviously.) I wanted to take a break from writing the post, itself for a while and instead discuss some of the things I've learned in the process. + +I happened to choose one of the most newsy times in the history of the social network to write about Facebook. The advertising boycott you may have heard about was/is organized primarily by two campaigns (which overlap at many levels:) **[Stop Hate For Profit](https://www.stophateforprofit.org/)** and **[Change The Terms](https://www.changetheterms.org/)**. Both have made the news this past week. Rashad Robinson, President of Color of Change - one of the organizations behind the latter - was interviewed by Nilay Patel on [Tuesday's episode of _The Vergecast_](https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/14/21323988/vergecast-podcast-interview-rashad-robinson-color-of-change-facebook-ad-boycott): + +> I know how this works. I’ve been Black my whole life. I know how this works because this is what happens when the police chief’s son breaks the law and the police chief tells his son, “You know, you’re putting me in a bad situation here.” It’s privilege, right? It’s because Facebook, at the incentive level, has an incentive problem. The same way the police chief has an incentive problem when his son is breaking the law and he doesn’t do anything to him the same way he would do something to the Black kid down the street. +> +> Rashad Robinson on [The Vergecast](https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/14/21323988/vergecast-podcast-interview-rashad-robinson-color-of-change-facebook-ad-boycott) + +The _Columbia Journalism Review_'s Matthew Ingram spoke with three figures involved in the movement on [CJR's Gallery platform](https://www.cjr.org/first_person/galley.php): **[Jessica González](https://galley.cjr.org/public/conversations/-MCCTob2KUoCPekR_6tT)**, co-CEO of Free Press, **[Jenny Domino](https://galley.cjr.org/public/conversations/-MCMWotYsoJWReJCftkR)**, legal advisor with the International Commission of Jurists, and **[Jillian York](https://galley.cjr.org/public/conversations/-MCMwyj0ItSJhcdQYtjq)**, director of international freedom of expression for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. + +My favorite quote from the exchanges was from the first regarding Facebook's [recent meetings with leaders of the boycott campaigns](https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/facebook-boycott.php): + +> Facebook had those demands three weeks before our meeting, and in fact, many of them are long-standing years-old demands that Facebook has failed repeatedly to meet. We expected Facebook to come ready to respond to our demands, to commit to timelines for implementation. Instead, Facebook wanted us to walk through the demands and have yet another conversation. They seemed to think that having Mark on a call for an hour without making any commitments would be enough to placate us. +> +> [Jessica González](https://galley.cjr.org/public/conversations/-MCCTob2KUoCPekR_6tT/message/-MCHxGWX3OaYntzmhNdc) in [conversation](https://galley.cjr.org/public/conversations/-MCCTob2KUoCPekR_6tT) with the Columbia Journalism Review + +"Observing Mark Zuckerberg as much as I have," I write in the essay, "I feel especially sorry for the team attempting to maintain a dialogue with him." Mr. Fuck's infamous Congressional grilling in 2018 was a real point of interest for me - I stayed home from work and watched the whole thing, live, and I can tell you that he is painfully adept at saying nothing at all. We could theorize all day about why that is, but I'm sure it's just because of how distance from reality he's lived since his collegiate years. + +https://soundcloud.com/jortshassle/standing-for-voice-and-free-expression-mark-zuckerberg-georgetown-university + +I trimmed the silence out of [Mark Zuckerberg's Georgetown University speech](https://about.fb.com/news/2019/10/mark-zuckerberg-stands-for-voice-and-free-expression/). Probably illegally. I also [published the transcript.](http://simp.ly/p/yJZ5Y0) + +Speaking of Zucksterfuck, I have yet to decide whether or not I'm going to cite [Joshua Topolsky's call for his resignation](https://www.inputmag.com/culture/mark-zuckerberg-resign-from-your-role-as-ceo-of-facebook), but it's certainly worth sharing here: + +> You’re not a brilliant mind, your thoughts don’t illuminate the dark places in our world, your leadership is not bringing us to a better place. You’re an average person with average ideas, and you are unable to steer what you’ve built in a direction that benefits the actual human beings on Earth — who unfortunately are now tangled up in the web of products you’ve either built or acquired. +> +> I am calling on you to resign your position as CEO of Facebook. Then, along with your board and a _diverse_, outside advisory council of historians, ethicists, sociologists, and civil rights leaders, a search should begin for a leader (or leaders) for your company who can thoughtfully and respectfully navigate the deep and dark waters Facebook has submerged itself in. +> +> Joshua Topolsky, [The Outline](https://www.inputmag.com/culture/mark-zuckerberg-resign-from-your-role-as-ceo-of-facebook) + +https://twitter.com/DanLinden/status/984117687289868290 + +### **Some other noteworthy Mark stuff I've discovered** + +- _[The Facebook Dilemma](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/facebook-dilemma/)_ - the PBS documentary produced in 2018. +- [_GQ_'s first profile of young Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.gq.com/story/boy-genius-of-the-year-mark-zuckerberg-facebook) from November, 2008, which includes an _absolutely ridiculous_ featured image. +- "[Inside Facebook's Plan to Wire The World](https://time.com/facebook-world-plan/)" in _Time_ magazine. Remember when Facebook was testing drones the size of 737s to fly over the homes of "the last 15%" of people in the world who do not have access to high-speed broadband internet? Yeah... + +> I asked \[Mark Zuckerberg\] about Ello, an upstart for-pay social network built on the premise that it doesn’t show you ads and doesn’t harvest your personal information. When a social network does those things, Ello’s manifesto argues, “You’re the product that’s being bought and sold.” Zuckerberg’s take was, as usual, practical: whatever ethical merits it might have, the business model won’t scale. “Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don’t do that by having a service people pay for.” I suggest that Facebook’s users are paying, just with their attention and their personal information instead of with cash. A publicist changes the subject. +> +> "[Inside Facebook's Plan to Wire The World](https://time.com/facebook-world-plan/)," by author Lev Grossman for _Time_. + +https://youtu.be/3KoU4t\_2U2I + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1249026113319383040 + +I recently finished _The Social Network_ for the first time (during which I was _actually watching_, anyway,) and was utterly bewildered by how... _totally unlike_ the real Zuckerberg Jesse Eisenberg behaved. He doesn't talk quickly or do Eisenberg's throat-clearing thing. I just did some searching, though, and apparently everyone else thinks he did a great job. (NBC Sports commentators [actually mistook him for Zucksterfuck](https://youtu.be/dRFs5xuH970) in some Olympics coverage, which is the most Boomer Blunder in history.) Obviously, entertainment media know better than I. + +> Sorkin created an emotionally stunted, closed-off young man, and Fincher pulled something touching out of Jesse Eisenberg. Slender, with curly light-brown hair and dark-blue eyes, Eisenberg pauses, stares, then rushes ahead, talking in bristling clumps, like a computer spilling bytes. The self-assurance he gives Zuckerberg is audacious and funny. It’s also breathtakingly hostile. Yet, after many of Zuckerberg’s haughtiest riffs, a tiny impulse of regret quivers across his lips. +> +> "[Influencing People](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/influencing-people)" | The New Yorker + +## The Nazi Problem + +The discussion of alternatives to Facebook has become a much larger part of my essay than I originally intended. I was originally going to mention [Diaspora](https://diasporafoundation.org/) after some heavy disclaiming about its place as the most common answer among the _open-source_, _privacy-worshipping_, _cryptofucking_, _decentralized_, _Linux-ey_ crowd when they're asked _well what the fuck do **you** suggest, then_? The problem is that Diaspora is quite old and definitely [showing its age](https://i.snap.as/bzBFLoZ.png) at this point. As much as I thought I knew about this subject, just a basic search for "Facebook alternatives" lead me to services I'd never heard of before like [Minds](https://www.minds.com/) and [WT.Social](https://wt.social). Minds is almost entirely overrun with Nazis - I was literally _unable_ to find _any_ content that was _not_ extremist right. WT.Social appears to be virtually dead only 9 months after launch. + +Eventually, it became clear that a core dynamic at work in the cases of these "alternative social networks" is a pattern of alt-right, neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, racist, etc. Shit Fuckers seeking them out because their ideologies are in some way disallowed on major social sites like Facebook and Twitter. The problem - as I've come to see it - is that **there aren't enough decent people seeking out these alternatives** to balance out the shitty ones. It's not even close! The result is that networks like Minds have become utterly intolerable places to spend any time, so decent people don't stay there, and tech media's [careless handling](https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1284997239929294850) of alternative social coverage mislead those who might have sought out alternatives into associating them with Nazis. + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1284997239929294850 + +This vicious cycle is one of the most discouraging discoveries I've ever made, and it's the primary reason I will likely continue to slip past my original deadline. I'd pretty much forgotten about VKontakte - the "Russian Facebook" - since I signed up for [an account](https://vk.com/davidblue) last Summer, but in actually giving it a try, I got truly excited about [the way it functions](https://youtu.be/rvfyzxPydi0). "In almost every way, the user experience is like Facebook's... but competent." It's almost exactly how I would've envisioned Facebook would be by now if you'd asked me in 2015. + +https://youtu.be/rvfyzxPydi0 + +I realize these demos seem silly, but I think it's silly you won't just try these free services for yourself! + +Then, over the weekend, I made _yet another_ disturbing and discouraging discovery. From my draft: + +> I'd been unable to find much coverage using the terms "VK" and "VKontakte," but I had more or less accepted that tech media had simply determined it wasn't worth their attention, for whatever reason. I was pretty happy with my advocacy for this _obscure_, _foreign_ take on the Facebook model and minutes away from finally calling it quits when it occurred to me that I hadn't tried entering the original, Russian expression of the word: "[**ВКонта́кте**.](https://clyp.it/sdhgqnl2)" Of course, an entirely different story regarding VK was immediately revealed that left a much different aftertaste. +> +> "David Blue vs. Big Blue" + +The _only_ conversation about VK in American tech media, at least, surrounds (take a guess) it's place as a haven for Nazi ideology. I first found [a superb investigation](https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/02/13/vkontakte-vs-facebook-from-open-white-supremacy-to-stealth/) by _bellingcat_ (WARNING: that link is absolutely _stuffed_ with Nazi imagery so please take care,) which references [a 2016 story in _The Atlantic_](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/extremist-groups-vkontakte/483426/) as the origin of the shitheads' migration and [another from _The Daily Beast_](https://www.thedailybeast.com/american-alt-right-leaves-facebook-for-russian-site-vkontakte): + +> The white nationalists on VK are often united through interest pages centered around politics or memes. Others are stand-ins for organizations, like the National Socialist Movement news page, or a homepage for the League of the South, a white-supremacist organization that wants Southern independence. +> +> "[American Alt-Right Leaves Facebook for Russian Site VKontakte](https://www.thedailybeast.com/american-alt-right-leaves-facebook-for-russian-site-vkontakte)" | The Daily Beast + +https://clyp.it/sdhgqnl2 + +Yeah... this is the kind of shit I just can't help myself from making. + +Truthfully, I still don't know how to proceed. I think it's going to take a while longer to ponder how to frame the story around VK, and how much to advocate for it, but I _do_ have a pretty great paragraph from my conclusion to leave you with: + +> Ultimately, I am not asking you to care about my feelings toward Facebook, but about your own. In its titanically unprecedented position, Facebook, Inc. cannot be exempt from _any_ criticism from its users or otherwise. To date, the company has designed its services virtually irrespective of what users have actually _asked for_ - substituting psychoanalysis for human volition - and gotten away with it, unlike any other company in their space. At the financial scale it's operating at, we should expect _absolute perfection_ from its services. Not just perfect from a single perspective, but malleably perfect from all possible perspectives. Instead of blaming themselves for difficulties using Facebook, older and less tech-literate users should blame the product vocally. No, this is not too much to ask from a company who's clientele includes a third of all humanity. +> +> "David Blue vs. Big Blue" + +As always, I would appreciate your thoughts on any of this. The header on this WordPress site contains links to my accounts on just about every social network you could possibly think of, but [joining the _Extratone_ Discord](https://discord.gg/0b9KQUKP858b0iZF) is always the preferable way. You could also reply to [the thread I just posted](https://www.reddit.com/r/extratown/comments/hup8bl/writing_about_facebook/) on the new [r/extratown subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/extratown). I'd appreciate you taking the time to answer one or more of the polls I've posted below, but it's okay if you don't. (I just wanted to try out WordPress polling and see how well Mastodon embeds function in the new Gutenberg editor.) + +https://www.reddit.com/r/extratown/comments/hup8bl/writing\_about\_facebook/ + +I know there are hundreds of thousands of you mashing refresh on [bilge.world](https://bilge.world) waiting for this essay, but the great advantage of publishing my own words is that I have the freedom to extend my own deadlines when a topic deserves greater consideration, and I think this case definitely does. Hopefully - if I take the time to do it right - I will **never** have to write about Facebook **ever again**. + +## Polling About The Issue + +\[poll id="9"\] + +\[poll id="8"\] diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-07-22-hey-email-history.md b/import/wtf/2020-07-22-hey-email-history.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a03b603e --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-07-22-hey-email-history.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +title: "Email and I: An Abridged History" +date: "2020-07-22" +--- + +## Basecamp's HEY matters, and not just because it took on Apple's App Store policies. + +_I originally published this [on my blog](https://bilge.world/hey-email-history), where it looks a lot better._ + +Something always worth celebrating: a considered, no-nonsense new effort to reimagine email. I've lived through many notable milestones in this regard: [Apple Mail](https://youtu.be/vN4U5FqrOdQ?t=2321) on the original iPhone, [Gmail](https://time.com/43263/gmail-10th-anniversary/), Readdle's [Spark](https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/29/8683775/spark-email-app-iphone-apple-watch), and (yes, really,) the revitalization of [Microsoft's Outlook](https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/4/17819636/microsoft-resdesigned-outlook-windows-web). Exciting innovations have abounded throughout email's history, but it's highly debatable whether or not any of them have really changed the way we use it in a profound way, yet I am unfailingly intrigued whenever somebody new comes along, so when I saw [Casey Newton's story](https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/15/21286466/hey-email-basecamp-price-availability-platforms-launch) on _The Verge_'s frontpage discussing Basecamp's [HEY](https://hey.com/) before I got out of bed on the morning of June 15th, I was delighted to see an organization still had the courage to invest their confidence and resources into their Ideas About Email. Originally, [HEY's homepage](http://web.archive.org/web/20200510220647/https://hey.com/) included a prompt: "To get on the list, email [iwant@hey.com](mailto:iwant@hey.com) and tell us how you feel about email. Could be a love story, or a hate story. Could be long, could be short. It’s your story, so it’s up to you." Though I knew it'd likely never be read, I decided to write them a letter about my personal history with email, which turned into an entertaining enough anecdote to publish here. + +https://youtu.be/UCeYTysLyGI + +The real reason HEY continued to be so widely covered by tech media, though, was its challenge to Apple's App Store policies after one of its updates was [rejected by the marketplace](https://www.protocol.com/hey-email-app-store-rejection) just a day after Casey's story was published. Much drama ensued - I have done my best to aggregate links to all the news stories on the subject in [a thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/extratown/comments/hbncn6/news_surrounding_hey_the_upcoming_email_service/) on the [_Extratone_ subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/extratown) I recently started. I think [the public resistance by Basecamp's CTO David Heinemeier Hansson](https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/16/21293419/hey-apple-rejection-ios-app-store-dhh-gangsters-antitrust) was probably a PR move, which is fine, but all I wanted to contribute was a review of the actual function of HEY, itself. After reading posts by some of my favorite bloggers, however, I think it would be redundant. Kev Quirk argued "[Email Is Not Broken](https://kevq.uk/email-is-not-broken/)," to which Mike Stone responded "[Email Is Broken](https://mikestone.me/email-is-broken)." Additionally, _Business Insider_'s Lisa Eadicicco published an [in-depth review](https://www.businessinsider.com/hey-email-app-review-basecamp-inbox-2020-7) at the beginning of the month. + +https://www.reddit.com/r/extratown/comments/hbncn6/news\_surrounding\_hey\_the\_upcoming\_email\_service/ + +My singular commentary: I'm worried that subscription services that exclusively accept large yearly sums like HEY inevitably become the "country club for the most self-important emailers in business" which Casey spoke of. I guess we'll see. + +_The following is an excerpt from [my letter to HEY](http://simp.ly/p/lw0h0R) asking for a early-access invite._ + +## Email and I: An Abridged History + +I am 26 years old, so I suppose I'm of the first generation that's never experienced life _without_ email. I grew up on a farm in rural central Missouri and my dad was very much an early adopter. (You'd be surprised how e-enabled farmers were becoming in the early 2000s.) I cannot remember life before the humongous satellite dish was anchored in our front yard. Long before I had any reason to be online (or really understood what that meant,) he began and ended every day sitting at in front of a CRT on a corner desk, clacking away on a cigarette smoke-yellowed plastic keyboard for hours. I did not understand why, then, but in retrospect I realize that he was corresponding with a huge network of neighbors, politicians, family, and college friends via email lists/chains and that he depended on it both professionally and personally in a big way. As a single man living at least an hour's drive from a city of any size, I suppose my dad was predisposed to have a rich online life long before his suburban peers, which normalized it precociously for me. + +The summer before my first grade year, my elementary school became the first in the district to have a computer lab (also the first air-conditioned room in the building,) so my high school graduating class was literally the very first to have had any digital curriculum - and an email address(!) - for the entirety of our public school experience. Because of this, I think most of us were trained to think of email as a tool for school work - it was eluded to by our computer teachers that our school email addresses were being monitored to make sure they remained so (obviously, they weren't.) As we grew into 6th-7th grade, however, we all seemed to end up with personal email addresses. I consider myself lucky to have experienced a very brief window - before instant messaging/early social networks became mainstream and SMS became even remotely pleasant to use - when my middle school friends and I corresponded exclusively by email when we weren't on the phone. + +It still sounds a bit silly to say, but I've spent the past few years coming to believe more and more strongly that my first-generation iPhone changed my life forever in a profound way - _especially_ my relationship with email. After watching [Steve Job's introduction at MacWorld 2007](https://www.howtogeek.com/674796/how-to-archive-or-delete-a-facebook-group/) live, I promised to skip a year of Christmas gifts if my mom would agreed to buy me one, and she did. Obviously, it was like nothing else I'd ever experienced, and it completely changed how I responded to and thought about technology. Before smartphones, there was no checking email outside of time in the computer lab, which was intended to be quite strictly-regulated. I had a real advantage when I started bringing my iPhone to school - absolutely no one knew what it was (a bizarre thought in contrast,) including teachers. Suddenly able to browse and read my inbox in class, at lunch, and on the bus, my use and consideration of email was propelled far ahead of my peers'. + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/906468410976079872?s=20 + +When I started an online magazine in 2016, I don't think I could've conceived of the extent to which running a modern media company - even one targeted toward tech-savvy, early-adopting youth - still involves email. I assumed that my audience rarely _actually read_ from their inboxes and relied almost exclusively on social networks for content discovery, so I originally forwent any implementation of a newsletter. As I grew more and more interested in and engaged with the media beat, I was exposed to the email renaissance of the past 2-3 years thanks to services like Revue and Substack, saw that it was good, and decided to give it a try for myself. I launched our semi-regular newsletter in April, 2017 on the subjects of "**Division**, **Art**, and **Media**" and published a little over 30 issues over the course of 18 months. To be honest, I'm not sure I've ever had so much fun writing. + +Very shortly after it began, I observed our general engagement quadruple, and - quite selfishly - found the process of aggregation to be soothing and very mentally restorative. It exposed some pretty horrendous media consumption habits of mine, but it also offered a painless solution to them. As soon as everything I read became a potential item in the newsletter, I wasn't just reading for myself anymore (or at least, that's the mentality it gave me,) so I could no longer afford to dismiss particular subjects as easily or to skim so recklessly. I nurtured a much less chaotic media diet and found myself absorbing _a lot_ more of what I wanted to without wasting so much time burning through links. I ended up feeling more focused in other, unrelated areas of my life, too. Obviously, I love email for that, and I miss writing that darn newsletter so much that I continuously look for excuses to do something similar. + +My former Tech Editor loved email perhaps as much, but she's definitely the only person I've ever met who finds the medium as _entertaining_ as I do. (If you're _really_ committed, I just made a [Twitter Moment](https://twitter.com/i/events/1272514574420500481?s=13) full of all the best stuff I've ever posted about email - mostly jokes like "[patron saint of email marketing](https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/921352650788130822)," but there are one or two profound posts in there, too.) We realized one day that - aside from The Webbys - there are very few notable awards celebrating excellence in the email medium, so we decided our magazine would host the 2017 First Annual Email Awards. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone else had any idea what the heck we were trying to do, so we never received enough submissions. However, I noticed a great opening paragraph in the original announcement post which I thought made a worthy conclusion: + +> Man has used electronic mail to intercommunicate, woo, build communities, topple businesses & civilizations, embezzle money, spread worms, distribute cluttered, broken links to discontinued Orscheln products, feed infants, set climate control, confirm identities, check bank account statuses, and lie to exhausted, slightly-conceited, and _newly self-published_ professors. That's right - These Trillions of simple digijewels have purveyed _every single possible category of human communication_, and it's still growing strong. +> +> "Announcing the First Annual Email Awards" | David Blue + +I'm excited to give Hey a try - I hope you'll consider inviting me early. I'll even send my feedback if you so desire it! If not, I'll probably end up trying a paid subscription, anyway hehe. Either way, let me wish the best of luck to your team. Win or lose, I'm glad you're taking action on your complaints, unlike the rest of us. + +Thank you! diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-08-05-big-tech-hearing.md b/import/wtf/2020-08-05-big-tech-hearing.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0d6f117d --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-08-05-big-tech-hearing.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +--- +title: "Big Boy 'Blast'" +date: "2020-08-05" +--- + +I spent _far_ too much of last Wednesday pacing in front of and screaming at my television. I did not intend to watch the entirety of the Zuckerberg-Bezos-Cook-Pichai hearing, but I basically did, and it wore me the fuck out. I thought I'd try to make some use of all that time, so here I am... posting. I only have a few things to say, and I've already said the majority of it on Twitter. + +Firstly, I took the opportunity to get [one more test](https://www.loom.com/share/63e0049a3e194e81b5e54fa18e79f8c6) of Loom in and recorded myself using my least favorite piece of software in history to go over the [pre-published copy of his statement](https://blog.aboutamazon.com/policy/statement-by-jeff-bezos-to-the-u-s-house-committee-on-the-judiciary). You're welcome. + + + +[Jeff Bezos' Statement (Edited)](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Statement_by_Jeff_Bezos_to_the_U.S._House_Committee_on_the_Judiciary.docx)[Download](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Statement_by_Jeff_Bezos_to_the_U.S._House_Committee_on_the_Judiciary.docx) + +The spectacle of it all was bizarre in so many ways - the most original of these being the fact that it took place over _virtual conference software_, of course. To be honest, it was [really gross](https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1288532875420336130). Jeff Bezos looked dead and vulnerable, Mark Zuckerberg looked like he was [locked in a shed](https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1288533673319501831), Tim Cook looked _fucking ancient_, and Sundar Pichai appeared disturbingly and unwaveringly impeccable. + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1288530100971954176 + +As in Zuckerberg's first solo televised hearing, two years ago, the Congresspeople made an absolute fool of themselves - especially the white ones. + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1288563571497074691 + +https://vimeo.com/213152344 + +A short documentary which I _demand_ all users of Facebook properties/the internet in general watch through. + +One point of history that is continually glossed over (from my perspective) is that _we already did this_ 20 years ago, to Microsoft. As far as I could tell, nobody referenced the original Microsoft monopoly hearings at all throughout the entire event. Luckily, Big Ole Bill, himself, appears willing to discuss it, as he did in [a recent _Wired_ interview](https://www.wired.com/story/get-wired-podcast-4-bill-gates/). + + + +> I got a whole committee attacking me and they had four at a time. I mean, Jesus Christ! What's the Congress coming to? If you wanna give a guy a hard time, give him at least a whole day that he has to sit there in the hot seat by himself. I mean, it was such a sweet thing... And they didn't even have to get on a plane! +> +> Bill Gates on the contrast between his hearings and the recent Big Four hearing | _Wired_ + +Honestly, the rest of what I have to say has already been Tweeted. Here's **[the whole Moment](https://twitter.com/i/events/1291436270166724610?s=20)**. + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1288568568733466627 diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-08-06-loom.md b/import/wtf/2020-08-06-loom.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e4cc075f --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-08-06-loom.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +title: "Loom" +date: "2020-08-06" +--- + +From Loom's [Press page](https://www.loom.com/press): + +> Loom is a new kind of work communication tool that helps people get their messages across through instantly shareable videos. With Loom, you can capture your screen, record your front-facing camera, and narrate your video all at once — no switching apps or upload required. Whether it’s training new teammates or replying to a customer inquiry, Loom enhances the way people communicate at work by allowing them to send the next best thing to being there. Founded in 2016, Loom has hundreds of thousands of active users and is backed by Point Nine Capital, General Catalyst, and the Slack Fund. + +I tried the [14-day trial](https://www.loom.com/pricing) of Loom's "Pro" tier, which includes custom video resolutions. In that time, I was able to record several demos using Loom's [desktop app](https://www.loom.com/desktop) on Windows. I also nabbed a few with Loom's [iOS app](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/loom-screen-recordings-more/id1474480829). I've found almost all of them useful elsewhere and have organized them into a publicly-shareable folder called "**[Software Demonstration](https://loom.com/share/folder/75c1347dd92943b5be991ca76fe00483)**." + +## Embedding + + + +The above is an example of a "responsive" embed. It's the only opportunity I had to actually use my microphone. I was unable to capture any webcam video at all because I broke the driver for my Surface Laptop's 2's integrated camera recently and haven't been able to figure out how to fix it. + +Here's an example of a fixed-dimension embed of a video recorded on iOS: + + + +## Comment + +Loom reminds me abstractly of [Puush](https://puush.me/register) - an ultra-smooth screen grab service all of the most e-enabled Twitter youths used back in the day (~2010-2014) ((huge thanks to [Brady](https://twitter.com/bradyjhenry/status/1291448890286174208) and [Isiah](https://twitter.com/ammnontet/status/1291453336860860416) for actually helping my memory)) - that allowed one to use a hotkey, draw a rectangle, release, and it would instantly upload the image file + copy a link to the clipboard without any further input. On both of the platforms on which I tried it, the events following "Stop Recording" are where Loom really shines: uploads seemed like magic (on my connection, anyway.) + +Ultimately, I'm sure there are definitely folks for whom Loom is unparalleled in a very specific day-to-day workflow necessitating repeated screen capture in small clips, shared in real time. I just hope those users are able to discover it and that its business proves sustainable. diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-08-07-wordpress-experimentation.md b/import/wtf/2020-08-07-wordpress-experimentation.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bb5590dd --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-08-07-wordpress-experimentation.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +title: "What the Fuck Are You Doing‽" +date: "2020-08-07" +--- + +* * * + +The answer is: yes... I have created a lot of websites recently. Shall I list them? + +- _[Extratone](https://extratone.com)_ +- [_Extratone_ Wiki](http://extratone.wiki) +- [_Extratone_ Blog](https://extratone.vivaldi.net) +- [Bilge](https://bilge.world) (blog) +- [Dieselgoth](https://dieselgoth.com) (car blog) +- _Crud Magazine_ (still very much pre-launch) + +> I knew Markdown had to be involved and that I never wanted to look at anything like WordPress' dashboard ever again. +> +> Community [https://write.as/community/chat-with-david-blue](https://write.as/community/chat-with-david-blue) + + + +Yes, just [three months ago](https://write.as/community/chat-with-david-blue), I cited an earlier vow to _never use WordPress again_, largely out of an effort to avoid "fiddling \[my\] life away," as [CJ Eller](https://blog.cjeller.site/) so poignantly phrased it in his interview. It's quite possible that I am just avoiding actually finishing "the Facebook essay" which I have been working on for most of the summer thus far. Regardless, I thought I'd install a default WordPress instance and see how the CMS has progressed since the early days of the Gutenberg editor's launch. + +As I'm writing this, I'm using WordPress Version 5.4.2, and honestly... It is _so_ much smoother than the last version I used. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but it's really very noticeable. I've done my best to try a wide variety of the new editor blocks in posts like "[Writing About Facebook Is Overwhelming](https://www.davidblue.wtf/covering-facebook/)" and "[Email and I: An Abridged History](https://www.davidblue.wtf/hey-email-history/)" and have found them all _vastly_ more reliable. As nervous as the WordPress community was about the change in late 2018 - it was such a big deal that Kara Swisher actually [invited Matt Mullenweg on _Recode Decode_](https://www.vox.com/2018/8/2/17641412/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-media-privacy-advertising-data-reckoning-kara-swisher-decode-podcast), which is absurd, in retrospect - the team managed to actually pull off the Ultimate Modernization of this goddamned software that it was shooting for, in many ways. It's still irrevocably uncool to host your blog on WordPress among the web development community, and the property is still a Big Ole Bitch, but as it stands, it is undoubtedly the best version I have ever used by a country mile, for what it's worth. + +![](images/DavidBlue.wtf-Capture-8-7-2020.png) + +This website as it appeared on [August 7th, 2020](http://web.archive.org/web/20200807230643/https://www.davidblue.wtf/). + +The last time I'd checked, Automatic was far behind on releasing [Twenty Twenty](https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwenty/) - their traditional yearly default theme for WordPress installations. Returning, I was enthralled to find out that they'd built it around my second favorite typeface of all time (which I enthuse over [far too often](https://twitter.com/search?q=%22garamond%22%20%40neoyokel&src=typed_query&f=live)): Garamond! The original arrangement is probably best showcased by Matt Mullenweg's [personal blog](https://web.archive.org/web/20200730045736/https://ma.tt/). It was a very bold decision which I support 9999%. + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/804085099591585792 + +As much as I adore (and still very much intend to invest in, going forward) Writeas, there are a few things I'd like to try out in a personal website which it is not necessarily ideal for. An ongoing list of these aspirations is as follows: + +- A [list of software](https://www.davidblue.wtf/trials/) I'm trying out right now. +- A [list](https://www.davidblue.wtf/writing/now/) of my current writing projects. +- "[Little Reviews](https://www.davidblue.wtf/category/software/little/)" - for short commentary on stuff I've tried when I don't have enough to say to warrant a full "review." +- A landing page consolidating more relevant information into a different sort of presentation. +- A deliberately-curated list of stuff on the web that makes me feel good. + +**Make no mistake**: the future of this particular website is very uncertain. I have no idea how long I'll leave it up or what I'll be doing with it in the future, but _here it fucking is_ if you happen to be curious. diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-08-08-wordpress-ios.md b/import/wtf/2020-08-08-wordpress-ios.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..428cedd8 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-08-08-wordpress-ios.md @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +--- +title: "WordPress for iOS" +date: "2020-08-08" +--- + +_I wrote the entirety of this post - from inception to publication - using Version 15.4.0.2 of the [WordPress for iOS Beta](https://testflight.apple.com/join/AkJQt8Pw)._ + +There has never been much reason to give a shit about the WordPress app on iOS. It’s always been a mediocre way of making quick edits/basic editorial changes on the go. If I had to guess, the vast majority of users who’ve downloaded it have done so in haste - to correct spelling, erase slurs, trim duplicates, quickly disappear drunk posts, swap images, etc. It’s been far too long since I first found myself compelled to do so to remember _why_, but I _can_ tell you it occurred on January 14th, 2015 - the day before I [first discovered](https://twitter.com/neoyokel/status/555681940418748418?s=21) the EAT theme. + +https://twitter.com/neoyokel/status/555681940418748418 + +Astonishingly - with too much of my lifetime spent digging through the multiple developer blogs relating to the iOS app - I discovered the [original announcement post](https://apps.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/wordpress-for-iphone-available-now/) for the iPhone app’s release as well as a [slightly-earlier one](https://apps.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/wordpress-for-iphone/) from July 2008 including a precious, [extremely rare video](https://videopress.com/v/GyIzZkju) of the app’s original version being demonstrated. + +A demonstration of the original WordPress for iPhone app circa [July 2008](https://apps.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/wordpress-for-iphone/). + +While the app is surprisingly pleasant to compose with, now (somehow,) I’m afraid I do not have it in me to chronicle the rest of its 12 year history for you. Take a moment to [scroll through](https://media0.giphy.com/media/lqdl6Q2enVCcQOaVOr/giphy.gif?cid=4d1e4f291ba822919a1d8ee4279fa6e7f37b0edb9b07c5bc&rid=giphy.gif) the reviews on its [app store page](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wordpress-world-stickers/id1139958755) and you’ll notice a fairly stark point in the past year at which the jist of the most positive transitions from _adequate_, _functional_, (essentially where they’ve been for the entire history of the app,) to _really good_. You’ll notice even in the media surrounding the adaptation of Gutenberg blocks to iOS [in February](https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/2019/02/26/the-block-editor-is-coming-to-the-mobile-apps/) that _a lot_ has changed about its UI since then. + +- [![](images/img_1831-300x169.png)](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/img_1831-300x169.png) + +- [![](images/img_1829-300x169.png)](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/img_1829-300x169.png) + +- [![](images/img_1832-300x169.png)](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/img_1832-300x169.png) + +- [![](images/img_1833-300x169.png)](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/img_1833-300x169.png) + +- [![](images/img_1830-300x169.png)](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/img_1830-300x169.png) + +- [![](images/img_1834-300x169.png)](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/img_1834-300x169.png) + + +The shear amount of improvement since Winter compared to the state of general stagnancy it’d endured for years arouses curiosity regarding the _incentive_ behind the new effort. Well, just last month, WordPress hosted a live “[webinar](https://youtu.be/qBZIU_I49H8)” specifically dedicated to demonstrating the capabilities of their new mobile experience. + +https://youtu.be/qBZIU\_I49H8 + +I simply have zero desire to watch through that recording, but I would like to respond to one particular capability the [event notes](https://wordpress.com/blog/2020/06/19/wordpress-mobile-apps-webinar/) emphasized: **site creation**. As far as administrative tasks one should ever expect to perform on a mobile handset, actually _creating a new website_ is extreme from just about any perspective. There is absolutely zero legitimate reason for anyone to be launching new WordPress installations at any volume on the go, and therefore none to invest any time or effort whatsoever into making the process easier. However, in the course of my own rough, completely unrehearsed [demonstration](https://youtu.be/BYOdugyqV34), it took me less than _four and a half minutes_ from opening the app until pisscore.wordpress.com was launched and online with _real content_. + +https://youtu.be/BYOdugyqV34 + +From here, I think we should look back again for just a moment at that [February announcement](https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/2019/02/26/the-block-editor-is-coming-to-the-mobile-apps/) of Gutenberg block integration into the mobile WordPress app: + +> For this first version, our main focus was to build a pleasant writing experience with support for the most basic types of content. Our data showed that 90%+ of the posts created on the mobile apps consisted of basic text and images, so we decided to focus on supporting the Paragraph, Image, and Heading blocks on this version. +> +> “[The block editor is coming to the mobile apps](https://make.wordpress.org/mobile/2019/02/26/the-block-editor-is-coming-to-the-mobile-apps/)” | _Make WordPress Mobile_ + +I would surmise that the introduction of the first new from-scratch editor in WordPress history spearheaded the seismic shift in the quality of the app’s design. “We did a lot of work on making sure the little things that you would expect to work on an editor were there,” continues Jorge. The effort has resulted in the apparent solution to the dominant obstruction to actually _composing_ in the WordPress app as I saw it: **one can now trust the app to save progress enough to feel comfortable writing here**. In the course of this writing, I only received the once-dreaded “post failed to upload” error a single time, after which one retry immediately resolved it. The last time I logged into a property on the WordPress app, just briefly _viewing_ content caused unwanted changes/fucked up formatting that had to be corrected from the web admin panel. So far, this seems to have been [completely resolved](https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/30/wordpress-ios-app/). + +A quick demonstration of Stats Widgets in WordPress for iOS. + +Before I go on, let me just acknowledge that it has always been possible - if a bit clunky - to log in to the full web WordPress admin dashboard on mobile browsers. When _[Extratone](https://extratone.com)_ was still running on pre-Gutenberg WordPress, I kept Google Chrome for iOS on my phone exclusively to interact with the backend this way, which allowed me to make editorial revisions and tweak administrative settings away from my PC. The superior reliability of this method to the WordPress app of the time was _immediately_ evident. From a practical perspective, I’m still not entirely sure why Automatic chose to stick to the idea of a standalone mobile app in the first place. Tasks like theme customization, menu/tag/category editing, and media metadata management shouldn’t be often necessary to do on a cellular phone, and certainly not in any significant quantity. + +[![](images/giphy.gif)](https://media3.giphy.com/media/MFmkQ8vz7f63uZar4K/giphy.gif?cid=4d1e4f29be5b2d528cbffd78861893074d146c6228d0994c&rid=giphy.gif) + +If an administrator is doing things at all correctly, the full admin dashboard’s compatibility with mobile browsers (which has also [improved](https://media3.giphy.com/media/MFmkQ8vz7f63uZar4K/giphy.gif?cid=4d1e4f29be5b2d528cbffd78861893074d146c6228d0994c&rid=giphy.gif), I’m pretty sure,) should provide more than adequate mobile administrative capability, yet Automatic clearly made a deliberate commitment to backing their own app instead. The only use case worth any justification in this regard almost certainly has to be use on iPad. I am personally far too alienated from tablet use to provide any insight, here, but I’d imagine my argument still stands. + +- ![](https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.97/wbo.d84.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/img_1816.png?time=1596888442) + +- ![](https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.97/wbo.d84.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/img_1817.png?time=1596888442) + +- ![](https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.97/wbo.d84.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/img_1815.png?time=1596888442) + +- ![](https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.97/wbo.d84.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/img_1818.png?time=1596888442) + +- ![](https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.97/wbo.d84.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/img_1823.png?time=1596888442) + +- ![](https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.97/wbo.d84.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/img_1820.png?time=1596888442) + +- ![](https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.97/wbo.d84.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/img_1824-1.png?time=1596888442) + +- ![](https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.97/wbo.d84.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/img_1837.png?time=1596888442) + +- ![](https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.97/wbo.d84.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/img_1836.png?time=1596888442) + +- ![](https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.97/wbo.d84.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/img_1850.png?time=1596888442) + +- ![](https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.97/wbo.d84.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/img_1849.png?time=1596888442) + +- ![](https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.97/wbo.d84.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/img_1838.png?time=1596888442) + + +![](https://secureservercdn.net/50.62.198.97/wbo.d84.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/img_1822-1.png?time=1596888442) + +Plugin management on mobile makes sense to a certain extent - the ability to deactivate an errant extension or activate an _Under Construction_ plugin on the fly, for instance - but it definitely ends before the plugin discovery interface, which is the sole half-assed area in the app, almost as if a developer realized its futility midway through the design process. Before you start downloading shit willy nilly to your website on your phone, _just go home_ dude. + +This narrative of the handset-dwelling publisher is an interesting one, at least. My criticism is mostly rooted in the fact that I do not know anyone who’d choose an iPhone application as their primary development/publishing environment, but then again, I don’t actually know _anyone at all_, so I’d be genuinely curious to hear about experiences with/opinions on WordPress in any fashion from you or someone you know. Give me a [fuckin ring](https://www.davidblue.wtf/contact), eh? diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-08-09-soundcloud-go.md b/import/wtf/2020-08-09-soundcloud-go.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5b1d0730 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-08-09-soundcloud-go.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +title: "SoundCloud Go+" +date: "2020-08-09" +--- + +## I’ve got some fucking opinions about SoundCloud... + +My girlfriend Sierra has used SoundCloud almost exclusively for her music discovery, consumption, and recommendations, but has remained resolute in her unwillingness to financially invest in the service. As such, her listening is regularly interrupted by ads and limited to bitrates [as low as 64kbps](https://www.magneticmag.com/2018/01/soundcloud-lowers-sound-quality-uploads-half/). Since I was last employed, I have maintained a vow to her that I would pay for a subscription to SoundCloud Go+ - the premium _listener_ tier of the service - with my own money, once I was once again in place at a steady job. This move would remove all advertising from her listening and [up its bitrate to 256kbps](https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010227514-High-Quality-Streaming), among [other benefits](https://checkout.soundcloud.com/go). + +Two nights ago, we were refueling her car in preparation for another one of our recreational drives into rural Missouri when I made the decision on a whim to simply signup for a trial of Go+ on [my own account](https://soundcloud.com/chordoslut) using Apple Pay, mostly because I knew we'd be going out of effective cell network range and one of Go+'s most emphasized features is its ability to download music locally. (Since my Apple Music subscription expired earlier this year, I only have [a single album](https://bigkrit.com/music/king-remembered-in-time/) actually downloaded on my phone.) + +https://soundcloud.com/keithjarrettofficial/rio-part-v?in=keithjarrettofficial/sets/rio-105 + +* * * + +The above is what I wrote several weeks ago, just as I was beginning my trial period. Now, having experienced a significant amount of time as a SoundCloud Go user, I am a bit sad that my trial is over. To be honest, I fully intended to become a paying subscriber, but my PayPal account was $0.70 short of the $12.99 monthly fee when the first billing cycle came, two weeks ago. This is not a conclusion I expected to come to, as SoundCloud's fundamental arrangement could not possibly differ any more from the music streaming service I long claimed as my ideal own: Apple Music\[efn\_note\]While I was surprisingly unable to find any Tweets or Evernotes further evangelizing Apple Music (I suspect I'm thinking of an old, untranscribed _Drycast_ episode,) I found real magic in the service as I perceieved it: $9.99 a month for _all of iTunes_. 13 year-old me would considerthat one helluva deal.\[/efn\_note\]. + +One major worry I would imagine potential subscribers may have when approaching SoundCloud as a replacement for their single music subscription service would revolve around the extent of SoundCloud's establishment music industry library. There's no way your Dad's Sunday barbecue playlist is going to be on _SoundCloud_, right? Strangely enough, I was unable to find a single track that _was not_ in the library\[efn\_note\]Naturally, if you know of one, please do comment and/or [drop me a line](https://www.davidblue.wtf/contact/).\[/efn\_note\]. From my own favorite [Keith Jarrett's archives](https://soundcloud.com/keithjarrettofficial) to [the new Dixie Chicks album](https://soundcloud.com/dixiechicks/sets/gaslighter-2), every bit of big time record label-distributed music I could conceieve of could be found aside the Go+ badge (though notably, neither of these showed significant playcounts.) As far as the app experience goes, I _swear_ it got smoother as soon as I signed up for Go+. This is probably bullshit, but regardless, with the seemingly ever-widening disparity in the experiences of free vs. premium users, SoundCloud appears to be moving actively away from the former. + +![](images/SoundCloud-Keyboard-Shortcuts.png) + +SoundCloud's Desktop Keyboard Shortcuts + +I have long said (somewhat in jest) that [Chance The Rapper](https://soundcloud.com/chancetherapper) is the only reason SoundCloud still exists. + +> From a future historian’s perspective, the battle for the definitive name in independent digital music distribution has already won, largely thanks to its relationship with Chance The Rapper, who’s quickly become a “cultural influencer, thought leader, global star,” and one of my generation’s upmost celebrity champions. Obviously, there is little sense trying to determine whether SoundCloud _earned_ his partnership or landed their popular association with his name as long as the artist maintains it publicly, while continuing to [give new meaning](https://soundcloud.com/pitchfork/pitchfork-presents-in-sight-out-chance-the-rapper) to the phrase “serially likable.” +> +> "Bandcamp: Streaming's Secret Savior" | July, 2018 + +If [_CNET_ was asking the question](https://www.cnet.com/news/chance-the-rapper-soundcloud/) a year before that Bandcamp essay, I think I can feel properly varified. What I'd really like to know, now: does Chance still feel the same way about the streaming service after the launch of SoundCloud Go+? Considering that I am far from a _real_ music journalist, I do not have any more contact resources than you have. That said, I left [a comment on his Facebook Page](https://www.facebook.com/chancetherapper/posts/3299672310124810?comment_id=3319045628187478&__cft__[0]=AZVwHKj7Db1EJxvu5l-xa4hb-aW_Fv-fvaUXzepPQ24DfitI9jwAxeplWqKkQde9oc2LGBRquP8cYgMJ6I3bvtjIigkpjULs0ZJc7xrLEeyie2QSyQ1W2rZSaoSfm4pikn7vQrEXXUNJFwaE5WbEfYelyKWZAqQBQH7PEpRaJeU9NeeVP65oR0YA5OOeH_GfWlmSisfB7yNuoUpWgpiwsla0&__tn__=R]-R). I guess we'll see. + +Some more technical bits: SoundCloud is now castable on Chromecast, but _not_ supported by Apple CarPlay, for whatever that's worth.\[efn\_note\]In fact, it is the only streaming app I found that _does not_ have CarPlay support. Even Bandcamp and MixCloud for iOS do!\[/efn\_note\] Notably apart from Bandcamp and Apple Music and aligned with Spotify, SoundCloud is explicitly investing in algorithmic music discovery, which means its users are doing the curatorial work. _I_ am doing/have done the curatorial work. That means the DnB crowd is going to receieve Toto recommendations, given what I sought out for this post. You're welcome, and sorry... diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-08-12-google-sci-journal.md b/import/wtf/2020-08-12-google-sci-journal.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6114a32e --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-08-12-google-sci-journal.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: "Google Sci Journal" +date: "2020-08-12" +--- + +You ever stop and wonder what the fuck you’re doing with your life? I was looking through [Google’s properties on the iOS App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/google-llc/id281956209) the other night when I discovered [Sci Journal](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/science-journal-by-google/id1251205555) - which is advertised as “the free digital science notebook brought to you by Google,” though some basic research revealed that it’s apparently been [recently acquired by Arduino](https://support.google.com/sciencejournal/answer/9715912). Regardless, all I really care about is the app’s ability to tap into the most basal data coming from my iPhone 8 Plus’ hardware sensors. + +https://youtu.be/Bq4MKG0yPag + +As with the freedoms [initially allowed by Siri Shortcuts](https://bilge.world/siri-shortcuts-ios12-review) at launch, any tool that allows access to my iPhone's hardware's raw data is exciting. Sci Journal allows one to record data from all three axis of the accelerometer as well as the compass, barometer, light sensor (in the cameras,) and multiple vectors from the microphone. My favorite bit? You can set each parameter to make a sound (as exemplified by [my demo video](https://youtu.be/Bq4MKG0yPag) above.) + +[Sci Journal Data (PDF)](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Waaaw-VI.pdf)[Download](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Waaaw-VI.pdf) + +After recording, you can export the data to a [PDF](http://www.extratone.wiki/net/index.php/s/p8PAf7rQmXmLYHH) or a "[.sj](http://www.extratone.wiki/net/index.php/s/dDZscgxo5JPr4qY)" file. When I tried to export the "experiment" shown in the video, though, I broke the app. The attached files are examples from a much shorter one. + +![](images/Sci-Journal-Data-scaled.jpg) diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-08-16-boomers-destructive-generational-tastemaking-disaster.md b/import/wtf/2020-08-16-boomers-destructive-generational-tastemaking-disaster.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bf0ad508 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-08-16-boomers-destructive-generational-tastemaking-disaster.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +title: "Boomers' Destructive Generational Tastemaking Disaster" +date: "2020-08-16" +--- + +Today, whilst riffing on [the early outline](https://workflowy.com/s/for-gods-sake-just-s/Wo20KYUf38a57XGw) of _[For God's Sake, Just Sit Down to Piss](https://www.davidblue.wtf/writing/projects/piss/)_, I began to search back through some old writing on a phenomena I have witnessed in American music throughout my life. I found less than I expected, to be honest, but I did discover this particularly eloquent grab from [The Bandcamp Essay](https://bilge.world/bandcamp-streaming-music): + +> **I can think of little more reductive, repugnant, reckless, or racist crusades as a model figure than indoctrinating your child with an inherent distaste for their own culture**, and nothing more deeply alarming to hear from the mouth of someone born in the 21st century than shit like “Queen was better than any rapper will ever be,” or “real musicianship will die forever with Eric Clapton.” It’s unfair and unnatural: imagine if your high school classmates had consistently turned up their scrunched nose at the living whole of rock & roll, declaring Scott Joplin to be the last musician they could stand. +> +> The Psalms [https://bilge.world/bandcamp-streaming-music](https://bilge.world/bandcamp-streaming-music) + + + +I am in no position to act like a culture writer,\[efn\_note\]Though I _have_ been doting on what an excellent job I did with "[The Case for Chuck Klosterman](https://bilge.world/chuck-klosterman-x)," lately. (I doubt I will ever encounter another subject quite as personally provoking.)\[/efn\_note\] nor have I ever been enough of an authority on any sort of music to be a real music journalist. As I sat attempting to zoom back out and quantify precisely _why_ I wanted to include this in the second chapter of this particular book (writing by hand, for once,) in a notebook by hand for once, though, I arrived for the first time upon the realization that this subject has genuinely, profoundly disturbed me for a very long time - definitively longer than any of the others. I was sharp when I touched upon it in The Bandcamp Essay, but _actually_ going back and revisiting those experiences with very young men evangelizing classic rock as the penultimate musical expression of mankind suggested that I was really concealing a deep-set, alarming concern behind the peeved wit. + +> This issue is not unique to American society nor to men, really, but is entirely the sickness of white boomers and gen Xers. It is an anomaly that has genuinely and profoundly perturbed me for virtually the entirety of my existence as a culturally literate entity - certainly longer than any of the other disturbances addressed in this volume. +> +> From my hand-written notes on the subjects, today. + +If I have progressed on this issue in the past two years, it's been with an acceptance that it _really is_ and has been _happening_ at scale in this country and far too many others for _decades_, now. That is, the natural progression of a whole generation's cultural identity has been dramatically molested.\[efn\_note\]Probably more than a single one, if we're honest with ourselves - perhaps two or even three.\[/efn\_note\] Never in the history of Western civilization has an elderly generation managed to convince the proceeding _several_ that _their_ culture is objectively superior to that of the descendants. Yes, there have always been those young people who comfortably and unironically describe themselves as _old souls_ - hiding behind this foul moniker from their perception of cultural/technological progression's pressure to assimilate ideas too challenging to acknowledge, but never have they occupied a double-digit percentage of the youth, nor have they been so romanticized by mainstream culture. + +Scott Joplin evangelists overtaking high school bands in the 1960s has been my favored hypothetical for far too long, so let me instead step a foot into another medium and use the television series _Stranger Things_. According to [its Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things) (I am _not_ going to spend my time actually citing correctly, sorry,) the first season premiered on July 15th, 2016, which is 33 years ahead of its quoted original setting of November 1983. An equivalent: imagine if American sailors stationed at Pearl Harbor in 1941 were obsessively watching/discussing the original, silent 1908 film *[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Jekyll_and_Mr._Hyde_(1908_film))*. I no longer have any sources who were alive during that era, but I can imagine such obsession would be seen as odd, especially among 18-25 year-olds. diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-08-26-outside-the-fucking-box.md b/import/wtf/2020-08-26-outside-the-fucking-box.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e866d1ab --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-08-26-outside-the-fucking-box.md @@ -0,0 +1,212 @@ +--- +title: "Outside the Fucking Box" +date: "2020-08-26" +--- + +Mr. Drake paused, swiveling his gaze on his heels, gray eyes wide. In the rear, Liam scoffed loudly over the disinterested silence, slouched all the way back in his rigid chair and hoisting his legs to cross them on Barney’s left shoulder. + +“Ay, YO TEECH,” he yelled in Mr. Drake’s general direction, glancing left and right. “YO TEECH, you blaze tron?”\[efn\_note\]It should be noted that Liam Libel was wholly, thoroughly, obviously, unquestionably white.\[/efn\_note\] + +Mr. Drake, frozen in the forward stoop he’d been glaring from, offered no reply. Barney brushed briskly at Liam’s Converses against his head as if they were a lost lunar moth. + +“Yo teech, you just tell me if you want a little somun somun, you know what I mean,” Liam said, _Ha Ha_ing with his right hand eclipsed over his smile. + +“Dude,” Barney complained. Libel sat up again and returned his feet to the floor, but didn’t otherwise acknowledge the protest. He threw his right arm into an arc over his head and made his hand into a vague pistol shape, pointed at Mr. Drake. + +“Ay, YO TEECH… BET YOU NEVA HEARDA GOVENA RON PAUL… Ha ha! YOU AND THIS WHOLE COUNTRY… THIS COUNTRY GOIN TO SHIT, _MAN_.” + +Mr. Drake self-consciously returned to standing upright, but his eyes looked miles beyond the far wall and his students – thirty-one of whom had yet to react at all. + +“Why is it ALWAYS BOXES, _man_? What’s with the FUCKIN BOXES? YO TEECH, THIS SOME BULLSHIT.” + +Barney set about gathering his things to escape the tirade, but Liam had begun to violently writhe about in his chair and appeared to be quickly descending into a fit, which exponentially slowed Blimp’s organization. + +“DON’T DO THIS, TEECH. DON’T LABEL ME!” + +His whole body was convulsing now and his magazines were bounding and bouncing toward serious altitudes on top of him like wheat chaff as it’s shaken free of the grain. + +"AY YO TEECH… WHY YOU GOTTA PUT THESE CAGES ON US? LEMME BLOW YOUR MIND RIGHT QUICK." + +And with that, his chair failed him as he shook to the ground on his hands and knees – still hollering in bodily tumult. + +"COME ONNNN_NNNN_ TEECH, YOU KNOW I CAN’T FIT IN YOUR REPUBLICRAT BOX,” he spat at the rug. Neither Mr. Drake nor his pupils had moved or expressed anything, save for Barney Blimp, who stepped over Liam Libel with his backpack and threaded his way strenuously through the desks and static legs, feet, and empty faces through the door. A hundred yards down the hallway, as he leaned against the exit, a final croaking throw came from behind him. + +“_Ron Pal!_” + +The creaking of the exit door – hinges wanting for a greasing – and the _swooshing_ of its bottom seal against the muddy black shoemat yielded not for Barney Blimp the fresh Colorado air and lucid sunshine, but instead – through a haze of drug-numbed internal retching and destruction – the stagnantly sterile, ammonia’d atmosphere and lifeless colors of a meager hospital room. From the open hallway to his left came an ambiently echoing broadcast of unexpected contextual quality. + +“Welcome, Frances Fujica Chamberlain, eleven pounds, six ounces,” said a theatrically raspy woman’s voice, followed by a pleasantly rhythmic rock sample.\[efn\_note\]Specifically, from the slightly-altered chorus of a 1976 cover by Mannfred Mann’s Earth Band of Bruce Springsteen’s 1972 original that found significantly more success – reaching number 1 on _Billboard_’s “Hot 100” in the U.S.\[/efn\_note\] + +“_BLINDed by the light_ / _revved up like a deuce_ / _another roller in the night!_” + + + +Yet, it was the tiny wall-mounted television that captured Barney’s newly-awoken, moderately-medicated attention. From diagonally across his tall bed with its faded floral sheets and itchy medium blue comforter, the minuscule CRT blared a top-of-the-hour _Good Morning America_ graphic. + +“Good morning, America. Breaking news, the FBI takes on Apple demanding the tech giant help with a terror investigation. Are critical clues to more plots hidden on the phone of the San Bernardino shooters? Why Apple's CEO is refusing to help this morning. A battle that could affect everyone with a smartphone,” said the voice of the aging anchor from under a dyed black combover to whom the introduction transitioned along with a lower third graphic that said “JAKE JINGLES, ABC NEWS.” _Apparently, it is the morning_, thought Barney Blimp. + +“Good morning,” he whispered. Jake Jingles and his co-host Jaime Jangles then went on about the idiosyncrasies of the G.O.P., quoted and played back a clip of the current President saying _I believe so and so will never be President_, then a shorter clip of “BJ, a German Shorthaired Pointer” – clearly somewhere else in the studio, sitting obediently, cocking his head at the approaching camera lens – before finally returning to a wide-shot of Jingles and Jangles sitting abreast, smiling off screen at the dog. + +“All right, and good morning, America. There he is, BJ, the winner of the Eastminster Kennel Club's Best in Show Award. He's just arriving here in Times Square. He took a walk there on our green carpet in case you missed it. We cannot wait to meet the top dog coming up. Hear what he has to say about his win. The biggest bone of all.” + +“A great-looking dog.” + +“He walks like a winner.” + +“He is.” + +“Absolutely.” + +“Amazing,” said Barney Blimp, all at once noticing how uncomfortable his entire physical being had been left in its current, awfully-upright position against a mountain of pillows that looked promising, but disappointingly lacked fulfilling qualities one tends to hope for and enjoy in promising-looking pillows. He lifted his rear to scoot it down and felt an unsettling tremor of his out of kilter equilibrium atop faint whole-body pins and needles from – no doubt – remaining more or less stationary for hours?...days? + +“…have more on that later. But right now lots of reaction coming in overnight to that emotional appearance in the White House briefing room from Chief of Staff Eggs White. The former general raw and red-eyed as he defended the President, attacked his critics, and remembered the death of his own son on the battlefield. Chief White House correspondent Geoffrey Gouge starts us off. Good morning, Geoff…” + +Realizing the excess of the television’s current volume was insistently coercing the entirety of his attention, Barney looked about him – despite the dizziness – searching for the remote control. To his left, there was only empty space and the burst of brief, sickly draft from a cycle of the neighboring Intensive Care Unit airlock; to his right, a substantially loaded IV pole holding both black and translucent liquid bags, and a hang-over eating tray on castors which was – quite strangely – surfaced in a bright, neon-green neoprene, and contained a small-book-sized touch tablet. He reached for it, tapping the black screen with his right index finger’s plastic heart-rate monitor in an attempt to illicit life. After a few clumsy tries, he achieved a sort of success: an awkward, large-print menu faded into view with five haphazardly off-center options next to hopelessly-scaled stock graphics: _DRUGS_, _MEDIA_, _BILLING_, _SCHEDULING_, and _SUPPORT_. Barney tried _MEDIA_, but the subsequently displayed controls were muted somehow – left transparent. No amount of tapping yielded any change in the program, which had turned to a montage of B-roll: red-faced parents talking on mobile phones on the black asphalt – crowded to the point of insanity by neutral-colored SUVs outside a sprawling red brick building sprouting the tiniest trickle of gray smoke from the far wing. + +“The driver, look at this, pulled over after he smelled smoke, and that's when flames erupted.  More than a dozen students from the Jacksonville area high school had to evacuate. One person was treated for smoke inhalation. The children were picked up by a different bus and taken home. No word on what caused this in the first place, but certainly glad everyone is okay this morning, Jake.” + +“Thank goodness for that. And now to that big win overnight for the Los Angeles Dodgers, heading to their first World Series since 1988,” continued Jake Jingles as the slightest electronic pseudodance percussion was subtly faded behind his voice in the background – its 140 beat-per-minute high hats abnormally flattered by the bias of the pitiful speakers within the wall-mounted unit, furthering Blimp’s aggravation with the situation. He amplified his aggression toward the tablet, holding it just inches from his nose as he pounded his fingers on the glass. The original menu came briefly back into view before the _DRUGS_ option was selected, swapping the theme entirely for microscopic, illegible text and alarmingly primary reds. The unassuming white plastic pump suspended in the middle of his IV pole suddenly clicked and began a drawling, whirred chugging. Panicking at the sound and the new movements of fluids he perceived, Barney vigorously attacked the big red _X_ in the top-right corner with every ounce of available effort left in the stumps of his thumbs, and was – to his gracious relief – rewarded with the cessation of the horrors. + +“…guy behind looked so concerned until the last second. Also right now a lot of reaction coming to that emotional moment in the White House press briefing room. Chief of Staff General White, defending the President's calls to the families of fallen soldiers. Also took on the President's critics and opened up about the loss of his own son on the battlefield…” + +Barney Blimp sighed in extreme exasperation and threw the tablet down on the tray, sinking under the sheets until his feet felt the footboard and hung over it, both hands desperately gripping the comforter, pulling it over his nose so that only his eyes-up were exposed. A new wave of drowsiness gushed from his numb belly and washed over him like sleepy molasses, tinging his vision light blue as he tilted it with his head on the flat bed below the pillow mountain to focus on a single one of the ceiling tile’s dark red polka-dots. _Spackled blood_, he thought – the removed Observer of his consciousness noting how much less anxious he was in the moment than he should’ve rationally been, while knowing, of course, that his state was entirely the result of whatever drugs they had him on. + +“Welcome, Leslie Désirée Lund, eight pounds four ounces… _BLINDed by the light_…” + +Barney Blimp’s eyes drooped heavy as his Observer ceased short its attempt to recollect the sequence of events which led him there – wherever _there_ was – it was a bed… a less-than-moderately comfortable bed… and instead considered the definition of “roller” in “_another roller in the night_.” Not _roller_ as in “high _roller_,” no. Not “_roller_ blades,” though it… he… _they_ had always wanted to learn how to inline skate… _Aggressive_ inlines. Speed skating was such an elegant, lost art. Why weren’t there more speed skaters swooping and sliding around, bent over with their hands behind their backs to cut through the air oh-so-beautifully… in all State and National parks… in cardigans… and purple sweatbands? _What happened to them all?_ + +“…and after the break, Jaime and I sit down with Theodore Pith, the young artificial intelligence pioneer and mogul, now author of a new book about cheese and the end of the world…” + +R-o-l-l-e-r, _roller_. A flour-dusted light wood cylinder with matching old style handles, loose… Loose, but that’s how they were supposed to be… how they had to be or else it would not roll separately of them… Except it was _huge_, and growing! Gargantuan! And the hands! Covered in dark black hairs of a simply _vulgar_ length and nearly as big… Bringing the overwhelming girth of the surface – the _much_ too _solid_ and _threatening_ surface – to flatten his body! Rhythmically rolling and squishing and flattening Barney Blimp and his organs against this awful, foreign bed like _fucking dough!_ He was more conscious now, but still unable to move – completely paralyzed… And the hellish utensil was on its way back again! _Revved up like a deuce…_ _The toes_, he remembered! He and his Observer concentrated everything they had on wiggling their toes… _really_ wiggling… and finally… they wiggled alive! + +Liberated from his dream and waking paralysis, Barney shot up – sheets, comforter, tubes, cables, and all – inhaling massively only to see on the tiny wall television the pale, smiling face, flashing green eyes, and blood-red hair of his new boss sitting cross-legged in a purple chair astride the _GMA_ watermark as the show returned from a commercial break. Opposite a table packed with granite-looking half-pipes full of steaming brown beans were the smooth faces of Jake Jingles and Jaime Jangles. + +“Here with us in the studio this morning is Theodore Pith, author of the new, quite controversial but hot-selling book – especially here in New York, _The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Are Varieties of Cheese: How Your Foodism Will End Everything_,” said Jake Jingles with occasion. + +_Fuck_, mouthed Barney Blimp. + +“…and the new owner of the renamed Manhattan barbecue joints, Pith's Chili Trough and Pith's Chili Playpen. We've got what looks to be a... Ha ha, well... a miniature _trough_ of chili right here in front of us. Wow! A lot to dive into, for sure, but first, Mr. Pith... Your book seems well… It seems to be in direct opposition to what I see and smell in front of me. That is cheese on that chili, right?” + +“SON OF A _FUCKING BITCH!”_ screamed Barney, hoarsely. His hands moved to fumble with the tablet again, mouth agape as Jake Jingles fumbled similarly in propping an obnoxiously-covered volume upright for the camera, on screen, struggling to obscure an apparently-obscene illustration of a nude woman covered in cheese – his right hand accomplishing the censorship of all but her cheese-strung feet behind the title text. + +“Yes, that's an understandable contrast to make, Jack,” Pith answered as the broadcast switched to his full-shot angle. He himself was deeply contrasted with the formal wear of everyone present – save for some of the studio audience, perhaps – with his pale, freckled arms sticking out of a plain white t-shirt which said on its front in a loud, large, simple sans-serif typeface _TODAY IS SATURDAY, MARCH 10TH._ + +“First, I'd like to say how wonderful it is to be here above the beautiful Time Squared... Wow! You guys have a great audience. Hiya, folks! Love you guys! Don't be shy – get your hands dirty! It's Chili Day!” + +Theodore Pith waved wildly and dumbly, gyrating both palms at the present audience, off screen, who whooped and cheered in response. Their audience camera was clumsily cut to a bit later than it should’ve been. Jake Jingles forced a chuckle. + +“Well, there it is... You've got to love that humor! Was it part of promoting the book, buying these restaurants or was the timing just a coincidence?” + +Jaime Jangles chimed in with an addendum, first two right fingers drumming on her chin. + +“And has the tour got you jetlagged, or was your shirt part of the promotion, too? What kind of a shirt is that?” She gestured toward his torso, emptily smiling. + +“First of all, yes that is true, free-range American cheese grated into your chili, there... I'm actually going to start digging in, if you don't mind,” Theodore Pith said, shoving the provided logo-adorned bib under his right thigh. + +“No, of course... I think I'll join right in with ya,” replied Jake, who sat forward and looked helplessly at the massive task before him. + +“I, myself, really don't find the book's argument in conflict with my love of- and affection for chili, particularly.” He threaded the provided (and also logo-adorned) garden trowel under a great yellow-brownish gop of beans and scooped it toward his maw, spilling a few ounces on the oversaturated rug. Jake Jingles was having one hell of a time shoving his own logo-adorned bib into the front of his shirt without rubbing his live lapel microphone unnecessarily. + +“That argument being – as I understand having read as much as I could last night – that our obsession with food is... Well, sort of rampant and infecting our culture-” + +“...and stealing attention from important efforts in humanitarian policy, charity, et cetera, yes, but when you _do_ finish the book – and I really hope you do, George, really… – you’ll have been taken through my conclusion, which is, essentially, that it is by now our delicious, gluttonous, organic Rome's time to fall, if you’re catching my drift.” + +Barney Blimp was now a reddening, rigid live wire – his fury crossing a threshold in his heart monitor, setting off its alarm in triads. _Beepbeepbeep_. + +Jake Jingles – now equipped properly with logo-adorned bib – looked across the table in building agitation at Theodore Pith, twirling his clean trowel. From beside him, Jaime Jangles – yet to be misnamed, and thus slightly less huffy – offered her intermediation. + +“I have to say... I haven't gotten to read the book yet, but I really love my Me Food – I happen to know that Jake, here, loves his _even more_, and it's hurtful, the suggestion that my interest in good food is somehow wrong or dangerous-” + +“...oh, James! Don't look so bashful! Please, do eat your chili!” + +There was a great, gaping, deadly live television pause filled with the swishing and swashing of the pale Pith’s rhythmic chewing over the 140 beat-per-minute electro beat, his otherwise quiet person in frame, t-shirt now covered in brown, eyes cast downward to the half-empty trough before him. + +Jaime Jangles cleared her throat. + +“I’m Jaime, actually…” + +The eyes came up with a full mouth, from which hung a six-inch-long string of cheese. + +“...oh shit, I'm so sorry! That's really embarrassing...” + +Theodore Pith looked to her, then to the camera and back. Behind the camera, the audience conveyed together both amused applause and inverbal admonishment. + +“Jaime, please let me make it up to you… have some of _my_ chili!” + +Jingles and Jangles cringed, smiled, and managed chuckles with all the restraint in the world. + +“Hey, now! There are families watching this live, Mr.- ” + +“…gosh, I am so sorry.” + +Theodore looked to the camera covered in chili as the shot cycled back to him. + +“Kids, you should know that profanity is nothing by the byproduct of laziness. True eloquence is-” + +“…let’s just try and get back to the book, alright?” + +“Sure, sure... It's really exciting to see it finally going off the shelves after all these weeks, you know. Writing something like this is grueling stuff.” + +The triplets of the Barney Blimp alarm had finally summoned a disheveled young orderly, who bussed immediately around the dismal bed to cease it in a blur of dark purple and Chanel No. 5. + +“Good, good! It’s good to see you up… Barney-“ + +“Please turn off the television,” he said. + +“… I’m sorry?” + +“TURN _OFF_… the television. Turn off the TV, please.” + +The orderly looked up from the tablet on her forearm to the screen, where Jaime Jangles was hesitantly playing with her little shovel. + +“Wow, yes, I can't even visualize… How long did the process take, do you know?” + +“At least three... Yeah, three weeks or so, last November I think it was,” to _wows_ from Jangles, Jingles, and the audience. + +“For God’s sake, turn… it… _OFF!_” + +“That's actually... really no time at all,” said Jake. + +“Really quick,” nodded Jaime. + +“OFF!” screamed Barney Blimp, in a single, swift motion picking up the tablet and hurling it – inches from the nurse’s nose – to a perfectly placed impact on the little TV, cracking its screen and inducing a brief blip of white noise blinds, yet neither the horrid appliance nor his visitor flinched a bit. The later calmly returned her attention to her own tablet, then to the IV pole’s machinery. + +“Mr. Blimp, please try to control yourself.” + +Jake Jingles again stiffly manipulated the bright-orange volume, turning it in profile and then over, very deliberately assuring that the cheesy woman be excluded from the shot. + +“It's nearly five-hundred pages, right? And this is your first book?” + +“First _published_ book under my own name, you know. I've written a few other things, here and there, but that's a subject for another time.” + +_Aw_, said the audience. + +“Sure, we’ve got to have you back some time,” said Jake Jingles with visible grit in his smile. + +“Jesus,” said Barney Blimp. + +“But, this apocalypse... Is it happening now? Soon? A hundred years in the future? Or...?” + +“All three, really. We are here eating scrumptious, fifty-dollar chili while unprecedented numbers of people are starving, all over the world…” + +“Mother_fucker._” + +“…in Haiti, Namibia, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Detroit... And yet, we demand only the cleanest last few decimals of a percentage from the food on our own tables.” + +Up went the young woman’s eyebrows as she tapped her tablet, unpainted fingernails clacking. + +“Look, I’m sorry about the TV, but could you _please_ just turn it off for me?” + +“A striking thought,” said Jake Jingles. + +“I’m sorry,” she replied, making eye contact for the first time, eyebrows erect with no minimum of patronization. “I can’t do that, Barney, but I _can_ have something to eat brought up for you, if you’d like.” + +“_…another roller in the night!_” + +“Quite. And that was the idea, but it's also important to note - not to give too much away, I hope – that Rome's decline is inevitable, despite what hope we all love to swaddle ourselves in, and thus we might as well enjoy what we have so far achieved, yes?” + +“Well, I'm glad you brought this chili with you... It _is_ quite an achievement,” said Jaime Jangles, having eaten half a trowel’s worth. + +“How does that sound, huh…? It’s Chili Day!” + +Barney Blimp gripped the handles straddling his bed-bound prison so ferociously that he soon blacked out. diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-08-29-college-return.md b/import/wtf/2020-08-29-college-return.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d691e782 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-08-29-college-return.md @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +--- +title: "Back to Fucking School" +date: "2020-08-29" +--- + +At the beginning of this week, I existed under the _intention_ to go back to school this Fall, but after "meeting" with an especially patient academic advisor from the same community college I dropped out of in 2013\[efn\_note\]Specifically, the same "campus" based in the same mostly-abandoned old mall I also _worked_ full-time in.\[/efn\_note\] on Wednesday, he mentioned just in the last seconds of a 90-minute conversation that I actually had class _that night_ at 6PM, and seemingly all at once, I felt both more anxious and more excited than I had ever been about anything in recent memory. The two days since have been a truly unique experience, so I thought I would fucking _journal_ for you to give myself a bit of a break (yes, I'm already feeling overwhelmed,) so I created the [_Chronicle_ category](http://davidblue.wtf/chronicle) on this goddamned website. + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1298334207299801091 + +My anxiety is especially silly considering I only signed up for just **four classes** and also received the wonderful news that I _do not need another math class_ in order to graduate with an Associate of Arts degree in approximately three semesters. You really wanna know what they are? Okay: + +1. Composition II +2. Public Speaking +3. American History From 1865 +4. Geology + +[https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=9lfkmr0nfgo4sgv7cf27gn6j3iou546l%40import.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FChicago](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=9lfkmr0nfgo4sgv7cf27gn6j3iou546l%40import.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FChicago) + +I ended up particularly excited about and engaged in my first assignment for Comp II - it was especially dangerous of my instructor to prompt about my personal writing history: + +> Your background as a writer: when did you take Comp I, where? What do you remember about it? Do you write on your own--letters, poetry, fiction, etc? What aspect of the writing process do you enjoy most/least? What type of writing do you enjoy most/least? What are your strengths and weaknesses as a writer? What do you expect to get out of this course (I do not mean in terms of credit or grade)? What do you expect to put into the course? +> +> The prompt for my first assignment in Composition II: "Introduction of self as writer" + +As of this moment, I am fucking 2500 words into the goddamned thing and already feel very sorry for my instructor - so much so that I've included a huge amount of disclaimers like "please feel no _personal_ obligation to actually read this essay in its entirety." It's probably highly telling that I fell so deeply so quickly into it that _I still haven't finished_ even though it was due at midnight on Wednesday. May Gourd save my idiotic soul. + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1299472928027930627 + +I'm just going to sprinkle embeds throughout this post that don't have any relevance to the actual content... sorry. + +Naturally, my vanity led me to run away with the opportunity to be autobiographical. I think I might eventually adapt the submission to be posted here or on _Extratone_'s Wiki because it's a relatively entertaining review of my public projects in adult life. Therefore, I should probably minimize quoting from it in this particular post beyond this one particularly funny story from my last college writing class experience (Composition I:) + +> \[REDACTED\] was my instructor and most definitely the first truly radical Leftist I had ever seen up close.\[efn\_note\]He remains the only teaching figure thus far in life whom I have intentionally (though not necessarily actively) maintained a mutual Facebook friendship of significant value and was quite a profound influence on my perception of academic writing considering how distracted, distant, and wholly over-my-head I was at the time.\[/efn\_note\] He was noticeably late to the first class, into which he glided wearing a dark full-length trench coat and fedora. If memory serves, he began that original three hours with a PowerPoint presentation full of pixelated memes – which were definitely _fringe culture_ in 2012 – and had whipped only the words “WHITE DEVIL” in red ink on the whiteboard\[efn\_note\]Truthfully, I am less than certain this particular detail actually occurred during the very first class, but the jist of the whole was equally outrageous.\[/efn\_note\] by the end of the evening. Tossing in my own quite ignorant late-teen assumptions about the demographics of my fellow students, my punk high school friend and I found that first experience spectacularly surreal and astoundingly bewildering. As I recall, he dropped the class shortly afterward, but I can at least speak for myself when I say that I had never been even _remotely_ as affected by previous classroom encounters of any kind. Looking back, though, the most significant shock was not in fact cultural but _functional_. \[REDACTED\] was the first authority who actually explained a solid handful of institutional systems and processes which had astonishingly, inconceivably, and inexcusably **_never been covered_** throughout a public school career highlighted by a general interest in advanced writing courses: the purpose and abridged history of academic journals, “peer review,” “argument,” and “authority” as academic terms, some sense of the most basic reasons behind academic writing’s relationships with citation as a practice, and additional elements which will undoubtedly continue occurring to me intermittently throughout the rest of my writing life. + +There _are_ a bunch of very-insightful bullet points in my notes so far, so I'll include an HTML export of my notes file so far: + +["Introduction of self as a writer" Notes](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Introduction-of-self-as-a-writer-Notes.html)[Download](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Introduction-of-self-as-a-writer-Notes.html) + +## Process & Tools + +While we're on the subject: it took going to college for me to _finally_ give Notion a real try. Since my friend CJ Eller [first told me about it](https://twitter.com/CJEller3/status/1255638639268311049) in late-April\[efn\_note\]The concept of publishing to the web via Notion-to-Static HTML is actually quite interesting as explained in [the blog post he linked](https://azlen.me/blog/new_website/).\[/efn\_note\], I have installed and then shortly uninstalled both the Windows and iOS application _four or five times_. Out of all the notetaking applications I've tried throughout the past ten years, it was/is the only one that makes as overwhelming a first impression as Evernote originally tends to.\[efn\_note\]Though I do _not_ agree that Notion and Evernote's use cases overlap at all significantly (at least so far.)\[/efn\_note\] I both quickly understood why it appears to likewise have a comparatively cultish usership and almost immediately felt the urge to _run away_.\[efn\_note\]As I explained in my [oft-hyperlinked interview with CJ](https://write.as/community/chat-with-david-blue), the software designed for the "tweaker" tends to quickly lead me to act like the drug-related use of the term.\[/efn\_note\] + +https://twitter.com/jane\_c\_hu/status/1299406653838643200?s=20 + +The handful of recommendation listicles for college apps I perused rated Notion as the general best choice for more "detail-obsessed" users, but they also overwhelmingly recommended OneNote, for some reason, which should probably incinerate any chances they had at credibility (see more about that below.) Once I could actually justify to myself the time and attention required to set up one's own Notion workspace, I've found the process relatively engaging and - at least so far - fairly capable for what I think I'd like my school-specific notetaking/documentation workspace to look like. It wasn't until just tonight that I discovered how to use one's student email to get the "[Personal Pro](https://www.notion.so/pricing)" plan for free, which ups the file limit from 5MB to (supposedly) "Unlimited,"\[efn\_note\]I'll let you know what the limits actually are if/when I manage to break something, of course.\[/efn\_note\] and allows one to add unlimited members. I'm pretty sure that means any Notion users among you can stop by **[notion.so/rotund](https://www.notion.so/rotund)**\[efn\_note\]I'd really appreciate if you'd take the time to let me know whether or not you were successful.\[/efn\_note\], or [this public share link](https://www.notion.so/rotund/764a6619ca084d03ac725ac23e8fb167?v=b63e46809c464d888fcbfe1228cefa6e) if you so desire. Despite how obscure my school is in the grand scheme, I found the process of [verifying my school email](https://www.notion.so/students) _literally_ instantaneous. If you'd like to hear more about my experience with Notion, you can literally just watch my notes file progress and/or keep an eye out for my upcoming _[Little Review](https://www.davidblue.wtf/c/software/little/)_. + +https://twitter.com/kylegaddo/status/1299484200630919168 + +Hopping back to Microsoft OneNote for a moment... I was gifted/promised a lifelong Microsoft 365 Business subscription by a client a few years ago, so I have grown accustomed to indulging my curiosity regarding applications in the suite whenever I set out to accomplish something new.\[efn\_note\]For instance: I just discovered [two weeks ago](https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1293975448364482562) that Microsoft Publisher still exists and is even included and _fucking downloaded by default_ with 365 to this day.\[/efn\_note\] I've tried to give OneNote a real fighting chance for _years_ - generously leaving it pinned to the 5th position on my taskbar\[efn\_note\]This is quite relevant considering how dependent my Windows workflow is on using the **Ctrl+**(Number Key) keyboard shortcuts.\[/efn\_note\] after Firefox and before Word - but Notion finally toppled and replaced it today... Only after I'd taken the time to create a new OneNote notebook entitled "Academia" and layed out a "Section" for each of my classes did I actually engage upon the simple task of pasting from my in-class notes in Typora, which all at once reminded me that the damnest quirk of the thing actually makes it totally unusable for me: the fundamental layout design with its movable sections is just impossible to work with, for whatever reason. + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1299080691158835200 + +Another really bad piece of software: **_fuckin_ Zoom**. I'll be honest... I had no idea! Though I spent all of July _attending_ Zoom meetings for [_The Information_'s News Summer School](https://www.reddit.com/r/extratown/comments/hlokqh/news_summer_school_the_information/), they were all exclusively view-only and presented by one speaker at a time, for the most part. In just three total class periods actually involving any sort of call-and-response discussion this week, I think I have developed an understanding of how much suffering has been caused most people throughout our collective involuntary remote working/learning/visiting. I promise I'll try my best not to let the rest of the coming semester take away my underlying belief that software _can_ and _will_ eventually reach a point of net equilibrium or net positive in the average human life. Also, I should mention that I am at least thankful Zoom allows one to customize its keyboard shortcuts and that I was met with absolutely zero resistance from either upload size limits or straightedge peers when I uploaded a 25MB PDF file of our Composition II textbook in the chat. My instructor even made a point to leave the meeting open for an extended time after class ended to allow everyone to download the file... and did not once question where I found it. + +It has occurred to me that I am almost certainly at significant advantage over most of my peers when it comes to work life digitally realized: compared to my disastrously careless file organization practices in late adolescence, my computer use has flip-flopped entirely. I now inadvertently end up spending _much more time_ organizing file structures and exploring different digital methods of information retention than I should. + +_You either die a crustpunk, or live long enough to see yourself become_ _the pedantic NEET_. + +In addendum to this post, I think I shall endeavor to write some much more formal and concise guide-esque posts and/or lists around optimization of one's online-only academic workflow, going forward, but for now, let me just refocus on some observations I've had so far: + +- I _completely_ forgot how much of a college student's time is taken with entirely unnecessary bullshit... I'm sorry, kids. +- I already have the urge to scream and never look my computer again... +- ...but I should do well to keep in mind how lucky I am that I am not having to go to virtual/online school via just a smartphone, as I suspect far too many of my classmates are. +- Basically... _Holy fuck, this is going to be hard_. +- I almost forgot to mention: thanks to my new status as a student - or at least my newfound possession of a .edu email address - I was able to sign up for Adobe Creative Cloud at a significant discount this week, meaning I will **finally** get the chance to actually _try_ Adobe's Full Big Boy Shit!\[efn\_note\]I have at least made the commitment to learning InDesign, for what it's worth.\[/efn\_note\] +- I actually took the time to set up my student email with [Mailspring](https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/) (the desktop email client I have used for very intermittent, secondary accounts to free up Outlook) via IMAP, which was a briefly nostalgic experience, but a necessary one, no doubt.)\[efn\_note\]Yes, I realize that this connection is _ridiculously_ vulnerable in 2020 and I fully encourage you to compromise its security if only so I can write about it.\[/efn\_note\] + +https://soundcloud.com/compaqclub/mailsprung + +Unfortunately, I succumbed yesterday to that awful thing I do where I open up Audacity and can't stop myself from _Just Fucking Around_ with sounds. + +The vagrant nature of my day-to-day workspace really is going to be quite a hindrance to this whole thing... Laying in bed with my Surface Laptop 2 propped up on my ever-enlarging stomach is far less conducive to virtual classes and even independent homework assignments than it has been to all of the work I've been engaged in these past two years, for whatever reason. + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1281509655752179713 + +What I'm _really_ trying to express: _I think I need a "new" computer_. That is... I think I should endeavor to set up a much more stable, dedicated space for work - with a desk, a _real fucking office chair_, perhaps some posters on the walls, etc. After arriving upon this supposition yesterday, I began a _[fuckin' Notion space](https://www.notion.so/rotund/Desktop-Workspace-d371dd0bac4d415baac734e89db0b93d)_ entirely dedicated to this transition, if you are bored, bizarre, or insane enough to take me up on such access. I was astonished to find a [refurbished, quite-powerful-looking, i7-equipped desktop](https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-refurbished-compaq-desktop-intel-core-i7-16gb-memory-2tb-hdd-black/6400464.p?skuId=6400464) on Best Buy's website for just $349.99, which is an overdue reminder of just how unnecessarily scummy the personal electronics industry is. No doubt, I will be writing more about the experience in the near future. + +![](images/Pearson-Revel.png) + +Pearson Revel is an impressively modernized method of textbook publication. + +Hopefully, I can finally manage to conclude by briefly remarking how good one particular ebook service of the few my school is using this year in comparison to all of the other digital readers I've ever been exposed to. It's called **Revel** (I think) and is a property of [Pearson Education](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_Education) - a company which I think I'd probably heard of before. Basically, I'd just like to comment how refreshing it is to see a _truly digital textbook experience_ as opposed to a digitized approximation of a printed one - escaping PDFs should honestly be part of somebody's Presidential platform. + +https://youtu.be/cY1yRDEfDEM + +**Finally**... I would like to leave you with this [gem of a creation](https://youtu.be/cY1yRDEfDEM) of mine which I only made looking for _any_ excuse not to actually be writing about fucking _[Clerks](https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1299018446131339264)_ today. I managed to unconsciously find myself downloading the [Media Kit](https://www.instructure.com/media-resources) of the company who makes the software which runs my school's online learning platform... I may require help sooner than I thought. diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-08-31-finally-broke-windows.md b/import/wtf/2020-08-31-finally-broke-windows.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c35e95fc --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-08-31-finally-broke-windows.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +title: "Finally Broke Windows" +date: "2020-08-31" +--- + +I finally did it, ladies and gentlemen... I managed to break the Windows installation on my [Microsoft Surface Laptop 2](https://www.davidblue.wtf/t/surface/) to such an extent that it has been unrecoverable. I am currently borrowing my mother's MacBook Pro and waiting on a Windows 10 installation .ISO file to download so that I can hope to mount it correctly on the last, shitty USB thumb drive I still have lying around. + +![](images/Screen-Shot-2020-08-30-at-1.05.00-PM-1024x352.png) + +YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT BITCH. + +I now suspect I began down this path a few months ago when I discovered [Windows Insider Channels](https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2020/06/15/introducing-windows-insider-channels/) and rejoiced... As I've discovered that one can relatively easily find a beta version of virtually _any_ piece of software, it's become a bit of a habit for me. More or less unconsciously, I’ve ended up with an application library full of _Developer Beta_ and _Nightly_ _Build_\-type shit. I don't think there was/is a single web browser installed on that machine that is not the given entity's "Developer Edition" which - considering most of the regular installs allow you to opt into dev tools, anyway - seem like they might be redundant. I don't particularly care, anymore - I mostly just love their icons. [Firefox Developer Edition](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/)'s logo is a blue Firefox(!,) [Edge Chromium Dev](https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download)'s is... more interesting than the regular version. [Google Chrome Canary](https://www.google.com/chrome/canary/)'s icon is a surprisingly-tasteful variation of the company's usually-horrendous color palette. + +What I'm trying to say is... I have continued upon this habit of opting for unstable versions of software in a sort of defiance against the common sense notion that relying upon them is generally a _bad idea_.\[efn\_note\]This is why I've always downloaded the developer iOS beta releases on my _actual_, daily driver handset.\[/efn\_note\] I suppose I was just **waiting to experience any consequences** from such a decision, and well... Here they are! + +It all began when my Surface's integrated webcam became invisible to all applications that used a video input - including Microsoft's own Camera app and OBS. It showed up in Device Manger, where I did the generally-recommended troubleshooting task of uninstalling it completely (including its drivers) and rebooting to force Windows to reinstall it. It did so successfully every time, to no effect on the original issue. I also went into the Surface's BIOS menu, where its hardware devices are explicitly listed, and disabled/re-enabled the camera, to no effect. Normally, the absence of a webcam function would be more or less irrelevant to my day-to-day workflow, but now that [I'm partaking in "virtual" college courses](https://www.davidblue.wtf/college-return/), at least one of my professors has pressured me to appear _on cam_ as soon as possible. + +On Sunday night, I decided to revisit the problem with greater commitment, diving into a variety of deeper troubleshooting steps which I do not recall. The crucial one, though, was my decision to use the System File Checker tool (sfc /scannow) with the added instruction to _fix_ whatever errors it found.\[efn\_note\]I'm pretty sure it was "-f" but I'm not going to do the research to verify that... Sorry!\[/efn\_note\] This drove my dearest little laptop into a cycle of self-diagnoses which results in an option screen including "Reset PC." After trying virtually every other option, I decided to try resetting, only to be met with connectivity error messages after pursuing the "Install via Network" option, leaving the use of a bootable Windows 10 recovery USB as my only choice, in theory. + +Another problem now arose: my mother's MacBook Pro is the only other machine I have any sort of access to at the moment, and MacOS no longer supports the creation of such a bootable USB for Windows via the Boot Camp Utility any longer. Nevertheless, I tried to make one by downloading the correct OS ISO and mounting it via UNetbootin, which didn't work. I then called [Columbia Computer Center](https://www.colcomputers.com/), who very generously agreed to make one for me and only charge me for the drive itself ($10!) + +Unfortunately, that one hasn't worked either, so I'm afraid I'm just going to have to take the thing to them... [Stay tuned](https://www.davidblue.wtf/t/surface/) for the Final Verdict. diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-09-03-hp-envy-desktop.md b/import/wtf/2020-09-03-hp-envy-desktop.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a64cd4e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-09-03-hp-envy-desktop.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +--- +title: "I Bought a Desktop" +date: "2020-09-03" +--- + +As with my [entire history](https://bilge.world/hp-spectre-x360-review) of computer purchases, my acquisition of an [HP ENVY Desktop tower](https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06443577), today, was last-minute, ill-informed, and certainly irrational. You "PC master race" folk: please spare me the _dude, you could've just built your own pc so much cheaper_ shit.\[efn\_note\]Or don't. Whatever.\[/efn\_note\] Yes, I realize the sensible course of action would've begun with a two hour trip West to the closest Microcenter, where I'm sure the staff would've made PC shopping an absolute blast and I would've come away with a more powerful, much cheaper machine. However, after I managed to [break Windows](https://www.davidblue.wtf/finally-broke-windows/) on my only machine this weekend (and subsequently failed to reset it,) I was getting especially behind on schoolwork and had _absolutely no desire_ to complete any of it on my iPhone. + +And so... I've just returned from picking up said HP Tower along with a [27" HP LED display](https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-27f-27-inch-display#!), and am writing you after having set up the machine physically and installed most of my "essential software" list (at least all that I could remember.) As per my favorite tradition of new computer acquisition, I have named the machine after [Hildur Odegard](https://fortitude.fandom.com/wiki/Hildur_Odegard) from _Fortitude_: + +## "First Impressions" + +It's been exactly 10 years since I last bought a desktop tower - since I first set hands on the Dell XPS Studio desktop with which I would create the majority of my intellectual property - and I was immediately surprised by how much smaller\[efn\_note\]6.12 x 11.93 x 13.28 inches.\[/efn\_note\] and lighter\[efn\_note\]13.12 lbs.\[/efn\_note\] this tower was than my expectations. The display, too, is remarkably light and thin. Rationally, I should not have been surprised by this, but I'm not going to punish myself for continuing to find any sort of magic in technology. + +[Hildur System Information](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Hildur.txt)[Download](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Hildur.txt) + +In the box were a Bluetooth keyboard\[efn\_note\]Specifically, an HP model [4251a-khsap003k](https://fccid.io/EMJKHSA-P003K).\[/efn\_note\] and mouse set - the latter of which I will hopefully never have to use, thanks to my [Logitech G203](https://youtu.be/oIAY1-aW8Es) - and was perplexed by the process of how to pair the former with the tower while it was in setup mode for far too long. I was just about to give up entirely when I revisited the packaging and noticed what I'd previously assumed was an anti-theft device, but was actually the fucking dongle for the pair. I continue to despise Bluetooth peripherals, obviously, but the multimedia function keys of the product led to some important realizations: I now had reason to use Windows Desktop Switching _and_ have a calculator application again! However, I have yet to figure out how to alter the Function key's behavior (I'm not even sure it's possible:) in order to input **Alt+F4**, I have to input **Fn+Alt+F4**, which is far too clunky to depend on. The issue did lead to a revelation which I may or may not integrate permanently: I mapped **Alt+F4** to the previously-unused button on the very top of the G203. So far, it's been pretty nifty. + +![](images/img_1994-scaled.jpg) + +The HP 4251a-khsap003k included in the box with my new HP desktop. + +That said, a component of [my](https://www.notion.so/rotund/Desktop-Workspace-d371dd0bac4d415baac734e89db0b93d) [i](https://www.notion.so/rotund/Desktop-Workspace-d371dd0bac4d415baac734e89db0b93d)[ntention](https://www.notion.so/rotund/Desktop-Workspace-d371dd0bac4d415baac734e89db0b93d) to create an intentional, static, upright-sitting desktop workspace included an allotment for a quality mechanical keyboard - my justification was that any professional in a particular craft makes a point to have the best possible tools for the job, so a high-quality keyboard has actually been _very_ long overdue, in my case. So, I sought out [a single _Wirecutter_ rec](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/our-favorite-mechanical-keyboards/)[o](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/our-favorite-mechanical-keyboards/)[mmendations list](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/our-favorite-mechanical-keyboards/) and even attempted to disseminate [r/MechanicalKeyboards](https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/).\[efn\_note\]I haven't even started self-harming yet, so my stomach is definitely strengthening!\[/efn\_note\] After a brief jaunt, I concluded that no reasonable person would be able to make heads or tails of the forum or [its seemingly endless wikis](https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/index) without considerable indoctrination so I more or less threw a dart and landed on the [Varmilo VA108M](https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=3504), which I ordered. All I know is that it's fairly highly-reviewed on the marketplaces I checked (though hardly mentioned on the subreddit, actually,) and that it has the _Cherry Switches_, which are... The good ones. + +https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/d3hmw3/my\_new\_baby\_varmilo\_108m\_cherry\_mx\_blues\_the/ + +A concern I originally had with taking over the tertiary guest room - by far the smallest allotted living space in the house - as my office was its distance from our wireless router, two floors down. The last time I used the room as a workspace (five years ago,) my old tower's integrated WiFi card often struggled to maintain a reliable connection. The adapter included in this desktop, though, actually managed to clock [the fastest download speed on my SpeedTest.net records](https://www.speedtest.net/result/10021332678) just now. + +[![](images/10021332678.png)](https://www.speedtest.net/result/10021332678) + +Somehow, I just managed to clock the [highest download speed on my record](https://www.speedtest.net/result/10021332678) from two floors up! + +## Bad(ish) + +It's almost painful even to write this but... As beautiful as this $250 display is to behold, I've grown accustomed to my [Surface Laptop 2](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/business/surface-laptop-2)'s **2256 x 1504 13"** display after years of hard, daily use. Apparently, those dimensions mean the little machine's display has a pixel density of **201 Pixels-Per-Inch**. Filling a **27"** display with just **1920 x 1080** means a pixel density of just **81.6 Pixels-Per-Inch**,\[efn\_note\]I suppose I should not have been surprised to immediately discover a [dedicated online tool](https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/technology/ppi-calculator.php) for calculating pixel density.\[/efn\_note\] and the disparity was glaring to my eyes, even from the setup screen. After a few hours of regular use, I'm not sure I notice it anymore, but I suspect I will again when I've got the laptop running again. Please do indicate whether or not you think such a complaint makes me awful in the [Crowdsignal poll](https://poll.fm/10603399) below. + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1301337431887708162 + +I've also already had trouble connecting my [Bose SoundLink headphones](https://www.bose.com/en_us/support/products/bose_headphones_support/bose_around_ear_headphones_support/soundlink-around-ear-wireless-headphones-ii.html) correctly via Bluetooth. On my Surface Laptop, it registered as two separate devices - "Stereo Headphones" and "Headset" - which allowed me to use them as both the primary audio output _and_ the primary audio input. For whatever reason, I have been unable to accomplish such a simultaneous connection on this machine: I can either connect them as headphones or as a headset, but not both. [This video](https://youtu.be/55yn-zF_dZY) provided some help - I know now that I have to open Sound Settings and manually connect the headphones every time I re-connect them. Hopefully, I'll figure out another solution soon. + +Returning to the webcam issue: I discovered that absolutely _zero_ local stores keep add-on webcams in stock anymore, which makes sense. I resorted to searching Amazon for webcams and found a gargantuan list of brands I had never heard of. When I filtered by the one I _did_ recognize - Logitech - I saw barely-facelifted versions of the camera my stepdad bought in 2008 and none were in stock. Unwilling to further investigate or research more, I set the price filter for under $40, sorted by customer ratings, and bought the first product which had even remotely legitimate-looking reviews: [this 1080p _thing_](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BQZT4N8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) branded with "Mersuii." + +After returning to the order invoice hours later for this post, I got curious enough to Google search the company name and discovered a dead-end url, zero Wikipedia page, and [this Trademark registration](https://trademarks.justia.com/863/53/mersuii-86353116.html), on which I spotted some very interesting information. Entered in the second "Goods & Services" row is the following text: + +> Adult sexual stimulation aids, namely, devices for massaging or vibrating external and internal portions of the body, vibrating and non-vibrating reproductions of parts of the male and female anatomies, male sex toys, masturbators, penis pumps, electrical penis cyclone pumps, rings, clamps, stimulators, vibrators, dildos, dongs, butt plugs, anal beads, rings to be worn about the penis; Adult sexual stimulation kit comprised primarily of adult sexual stimulation aids and a workbook +> +> [MERSUii Trademark Registration](https://trademarks.justia.com/863/53/mersuii-86353116.html) - "Goods & Services" + +To hell with that keyboard! Now I am immensely curious as to what I'll be receiving in the mail this coming **Monday**, the **7th**. + +https://poll.fm/10603399 diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-09-12-railroading.md b/import/wtf/2020-09-12-railroading.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e10c8cd8 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-09-12-railroading.md @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +--- +title: "Sierra's Railroadin Birthday" +date: "2020-09-12" +--- + +I have traditionally abhored reference to holidays when one reflects on one's recent activities, but this Labor Day also coincided with my girlfriend's birthday, and we made a bit of a holiday of it. Our first unprompted drive West toward Kansas City in the middle of the night for a very long time prompted jostled my memory back to ~ a year ago when I was Uber driving for a living and playing with maps apps between rides. Most notably, **[Map My Drive](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/map-my-drive-classic/id914981872)**, which is one of the few iOS utilities that lets one make truly good use of the handset's GPS hardware.\[efn\_note\]Remember [Google Sci Journal](https://www.davidblue.wtf/google-sci-journal/)? Yeah... Same sort of shit, in my estimation.\[/efn\_note\] As far as I understand it, once a user has enabled tracking, the app drops GPS waypoints at a user-determined frequency which it eventually can aggregate together into a [.KML](https://developers.google.com/kml), [.GPX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Exchange_Format) or .JSON file. + +- ![](images/img_2323.png) + +- ![](images/img_2320.png) + +- ![](images/img_2322.png) + +- ![](images/img_2321.png) + + +[Map My Drive](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/map-my-drive-classic/id914981872) is an ingenious iOS app that represents the sort of data creativity iOS development rarely sees. + +Were it not for this app, who knows how long it would've taken me in life to discover the existence of the first two, or of services like [Google My Maps](https://www.google.com/mymaps), which allows users to import, annotate, and share route data. So, if I had a following of readers who were deeply obsessed with me recounting my life on WordPress, for whatever gosh darned reason, they'd be able to retrace our journey down to a matter of _inches_, if they wanted. + + + +Because Sierra loves trains so much, we eventually resolved (in the middle of the night) to cross to the _other_ side of Missouri by morning and visit what I remembered being the most unqiue museum experience of my childhood:\[efn\_note\]Of which there were so... So many. My parents were both 43 when I was born, meaning, I guess, that they were old enough to feel like catching up on a whole lifetime's worth of factual recreation.\[/efn\_note\] St. Louis' **[National Museum of Transportation](https://tnmot.org/)**. + +![](images/50332351142_8b9dc2648d_o-scaled.jpg) + +Two things I can't say I expected to ever see _physically_ in my life: one of the [25 largest and most powerful steam locomotives ever built](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Big_Boy), and an example of [Chrysler's Turbine Car project](https://youtu.be/b2A5ijU3Ivs) from the 1960s. And yet... + +https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidblue/sets/72157715939118122/ + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1304923864309411842 + +Yes, I'm aware I very much over-edited these images...\[efn\_note\]And by that I mean... I just fucked around with too many Lightroom presets, really\[/efn\_note\] I'll blame it on my new display and my fundamental ignorance regarding color data in modern digital image manipulation. I can almost assure you I'll be Posting more about my escapades as a brand new Adobe Creative Cloud user very soon. For now, just have a peak at this profile picture taken from within [the museum's Monsanto tanker car](https://tnmot.org/collection/monsanto-chemical-company-m-c-h-x-117/), seven years ago: + +https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10200978827850999&set=a.4487710948956&\_\_tn\_\_=%2CO\*F + +## Some Other Discoveries + +- **[UniChar](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id880811847?mt=8)** - the iOS Unicode reference app I've been [absolutely obsessed with](https://bilge.world/unichar-for-ios-app-review) since the moment I found out about it - now has (or maybe always has had) **[a web app](https://unichar.app/web/)**! +- I installed [the entire Google Fonts libray](https://github.com/google/fonts) on my PC and still haven't died. +- I finally created [my personal vocabulary page](https://www.notion.so/rotund/ca33ea9588be4b3b9531c62c7d75d284?v=1b814be2d7ba46e19cbf56a0c8fb0e64) (on notion) and will be updating it regularly. +- I didn't actually mention the new branding set I made for this site in the last post... I also don't know if I've ever pointed out that I managed to secure **[behance.com/compaq](https://www.behance.net/compaq)** lol. +- I have found the ultimate mouse button mapping. + +![](images/image-2.png) + +Some folks _[actually conversed with me](https://mastodon.social/@DavidBlue/104843391967830863)_ on Mastodon! About _Keyboard Shortcuts_, no less! + + + + + +My very first residential LED bulb - which I was legitimately thrilled about when I bought it - [just burned out](https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1304242180316332033) on Thursday morning. God bless... + +![](images/50332354517_c6aa54acd0_o-1024x768.jpg) + +The sound of a passing train from [just off Cement City Rd](https://goo.gl/maps/s6Xjw3Pja7Xutpr48). + +## Additions + +You'll notice that I have further integrated Notion into my day-to-day life in a big way, and it's being reflected on this God Damned Website. Much _much_ more to come about that. + +![](images/image-1.png) + +What happens when you tell your PC to install almost [4000 font files](https://github.com/google/fonts)? I guess we're gonna fucking see! + +I gave in to my apparently ~annual ritual to just waste hours away fiddling away with old Windows notification sound files in Audacity and made [this](https://soundcloud.com/chordoslut/windows-operatic): + +https://soundcloud.com/chordoslut/windows-operatic + +Perhaps _most_ importantly: I actually _[completed something](https://indd.adobe.com/view/221aceb0-aa12-4318-ada4-affee2d293d4)_ in InDesign for the first time! A good first step in my pledge to get a solid grasp on it before the year's out. + + diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-09-14-commemorating-extratone-errors.md b/import/wtf/2020-09-14-commemorating-extratone-errors.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..623ef881 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-09-14-commemorating-extratone-errors.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +title: "Commemorating Extratone Errors" +date: "2020-09-14" +--- + +Extratone's two or three joke 404 pages may have legitimately been my favorite part of the website. Since I've now made a personal commitment to learning Adobe InDesign, I thought I might get myself to _actually finish_ my first .indd project by making something almost purely commemorative. \[efn\_note\]There's nothing like reflecting on when you were at all creative and/or funny to get the fluids flowing! It's also wonderful to have those old disdains for "common sense" design principles to draw back out to conceal incompetence beneathe a mask of designed elitism.\[/efn\_note\] + +![](images/Extratone-Legacy-404-Page.jpg) + +This (compressed to hell) screenshot is all that's left of _Extratone_'s very first 404 page... Heartbreaking. + +No, I doubt I will ever replicate such originality again. I have no idea where I came up with the idea of using the _Zenon_ movie poster, but the snapshot of myself with all of the televisions came from [the introduction video](https://youtu.be/K_6EY_ZWqaM) to my pre-_Extratone_ online magazine project, which was shot on the single set we built for _[Children of The Corn 30](https://www.facebook.com/ChildrenoftheCorn30/)_. + +https://twitter.com/extratone/status/880254494935662592 + +[![](images/404-scaled.jpg)](https://www.behance.net/gallery/104230341/Four-Oh-Four) + +I would love to claim that "turn the crank" came from the infamous Vannevar Bush essay, "As We May Think:" + +> It is readily possible to construct a machine which will manipulate premises in accordance with formal logic, simply by the clever use of relay circuits. Put a set of premises into such a device and **turn the crank**, and it will readily pass out conclusion after conclusion, all in accordance with logical law, and with no more slips than would be expected of a keyboard adding machine. +> +> "[As We May Think](https://www.notion.so/rotund/As-We-May-Think-Vannevar-Bush-dfd4a901701b4103a52dfe962083c565)" by Vannevar Bush + +The truth is, though, I have it in my hands right now, have been reading it, and can't say whether or not I have before. Regardless, you'll find links to the typefaces I used below as well as a download for the whole InDesign package. Feel free to do whatever with it. + +## Typography + +- [Aktiv Grotesk](https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/aktiv-grotesk) Condensed Extrabold Italic +- [Hind](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Hind) Bold +- [Inconsolata](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inconsolata) UltraExpanded Bold + +[DOWNLOADS](https://www.notion.so/rotund/Four-Oh-Four-2410a477cd5d483788efe7c3f4181fcd) diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-09-20-varmilo-va108m-mechanical-keyboard.md b/import/wtf/2020-09-20-varmilo-va108m-mechanical-keyboard.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..45be1789 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-09-20-varmilo-va108m-mechanical-keyboard.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +title: "Varmilo VA108M" +date: "2020-09-20" +--- + +Yes, I bought a mechanical keyboard. It occurred to me that folks who spend a lot of time doing things that require tools - _professionals_, artisans, craftsmen, etc. - usually seek out the best possible quality offerings of those tools. Even if they're just 5% better than the average alternatives and cost twice as much, when one uses them for hours every day, the last bit of refinement pays off very quickly. Considering how much typing I've done in the past 5-10 years, I find it a bit silly that I hadn't before thought to optimize the hardware I've used to do so. Now that I've put at least some thought into designing the space in which I work and [gone back to school](https://www.davidblue.wtf/college-return/), I've also invested in bettering the thing my hands actually touch the most. + +##### Actually... Before I go on, [here is the link](https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:497d6e70-60df-4087-a3e5-af91077bec15https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:497d6e70-60df-4087-a3e5-af91077bec15) to the Varmilo VA108M User Manual/Guide/Reference in English in case that's what you came looking for. (I had difficulty finding it, too.) + +[Varmilo VA108M User Manual](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Varmilo-VA108M-User-Manual.pdf)[Download](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Varmilo-VA108M-User-Manual.pdf) + +I suppose I've let myself be blinded to the advantages of a mechanical keyboard by the _gaemer_ stigma that surrounds them. This time, I believe I began by simply inputting something like "best keyboard for typing" into a search engine, which returns plenty of iffy results, naturally, but among them was [a list from _Wirecutter_](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/our-favorite-mechanical-keyboards/) - whom I trust, more or less - of "Best Mechanical Keyboards 2020." Also included were posts in the [r/MechanicalKeyboards subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/), which I _actually fucking joined_\[efn\_note\]Yes, I have actually been using the Read It website in the past 18 months or so, which anyone who's known me at all would find unbelievable. I don't know if I'll write about it in the future, so I'll just say I've unblocked it within my psyche largely because it's no longer horrendous to look at.\[/efn\_note\] (but promise never to mention again outside of this post.) Uncovering my eyes, I found a ridiculously-extensive community message board and [Wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki), which is undoubtedly the most extensive resource on the subject to be found, anywhere. Though I did place a time limit on myself for any research of 15 minutes, in retrospect, I suppose I also had some criteria, which I assume - if you're still reading - you might be interested in: + +- **WIRED** as fuck. Bluetooth can _fuck off_. +- "Full" keyboard, for the same reason I'd never spend any money on a piano with any less than 88 keys. +- At least tolerably tasteful, aesthetically. (Not overwhelmingly embarrassing if someone were to actually see me using it.) +- Cute, ideally. +- No light shows. +- Not "ergonomic." +- Not from Logitech or Microsoft. + +Immediately, it was overwhelmingly clear that my choice must also have _The Cherry_... The Cherries... The "Cherry MX Switches," whatever they are. _Any_ of even the most skimmy reading up on the subject will lead you to this conclusion. That addressed, I arrived upon three considerations: the [Ducky One 2](https://www.duckychannel.com.tw/en/Ducky-One2-RGB-TKL), [Das Keyboard Model S Professional](https://www.daskeyboard.com/model-s-professional/), and [Varmilo VA87M](http://blog.piaw.net/2017/12/review-varmilo-va87m-wired-keyboard.html). + +![](images/Varmilo-VA108M-Overhead-scaled.jpg) + +Layout of the VA108M seen from above. + +As good as the idea of something as German as the Das Keyboard sounded, I hate the way it looks, and the Ducky seemed to take itself too seriously (despite its brand name.) The VA87M seemed to be ideal if it was full-sized. I searched for the equivalent, [found the VA108M](http://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=2855), and bought one immediately. Specifically... + +**SKU** + +[VA108MP2W/LLK22W](http://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=2855) + +**Switches** + +Cherry MX Silent Red\[efn\_note\]I remain genuinely confused as to why the color of the switches matters, considering they are only visible when the keycaps have been removed.\[/efn\_note\] + +**Dimensions** + +5.39" x 17.41" x 1.30" + +**Cord Length** + +60 Inches + +I've already written more than I ever wanted to, but let me just say that I love everything about the thing - the particular set of special keys, the way it feels & sounds, and that its heft prevents it from moving around - and I hope to keep it forever. As I said on the photographs I posted to social media, **I promise to never bring this or any other mechanical keyboard up ever again** unless asked about it. diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-09-21-ios14-anxiety-mode.md b/import/wtf/2020-09-21-ios14-anxiety-mode.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..05cd93ba --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-09-21-ios14-anxiety-mode.md @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +--- +title: "iOS 14's Anxious Destiny" +date: "2020-09-21" +--- + +It is my privilege and my curse to write about every new major iteration to Apple’s mobile operating system, though I skipped iOS 13 last year, which was largely dominated by Dark Mode, the iPad OS fork, and Memoji – which I could care less about, honestly – and didn’t warrant my investment in a Full Post, I felt. The Photos app improvements were very welcome, but I’d departed from iCloud as my primary storage service, so I didn’t have anything relevant to say. iOS 14 is also mostly irrelevant to my own personal use, but represents a more abstract shift in design philosophy that I thought was worth commenting on. For myself, everything about it adds anxiety, beginning with the launch, itself, at [Apple’s WWDC 2020](https://youtu.be/GEZhD3J89ZE), which I watched, live, and [Tweeted extensively about](https://twitter.com/i/events/1275137514609823751?s=20). + +## I do not want to live on the Memoji planet. + +My technology writing over the years has largely centered around my awe and confusion regarding what I've perceived as a divergent path from the future I once imagined. My closest guess as to this divergence's origin is the announcement of iOS7, with Apple's [abandonment of skeuomorphic design](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2013/jun/12/skeuomorphism-apple-ditched-ios7) in favor of an entirely new, "flatter" UX visual language, which I actually found quite jarring. [In retrospect](https://snap.as/extratone/retrospective), though, of course I'm glad they did so. I thought this was an importat preface to any thoughts I have about [today's WWDC Keynote](https://youtu.be/GEZhD3J89ZE) - they will probably seem idiotic in a year or so (they might to you already.) + +https://youtu.be/i243Fn1HwOY + +Thanks to The Big Beer Virus, this was Apple's first pre-recorded WWDC presentation (though the word "live" continued to be used on several occasions,) which made it especially surreal. During the wait for the Keynote to "go live," the stream was occupied by an [animated Earth](https://twitter.com/GoncaloCdM/status/1275110234000969728) from orbit. As the clock rolled over the hour's top, AURORA's "[Daydreamer](https://song.link/us/i/1457598185)" faded in and we began to grow closer to this Earth, gradually revealing that it was covered with millions of floating memoji in various states behind their animated MacBooks. Like much of the event to follow, this scene became more and more anxiety-inducing as we grew closer to the mob (keep in mind that I've never really found memoji cute, unlike plenty of folks.) Eventually, we changed pitch dramatically and plunged through a hole in the clouds straight toward the incenter of the spaceship at Apple Park, through the door, down the staircase, and into a completely empty - but fully lit - Steve Jobs theatre, where Tim Cook emerged on stage and almost immediately began to [address racism](https://www.inputmag.com/tech/apple-wwdc-virtual-event-tim-cook-addresses-black-lives-matter-racism). + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1275178772921270275 + +This disorganization of [Craig Federighi's Homescreen](https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1275178772921270275) shown in the presentation exemplifies the entire aura of this update: it’s complicated. _The Verge_’s Dieter Bohn receives this new complication positively in an [excellent essay](https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/24/21299924/ios-14-iphone-wwdc-2020-apple-home-screen-widgets-app-library-clips-pages-complexity) dedicated to the topic, divided into **Widgets on The Home Screen**, **Jiggle Mode** and **Editing Pages**, the **App Library**, and **App Clips**. (Yes, in many ways, linking to the essay makes this post redundant.) + +* * * + +![](images/iOS-14-Homescreen-Twiter-Collage-scaled.jpg) + +A collage of images I scraped from [#ios14homescreen](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ios14homescreen&src=typeahead_click&f=image) on Twitter. More chaos! + +That's what I wrote about WWDC. iOS 14 officially released five days ago, now, and folks are already showcasing some crazy homescreen modifications on Twitter in [#ios14homescreen](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ios14homescreen&src=typeahead_click&f=image). I would go into detail, but I'm honestly not all that curious about the process, which is unusual. I hope more than anything that I am not loosing my curiosity or playfulness regarding iOS which not so long ago propelled [an exuberant exploration of Shortcuts' capabilities](https://bilge.world/siri-shortcuts-ios12-review) during their early days as an integrated Apple property with the release of iOS 12. + +https://twitter.com/ragulover123/status/1307461503948394496 + +Basically, I'm not going to do the full bit, this year, but I'd like to address some of the notes I _did_ take throughout the past few months of the developer beta. Notably, there is simply far less to iOS 14 that's relevant to my life, personally, than any other release I remember, _but that's okay_. It's just a wee bit more difficult to motivate myself to talk about it. If there's one definite statement to be made about this release, it's that **it is _additive_ rather than _transformative_**. As Dieter Bohn so elequently put it for _The Verge_: + +> For the iPhone, the overarching theme is that they're finally letting it get complicated. The home screen starts simple, but it can be complex if you want it to and Apple's also finally putting different elements on top of other elements so you can see Siri on top of your current screen instead of taking over the whole screen. +> +> "[iOS and iPadOS 14 public beta preview: something for everybody](https://www.theverge.com/21317904/ios-ipados-14-public-beta-preview-scribble-home-screen-widgets-apple-maps)" | _The Verge_ + +_Yes, I do find the title of that article quite ironic considering what I just articulated to you._ + +The title of [his penultimate review](https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/24/21299924/ios-14-iphone-wwdc-2020-apple-home-screen-widgets-app-library-clips-pages-complexity), additionally, includes the summation "Apple is finally lettting the iPhone homescreen get complicated." Yes... _Complexity_. I'll be honest: I've actually had the opportunity to play around quite a bit with Android 11 thanks to Android Studio on my PCs, and I found it tremendously underwhelming as an alternative. On a virtual Pixel 3, the experience was functionally no more than a fucking _material design_\-tasting, _slightly_ varied execution of a smartphone operating system in comparison. I should disclaim, though, that these weeks with early iOS widget implementation - which represents quite a hefty chunk of this release's significance, I think we can all agree - have led me to the conclusion that I personally _do not believe_ in widgets. Or at least - I do not have the usership vocabulary to even begin integrating them into my own handset-using life.\[efn\_note\]I'd elaborate but honestly, who cares, really?\[/efn\_note\] + +To focus a bit, let's look specifically at a _Gizmodo_ article published this past Wednesday: "[17 Things You Can Do in iOS 14 That You Couldn’t Do Before](https://gizmodo.com/17-things-you-can-do-in-ios-14-that-you-couldn-t-do-bef-1844975020):" + +1. **App Clips**: Oh boy... I'm so physically, mentally, and spiritually exhausted. Just gonna say _no_ to that one. +2. **Add widgets to the home screen**: I'm going to assume it's Android users who've stigmatised dynamic home screen widgets as a desirable outlet of development resources. I simply cannot fathom any bit of data which would be truly be _constructively_ consumed there, as opposed to unlocking the device and navigating to whatever application it originated from. Perhaps I'm just old and slow. +3. **Send apps to the App Library**: Directly related, actually. Still considering how I assume most folks actually navigate to applications that have been in folders or in secondary+ homescreens to date - that is, dragging down and typing a handful of characters into Spotlight search - I'm not sure an alphabetized listing of all apps is really that useful. I know I'm not alone on this one: iJustine expressed an identical assumption [on an episode of her podcast, _Same Brain_](https://anchor.fm/samebrain/episodes/WWDC-Rumors--PS5-hype-and-Animal-Crossing-efmf8f). +4. **Hide some of your home screens**: (I repeat the exact same argument.) +5. **Watch videos with picture-in-picture mode**: Once again, I could definitely be showing my age, but what really constitues _watching_ when you're talking about a fractional segment of a ~6 inch display? You may as well just be listening to the audio, right? +6. **Pin conversations in Messages**: I'm afraid the text conversation pinning feature doesn't really apply to someone like myself, who literally never messages anyone but my girlfriend and my mom. All pinning the conversations accomplishes for me is the obfuscation of the handy in-line timestamp found in the normal list view. +7. **Mention your contacts in Messages**: Jesus... And we're still using fucking _SMS_? +8. **Add more variety to your memojis**: I still have not figured out how to actually use memojies, practically, so... +9. **Get suggested smart home automations**: I'm sorry... What did you say? I'm not familiar with those words. +10. **Get to bed on time**: Clarification: "iOS 14 works with watchOS 7 (or on its own) to help you get to sleep at the right time each night, with reminders and Do Not Disturb options." If you were truly _at all_ interested in not being disturbed _or_ getting lots of sleep, you wouldn't have spent $300 on a machine to strap to your wrist who's **primary function** is to disturb you! +11. **Translate websites in Safari**: Christ... _Really_? How have I not encountered an issue with this before? +12. **Search inside apps**: **There we go!** The first item on this list that suggests anyone at Apple _actually uses iOS_! +13. **Get more detailed weather forecasts**: Dark Sky acquision... All this one does is remind me that Apple's self-restraint could breach at any time and essentially the only competent mobile weather app ever devised could die or be molested into irrelevance. +14. **Use your iPhone as a translator**: Well... Yeah... Anything that convenienctly allows me to reduce dependence on Google, I guess! +15. **Get more facts from Siri**: ..._lol_ + "Apple says Siri knows more facts than ever before, though it hasn’t offered up any specific examples of something it knows in iOS 14 that it didn’t know in iOS 13—you’ll have to try and test it out yourself. According to Apple, Siri now knows 20 times the number of facts that it did three years ago, and we haven’t been able to catch it out with anything so far." +16. **Get cycling directions in Apple Maps**: No! Cut that out! +17. **Plan a journey in an electric vehicle**: I'm not joking when I suggest that this fits perfectly into iOS 14's _Anxiety Mode Enchancement_ theme: all this really means is _We've added the new Apple Range Anxiety app_! + +[![](images/Apple-Maps-Guide-on-The-Web.png)](https://guides.apple.com/?ug=ChNDb2x1bWJpYSBFc3NlbnRpYWxzEg0Irk0Q9afRyfG15J1VEg4Irk0QjZS24KKtt%2FaIARINCK5NEM3DzPio6eW5bxINCK5NEIiv4bu1z92nCA%3D%3D) + +[David Blue's Guide to Columbia, Missouri](https://davidblue.wtf/columbiaguide) renders surprisingly beautifully on a desktop browser. + +Yes, there _are_ examples of genuine progress. The Guides feature in Maps (seen above) probably could/should have been added a long time ago, but at least Apple executed it quite elegantly. I'm could've _sworn_ sharing your ETA has been possible from within Maps since like... iOS 7 or something, but perhaps I was thinking of [Waze](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/waze-navigation-live-traffic/id323229106). **Wallpapers for CarPlay** are one of those features that didn’t occur to me to want, but I did/do. Also - though my personal experience with CarPlay has been limited - I can definitely imagine more layout options (“Horizontal status bar”) will be useful in _fringe_ use cases. + +And that's it! All of my notes have now been crossed off! Now I can finally forget I ever spent time thinking about iOS this year... Gourd Bless. diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-09-24-georgia-font-specimen.md b/import/wtf/2020-09-24-georgia-font-specimen.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..be71a2c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-09-24-georgia-font-specimen.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: "Georgia Font Specimen" +date: "2020-09-24" +--- + +After my niece showed my mother how to change the default font of Microsoft Word and other text editors/word processors a few years go, she has done so for literally every document she's written - personal and professional - including actual printed legal testimony submitted to actual court hearings. Her typeface of choice? Good ole' [Georgia](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/georgia), the OG serif web font other than Times New Roman. For her birthday this year, it didn't occur to me until five weeks too late that I could craft a type specimen for her to display in her bedroom/office using my [newfound commitment](https://www.davidblue.wtf/commemorating-extratone-errors/) to learning Adobe InDesign. + +![](images/Moms-Georgia-Type-Specimen-Web-Featured-Image.png) + +My final draft of the Type Specimen, scaled a bit for the web. For the project file/full-sized renders, [check my Drive](https://www.notion.so/rotund/Images-481e838af3604796b6753e1f748bda0b). + +Considering my lack of design experience, I naturally sought out other type specimens from which to familiarize myself with the general concept. Ironically, I found far more [on Pinterest](https://www.pinterest.com/dieselgoth/typography-indulgence/) than I did/have [on Adobe's Behance](https://www.behance.net/collection/178831129/Typography), and the vast majority - especially of a more or less non-commercial typeface like Georgia - appeared to be school projects. Without sounding like an ad for Adobe Creative Cloud, I had the brilliant idea of using [Adobe Capture for iOS](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adobe-capture-creative-camera/id1040200189) to sample the color palette of mom's bedroom and office.\[efn\_note\]If you're interested, the palettes can be found in [my Creative Cloud library](https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/918df937-0729-4126-4406-298a2bb80a84).\[/efn\_note\] The "workflow" of getting them to InDesign wasn't exactly intuitive: I tried first importing them into Photoshop, but the resulting "Swatches" were empty, for whatever reason (I'm assuming it had something to do with setting them as CYMK instead of RGB in the app as I was capturing them.) Eventually, I just ended up transfering them from scratch to InDesign swatches via [an online color converter/palette maker](https://coolors.co/). + +I decided to include a quote from a [2006 Alice Rawsthorn piece in the _New York Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/style/09iht-dlede10.2150992.html), all of [a _New Yorker_ profile of Georgia's designer, Matthew Carter](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/12/05/man-of-letters-4), and all of [Georgia's entry in Microsoft's documentation](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/georgia). + +![](images/Georgia-Type-Specimen-in-Moms-Office-scaled.jpg) + +The printed type specimen on the shelf in Mom's office, waiting to be framed. + +Unfortunately, I have not been able to find any independent/momnpop printing businesses anywhere nearby, so we used FedEx Kinkos' online printing service. Considering, the result came out much better than I expected, and included a 40% off coupon for another printing job, so it looks like I may be printing mockups for _Extratone_'s Issue One cover in the near future. Stay tuned, I suppose. diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-09-24-redirection-wordpress-plugin.md b/import/wtf/2020-09-24-redirection-wordpress-plugin.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..112212e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-09-24-redirection-wordpress-plugin.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +title: "John Godley's Redirection" +date: "2020-09-24" +--- + +I can't say I've ever been compelled to write about something so seemingly petty as a WordPress plugin, before, but Automatic's own John Godley once upon a time created a plugin that now represents a large contributor to WordPress' whole value as a CMS, personally. It's called **[Redirection](https://redirection.me/)**, and it allows the user to point any ole' directory off their domain to point to any _other_ URL, anywhere on the web. (For instance, [davidblue.wtf/**facebook**](https://davidblue.wtf/facebook) will send you directly to my Facebook profile.) + +![](images/Redirection-1.png) + +Redirection's List/Directory page and "new redirection" interface. + +_Extratone_ originally ran on WordPress, and over time, I made quite extensive use of redirections - to the point where I felt it was necessary to [formally document all of them](https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Extranet-Redirection--A8Tmy0_yMah9D9XKEofJNNdsAQ-LXgMPObbnVB012NY00x6Z). Honestly, I'm not sure how many users _actually_ made use of the function, but I thought it a particularly clever, _fresh new media_ feature I wish all of my regularly-read digital media properities would adopt.\[efn\_note\]To get super pretentious: I thought it notably reflected _Extratone_'s style guide-bound commitment to assuming our readers web savvy, at the very least.\[/efn\_note\] + +That was all before the plugin had its offered its own complete, internal list of all redirections - when each redirection was created by creating a new page in WordPress and selecting a special "page template." The functionality added to Redirection just since then - one of the valuable discoveries I've made thanks to the creation of this experimental WordPress site - was what justified this very post. + +![](images/Redirection-Plugin-Options.png) + +Redirection's now extensive Options page within WordPress. + +For ye who would seek functionality _beyond_ simple redirects, Redirection offers a plethora - much of which I do not fully understand. Here are some of the advanced options _just within redirects_ from its [plugin page on WordPress.org](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/): + +> _**Conditional Redirects** +> In addition to straightforward URL matching you can redirect based on other conditions: +> _**Login status** – redirect only if the user is logged in or logged out +> **WordPress capability** – redirect if the user is able to perform a certain capability +> **Browser** – redirect if the user is using a certain browser +> **Referrer** – redirect if the user visited the link from another page +> **Cookies** – redirect if a particular cookie is set +> **HTTP headers** – redirect based on a HTTP header +> **Custom filter** – redirect based on your own WordPress filter +> **IP address** – redirect if the client IP address matches +> **Server** – redirect another domain if also hosted on this server +> **Page type** – redirect if the current page is a 404 + +Also included is **404 error tracking**, native **Apache server compatibility**, **customizable per-user permissions**, **import/export**, and **[Search Regex](https://searchregex.com/) integration**. Regarding pricing, Godley has this to say: "Yes, it’s really free. There’s no premium version and no need to pay money to get access to features. This is a dedicated redirect management plugin." + +My take? You're not making full use of WordPress unless you're actively using this plugin. diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-10-13-unicode-single-page.md b/import/wtf/2020-10-13-unicode-single-page.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..36efdc42 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-10-13-unicode-single-page.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: "Single Page, All of Unicode" +date: "2020-10-13" +--- + +I cannot think of a single greater stress test for modern document processing software and their file standards than what I bring to you today: **the entirety of the graphical unicode symbol collection displayed on [a single-page PDF file](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/unicode.pdf)**. Sounds _fucking dangerous_, right? Yeah... + +[Single Page Unicode Archive](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/unicode.pdf)[Download](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/unicode.pdf) + +I have a real obsession with Unicode, in case you haven't already noticed. Specifically, I've always been compelled to find tools that would help me use it more in all types of digital writing - from text messaging to book manuscripts in Word, hopefully by both _enabling_ such use and also theoretically to simply _keep Unicode on my mind_, considering how disappointingly absent the traditional library has been in any conversation at all.\[efn\_note\]I suppose you could say I _believed in_ the original promise of graphical unicode symbols: they were supposed to be the standard that finally helped digital publishing explore its potentials for extra-alphanumeric symbology since it would (theoretically) be so much easier to do so (read: possible at all.)\[/efn\_note\] + +https://youtu.be/AS2S9\_vBcDs + +If you'll remember, I wrote a brief review in June, 2018 of one of my top three iOS applications of all time and unquestionably _the_ most beautiful manifestation of a Unicode reference utility I have ever seen: **[Unichar](https://unichar.app/)**: + +> ...here is an iOS app that _actu­al­ly address­es_ a reg­u­lar issue of my own in a beau­ti­ful and intu­itive way. I actu­al­ly can­not remem­ber the last time this hap­pened — you’d have to give me a list and a com­pre­hen­sive refresh­er of all the ways I’ve used my iPhones in the past ten years. +> +> "[⨃🄝ɨ∁ɧ⍙℟ for iOS Review](https://bilge.world/unichar-for-ios-app-review)" - June 22, 2018 + +Now, in addition to Unichar's sole developer, Jordan Hipwell, I would like to submit developer [Taro Yabuki](https://twitter.com/yabuki) into the running for Digital Expression's Hero of The Season Award because of his authorship of a [single page containing all graphical Unicode characters](https://github.com/taroyabuki/onepage-unicode-chars). Naturally, upon first discovering the document, I first tried opening it in a web browser, which takes a while. I then moved on to Adobe's Acrobat PDF viewer, where I immediately (and irresponsibly) prompted the software to read the entire document aloud. Naturally, it crashed immediately. diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-10-14-wordpress-twitter-thread.md b/import/wtf/2020-10-14-wordpress-twitter-thread.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7fb15618 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-10-14-wordpress-twitter-thread.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: "WordPress → Twitter Thread" +date: "2020-10-14" +--- + +Surely, we have arrived upon the final form of the social media brands I have grown up with. Over the summer, WordPress implemented [Twitter → WordPress thread unrolling](https://wordpress.com/blog/2020/07/15/unroll-your-twitter-threads-into-wordpress/), which I'm sure at least one user on Earth has used unironically/not accidentally, since. Given the outputs it's produced for me, I'm not quite sure I understand its purpose. + +https://wp.me/pf2B5-biQ + +This morning, I was genuinely astonished to see [an article on _The Verge_'s homepage](https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/14/21515567/wordpress-tool-twitter-thread-tweetstorm-automated-social-post-preview) announcing the _vice versa_... **WordPress as Twitter client**. + +https://twitter.com/NeoYokel/status/1316341845849509888 + +It fucking works. + +Given the drastic neutering to which Twitter has subjected its APIs in the past 5-10 years, I have absolutely no idea how or why they were convinced to okay this integration, but I'm sure a few spamming hobbyists out there will at least enjoy a _Day of Deluge_ between their spam WordPress blogs and their spam Twitter accounts. Godspeed, folks. diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-10-19-word-processing-redefined.md b/import/wtf/2020-10-19-word-processing-redefined.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f77d6f39 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-10-19-word-processing-redefined.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +title: "Redefining Word Processing" +date: "2020-10-19" +--- + +_An essay I wrote for school which I am not particularly happy with. Possibly worth revision in the future - I took [extensive notes](https://www.notion.so/rotund/Definition-Essay-a62bac1fd94e4f5bab4446e8031ba32d)._ + +Among a literary culture _very_ well into its reactionary movement against perceived consequences of the technological wealth it so rapidly built in the past forty years or so, many of us who write have done our best to avoid thinking about the tools we use to keep moving in our favorite pursuit, at least since The Web overwhelmed any and all discontented discourse reacting to all the _other_ temptations, oddities, and uniquely-modern consequences resulting from computers until that point, where they had remained a sole companion for the vast majority of us. Throughout the history of digital text manipulation software, there has been a more or less unspoken differentiation between _Word Processors_ and _Text Editors_, arguably determined by the destination of their output. _Edited_ text is that which is destined to remain digital, while _processed_ words have been prepared for the transition to a physical medium, via printing. I do not intend to engage in the petty dispute between these, but rather to extend the definition of the former in a big way. + +To first arrive upon a general definition, we draw from Dr. Matthew Kirschenbaum’s efforts to do the same in his Preface of _Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing_: + +> The conjoining of the word “word” with the word “processing” or “processor” has at various times been used to denote **principles of office management**, **an actual person** (typically female), **a physical hardware device**, or **a piece of intangible software**. It has also encompassed not only the written production of text with a keyboard but also verbal dictation, shorthand note taking, and the duplication, mailing, and filing of documents. +> +> Preface, _Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing_ + +For our sake, _Britannica_’s entry for “[word processor](https://www.britannica.com/technology/word-processor)” is a good starting point: + +> Computer program used to **write** and **revise documents**, **compose** the **layout of the text**, and preview on a computer monitor how the printed copy will appear. +> +> "[Word processor](https://www.britannica.com/technology/word-processor)" | Britannica + +Today’s offerings in both the generally accepted categories of _word processors_ and _text editors_ are all very much capable of these three primary functions across a spectrum of functionality. The most rudimentary form of the latter – Notepad in Windows and its MacOS equivalent, Text Edit – are themselves able to print documents without any addition or modification. A user is able to specify rudimentary layout settings like margins, headers, and footers, though these are notably not represented live in their respective compositional interfaces, which – in their ultra-lightweight  design – are unbound by the dimensions of a physical page, as the blank Microsoft Word document in our mind’s eye is (in its default state, called the Print Layout.) A [reference article from _Computer Nostalgia_](http://www.computernostalgia.net/articles/HistoryofWordProcessors.htm) suggests, more succinctly, “while offering facilities for composing and editing text, \[Text Editors\] do not format documents.” + +Many argue that for most use cases, the complex schemas and programs necessary to translate digital text into the printed page are an unnecessary burden and have been doing so for decades. In the [October 1997 issue of _Linux Gazette_](https://linuxgazette.net/issue22/words.html), technology writer Larry Ayers critiques a bothersome “notion” apparently pondered on by computer users at the time: “the idea that a complex word processor is the only tool suitable for creating text on a computer.” He argues that – unless working toward the eventual transition to print using proprietary word processing formats in a business setting – “a good text editor has more power to manipulate text and is faster and more responsive.” Without delving into our own unnecessary detail, it’s worth touching on the contrast in performance resources available between even the most high-end machines of 1997 and mobile handsets, today. Frugality as a consideration has therefore sunk on the core list of software development priorities in a big way, though – mathematically, anyway – not enough to be even remotely mathematically equivalent to the exponential, unfathomable figures of increased processing power, since, and so the conservationist argument for _Text Editors_ in place of _Word Processors_ is defeated in one sense, all the while directly birthing a need for restraint in another. At our current stage of computing, the same language of limitations has long since become completely irrelevant in the case of virtually all text manipulation software, making way for an entirely new set of limits and boundaries determined by the composer’s mind. + +“[The computer has evolved into a partner, a tool, and an environment](https://www.notion.so/rotund/A-companion-a-tool-and-an-environment-94f3631ac88248f89165ae0f17c12b0b),” science fiction author David Gerrold remarked in a quite profound 1982 _InfoWorld_ editorial. His second-next paragraph puts one immediately back into perspective though, when it observes with genuine astonishment: + +> Today, there are probably several hundred authors who have computers of their own; the list of those authors reads like a _Who's Who_ in Science-Fiction... Most of the authors I know say they use their computers primarily as word processors. + +Many first-time Word Processor users were also first-time computer users, who would therefore associate the two intimately, along with the new concepts digitizing their writing would present: intangibility, impermanence and permanence simultaneously, a newfound mutability of their copy, and the abstract possibility of “the _perfect_ manuscript.” Notably, we have discussed computing as yet only as a singular activity, but Word Processing would play a more significant role than one might imagine in the transition of the personal computer into a social device, especially if we consider Blogging the original social media institution. Using Microsoft Word as the most convenient example, we discover several layers within the software as it ships today that are stacked upon its original print-destined functions. Most visible of these is the “Web Layout” view, which converts the writing space into one like the “boundless” web-native ones before described in Notepad. Enabled but hidden by default is a section in the main menus (called the “Ribbon” since Word 2013) entitled “Blog Post,” containing tools for a workflow originally intended to allow users to integrate and public directly to their blogging platform of choice.\[efn\_note\]\[1\] A mainstream example: the Word to WordPress workflow as [tutorialed by _PC World_](https://www.pcworld.com/article/2602862/how-to-start-blogging-with-microsoft-word.html) in 2014.\[/efn\_note\] + +Nearly all of the platforms we commonly associate with the term “social media” can trace their origins directly to blogging. Though it is not customary to compose text messages, Tweets, Facebook posts, or Instagram captions in a Word Processor\[efn\_note\]\[1\] Though there are templates available in the official Office store like “[Social Media Checklist](https://templates.office.com/en-us/social-media-checklist-tm33568166)” and – most bizarrely – the “[Uplifting Social Content Creator](https://templates.office.com/en-us/uplifting-social-content-creator-tm16402956)” template.\[/efn\_note\] (to my knowledge,) I would argue that such composition is still a form of _Word Processing_. Though these words are rarely meant for print, they are not meant to sit in a latent README file, deep in the directories of some piece of software, either. They are composed, edited, and layed out with varying degrees of intent – from the entirely unrevised “shitpost” to the deeply-considered fan-serving joke. In this way, these digital words are _Processed_. diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-10-22-word-perhect-tomoko-takahashi.md b/import/wtf/2020-10-22-word-perhect-tomoko-takahashi.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..433026c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-10-22-word-perhect-tomoko-takahashi.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +title: "Tomoko Takahashi's Word Perhect" +date: "2020-10-22" +--- + +https://vimeo.com/470409059 + +[A Brief Introduction to WordPerhect](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/WordPerhect-Tomoko-Takahashi-Chisenhale-Gallery-2015.pdf)[Download](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/WordPerhect-Tomoko-Takahashi-Chisenhale-Gallery-2015.pdf) + +I'm currently reading Professor Matthew G. Kirschenbaum's _[Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing](http://bit.ly/trackchangesharvard)_, which mentions a whole host of things I would love to share (some I will on this site, I'm sure, in the coming months.) One of them which I could not find any video of on the internet: a project from either 1999 or 2000\[efn\_note\]_Track Changes_ says 1999, [Google](https://g.co/kgs/Aes1Wg) says 2000.\[/efn\_note\], by Japanese artist [Tomoko Takahashi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoko_Takahashi) called _Word Perhect_. Before I go on, here's the whole passage (from Pg. 205-206:) + +> A similar impulse is at work in Tomoko Takahashi’s _WordPerhect_ \[_sic_\] (1999) an online piece (rendered in Flash) that presents the user with a roughly drawn cartoon word processing interface, limned in what appears to be black ink on a white background.88 Typing generates crude, seemingly handwritten, less-than-perfect characters on the screen. Takahashi’s word processor is fully functional, but the interface yields an inversion of the typical user-friendly experience. Clicking on the Mail icon produces the following set of instructions, which appear as a scrap of notepaper “taped” to the screen: “print the document, put into an envelope or something similar \[_sic_\] which can contain the document. Go to post office and weigh it and buy stamps”—and so on, for another hundred words, including further typos and blemishes. +> +> _Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing_, Pg. 205-206 + +When I went looking for the project, I actually found a re-upload of the Flash application(!) though, of course, I had to cycle through my personal collection of web browsers before I found one which would allow Flash again. (The same option that was supposed to allow it in Chrome did not work in any Chromium-based browsers except for Edge Chromium, which I used.) Other than a [commisions page from e-2.org](https://e-2.org/commissions/wordperhect.html) for the re-upload, I found very little about the project. Here's the description from that page, for the sake of thoroughness: + +> As word processing software becomes ever more advanced, correcting syntax and spelling errors, these familiar programmes begin to impose a standardised corporate language onto our writing. +> Takahashi has produced her own fully functioning online version which undermines this dehumanising process. Reclaiming the initiative back from the software, Word Perhect presents an idiosyncratic hand-drawn interface leading to a set of functioning but strangely altered tools. +> +> [_Word Perhect_ - e-2.org Commissions Page](https://e-2.org/commissions/wordperhect.html) + +When I discover this sort of thing, I always seem to feel this sense of anxiety regarding how much longer they'll be accessible. Before I tried Edge Chromium, I booted up my Windows Whistler Virtual Machine's Internet Explorer, which will still render Google.com, but returned an error on the _Word Perhect_ re-upload. Again... anxious. _I've got to document this **right this moment**!_ I know it's mostly irrational, but - in the middle of class - I whipped out OBS as soon as I got it working and recorded my first-time experiences and published the video to [YouTube](https://youtu.be/KXIJa5Ge_bY) and [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/470409059). + +- ![](images/WordPerhect-2-1024x576.png) + +- ![](images/WordPerhect-3-1024x576.png) + +- ![](images/WordPerhect-4-1024x576.png) + +- ![](images/WordPerhect-Mail-1-1024x576.png) + +- ![](images/WordPerhect-1-1024x576.png) + + +Some screenshots of my favorite passages from _Word Perhect_'s Help menu. + +Now that I've posted this, my anxiety has been mostly eased. I hope you're able to experience it firsthand, though. I'm working on finding out how to re-upload the Flash application, myself (first finding out if I'm within my IP rights to do so.) + +Check [my Notion page on _Word Perhect_](https://www.notion.so/rotund/Word-Perhect-Tomoko-Takahashi-3dc47c17467b47d6bea59872ee1fcc48) for future updates. diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-11-03-tingle-day.md b/import/wtf/2020-11-03-tingle-day.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3a503975 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-11-03-tingle-day.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +--- +title: "Just Chuck: How to Survive the Big Day" +date: "2020-11-03" +--- + +\[twitchtv url="https://www.twitch.tv/lunainvidia/"\] + +I am going to vote for the first and only time in my life in an hour or so, and then I am going to spend the rest of the day actively avoiding social media, largely thanks to perhaps the most wonderful alternative to helplessly and senselessly dwelling in the stream anyone could have possibly given us: a [24-hour Chuck Tingle read aloud stream](https://www.twitch.tv/lunainvidia)! + +https://twitter.com/CaptainZStar/status/1323537976152924161 diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-11-04-brown-executive.md b/import/wtf/2020-11-04-brown-executive.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f9ab081e --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-11-04-brown-executive.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +--- +title: "WordPerfect Brown Executive Theme for Windows 10" +date: "2020-11-04" +--- + +## A [Windows 10 desktop theme](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/107272441889341440/773386943416369192/WordPerfect_Brown_Executive.deskthemepac) inspired by an aged WordPerfect Executive 1.0 Manual's cover. + +![](images/WordPerfect-Brown-Executive-Theme.png) + +### #513c05 Named "[Executive Brown](https://colornames.org/color/513c05)" for the occasion + +Furthur updates will be found on [the theme's Notion Page](https://www.notion.so/rotund/WordPerfect-Brown-Executive-Theme-a1603a2a382745a485618774b0ce3c77). diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-11-09-bahnschrift-system-font.md b/import/wtf/2020-11-09-bahnschrift-system-font.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a755663b --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-11-09-bahnschrift-system-font.md @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +title: "Bahnschrift as System Font" +date: "2020-11-09" +--- + +![](images/Bahnschrift-Header-scaled.jpg) + +As someone who is always desperately (and yet unconsciously) seeking new and creative ways of avoiding what I _actually intend to be doing_, I have encountered the concept of _Custom System Fonts_ many times over the years, and yet I do not recall any of them resulting in an outcome other than concession. Usually, whatever font you choose is going to look like shit and break stuff. + +For instance, when I attempted to change Windows 10's system font to [Acumin Pro](https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/acumin) (my latest typographical crush) recently, it was gorgeous!... And then I opened [CopyQ](https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/), my clipboard manager, and saw this: + +![](images/CopyQ-Broken-Text.png) + +Broken text in [CopyQ](https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ]). + +I probably should've given up there, but instead, I reached out to my latest pet reference, Read It! + +https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/dohzey/whats\_a\_good\_alternative\_system\_font/ + +https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/dohzey/whats\_a\_good\_alternative\_system\_font/f5obt70?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3 + +## _Bahnschrift_ + +## _Railroad Writing_ + +I don't _actually_ know how typography works, but the [Microsoft Documentation page](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/bahnschrift) FatFaceRikky linked should stimulate those of you who do. + +> The current version of Bahnschrift began development in 2016. At the time, Google, Apple, Adobe, and Microsoft partnered to develop a common implementation of variable font technology and Bahnschrift was chosen to become Microsoft’s first variable font. To prepare for the transition from static to variable, the Bahnschrift source was completely rebuilt from the ground up by Aaron Bell of Saja Typeworks and was expanded in weight, character set (adding Extended Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic) and manual hinting to ensure high quality rendering on a wide range of devices. +> +> "Bahnschrift font family" | _[Microsoft](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/bahnschrift) [Docs](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/bahnschrift)_ + +![](images/Bahnschrift-Lock-Screen.png) + +My lockscreen with Bahnschrift as system font. If you like that desktop background, check out **[this collection](https://www.notion.so/rotund/268b632cfc10493eb1e41f67fed40d95?v=ae6bf793db6b4c35b5ff0504fad961a7https://www.notion.so/rotund/268b632cfc10493eb1e41f67fed40d95?v=ae6bf793db6b4c35b5ff0504fad961a7)** of default Microsoft Desktop Backgrounds extracted from their Windows 10 themes. + +- [![](images/Bahnschrift-Control-Panel.png)](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Bahnschrift-Control-Panel.png) + +- [![](images/Bahnschrift-2.png)](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Bahnschrift-2.png) + +- [![](images/Bahnschrift-1.png)](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Bahnschrift-1.png) + +- [![](images/Bahnschrift-3.png)](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Bahnschrift-3.png) + +- [![](images/Bahnschrift-4.png)](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Bahnschrift-4.png) + +- [![](images/Bahnschrift-6.png)](https://www.davidblue.wtf/wp-content/uploads/Bahnschrift-6.png) diff --git a/import/wtf/2020-11-22-git-peer-review.md b/import/wtf/2020-11-22-git-peer-review.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ea8e3ce2 --- /dev/null +++ b/import/wtf/2020-11-22-git-peer-review.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +--- +title: "Academic Peer-Review With Git" +date: "2020-11-22" +--- + +If you remember "The Facebook Essay" - the big ole' thing I spent much of the summer working on... 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10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.Keynote Address: +Jim Schraith, +Vice President & General Manager of North America for Compaq +Pacific Ballroom
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. +Lunch - Sponsored by Novell, Inc. +The Partner Pavilion - Wilshire Room
11:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. +The Partner +Pavilion +Wilshire Room
11:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. +The Access Lab +Sierra Room
12:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. + The Evolution of the High-Performance Workstation +Glenwood Room
1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. + Technical Breakout +Sessions +
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+- NeTwork Integration with IntranetWare +- Rapid Implementation for ERP Supply Chain Management Systems +		 +Pacific Ballroom & Fernwood Room
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3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. + Technical Breakout +Sessions +
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+- Fiber Channel Primary/Secondary Storage Solutions +		 +Pacific Ballroom & Fernwood Room
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+High-Availability Platforms, +Novell, Vinca, & Compaq
+Exploring Total Cost of Ownership Models, +Microsoft & Compaq
+Seamless NT Integration with Oracle & Compaq Platforms,
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+- Messaging Systems Capacity Planning +		 +Glenwood & Fernwood Rooms
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+- Novell GroupWise Messaging Solutions
+- Compaq High Availability Services Model
+- Network Management Solutions +		 +Glenwood & Fernwood Rooms
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+Clustered Server Solutions in a Windows NT Environments - Tuesday, June 10th at 1:30 p.m.
+Presented by Nick Maas, Senior Technical Trainer, Compaq Computer Corporation +
+This session will present exciting tools and technologies available and being developed +by Microsoft and Compaq to provide a non-stop computing architecture. You will learn about the +robust fault-tolerant features available today and be introduced to Microsoft's cluster software solutions +that are just around the corner. As more mission-critical applications are being deployed on Compaq and +Microsoft NT integrated systems, you will need this timely information on how to best design for +highest systems availability. + +

+NeTwork Integration with Novell IntranetWare - Tuesday, June 10th at 1:30 p.m.
+Presented by David Nelson, Manager Systems Engineering, Novell, Inc. +
+No longer a question of "NetWare or NT", the growing trend is for companies to employ both +platforms to meet their needs. Come see how to use Novell Directory Services to reduce the cost +of NT ownership and ensure "Integration Reliability" with IntranetWare clients for Windows, +Novell Application Launcher, NT Workstation Manager, and Novell Administrator for Windows NT Domains. +Attendees will receive a free CD containing all integration products for Windows NT and the +IntranetWare client suite. + +

+Rapid Implementation for ERP Supply Chain Management Systems - Tuesday, June 10th at 1:30 p.m. +
+Presented by George Miller, VP Marketing - STAR Solutions +
+Mr. Miller will discuss the breakthrough developments in the implementation of Baan's World +Class ERP Systems, especially in smaller to medium sized organizations. Baan's "Orgware" and +"Dynamic Enterprise Modeler" have revolutionized the approach to rapid configuration through the +use of "Wizards" and business modeling tools that utilize industry-standard templates. Through +the augmentation of these standard business objects, ERP systems may be rapidly built and +deployed to your organization's specifications. + +Mr. Miller is VP Marketing and a founder of Star Solutions, Baan's California System Integration +Partner, based in San Diego. He is a co-founder of the Baan Aerospace & Defense Advisory +Council. He also founded PROACTION Management Consultants, and was VP Marketing for WDS, +Assistant Director Operations for Purolator Technologies and consultant for Booz, Allen & +Hamilton. His career has spanned the rise of computer-based business systems for manufacturers, +as they evolved into ERP/Supply Chain Management. + +

+Oracle for NT Clusters - Tuesday, June 10th at 3:30 p.m. +
+Presented by Jeff Scroggin, Director Product Marketing, Oracle Corporation +
+The presentation will outline Oracle's strategy for Windows NT clusters, including Oracle Fail +Safe and Oracle Parallel Server. Oracle Fail Safe provides high availability with failover support +for a two-node cluster. Oracle Parallel Server provides high availability, scalability, and +performance for supporting enterprise-class applications on clusters from two to four nodes. + +

+Fibre Channel Primary/Secondary Storage Solutions - Tuesday, June 10th at 3:30 p.m. +
+Presented by Darren Thomas, Director Network Storage, Compaq Computer Corporation +
+Fibre Channel attached storage addresses the demand for high-performing, intelligent +storage that can keep pace with the growing demands for on-line information. As a leader +in developing new array technology and a driving force in fibre channel technology +development, this session will focus on the Compaq Fibre Channel attached storage system +architecture, I/O performance, scalability, future directions and benefits. + +

+Solution Seminar: Exploring Total Cost of Ownership Models - Wednesday, June 11th at 9:30 a.m. +
+Presented by Robert Angrisano, Senior Architectural Technologist, Microsoft Corporation +
The hottest topic in the Corporate America today is "how can I +lower my cost of ownership and more effectively manage my applications +and operating systems?" Come hear about the most exciting solutions for +lowering TCO and increasing business value since the introduction of the +graphical interface. +* Total Cost of Ownership Initiative Overview, what does this mean +to your business? +* Reducing Cost of Ownership through Technology and Best Practices +* Zero Administration of Windows Initiative. What is it? +* Zero Administration Kit. What's in it and why will it have an +impact on my Operational ROI? +* Zero Administration Initiative in Memphis and NT 5.0. What will +change in the O/S and how should I prepare for it? +* Zero Administration and SMS, the total solution +* NetPC. What is it and should it be in my future PC purchase +plans? + +

+Solution Seminar: High-Availability Designs in IntranetWare Environments - Wednesday, June 11th at 9:30 a.m.
+Presented by:
+Robert Oakes, Senior Systems Engineer, Compaq Computer Corporation
+Bobby Russell, Senior Systems Engineer, Novell, Inc.
+Wally Marsden, Senior Systems Engineer, Vinca
+This session will present high-availability designs and product solutions by Compaq, Novell, & +Vinca. Novell will demonstrate key features of IntranetWare that provide a fault resilient +operating environment. Vinca Corporation will show their high-availability clustering solutions +that are available today. In addition, Novell will review their just announced Wolf Mountain +clustering technologies. Compaq will demonstrate superserver technologies that provide for fault prevention, +fault tolerance, and rapid recovery of mission-critical systems. These technologies include hot-plug +PCI, redundant network interfaces, and RAID technologies. If you design and manage servers in +a NetWare environment, you will not want to miss this session. + +

+Solution Seminar: Seamless NT Integration with Oracle & Compaq Platforms - Wednesday, June 11th at 8:00 a.m. +
+Session designed specifically for Federal, State & Local Government Agencies +
+Presented by Jim Kitterman, Senior Marketing Representative for Government Markets, Oracle, Inc. +
+This presentation is for those faced with migrating their Oracle solutions to a Windows NT environment. +The content will benefit: a) Managers who must learn how network and database solutions can help +them address stringent mandates for organizational change; b) IRM's developing migration strategies +for entire agencies and departments; c) Developers who must update and develop applications for an +NT environment; and d) IS managers who must plan, implement, and administer networks, servers, +clients, and applications in an NT environment. + +

+Oracle Data Mart Solutions - Wednesday, June 11th at 1:30 p.m.
+Presented by:
+Neil Mendelson, Senior Director Data Warehousing, Oracle Corporation
+K.C. Choi, Enterprise Architect, Compaq Computer Corporation
+ +IDC and Gartner estimate that greater than 70 percent of Fortune 500 corporations will study +or deploy data warehouse solutions in 1997. Data warehouse and data mart technologies have +become strategic information resources for decision making and analysis. Oracle and Compaq +offer high performance, cost effective and easy to deploy data mart solutions based on industry +standards. This session will cover data mart architectures, products and applications for +this strategic technology. + +

+Messaging System Capacity Planning - Wednesday, June 11th at 1:30 p.m. +
+Presented by Jerry Cochran, Senior Messaging Architect, Compaq Computer Corporation +
+Planning a messaging system can raise all kinds of questions. What size server do I need? +How should it be configured? How do I configure the systems and network for best results? +How do I optimize the operating system for best performance? What tuning parameters are +available within the messaging software? + +The answers to the above questions can be found in this session. You can expect to get information +covering capacity planning methodologies you can use to determine the hardware and software +requirements. Also covered are the tuning parameters needed to build a peak messaging server +environment. + +

+Novell GroupWise Messaging Solutions - Wednesday, June 11th at 3:00 p.m.
+Presented by Rob Aronson, Senior Systems Engineer, Novell, Inc. +
+An overview of GroupWise 5 features and architecture with a demonstration of the GroupWise +client and administration programs with Q&A. Attendee's will receive a copy of GroupWise 5 +memory requirements and a CD of the GroupWiseCyberCafe. + +

+Netscape Intranet Solutions - Wednesday, June 11th at 3:00 p.m.
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+Compaq High-Availability Services Model - Wednesday, June 11th at 3:00 p.m.
+Presented by Kay Kerr, Manager Enterprise Services, Compaq Computer Corporation +
+As an industry-leading computer company, Compaq delivers comprehensive service solutions +provided through the most dynamic partnerships in the industry. This session discusses the +best ways to obtain optimum service in the new 90's computer-industry model. + +

+Network Management Solutions - Wednesday, June 11th at 3:00 p.m.
+As customers' distributed enterprise networks grow, management processes and products that keep +down costs grow in importance. Compaq responds to this need with open, industry standard-based +management products and partnerships with the leaders in systems and network management. This +session provides an overview of Compaq's management strategy, the key technology trends, +current product offerings and Compaq's vision for the future of distributed enterprise management. + + +


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+The ASE Program offers a multi-level certification approach allowing +candidates to take advantage of the program education and benefits +as well as to be appropriately recognized as they progress through +the levels of the ASE Program. ASE candidates complete a series +of rigorous tests to demonstrate Compaq product knowledge and +integration proficiency. In preparation for these exams, candidates +complete a curriculum that provides extensive training on integrating +Compaq hardware with various operating systems and applications. +Compaq ASE candidates may choose from the following accreditations:
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+The ASE is expected to complete the requirements within the amount of time specified by Compaq. This grace period may vary depending upon the requirement. Additionally, renewing ASEs are required to submit an ASE Application to Compaq regardless of whether there has been any maintenance training required during the previous year. Prior to their renewal date, ASEs will be sent a letter reminding them to submit an application. Failure to comply with the maintenance requirements of the ASE Program within the specified period of time will result in deaccreditation of the ASE. +

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+To be qualified to apply for the Compaq ASE accreditation, +ASE candidates must have successfully completed the requirements +for Associate ASE accreditation. Additionally, ASE candidates +must provide proof of certification in one of the matching eligible +operating systems (See Chart 2). +

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Chart 2: +Steps to Becoming a Compaq ASE +

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+Eligible operating system vendor certifications include: +

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Synchronous DRAM, commonly known as SyncDRAM, is the latest type of PC memory architecture. This provides a significant performance improvement over conventional Fast Page Mode (FPM) or Extended Data Output (EDO)1. A key difference found in SyncDRAM is that it is synchronized to the system clock signal, which means that all operations run at the same speed as the processor bus, i.e., 60 or 66MHz. This is compared to conventional memory architectures which run asynchronously to the processor bus. Due to this synchronization, data bits are retrieved faster and thereby increase system performance. +

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PC applications commonly access DRAM data in 4-quad word (Qword) burst lengths. Optimum system performance is achieved when data is fed to the processor on par with the system clock. Data access from an L2 cache comes close to meeting this requirement as typical when only one or two wait states are inserted while accessing the first data. The remaining three Qwords are delivered on a par with the processor speed, denoted as a 2/1/1/1 burst rate. When, however, the requested data must come directly from DRAM, the burst rate is degraded. Assuming the burst is from a DRAM page that is already open (page hit), the achievable burst rate at 66MHz using 60ns FPM DRAMs is 5/3/3/3 cycles; for EDO DRAMs it is 6/2/2/2. SyncDRAMs can reduce burst rates to 7/1/1/1 for L2 cache misses. While SyncDRAM takes more time to locate the first data bit, it then is faster at retrieving the next three Qwords. Furthermore, it really excels at back-to-back reads, as noted in the following comparison which assumes a page hit: +
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  1. Select a product
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  2. Configure
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  3. Put your product in the Shopping Cart
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    + Once your online order has been successfully placed, you will be presented with an online receipt which will include your order reference number. If you selected an alternative order method (phone, mail or fax) you will be presented with a worksheet containing instructions for completing your order. Please print this screen for future reference. ... And thank you for choosing Compaq!

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    • Personal computers and monitors purchased directly from Compaq may be returned within (14) days of your invoice date. +
    • Other options and accessories purchased directly from Compaq may be returned within thirty (30) days of your invoice date. +
    • Defective products may be returned within thirty (30) days of your invoice date for replacement, but not for refund. +
    • Return shipping and insurance charges are not refundable. +
    • In order to receive a refund, the purchase must be returned with shipping pre-paid. All items must be in "as new" condition, in original packaging, and with all warranty cards, manuals, and accessories. Any discrepancies could result in a delay or partial forfeiture of your refund. +
    • A restocking fee will be charged on all returned items with missing boxes or packaging, and returned printers with installed toner or inkjet cartridges. +
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    + THE LIMITED WARRANTIES APPLICABLE TO COMPAQ-BRANDED PRODUCTS ARE INCLUDED IN THE DOCUMENTATION ALONG WITH THE PRODUCTS. COMPAQ MAKES NO EXPRESS WARRANTIES EXCEPT THOSE STATED IN THIS SECTION AND IN COMPAQ'S APPLICABLE WARRANTY STATEMENT IN EFFECT ON THE DATE OF YOUR INVOICE. ANY SUCH WARRANTIES WILL BE EFFECTIVE, AND COMPAQ WILL BE OBLIGATED TO HONOR ANY SUCH WARRANTIES, ONLY UPON COMPAQ'S RECEIPT OF PAYMENT IN FULL FOR THE ITEM TO BE WARRANTED. COMPAQ DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. COMPAQ'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR WARRANTY CLAIMS IS LIMITED TO REPAIR AND REPLACEMENT AS SET FORTH IN COMPAQ'S APPLICABLE WARRANTY STATEMENT IN EFFECT ON THE DATE OF THE YOUR INVOICE. COMPAQ RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MODIFY ITS WARRANTY AT ANY TIME, IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION. ALL SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED SUBJECT TO THE LICENSE AGREEMENT THAT IS PART OF THE PACKAGE. CUSTOMER AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THE LICENSE AGREEMENT ONCE THE PACKAGE IS OPENED OR ITS SEAL IS BROKEN. COMPAQ DOES NOT WARRANTY ANY SOFTWARE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT. WARRANTIES, IF ANY, FOR THE SOFTWARE ARE CONTAINED IN THE LICENSE AGREEMENT THAT GOVERNS ITS PURCHASE AND USE. ALL OTHER PRODUCTS ARE COVERED BY THE ORIGINAL MANUFACTURER'S LIMITED WARRANTY. WARRANTIES, IF ANY, DO NOT COVER DAMAGE FROM EVERY DAY WEAR AND TEAR, ABUSE OR FROM TRANSPORTATION BY A COMMON CARRIER.

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+Microsoft NT is becoming a platform of choice for deploying mission-critical applications. This +account will detail the design, sizing, and implementation of Micrsoft NT throughout its organization. + + +

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+Qualcomm Inc. will discuss the challenges encountered, as well as the obstacles they overcame, while +designing and implementing a very large Novell IntranetWare LAN/WAN environment. The speaker +will relate "tips and tricks" he learned and applied for the following areas: + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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+For those who want a technical hands-on experience, Access Spring'97 provides a +hands-on lab area. Hands-on access to new Compaq high-end servers, workstations, networking products, desktops, +and portables. In addition, gain access to solution stations where you can build systems using +Compaq hardware and Novell, Microsoft, Netscape, & Oracle software products. A number of lab stations will be configured to offer broad access to many +technologies. These stations include: +
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+bulletCompaq SAP/R3 Implementation
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+bulletNew Compaq Primary Storage Solutions
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+bulletSoftware Solutions from Cheyenne
+bulletSeagate Software Demonstrations
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11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. +Lunch - Sponsored by Novell, Inc. +The Partner Pavilion - Wilshire Room
11:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. +The Partner +Pavilion +Wilshire Room
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12:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. + The Evolution of the High-Performance Workstation +Glenwood Room
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2:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.Breaks for Various SessionsThe Partner Pavilion - Wilshire Room
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. + Technical Breakout +Sessions +
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+Exploring Total Cost of Ownership Models, +Microsoft & Compaq
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+- Novell GroupWise Messaging Solutions
+- Compaq High Availability Services Model
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+Presented by Nick Maas, Senior Technical Trainer, Compaq Computer Corporation +
+This session will present exciting tools and technologies available and being developed +by Microsoft and Compaq to provide a non-stop computing architecture. You will learn about the +robust fault-tolerant features available today and be introduced to Microsoft's cluster software solutions +that are just around the corner. As more mission-critical applications are being deployed on Compaq and +Microsoft NT integrated systems, you will need this timely information on how to best design for +highest systems availability. + +

+NeTwork Integration with Novell IntranetWare - Tuesday, June 10th at 1:30 p.m.
+Presented by David Nelson, Manager Systems Engineering, Novell, Inc. +
+No longer a question of "NetWare or NT", the growing trend is for companies to employ both +platforms to meet their needs. Come see how to use Novell Directory Services to reduce the cost +of NT ownership and ensure "Integration Reliability" with IntranetWare clients for Windows, +Novell Application Launcher, NT Workstation Manager, and Novell Administrator for Windows NT Domains. +Attendees will receive a free CD containing all integration products for Windows NT and the +IntranetWare client suite. + +

+Rapid Implementation for ERP Supply Chain Management Systems - Tuesday, June 10th at 1:30 p.m. +
+Presented by George Miller, VP Marketing - STAR Solutions +
+Mr. Miller will discuss the breakthrough developments in the implementation of Baan's World +Class ERP Systems, especially in smaller to medium sized organizations. Baan's "Orgware" and +"Dynamic Enterprise Modeler" have revolutionized the approach to rapid configuration through the +use of "Wizards" and business modeling tools that utilize industry-standard templates. Through +the augmentation of these standard business objects, ERP systems may be rapidly built and +deployed to your organization's specifications. + +Mr. Miller is VP Marketing and a founder of Star Solutions, Baan's California System Integration +Partner, based in San Diego. He is a co-founder of the Baan Aerospace & Defense Advisory +Council. He also founded PROACTION Management Consultants, and was VP Marketing for WDS, +Assistant Director Operations for Purolator Technologies and consultant for Booz, Allen & +Hamilton. His career has spanned the rise of computer-based business systems for manufacturers, +as they evolved into ERP/Supply Chain Management. + +

+Oracle for NT Clusters - Tuesday, June 10th at 3:30 p.m. +
+Presented by Jeff Scroggin, Director Product Marketing, Oracle Corporation +
+The presentation will outline Oracle's strategy for Windows NT clusters, including Oracle Fail +Safe and Oracle Parallel Server. Oracle Fail Safe provides high availability with failover support +for a two-node cluster. Oracle Parallel Server provides high availability, scalability, and +performance for supporting enterprise-class applications on clusters from two to four nodes. + +

+Fibre Channel Primary/Secondary Storage Solutions - Tuesday, June 10th at 3:30 p.m. +
+Presented by Darren Thomas, Director Network Storage, Compaq Computer Corporation +
+Fibre Channel attached storage addresses the demand for high-performing, intelligent +storage that can keep pace with the growing demands for on-line information. As a leader +in developing new array technology and a driving force in fibre channel technology +development, this session will focus on the Compaq Fibre Channel attached storage system +architecture, I/O performance, scalability, future directions and benefits. + +

+Solution Seminar: Exploring Total Cost of Ownership Models - Wednesday, June 11th at 9:30 a.m. +
+Presented by Robert Angrisano, Senior Architectural Technologist, Microsoft Corporation +
The hottest topic in the Corporate America today is "how can I +lower my cost of ownership and more effectively manage my applications +and operating systems?" Come hear about the most exciting solutions for +lowering TCO and increasing business value since the introduction of the +graphical interface. +* Total Cost of Ownership Initiative Overview, what does this mean +to your business? +* Reducing Cost of Ownership through Technology and Best Practices +* Zero Administration of Windows Initiative. What is it? +* Zero Administration Kit. What's in it and why will it have an +impact on my Operational ROI? +* Zero Administration Initiative in Memphis and NT 5.0. What will +change in the O/S and how should I prepare for it? +* Zero Administration and SMS, the total solution +* NetPC. What is it and should it be in my future PC purchase +plans? + +

+Solution Seminar: High-Availability Designs in IntranetWare Environments - Wednesday, June 11th at 9:30 a.m.
+Presented by:
+Robert Oakes, Senior Systems Engineer, Compaq Computer Corporation
+Bobby Russell, Senior Systems Engineer, Novell, Inc.
+Wally Marsden, Senior Systems Engineer, Vinca
+This session will present high-availability designs and product solutions by Compaq, Novell, & +Vinca. Novell will demonstrate key features of IntranetWare that provide a fault resilient +operating environment. Vinca Corporation will show their high-availability clustering solutions +that are available today. In addition, Novell will review their just announced Wolf Mountain +clustering technologies. Compaq will demonstrate superserver technologies that provide for fault prevention, +fault tolerance, and rapid recovery of mission-critical systems. These technologies include hot-plug +PCI, redundant network interfaces, and RAID technologies. If you design and manage servers in +a NetWare environment, you will not want to miss this session. + +

+Solution Seminar: Seamless NT Integration with Oracle & Compaq Platforms - Wednesday, June 11th at 8:00 a.m. +
+Session designed specifically for Federal, State & Local Government Agencies +
+Presented by Jim Kitterman, Senior Marketing Representative for Government Markets, Oracle, Inc. +
+This presentation is for those faced with migrating their Oracle solutions to a Windows NT environment. +The content will benefit: a) Managers who must learn how network and database solutions can help +them address stringent mandates for organizational change; b) IRM's developing migration strategies +for entire agencies and departments; c) Developers who must update and develop applications for an +NT environment; and d) IS managers who must plan, implement, and administer networks, servers, +clients, and applications in an NT environment. + +

+Oracle Data Mart Solutions - Wednesday, June 11th at 1:30 p.m.
+Presented by:
+Neil Mendelson, Senior Director Data Warehousing, Oracle Corporation
+K.C. Choi, Enterprise Architect, Compaq Computer Corporation
+ +IDC and Gartner estimate that greater than 70 percent of Fortune 500 corporations will study +or deploy data warehouse solutions in 1997. Data warehouse and data mart technologies have +become strategic information resources for decision making and analysis. Oracle and Compaq +offer high performance, cost effective and easy to deploy data mart solutions based on industry +standards. This session will cover data mart architectures, products and applications for +this strategic technology. + +

+Messaging System Capacity Planning - Wednesday, June 11th at 1:30 p.m. +
+Presented by Jerry Cochran, Senior Messaging Architect, Compaq Computer Corporation +
+Planning a messaging system can raise all kinds of questions. What size server do I need? +How should it be configured? How do I configure the systems and network for best results? +How do I optimize the operating system for best performance? What tuning parameters are +available within the messaging software? + +The answers to the above questions can be found in this session. You can expect to get information +covering capacity planning methodologies you can use to determine the hardware and software +requirements. Also covered are the tuning parameters needed to build a peak messaging server +environment. + +

+Novell GroupWise Messaging Solutions - Wednesday, June 11th at 3:00 p.m.
+Presented by Rob Aronson, Senior Systems Engineer, Novell, Inc. +
+An overview of GroupWise 5 features and architecture with a demonstration of the GroupWise +client and administration programs with Q&A. Attendee's will receive a copy of GroupWise 5 +memory requirements and a CD of the GroupWiseCyberCafe. + +

+Netscape Intranet Solutions - Wednesday, June 11th at 3:00 p.m.
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+Compaq High-Availability Services Model - Wednesday, June 11th at 3:00 p.m.
+Presented by Kay Kerr, Manager Enterprise Services, Compaq Computer Corporation +
+As an industry-leading computer company, Compaq delivers comprehensive service solutions +provided through the most dynamic partnerships in the industry. This session discusses the +best ways to obtain optimum service in the new 90's computer-industry model. + +

+Network Management Solutions - Wednesday, June 11th at 3:00 p.m.
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+The ASE Program offers a multi-level certification approach allowing +candidates to take advantage of the program education and benefits +as well as to be appropriately recognized as they progress through +the levels of the ASE Program. ASE candidates complete a series +of rigorous tests to demonstrate Compaq product knowledge and +integration proficiency. In preparation for these exams, candidates +complete a curriculum that provides extensive training on integrating +Compaq hardware with various operating systems and applications. +Compaq ASE candidates may choose from the following accreditations:
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+The amount of information available to +Compaq ASEs and Associate ASEs is endless. All ASEs automatically +receive, at no charge, access to every technical tool and subscription +available from Compaq. This ensures that along with their training, +Compaq ASEs are equipped with the latest information, support +tools, and software to successfully plan, install, troubleshoot, +integrate and optimize Compaq solutions. Upon accreditation, ASEs +receive a Welcome Kit to help them understand and fully utilize +these resources from Compaq. After that, ASEs receive monthly +subscription mailings from Compaq to ensure they have the latest +information and tools available.
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+Once accredited, Compaq ASEs and Associate ASEs have toll-free +access to an exclusive Compaq ASE Forum.The +purpose of this forum is to enable ASEs to share information and +leverage the expertise of other Compaq ASEs from around the world. +Additionally, ASEs may dial into Compaq's +technical databases 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, free of charge. +ASEs also receive a quarterly +ASE Newsletter containing information about upcoming events +and the ASE Program.
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+Because of their extensive training on +Compaq hardware and operating system integration, Compaq ASEs +receive a free subscription to Compaq SmartStart -- the intelligent +CD-based process that integrates hardware configurations and software +installations into a single, streamlined process. Additionally, +ASEs are privileged to free, priority access to Compaq technical +support reducing hold times to a minimum.
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+To ensure that Compaq ASEs are properly +trained and maintain the expertise to perform as expected, periodic +training is provided as well as private, non-disclosure events +where ASEs can learn about upcoming Compaq products and technologies. +Annually, ASEs are invited to the Compaq Systems Engineering conference +where they attend break-outs and have a chance to speak directly +with the top experts at Compaq. Priority registration, discounts, +and incentives are provided to ASEs for most events.
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+Advertising materials are provided to +ASEs to gain them immediate recognition as a member of a worldwide +team of highly trained Compaq Systems Engineers. These materials +include use of the ASE logo for stationery and business cards, +ASE brochures, and ASE catalog items including clothing and business +accessories.
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+In return for their effort in becoming +a Compaq ASE, ASEs receive special discounts on select Compaq +products through a Compaq ASE Product Purchase Plan.
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+Associate ASEs complete a curriculum that +provides extensive training on the integration and configuration +of Compaq hardware. To demonstrate their abilities as a Compaq +Associate ASE, candidates must pass a strenuous series of Compaq +tests.
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+The Compaq ASE is considered an advanced level accreditation +of the ASE Program. ASEs have successfully demonstrated their +knowledge and expertise in the integration of Compaq hardware +and a specified operating system. In addition to completing the +rigorous training and requirements of the Associate ASE level, +Compaq ASEs must also acquire and maintain the matching certification +of a Compaq approved operating system vendor.
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+To ensure that Compaq ASEs have the knowledge and expertise to perform at their best with Compaq platforms, periodic maintenance training is required by Compaq. The amount of maintenance training required throughout a year depends solely on Compaq product announcements, and whether Compaq determines that the new product training requires additional technical or presales training. ASEs are required to complete all these requirements to maintain their ASE accreditation. +

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+The ASE is expected to complete the requirements within the amount of time specified by Compaq. This grace period may vary depending upon the requirement. Additionally, renewing ASEs are required to submit an ASE Application to Compaq regardless of whether there has been any maintenance training required during the previous year. Prior to their renewal date, ASEs will be sent a letter reminding them to submit an application. Failure to comply with the maintenance requirements of the ASE Program within the specified period of time will result in deaccreditation of the ASE. +

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Synchronous DRAM, commonly known as SyncDRAM, is the latest type of PC memory architecture. This provides a significant performance improvement over conventional Fast Page Mode (FPM) or Extended Data Output (EDO)1. A key difference found in SyncDRAM is that it is synchronized to the system clock signal, which means that all operations run at the same speed as the processor bus, i.e., 60 or 66MHz. This is compared to conventional memory architectures which run asynchronously to the processor bus. Due to this synchronization, data bits are retrieved faster and thereby increase system performance. +

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PC applications commonly access DRAM data in 4-quad word (Qword) burst lengths. Optimum system performance is achieved when data is fed to the processor on par with the system clock. Data access from an L2 cache comes close to meeting this requirement as typical when only one or two wait states are inserted while accessing the first data. The remaining three Qwords are delivered on a par with the processor speed, denoted as a 2/1/1/1 burst rate. When, however, the requested data must come directly from DRAM, the burst rate is degraded. Assuming the burst is from a DRAM page that is already open (page hit), the achievable burst rate at 66MHz using 60ns FPM DRAMs is 5/3/3/3 cycles; for EDO DRAMs it is 6/2/2/2. SyncDRAMs can reduce burst rates to 7/1/1/1 for L2 cache misses. While SyncDRAM takes more time to locate the first data bit, it then is faster at retrieving the next three Qwords. Furthermore, it really excels at back-to-back reads, as noted in the following comparison which assumes a page hit: +
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