Scratch Pad: SAW2, WAV, Lilliput

I  do this manually at the end of each week: collating most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I also find knowing I will revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.

▰ I was revisiting some of the past year’s albums on labels I follow, and I was struck how several 2024 Warp releases, such as Bibio’s “Llyn Peris” and Seefeel’s “Hooked Paw,” could easily be mistaken for lost Selected Ambient Works Volume II tracks.

▰ Remember: the proper way to listen to audio files is to download the WAVs, check the metadata, add them to your player, get frustrated that the player has subdivided them into multiple albums, delete the WAV files, and then download the MP3s and then listen to those.

▰ Getting an email alert about an upcoming aerial drone safety inspection of your neighborhood’s power lines and roofs is like being in an early-years Heinlein novel

▰ I sort of literally wandered into Lilliput:

▰ I appreciate that the home security camera alert says “person seen” every time someone is noticed, like it isn’t doing surveillance and instead it’s taking the time and doing the work necessary to recognize people as individuals for their thoughts, feelings, and needs.

▰ I don’t think I understood in 1999, newly arrived in New Orleans and beginning to telecommute for the first time, that the Niels Diffrient Freedom chair I bought was a totally new thing. Mine lasted until about 6 months ago, and I’m seated on its replacement now. Happy anniversary to the original.