Hammertime's Brog Apologises

I am very sorry that there have been no brog posts in the last year. Believe you me, I've been wery busy.

But. Now that has changed. I'm not busy no more longer!

So. You can look forward to many more posts this year of our Lord 2015.

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Screen Shots - an incomprehensibly colossal idea for a tv series / doco

It's a series of short (5-15 min?) vignettes of different people at their screens. After all, screens dominate our lives nowadays, to the point that Arcade Fire sings about 'we fell in love and now I'm staring at the screen'.

I was initially thinking office block folk, but we could expand to phones, tablets etc.

So what would happen? I'm glad you ask. We'd meet the person. See them doing what they do. See their issues. See how they use their screen. Their common programs. The extent of complaint/frustration/love\hate relationship with their screen. Importantly, the cleanliness of their desktop. And finally their stance towards updates.

eg me

- flip open the laptop once i've found a seat on the train
- startup is pretty quick. if i'm not careful the sound is up, playing that stupid mac startup sound, even worse if i'm on a quiet carriage
- frequently found flexing my wrists
- try to gaze off into the distance in between screenstares
- love my keyboard shortcuts - switching between programs
- generally have music on in the background. sometimes aids concentration, sometimes abets, sometimes ahinders
- got my little list of things to do in notepad. no formatting, no bullshit - never crashes!
- got my random writings folder
- got word. bloody word. obviously great at some things, but what's been getting me lately is the inability to work with two docs at the same time. found an answer of sorts - turn one into a pdf!
- working with matlab, ncl
- reading pdfs
- got personal photos scrolling thru on background, will intermittently upload from phone via bluetooth
- there's magic in opening up a computer; similar to magic in opening up browser. of course i know the crushing reality, but that magic isn't completely gone. it's the possibility of something more, something new. an adventure. wow, so it's come to this. this is what passes for adventure these days.

Wouldn't you watch this show? Don't you feel it'd capture something fresh and vital about our horrible, catatonic addiction to our screens? And that it might help people become more aware of their sickness, that they might cast off their chains, in favour of overhead projectors?

I shouldn't get too ahead of myself, it's physically impossible.
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Kind regards,

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