22 November 2016

Notes - cyborgish / Norris' / keyboard



       After noon. You did your exercises as Carol was going at the grocery. – Amorella

       1249 hours. I was working on the keyboard functioning and did not realize Apple has built in dictation. I shut it down to internal only, but if one wants to she or he can go through Apple where they will make corrections. Very cool for those who cannot type. I am still getting used to these toggled keys. I like them though however the touch-to-the-keyboard is not yet  automatically felt (especially where the fingernails touch the flatter keys). Mac improvements have been made in the last six years, no doubt about it. Most are internal which is fine with me. In some ways the visual on the screen looks more like that from an old typewriter (without paper of course). I like it.

       You had left over Papa John pizza from last night (your and Carol’s favorite: large, half works, half veggie). Carol missed her hair appointment so it is moved to around noon tomorrow. She made an excellent cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving this morning. – Amorella

       1434 hours. I was surprised, the sauce is a new recipe, crunchy and sweet; most excellent. She is always worried about cooking since she no longer has a sense of smell or taste.

       1504 hours. I can’t seem to focus this afternoon.

       This is because you have had too much going on the last couple of days. Buying a new computer is like buying new hands, don’t you think? – Amorella

       1507 hours. What a thing to say, but deep down, the computer is certainly an extension of myself. I am a cyborg, especially from fingertips to keyboard. This new MacBook will become an extension of my very thoughts. I become, in that sense, intimate with the machine because it literarily reflects my thinking processes or lack of them.

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1523 hours. I just remembered: It is 1963 and I am working at Norris’s ‘Haberdashery’, on  State Street, Uptown Westerville. It has been about two hours since JFK was assassinated. The particulars are still coming in. I am in a denial of sorts. I know it is true and I know belief and truth are not the same thing, but I don’t want it to be true. He was too good of a President for it to be true, too young, too articulate, too intelligent for it to be true.

Carol suggested a Graeter’s and Kroger’s for a couple more items. Thus, you are waiting in the Kroger lot at the corners of Tylersville and Cox after have dessert before supper.

1640 hours. These are big keys but this is good to get used to. Every so often I have to add a short software program such as License Support Installer v.3.1.2r35429 because the Mac Air did not take some internal updates. I’m sure I need these because a few of my documents go back into the 1990’s at least.) Also, the screen is larger and in a natural rectangle shape, the screen on the Air is wider and narrower. I do like that the battery is about ten hours or so. I can tell already that it does not lose energy as fast as the Air, plus obviously, it is a new battery. I never replaced the original. Here comes Carol.

Dusk. You are home having trouble pairing your iPhone with this MacBook. – Amorella

1740 hours. I need to restart, then it should work because I renamed the MacBook for Bluetooth. I’ll do it later. I am sitting in the bedroom chair watching dusk move into night – no lights on and I have the screen light down low. Very cool as the keyboard is lit and very little light is reflected into the room at least from this angle. I love dusk and dawn creeping in the open-shaded window of a darkened room. I can more easily get up in the night and write from the chair rather than go downstairs.

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