Currently, it’s a few hours before our second class and I am sitting in Weldon waiting for the time to pass so I can put down my readings and build something. I honestly did not understand everything we had to read for today’s lab. I enjoyed reading the blog post “Transduction, Transmateriality, and Expanded Computing” by Mitchell Whitlaw. I am kind-of scared of my computer for a variety of reasons: will stop working and I will lose essay just before I press print, can’t figure out how to do very much on it, and I tend to drop my knapsack when I get home from school so I think my computer hates me. I liked Whitlaw’s comment “literally and figuratively cracking [the computer] open, hooking it up to new inputs and outputs, extending and expanding its connections with the environment.” I think a major reason why I am scared of my computer is because I feel disconnected from it. I know what I want it to do most of the time, but I just can’t get it to do it. And its usually the simplest things that frustrate me the most; such as just wanting to move a line over an inch on a graph your making but every time you click its never in the right spot. And then I get so frustrated and feel disconnected because I know this is a task that could be easily done in my real world, but is driving me Fing insane in the virtual world.
(Read this with the boxing ring announcer voice.)
On the right side of the ring we have Hilary the Historian with her primary documents and her Arduino set ready to take on the champion, the Silver Dell Computing Machine. The two have fought numerous battles, with the Silver Dell as the winner. But Hilary the Historian has been bulking up in the library typing vast computer script. Who shall win? Tune in at the end of the semester to find out.
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