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10 years before the Apple Vision Pro (AVP), I demoed a shitty VR headset at my friend's apartment and it literally changed my life. The Oculus DK-2 was a hunk of plastic, tangled in wires, designed by a teenager, with only a million pixels in each eye. “This is the future.” As undercooked as the technology was, it put me in a crude hallucination, a

On that big escalator going up into Grand Central, and I visualized a full longitudinal section of Manhattan (from Battery Park to Central Park, showing the bedrock differences, and also the famous facade of GC). I imagined myself as a little scale figure in that architectural drawing, and as I moved my hand in real-life, a little pixel updated in

Pre-birthday night. The decorations, the streamer with letters on string over mirror. Festivus! Company on Saturday. Have I earned the right to relax tomorrow? I’ve been feeling endlessly behind.

After dinner, Andy and I stopped by a bookstore that was next to St. Mark’s Comedy Club. Unorganized, lots of underground poetry, ended up getting “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” and a preface to Plato. I asked the guy if they had any Ed Sanders (his Tales of Beatnick Glory shaped my sense of history of this neighborhood). They had that same book, signed,

Found out that my late grandfather had a typewriter but it was thrown out. It totally makes sense that after computers became mainstream (say, 2000), there was no conceivable future where a typewriter would ever be useful. (Yet, I spent $647 of my $650 in birthday money on a 84-year old typewriter in 2024). The utility of a typewriter in this day a

I told the editors that if we hit 200 drafts by Wednesday, I’d show up to our weekly meeting in a suit with a green screen (to match a meme of me as a weatherman). At 10 pm, we were at 198. Then we got 7 more in the last 2 hours (205 total), so I had to live up to my bet.

Made another bet: if we get 200 published articles, I’d wear a horse head to

Here are the writing prompts from my Senior Year English class. I wrote a typewriter essay on this in more detail here, and am considering re-answering these throughout the year.

1. What is the difference between a civilized person and a savage? Which is more natural? (9/12)

2. What are your plans for senior year? What do you hope to achieve? (9/13)

3. Why do

Came across my 2007 high school newspaper, something I don’t think I ever read before. It’s trippy reading this after reading my 2007 prompts from English class. I could barely shape prose, but these writers were surprisingly good. I knew a lot of these kids too, but now I see them through their writing. V weird.