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Ritwik Reflects
On Robots and Random Things
Minimal Mac: TV Is Broken
This is a great article on the experience of a 4 year old who’s never seen how traditional tv works (ie, she’s grown up using streaming services like netflix’s or download and watch instantly like amazon/itunes). It really highlights what’s wrong with the old model of tv viewing.
“I didn’t turn it off, honey. This is just a commercial. I was turning the volume down because it was so loud. Shrek will come back on in a few minutes” I say.
“Did it break?”, she asks. It does sometimes happen at home that Flash or Silverlight implode, interrupt her show, and I have to fix it.
“No. It’s just a commercial.”
“What’s a commercial?”, she asks.
”It is like little shows where they tell you about other shows and toys and snacks.”, I explain.
“Why?”
“Well the TV people think you might like to know about this stuff.”
“This is boring! I want to watch Shrek.”
“I know, honey. It will be on in a bit. Just be patient.”
He’s getting more creative now. (Taken with Instagram at CSE Robotics Labs, Level 3, K17)
Experimentation
Great article on Zeldman’s choice to experiment using his personal site.
(Source: daringfireball.net)
Anzac day flags (Taken with instagram)
Knock offs on Amazon
I haven’t seen it that often while shopping for books for my kindle, but I’ve definitely seen a few knock offs. This is an unfortunate problem. From a user perspective it, it makes it harder to find what you want and makes you more suspicious of content on the store (which I guess is bad for Amazon if it means people become slower/more cautious about purchases).
Printing this week’s Beta. Here’s a photo from Instagram of the article on Instagram. (Taken with Instagram at Level 1 print room, K17)
So many different robot tests in progress (Taken with Instagram at CSE Robotics Labs, Level 3, K17)
Mmmmmocha (Taken with Instagram at Lindt Chocolat Café)
Heartbroken (Taken with Instagram at Lindt Chocolat Café)
And this is what the free mugs say on them :D (Taken with Instagram at John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW)
