Comments on: Matt Wakes Up

By: Nicolas Papaconstantinou

Nicolas Papaconstantinou — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:31:43 +0000

We’re really going for it with the circular pieces at the moment, ennit-though?

Nice piece, though, sir. You are a reality-bender of the highest order.

By: Matthew Hartwell

Matthew Hartwell — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:43:23 +0000

Whereas my F12 is mysteriously blank!

I just went ahead and pressed it: It brought up Dashboard, but I think it’s remappable.

By: Andrew Cheverton

Andrew Cheverton — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:54:59 +0000

On my MacBook, F12 is the volume increase – F5 is mysteriously blank, so I’ve never dared press it…

The idea of waking up (refreshed!) on the internet is simply horrible. It’s just… horrible.

By: Matthew Hartwell

Matthew Hartwell — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:52:06 +0000

I probably should have specified it’s a kid’s book, but I’m sure you gathered that from Amazon. My friend and I stumbled across it in a bookstore last month and were absolutely entranced by it.

It’s the kind of thing you would give to your child if you wanted them to grow up in absolute LSD-tinged fear.

By: David Baillie

David Baillie — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:25:18 +0000

Hey Matt – Bad Day At Riverbend has just been added to my toread list.

In fact. I’ve just bought it. Be here Wednesday they say.

PS. Damn on the F5 thing, for some reason I thought it was the same on the Maco.

By: Matthew Hartwell

Matthew Hartwell — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:51:45 +0000

I originally read that line as, “his hair seduced to a couple of dozen pixels.” The story had a very strange bend before that, but then, wham! Digi-sex.

But that wasn’t there at all. That was just in my head, with the rest of the snickering thirteen year old egos hiding there.

I tried pressing F5 to refresh the page, but on a MacBook, that’s the volume increase button. So I tried fn+F5, and my computer started asking me for things I’d never seen before.

When I finally clicked the refresh button, the page reloaded, and while scanning the piece again, I originally read that line as…

I enjoyed this piece, and recommend you check out a book called Bad Day At Riverbend, by Allsberg (of Jumanji fame). It’s the most horrific existential nightmare I’ve ever experienced.