Diary of an A1349

2 April, 2013

Awakened at 4:37 a.m., top-button depressed and face-down; flipped, mostly horizontal. Light-bringer mode; quick-check.

Displaying 3 @replies from the previous 24-hour period—alerts in lock screen + banners. Swiped.

Retrieve and display Lexington weather. Banners for 6 emails are discarded in turn. Asleep.

Awakened at 4:46, various angles, moving, light-bringer mode in lock screen. Elevation change. Asleep.

Awakened at 4:48 by 110 volts; charge commenced. Asleep, horizontal.

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[ Email received 5:02 ]

[ Email received 5:23 ]

[ Email received 6:08 ]

[ Email received 6:24 ]

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Awakened at 6:32, top-button depressed, light-bringer, time-giver, status check, horizontal. Asleep.

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[ Email received 6:46 ]

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Awakened at 6:52, voltage disengaged, horizontal. Asleep.

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[ Various angles, moving, slipped into semi-vertical position, top down. Moving for 32 minutes, south-southeast; distance traveled 1.74 miles. ]

[ Patterson Office Tower, elevation gain; rest, semi-vertical, 108°. Joined uky.edu network. ]

[ Email deleted 7:58 ] / [ Email deleted 7:58 ] / [ Email deleted 7:58 ]

[ Email deleted 7:59 ] / [ Email deleted 7:59 ] / [ Email deleted 7:59 ] / [ Email deleted 7:59 ]

[ Email moved to folder 8:00 ]

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Awakened at 9:06, top-button depressed, time-giver. Asleep, semi-vertical 108°.

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[ Email received 9:39 ]

[ Email received 10:27 ]

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Awakened at 10:34, SMS/iMessage alert, lock screen:

Aaron asked if him and 2 of his friends can stay at our house tonight. I figured u wouldn’t care but thot I’d ask

Asleep, semi-vertical, 108°.

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[ Email received 11:13 ]

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Awakened at 11:14, SMS/iMessage alert, lock screen:

It’s gonna be way colder than they prepared for.

Movement. Semi-horizontal, positioned-in-hand. Message swiped with index finger, SMS app opened, iMessage reply started. Typing with single index finger, electrical impulses.

Well, I won’t turn them away, of course. Not exactly thrilled about it, though.

Movement. Semi-vertical, 108°. iMessage reply received and displayed:

Yeah me neither

Asleep, semi-vertical, 108°.

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[ Email deleted 11:21 ] / [ Email deleted 11:21 ] / [ Email deleted 11:21 ]

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Awakened at 11:31, SMS/iMessage alert, lock screen:

Mesa asked if she could go shopping with Lucie tonight but I told her she’s grounded. She asked for how long.

Movement. Semi-horizontal, positioned-in-hand. Message swiped with index finger, SMS app opened, iMessage reply started. Typing with single index finger, electrical impulses.

No. I won’t know how long until we have a chance to talk to her.

Asleep, top-button depressed, semi-vertical, 108°.

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[ Email received 12:16 ]

[ Email received 12:18 ]

[ Email received 13:13 ]

[ Email received 14:36 ]

[ Email received 15:10 ]

[ Email deleted 15:16 ] / [ Email deleted 15:16 ] / [ Email deleted 15:17 ] / [ Email moved to folder 15:23 ] / [ Email moved to folder 15:29 ]

[ 2 new app updates received ]

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Awakened at 15:32, top-button depressed, time-giver, semi-vertical, 108°.

Asleep, top-button depressed, semi-vertical, 108°.

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[ Email received 16:24 ]

[ Email received 16:57 ]

[ Email deleted 17:12 ] / [ Email deleted 17:12 ]

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Awakened at 18:17, top-button depressed, time-giver, semi-vertical, 108°.

Asleep, top-button depressed, semi-vertical, 108°.

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[ Various angles, moving, slipped into semi-vertical position, top down. Elevation change. Moving for 31 minutes, north-northwest; distance traveled 1.72 miles. ]

[ Home. Horizontal. Joined home network. ]

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Awakened at 19:06, top-button depressed, swiped.

Open Twitter app, update feed, displaying @s.

Displaying feed, current. Upswipes, electrical impulses, slow scrolling back in time.

Asleep, top-button depressed, horizontal.

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[ Email received 19:26 ]

[ Email received 19:43 ]

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Awakened at 20:12, top-button depressed, time-giver.

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[ Email received 20:51 ]

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Awakened at 21:13, top-button depressed, swiped.

Open email app, displaying inboxes. 3 emails selected; 3 emails deleted.

Asleep, top-button depressed, horizontal.

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Awakened at 21:49, top-button depressed, time-giver, semi-horizontal.

Asleep, face-down, semi-vertical.

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Awakened at 22:17, Twitter alert, lock screen.

Asleep.

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[ Email received 23:21 ] …[1]

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1. Cf. Mom Chung; or, Forth Road Bridge; or, symmetry as a methodological move.  ↩