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From the manufacturer's website:
The pros? It suits your Mac with its glowing Apple logo! The cons? It’s made of cheap plastic.
And I can confirm that it does (and is):
As we're in the final stages of rebranding/getting our brand-spanking-new website up and running at work, I wasn't able to attend this year's Arts Marketing Association conference, despite being down for it.
However, Thanks to the prolific tweeting of those who were there, plus live streams provided by Envirodigital, I still got a very good idea of what happened - from the initial technical problems courtesy of Skype, to the humour and excitement of the closing keynote; from the wisdom being passed down, to the debacle over the is-it-or-isn't-it-vegetarian chocolate pudding.
In order to get an even better idea of the key points made, I souped up a bit of code I'd written at the behest of Jack from Mind Unit, which 'scrapes' tweets from Twitter's search function and presents them in a nice table, and ran it on the #amaconf hashtag.
What resulted was a dataset with over 2,100 rows, containing every tweet made on Wednesday and Thursday of the conference. From this, I cut it back to just tweets made from 10am to 5:30pm, when the main conference sessions took place - which had the added benefit of trashing most of the tweets about partying and drunken frolics, which might have proven embarassing to the tweeters (and, more importantly, just made me more jealous that I hadn't been there).
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Enjoying the delicious reverbfest of a new album by Panda Bear, Tomboy, finally (after waiting over a month for it to be in stock). Favourite tracks at the moment are Last Night at the Jetty, Surfer's Hymn and Slow Motion. Don't like it as much as his last, Person Pitch, yet, but it's definitely growing on me. This one is even more reverb-drenched, although it also seems a bit more 'stripped down'.
A nice surprise at the end was this locked groove at the end of the record, gradually wearing down my patience and my already-wrecked stylus until I could be bothered to go and turn it off.