What I Mean When I Say I Have a Migraine
For years I thought they were something else because my experience felt so far outside the norm
Play it in mid-air, two ways. HANDS — wave both hands at the camera: spread them apart for volume, raise them for pitch, lean back to soften the tone, put your palms together for silence. A laptop webcam does just as well as a phone. GYRO — on a phone, tilt it instead: left-right sets volume, forward-back sets pitch, and the whole range lives inside the frame (tilt the marker outside it to cut the sound). With neither sensor nor camera, the mouse drives it. Press START — on a phone, hold it steady and it calibrates to your grip.
On a computer you can also use your mouse or trackpad.
Text from my wife, on her walk this morning: “There’s a lady using a shop vac to vacuum up the leaves in her yard”
Justin McElroy installs Linux outdoors. (Outdoors due to the family’s no computers indoors policy.)