Today felt like recovering from the craziness of yesterday. I was expecting the livestream of the Artemis II flyby to wrap up around 7:30 hours IST, but it kept going on and on, with a solar eclipse, the first ever witnessed by humans in cislunar space, and a call with Trump, and an interaction with Isaacman, who btw asked really amazing questions. I made a weird hype reel based on comments by Trump before crashing after an unusually long day.
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Today, had to do a story for story for Melzo Anubhav. I met the team at the Convergence Expo, and the kids sent me a message with their portfolio and pamphlet, and asked me to do a story. I said I would do one on Sunday, but had forgotten with everything happening. This is a really good team, that is using tech developed for entertainment, for education. The kids learn better in an immersive environment, retain what they learned better, and can experiment with hazardous, toxic chemicals in a simulated lab without needing adult supervision. I really liked what they are doing, and they have installed over 100 of these devices in public, government-run schools in Thane, which is more than their hometown of Surat!
There was also a press con in the morning at 11:00 hours, that I attended as soon as I came in. Vaidy was not on, but there were Rehan, Sheldon and someone I did not recognise from Digit. There was a Divya, have to confirm if its my former colleage.
I have always wanted to sit on these conferences, put my friends on the pinned panes, and then react with not obvious but comedic expressions to whatever the company is saying.
After that I bashed out the stories, first the Anubhav one, followed by the Logitech release, and then Astrophel Aerospace announcing a VTVL test on 15 August, that I also posted on IndianSpaceflight.in. The PR was a bit hesitant to allow me to post there, but when I showed some other posts and the site, they were convinced and understood the value and benefit of appearing on a grassroots, community run forum for spaceflight enthusiasts.
All in all, it was a good day and I wrapped up my copies in sufficient time to wrap up the HyperX Pulsefire Saga review. This is a strange modular mouse where Logitech is selling you a platform, expecting you to 3D print the buttons, palm rest and the side buttons. There is a cost and weight penalty for the modularity, so this is an extremely niche device. But, I got a keeper and have to see if there are any 3D printing services that will let me customise it further. I maybe want a knobby palm rest!
Okay, will go home now, and really have to pay this new game that I purchased that I forgot the name of haha. Oh right, it is called Pile Up!
GlideX is a bit iffy, will start using this TUF A14 as my primary, switching out from the Vivobook S16 that looks really slick.
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