I have a keyboard that I like pretty well, but I tend to type in the dark and my present one lacks backlighting. Its caps lock indicator LED has also failed. Though I am a touch typist, I sometimes like to have a look at the symbols as I don’t have those memorized as well. (How often do you really use the angle brackets?)

So as a reward for passing nine tech exams in a row all on the first try, I bought myself this keyboard, except the version with blue LEDs.

I won’t use 90% of the features there that she reviews, of course. I mainly care about the backlighting, build quality and having mechanical (but non-clicky) key switches, not making my LEDs behave like a snake. But the quality is supposed to be high so that’s why I ended up with the Ducky.

I’ll share my opinions about it when it arrives.

It’s always seemed really onerous the idea that you are only a “good” person if you get up early.

Though I don’t have a strong circadian rhythm and prefer to sleep in 2-3 hour cycles throughout the day (yes, I know I am weird), I am by very far the most productive between midnight and 4 am.

Always have been. Always will be. It’s why most of the posts here are written about that time.

From an early age, we’re taught that getting up early is good for us. Sayings like The early bird catches the worm and Early to bed and early to rise makes and man healthy, wealthy and wise are part of the culture and have a certain moralizing force. People who go to bed early and get up early are upstanding and productive. People who go to bed later and wake up later are degenerate and lazy.

Nowadays, however, there’s a growing body of thought to say this is not only wrong, but also counterproductive.

Most jobs that I have, if possible, while I do work at work, I am most productive at night in the hours I mentioned above.

So in one hour between say 1 am and 2 am, I tend to get as much done as I do in 3-4 hours during the official workday. That’s why I usually work at night even when I have a “day” job.

Of course, no company (usually run by Type A early-rise extroverts) ever sees it that way, so I can never work a sane (to me) schedule – so I have to work extra, but it also means that I tend to be far more productive than other people if I do this.

One of the reasons I don’t really care about elections – other than their irrelevance – is that there are only two issues that really matter right now, medium and long term.

Those two are:

1) Climate change and our response (or lack thereof) to it.

2) Access to information and who controls that information.

Since it’s not too likely that we’ll do very much about climate change, I don’t think about it very much.

But it’s still possible that we might fight and win a little bit for control of information, and that’s better than nothing.

That’s why I post long screeds here from time to time about how the internet and routing really work and things like that.

All the other issues hotly debated today – and even most that I complain and quibble about – are very tiny in comparison to those big two. Every other problem (or solution) will stem from the unfolding and ramifications of the paths we take on those two Big Problems.

The rest while I understand that they matter and are worth fighting for, really won’t change the course of history. The two above will.