July 9. Bought two controllers online at BestBuy and picked them up on sixty-second Street because the controller I ordered weeks ago won’t be delivered until tomorrow, and J forgot hers at home, and we still want to play. Subway traffic has largely broken down, due to police activity. It takes me more than an hour, but then we have our two controllers, black and aqua blue.

Vaclav Smil: How the World Really Works. Breathless. Reminds me of the collectible magazines that my parents bought for me in the seventies, which formed an entire encyclopedia of technology, bound together in blue plastic binders, and which I never looked at again after collecting them. I grew up in the middle of the technology revolution, and it was the most normal thing in the world, there had never been anything else.