Anna PickardInterview
Writer (The Guardian, Glitch)
Adapted from Anna Pickard's interview on Uses This, published 6 July 2012. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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My one and only pooter is a 13" MacBook Pro, which I've had for about two years, a bit of a record for my recent run of laptops.
I think it knows that I've been secretly wishing death on it so I can get my longed-for MacBook Air, and is therefore stubbornly refusing to die just to spite me.
My iPhone 4 has been indispensable particularly since having a baby, a beautiful inconvenience that tends to pin you in chairs and on sofas with your computer just out of reach.
There's also an iPad which has proved marginally useful, as it tends to slide off things.
And a Kindle which is currently a very neat little repository for books that I intend to read but probably never will.
Oh, and a Nike Fuelband, which is making me feel comforted about not having time for exercise, as apparently looking after a small baby racks up the fuel points (although I may be cheating by wearing it on my rattle-shaking hand...)
Using Freedom, cutting off all Internet connectivity for a specified amount of time.
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I have typed words for newspapers like The Guardian and games like Glitch, as well as giving voice to megalomaniacal polydactyl cats and butter gods for the social media arms of [advertising campaigns](http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=193357410698478&set=a.190463237654562.45746.186933131340906&type=3&theater "Bertrum Thumbcat on a goat.
Visual Thesaurus, while having an occasionally annoying UI, can really help to send my brain on useful little tangents.