Welcome to Night Vale host Cecil Baldwin shares his tech pet peeves
Welcome to Night Vale host Cecil Baldwin shares his tech pet peeves
《欢迎来到夜谷》主持人 Cecil Baldwin 分享他的科技槽点
Just let the man watch movie credits in peace! 就让这位先生安安静静地看完电影演职员表吧！
Cecil Baldwin’s résumé includes appearances on Gravity Falls, narrating the documentary Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street, and performing as part of the New York Neo-Futurists theater company. But he is best known as the host of the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, a long-running fiction show that blends macabre Lovecraftian horror with absurdist comedy. As Cecil Palmer, the voice of Night Vale Community Radio, Baldwin keeps the people of the titular town abreast of all the goings ons with the Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home and offers tips on how to best maintain their Bloodstone circles.
Cecil Baldwin 的履历包括在《怪诞小镇》（Gravity Falls）中客串，为纪录片《尖叫，女王！我的猛鬼街噩梦》（Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street）担任旁白，以及作为纽约新未来主义剧团（New York Neo-Futurists）的一员进行表演。但他最广为人知的身份是播客《欢迎来到夜谷》（Welcome to Night Vale）的主持人，这是一档融合了洛夫克拉夫特式恐怖与荒诞喜剧的长篇虚构节目。作为夜谷社区电台的声音 Cecil Palmer，Baldwin 负责向镇民们通报“秘密住在你家里的无脸老妇人”的各种动态，并提供如何维护血石阵的建议。
He also cohosts Random Number Generator Horror Podcast No. 9 with Night Vale cocreator Jeffrey Cranor, recently directed the play As Sylvia and raises awareness for LGBTQ+ issues and HIV. In short — he’s a busy man. So we’re excited that he found some time to tell us about his tech pet peeves.
他还与《夜谷》的联合创作者 Jeffrey Cranor 一起主持了《随机数生成器恐怖播客 9 号》（Random Number Generator Horror Podcast No. 9），最近执导了戏剧《As Sylvia》，并致力于提高人们对 LGBTQ+ 群体和艾滋病问题的关注。简而言之，他是个大忙人。因此，我们很高兴他能抽出时间来告诉我们他的一些科技槽点。
What is one thing you wish you could change about your phone? 你希望手机能做出的一项改变是什么？
I wish it were impossible to manually text and drive a vehicle at the same time. We are collectively way worse at it than we think.
我希望手机能从技术上杜绝在驾驶时手动发短信的行为。我们对自己驾驶时分心的能力有着严重的误判。
What is your happy place online? 你在网络上的“快乐老家”是哪里？
Adding books to my Favorite list on Amazon so I remember titles/authors, and then taking that list to my local new and/or used bookstore and buying them there.
在亚马逊上把书加入收藏列表，记住书名和作者，然后拿着这份清单去当地的新书店或二手书店购买。
Which tech trend do you wish would go away? 你希望哪种科技趋势消失？
Please, I’m begging you, let me watch the credits of the film or television show in peace. I just finished a movie, you don’t need to roll me right into a whole new one. Let me digest for just a second.
求求你们了，让我安安静静地看完电影或电视剧的演职员表吧。我刚看完一部电影，不需要你们立刻把我推向下一部。让我消化一下好吗？
What creation are you most proud of? 你最引以为傲的作品是什么？
It would have to be the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, right? It was the acting role that changed the trajectory of my life.
那肯定是播客《欢迎来到夜谷》，对吧？正是这个表演角色改变了我的人生轨迹。
What do you do when you’re feeling stuck? 当你感到卡壳时会怎么做？
I will literally say to myself “1, 2, 3, 4, 5…. Walk away.” It’s like an unbinding, spoken out loud when I don’t know how to move forward with a project or I’m stuck in a social media scroll-frenzy that is giving no pleasure. Put it down. Walk away. Focus on something else for a while.
我会对自己说：“1、2、3、4、5……走开。”这就像是一种解脱，当我不知道如何推进项目，或者陷入毫无乐趣的社交媒体刷屏狂潮时，我会大声说出来。放下手机，走开，去关注点别的事情。
What’s the last piece of physical media you bought? 你最近购买的实体媒介是什么？
Picked up a few albums at my local record store: Marianne Faithfull À la Télévision 1965-1967, Jorge Ben Jor Jorge Ben, and Dr John Gris-Gris.
在当地唱片店买了几张专辑：Marianne Faithfull 的《À la Télévision 1965-1967》、Jorge Ben Jor 的《Jorge Ben》以及 Dr John 的《Gris-Gris》。
What would the tagline for your biopic be? 如果拍摄你的传记片，标语会是什么？
Performing authenticity… for real.
演绎真实……来真的。