HeyJaredRobert's polite apologetic rants
Occasional thoughts, scripts that never got recorded and general waffle from my elitist bubble of privilege (apparently)
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Dug up or Grown. (opens the original)
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I’m a bit cursed, I try not to obsess but there are moments when say, I pick up a spoon, a common or garden bit of cutlery and stare at it. I imagine the factory where it was made, cut and pressed out of a sheet of stainless steel, probably took a few seconds, fell into a bin containing thousands of similar spoons, was eventually packaged, shipped and somehow, ended up in my kitchen door.But I also know that wasn’t the whole process. Somewhere on the planet, a massive diesel powered digger haule
Sign Language (opens the original)
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I’ve just learned of the passing of a wonderful man I had the pleasure of working with in the 1980’s. At the time I was working with a group of very talented performers called The Joeys. We toured all over the UK and Netherlands, but for three years in a row we ran a two week long season at the Shaw Theatre near St Pancras Station in London. On the Tuesday those two weeks, we worked in conjunction with an deafness advocacy group and through them we met Peter Llewellyn Jones (no relation). He was
Kryten, a Role Model for AI! (opens the original)
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Kryten 2X4B 523P (such a jerky middle name) is a sanitation droid, a bipedal bogbot, a lowly toilet cleaning device with ideas above its station. It’s a machine, yes it can think and have ideas, when it makes a positive decision, it is advanced enough to engage smug mode. It’s an annoying know all with a head like a half chewed rubber tipped pencil.It might look vaguely humanoid but other than the odd groinal attachment, there’s nothing down there except plastic underpants and a trademark.But he
The Italian Job (opens the original)
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I recently rewatched the classic 1969 original film, The Italian Job.And no, I don‘t mean the rather confused remake featuring Mark Wahlberg, Jason Statham and Charlize Theron that was released in 2003.Thanks for reading Robert's polite apologetic rants! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="button primary" type="submit" value="Sub
Subscriptions (opens the original)
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We are all subscribed up to the hilt. I cannot imagine how many things I’m subscribed to, but it’s a lot. Some of them, like most of the folks who read my turgid updates, don’t pay, they just subscribe.We now have 1.25 million subscribers on YouTube for Everything Electric Cars and Everything Electric Tech, those are all no payment subscriptions.I subscribe to hundreds of channels on YouTube, a big armful of substack stacks, things like Netflix, NOW TV, Apple TV etc. But here’s my point. I chose
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