If Buildings Could Speak

Is Less More?

This episode is greatly inspired by this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZ48AE3TOI [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZ48AE3TOI] Paraphrasing Yngwie Malmsteen… You tell me something that you perceive to be true in good faith for it is obvious to you that I don't know "Less" you say, "is more" But how can less be more? What form of alien math do you practice to make this calculation? For it makes no sense. Only more is more, you fool and one plus that must always be one more. If less was more A farmer might plant less seed and grow more crops next season or perhaps the heat of the fire would be less by adding more coals So less can never be more Unless by less you mean to add another special ingredient which was not there before In which case, it's still more. If less was more A fisherman might put less bait on a hook, and expect to catch more fish or maybe then he could just throw away the fishing line altogether and catch more fish with his bare hands. Then again, why even have hands? He'll catch more fish if you chop his hands off. But why then keep his arms? and so on. So you see, eventually you are left without even a person! This philosophy can only lead to nothing And we all know, of course that there is something, even if we're unsure of exactly what that is. So less, can never be more Only more is more How can less by fucking more? you idiots.

I Want to Make a Show for the Fringe Festival

I want to make a show for the Fringe Festival With live theatre, but quite comedic It will involve hand puppets and some animatronics It's also about sustainability but not too woke I want to make a show for the Fringe Festival about electronic circuits with contemporary dance. There'll be some cool video projections and an explosive door prize entry is just 5 bucks I want to make this show for the Fringe Festival with maybe, a bit of magic and a few surprises Instead of a rabbit coming out of a hat, it's a koala! And the audience sits in the trees while the performers build a fire But I want to make this show for the Fringe Festival with a live band and a sword-swallowing amputee Picture belly dancers with reptiles while members of the audience recite anonymous stories of disastrous first dates Then, I want to make this show for the Fringe Festival A kind of, burlesque science fiction Dinner will be served on vinyl records And there’s an upside-down DJ and a children’s choir live streamed, of course But I really want to make this show for the Fringe Festival with a naked lady covered in glitter, who makes love to a transgender sex worker, on James St, in a box made of mirrors.

If Buildings Could Speak

If buildings could speak they'd have much to say about their creaky concrete bones and how sore they are from the weight of all the things that happen inside them They have so many belly aches from mountains of documents still in filing cabinets and computer systems and furniture and floor coverings and wall hangings They'd probably tell you about the migraines from all the footstepsthrough hallways and talking and shuffling and coffee brewing and business making Maybe they'd be worried about the future as their lungs filled up with stale air through dirty air conditioner filters and old machines with noisy fans and stale cookingand breathing Still, mostly at night the buildings go to sleep and sometimes, they dream dream that they could speak and for once, only in their dreams everyone would listen and understand their important musings if buildings could speak

The Shortest Podcast in the World

This week I failed Sorry

Quantum Dream Computer

The quantum computer is coming They're just trying to make those little qubit things immune to interference from the big world Because when the big world leaks in the qubits stop working and the solutions are all wrong Once they work out an answer to this problem they'll be able to calculate bigger numbers than we ever imagined The big world Is like the real world The one that you and I can see It's just a problem That it keeps leaking in to the little one It makes that little qubit sound a bit like a nice dream that you're fighting to stay inside on the verge of waking up and when you do wake up you may be sad because you can't fly you don't have 600 million dollars and the cat you tried putting in a box with some radioactive material is still dead But recently, they discovered something else Those little qubit things Don't need to be completely isolated from the big world Because they can correct for the errors later But even then, there's a problem The quantum computer can calculate so much information that there is no computer big enough to test if the answer Is correct So as you can see it's nice to dream but there's really no point in building a quantum computer thank you