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Todd Brunner
Todd is a disturbed and possibly dangerous human being. Under no circumstances should you listen to anything he has to say, nor should you, even in an emergency, ever take him seriously. We've also heard rumours of an anal plug called "The Intimidator", but it's really none of our business. You've been warned.
Time: Having and Not Having It
Let’s talk about time. Don’t worry, I’m not planning a physics lesson here. I don’t want to talk about the fourth dimension as a thing, or for that matter, any of the other 10 dimensions either. What I want to talk about is the good old fashioned time that we deal with in the every day world. You know, the one where only four of those dimensions seem to work. In that world time is sometimes on our side and sometimes working against us. It allows us to waste, kill, and even use it constructively. We do all sorts of stuff with time, but no matter what else we’re doing with it, we’re always spending it. And like any currency, there isn’t an endless supply.
Alternate Reality and Web 3.0
It seems that everybody online has their own definition of what Web 3.0 is going to be. You can go to any one of hundreds of tech blogs and find all sorts of lists of future technologies and applications that are going to be the “next wave”. And with these come an equal number of complex philosophies about how our lives will change for the better (or worse) when all of this spiffing new stuff happens, er... sometime in the future. All of this is good stuff and a lot of it is probably prescient to a high level of accuracy. But I wonder if all the talk of technologies and specific applications misses the point somehow.
Statistics or Psychology?
The modern world is dominated by statistics. This will surely come as a surprise to no one. Statistics control countless aspects of our modern lives, and are applied as a matter of course to almost everything we do online. They are the backbone of many aspects of 21st century life, without us necessarily being aware of it. Stats can answer many questions when applied and interpreted with care, and many aspects of society would simply break down without them. But is statistical analysis always the best way to answer every question it is applied to? I’m not so sure.
Does Mankind Suck?
Welcome to So Sue Me, a podcast which attempts to put my thoughts about many subjects into words and subsequently into sound waves. This may or may not be a good idea, but having already tried to do an unscripted podcast about music, wherein I and a dear friend blundered about and scrambled for words as if we were a couple of tongue tied schoolboys, I concluded that a written show about subjects less intangible and more personal was called for. And so, here I am, inflicting a lifetime of unconventional opinions on a very few listeners who probably don’t give a shit.
