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Bonus: Youtube Musings [January 14, 2024]
Tom talks about some luck he's had on Youtube.
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Simulacast: Something [October 23, 2023]
Tom talks about something.
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Bonus: Writing for the Pillbox [September 3, 2023]
Tom talks about writing some text.
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Bonus: Smattering of Topics [July 23, 2023]
Tom offers some topics for a Sunday morning.
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A Discussion With Imy Khan - Music and Roleplaying Games [July 16, 2023]
Tom welcomes back Imy Khan to talk about music and roleplaying games.
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Bonus: Chat with Imy and Two Books to One [June 24, 2023]
Two topics for the morning.
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Bonus: Das Friday Night [June 17, 2023]
Tom ponders a Friday film.
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Bonus: Twenty Seven Years [June 13, 2023]
Tom has a milestone to celebrate.
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Bonus: RC Cars [June 3, 2023]
Tom talks about finding the new metrics and markets in RC Cars.
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Bonus: Sadness [June 3, 2023]
Tom talks about an experience twenty seven years in the making.
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Bonus: Remind Bobby Rush [May 6, 2023]
Tom talks about a topic he had planned or not planned.
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Bonus: Be Like Spence [May 6, 2023]
Tom talks about a listener who has created a lot of follow on effects.
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Bonus: More Calculus [April 30, 2023]
Tom talks about a return to simulation.
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Bonus: World War Two History and ChatGPT [April 15, 2023]
Tom recovers from his cold.
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Bonus: Only A Couple of Days with Amazon Customer Support Later [April 5, 2023]
Tom recovered his books after some experience.
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Bonus: Comfort Zone [March 25, 2023]
Tom talks about three topics of some degree of currency.
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Bonus: Definition of a Microcast [March 18, 2023]
Tom talks about the format of these podcasts now.
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Bonus: Institutional Racism in the ANZAC Myth [March 13, 2023]
Tom found something hiding in his brain.
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Bonus: Backwards for Progress [March 11, 2023]
Tom talks about an experiment he did in the overnight period through the week.
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Bonus: Trigger Warning [March 4, 2023]
Tom reflects on three new topics.
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Bonus: Three topics [February 18, 2023]
Tom reflects on three topics.
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Bonus: My Brother's Name is Kenny [February 6, 2023]
Tom returns to talking about music through a book review of sorts.
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Bonus: Ragtimes [January 21, 2023]
Tom returns to talking about music.
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Bonus: Post-Calculus [January 14, 2023]
Tom continues the discussion about his productivity.
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Bonus: Calculus [January 7, 2023]
Tom talks briefly about his productivity.
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Bonus: Parenting is the Long Game [January 2, 2023]
Tom answers a question on parenthood.
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Bonus: What Do You Want to Hear About? [December 28, 2022]
Tom asks a question of the listeners.
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Bonus: What's The Deal? [December 12, 2022]
Tom asks a question from Nurgling.
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Bonus. Breaking the Algorithm [November 6, 2022]
Tom is sick of not algorithmically fitting in.
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Simulcast. The Loneliness Of Simulation Creation [October 30, 2022]
Tom discribes the loneliness of simulation creation.
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Bonus. Voting and the Real Three Works [October 22, 2022]
Tom talks about voting and the three works he's been working on.
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Bonus. Marriage [June 30, 2022]
What is morality with contradictions? Life?
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Simulcast. Three Works [October 2, 2022]
Tom talks about his three works.
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Simulcast. Four Weeks [August 28, 2022]
Something interesting... perhaps...
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Bonus. Marriage [June 30, 2022]
What is morality with contradictions? Life?
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Bonus. Back to the Past [June 12, 2022]
Tom reflects on returning to an old friend.
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Bonus. Old Podcasts [June 5, 2022]
Tom ponders legacy in podcasting.
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82. Agent Based Models, Occupations and Time [May 31, 2022]
Tom responds to his friend Derek's question.
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Simulcast. A Weak Weekly Update [May 29, 2022]
Tom has a few things to say for the week.
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Simulcast. A Change of Direction [May 23, 2022]
Tom takes a few minutes to discuss the Sea Lion development.
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Bonus: Narrowboat Fantasy [May 15, 2022]
Tom is not sure what to do about narrow boats.
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Simulcast. That Sea Lion Thing [April 23, 2022]
Tom takes a few minutes to discuss the Sea Lion development.
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77: Escaping the New Mind [August 8, 2021]
What defines the new mind? Twin daughters? A new simulation? Getting sick of violence?
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76: New Normal and New Chapter [May 30, 2021]
Tom outlines what has happened in the past four months.
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75: Meeting Heron Stone and Clubhouse [May 29, 2021]
Tom talks about finally meeting longterm collaborator, Heron Stone, and the Clubhouse app.
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Simulcast: Death of Shock G. [May 29, 2021]
Tom talks about the death of Shock G. and how this has changed Tom's perspective.
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74: A Lot Has Happened [December 7, 2020]
Tom talks about Sim Sea Lion. The location and life are changing. Tom touches on the current medical crisis and how it maps on to the current political situation. All very curious.
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Bonus: No One Can Talk About Endings [July 19, 2020]
Why is there no discussion about concluding the new normal for an improved future?
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72: Fauci Aligns with the Doomsday Virus [July 7, 2020]
Tom has been tracking what Fauci has said and is concerned no one is listening to Fauci currently.
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Bonus: Make the Gangs Work Harder [June 14, 2020]
Tom talks about the byproducts of defunding the police and the fact that this movement is represented by a particular group in his area.
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Bonus: Many Topics for a Sunday [May 31, 2020]
Tom provides an update about the neighborhood, reflects on hoarding, friendships, trauma in development and many other items.
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71: Might It Come Next? [May 23, 2020]
A late update, but an update nonetheless. Tom explores a small number of aspects of the new normal.
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Bonus: Charles-Joseph Pierre Pletinckx [April 11, 2020]
Some historical fantasy in a time of distancing.
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Bonus: Important [March 21, 2020]
Are podcasts a critical service? This and other questions.
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69: Tales from the Cluster [March 15, 2020]
Lock-down? Tom has escaped a couple of times and it was all very curious.
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68: That Virus Business [March 12, 2020]
Tom is on lock-down with all his old books and magazines. Could anything be wrong?
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Bonus: The Finer Jokes in Life [February 19, 2020]
Is it too late to talk about new year's resolutions?
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Bonus: Releasing Music [February 9, 2020]
Breaking down a release of some music this weekend.
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Bonus: Someone Yell Fore! [January 30, 2020]
Some surgery leaves Tom feeling a little the worse for wear.
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67: Productivity [January 15, 2020]
Winter still produces some results and a brief discussion about Australia.
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66: End of Year Thing [November 30, 2019]
Tom grabs a couple of ideas through the year to try to give some coherent review.
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65: Eight Minutes to Go [November 17, 2019]
Slay bells ring? No, Tom is downstairs with a few updates in his thinking.
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Bonus: Two and a Half Thoughts [November 3, 2019]
A reflection on films, software and shuttering a project.
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64: Scary Stuff [October 31, 2019]
Tom breaks with seasonal festivities to discuss the new year.
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63: In An American Voice [October 5, 2019]
Tom describes a new project he's been working on.
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62: New Voices [September 29, 2019]
Tom explores two voices that are bringing new discourse.
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Bonus: Tom Barbalet was Noble Ape [September 28, 2019]
Nothing funny about it.
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Bonus Simulcast: Lunch with Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone [September 9, 2019]
Tom went out to lunch with two extraordinary dice men.
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59: Political Corruption [August 11, 2019]
Tom breaks down the corruption of American politics with the narrative associated with guns.
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Bonus: Introduction to Sacramento [August 7, 2019]
Travel is always so liberating.
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58A: Finding a Journal [August 7, 2019]
Tom discovers some old magazines that rekindles some communications.
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57: In An App [July 21, 2019]
Tom has been working towards releasing a Noble Ape app for the iPhone.
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Bonus: Jay-Zilch [July 20, 2019]
Tom discusses how crazy things are on his street.
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56: Small Gems [July 4, 2019]
Tom is reaching a new level of jaded but through this he still finds gems.
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Bonus: Deliciously Apolitical [June 16, 2019]
Tom explores tea and failure in political discourse.
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55: Protection, Plants and Painters [June 1, 2019]
The future is where the corporations are the mafia. A new fence creates a fixation on the garden and a small painter update.
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Bonus: Monday Memorial Day [May 27, 2019]
Tom talks about his productive Memorial Day Weekend.
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54: No Nonsense [May 23, 2019]
Tom explores the stuff he has been working on other than nonsense.
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51: A Shared Language in nobleape.io [March 31, 2019]
Tom discusses the background and potential of Noble Ape in the cloud with JSON.
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48: Hopefully [March 13, 2019]
Tom emerges from an existential crisis thankfully, perhaps, for the listeners.
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47: London and a General Reflection [February 17, 2019]
It has been a week to compare and contrast.
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42: Rumpole of the Barbalet [January 26, 2019]
Sometimes you can learn a lot from the late 1970s.
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41.5: And the Grammy Goes To... No Political Freedom [January 13, 2019]
The experience leads to a bleak conclusion.
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41: One Hundred and Fifty Good Reasons [January 6, 2019]
Forming communities today is an interesting process.
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40: Intentional Gaps in Memory [December 30, 2018]
Exploring chemical memory erasure and old memories.
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Simulcast My Rules Are Better 2. Narrative, Setting and Skills [December 22, 2018]
Tom introduces the Just Plain Chaos role-playing game rule set. He uses these rules to explore narrative, setting and providing interlinking skills as a means of stimulating game-play. http://www.myrulesarebetter.com/
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Simulcast My Rules Are Better 1. Introduction [December 20, 2018]
Tom Barbalet introduces himself and the broad theme of the podcast. http://www.myrulesarebetter.com/
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38: Things We Do For Freedom [December 16, 2018]
The new means of contortion required for intellectual freedom.
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37. Message To An Old Friend [December 11, 2018]
Can a shared political perspective be assumed? Rarely these days.
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36. Normative Religion Simulation and Music [December 7, 2018]
An expansion of a previously poorly discussed topic.
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35. Mathematics, Mistakes and Mastery Language [December 6, 2018]
Late night programming produces problems like probability-produced podcasting.
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34. What Media Creates Murder? [December 6, 2018]
Is it possible to equate journal publication with genocide.
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33. Cleaning a Room as a Metaphor [November 4, 2018]
Both a physical and metaphorical exploration.
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24. Not What It Used to Be [August 18, 2018]
Chasing a dream sometimes leave you a little lacking.
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17. Reflecting on a Departed Friend [May 16, 2018]
Some ideas from the past couple of weeks.
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15. Old Papers [March 3, 2018]
Tom finds some paper between old miniatures and offers the deconstruction it provides.
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14. Learning from Audio Books [February 18, 2018]
This could be the end or it could be the start. Hard to tell at this stage.
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13. Back From San Francisco [February 18, 2018]
Sometimes a talk is not a talk at all - it is a reason to think about the past and future.
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Special: Tom Appears on BBC Radio 4 in 2003
Three years before his first podcast, Tom wasn't crisp in the slightest.
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12. Finding Someone Competent [February 9, 2018]
It is time to get some more eyes and ears on this thing.
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11. Benefactor of the Miniature Arts [January 27, 2018]
Returning to a hobby of fifteen years ago.
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7. Royal Responsibility [January 13, 2018]
Tom reflects on the legacy of the royalty in the UK.
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Bonus: Audio Dinosaur [January 13, 2018]
These podcasts are a strange historical form.
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6. Reflecting on Reggie Osse and Ed Woods [January 5, 2018]
What happens when a podcaster dies?
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5. On Writing [December 31, 2017]
Tom talks about three writing projects he is working on currently.
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4. High Desert War Games [December 27, 2017]
Tom is puzzled by the few war gamers who live in the High Desert around Victorville, California.
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3. More Than Twenty Years [December 17, 2017]
Tom reflects on some aspects of Noble Ape that are rarely discussed.
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2. Not Neutrality [December 16, 2017]
Tom ponders why the discussion associated with net neutrality is so paper thin and why we can't have a discussion associated with other possibilities. If you are interested in the background history to this http://www.nobleape.com/googleblock.html
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1. Introducing the Format [December 9, 2017]
Tom introduces the podcast by discussing his many podcasts and what he has learnt from all these recording.