{"id":836,"date":"2015-05-06T10:28:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T09:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleeting.eu:8080\/wordpress\/?p=836"},"modified":"2015-05-06T10:44:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T09:44:18","slug":"quite-bad-pennies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/quite-bad-pennies\/","title":{"rendered":"Quite bad pennies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Fans of my Blog \u2013 do you know the number of human readers has never changed \u2013 just the loyal very few \u2013 on the other hand the number of spammers and robots has increased exponentially \u2013 just shows you that their algorithms don\u2019t work \u2013 tee hee.<\/p>\n

Like bad pennies two things are back \u2013 I have yet another gastro endoscopy on Saturday and as if to join the party Ratty has returned. The gastro\u2026 is routine to find out if they can go ahead with the transplant at this stage or not \u2013 I don\u2019t care as as far as I can see there are risks all round including being eaten by the rat as I write this \u2013 my only concern is that having been positively heroic the other two times I might be a blubbering nut case this time and tarnish my immaculate reputation for raw courage \u2013 but so be it – 8:30 in the morning \u2013 strewth its like a firing squad at day break \u2013still if they get a move on and if I don\u2019t bother with my free cup of tea I can get to the car boot sale afterwards.<\/p>\n

Intrepid rat or daughter or granddaughter is digging mine shafts hoping to strike larder. I really do love them, in a way, and hate having to poison them. There habit of festering deaths does put me off though so Selby District Council Pied Piper here I come.<\/p>\n

I seriously fancy buying a phone box for the garden but they are very, very expensive (perhaps Julia could organize a bike ride on behalf of Chris\u2019s phone fetish \u2013 only joking) and weigh \u00be of a ton. I have been interested in the idea of phone theatre for years. It emerged during my PhD but I could not develop the idea because I was pretending to be a scientist and needed to count things. The obvious thing would be to make it interactive \u2013 dial this dial that \u2013 speak to this person and that person – but interactivity bores me rigid, I prefer passive listening everytime. I am particularly fond of phones with no dials (extension phones)
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but in France they have options for phone with no mouthpiece the so called \u2018mother-in law earpiece\u2019 with which you can listen only.<\/p>\n

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The differences between phone theatre in these conditions and radio theatre would be 1. Its mono and lousy quality. 2. You can hang up but can\u2019t change channel. 3. You are overhearing a conversation between at least 2 people like a crossed line. While I find that all very fascinating I am not yet sure where it takes me but a big red box in the garden is bound to help.<\/p>\n

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As far as the voice is concerned, a hybrid machine human voice seems like a possibility, anyway much food for thought.<\/p>\n

Thoughts on the election \u2013 none \u2013 don\u2019t vote.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have any holder of a political philosophy available to vote for who has any regard for anything other than the vested interests of the inhabitants of this insignificant isle. While hundreds are drowning in the Mediterranean trying to escape from poverty and oppression and our political class is only concerned with our selfish little minds and bodies \u2013 sorry pockets \u2013 I cannot vote \u2013 STUFF em all – except Labour and the Greens and SNP a bit.<\/p>\n

Love C<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Fans of my Blog \u2013 do you know the number of human readers has never changed \u2013 just the loyal very few \u2013 on the other hand the number of spammers and robots has increased exponentially \u2013 just shows you that their algorithms don\u2019t work \u2013 tee hee. Like bad pennies two things are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gravityisahat.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}