July 13, 2018

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Permanently Moved 🔊

Episode 14

No overall theme this week. Just a quick update and shilling a few things i’ve been upto. I talk about saying good by to my friend who’s moving to the USA, how the podcast is going, I bought scrivener recently, recommend the book Songlines by Bruce Chatwin and also do the ‘Don’t forget to like and subscribe’ thing for the first time.

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Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded in one hour by @thejaymo

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 Today is Friday. I’ve got my traditional Red tea that I usually drink when I’m making this thing here next to me.

In the last week, I’ve attended blockchain workshops where I talked about permaculture, cocaine production, and Silk Road for everybody.

Building saas platforms for cults and Elon Musk ICO ing a private robot army armed with flame throwers and boring machines.

Less Fun has been saying goodbye to my very good friend Father Edward, who I hadn’t spoken to for nearly 13 years until just before Christmas last year. We kind of lost touch when he went to university and then I went to university, but we reconnected and it’s been a really great time getting to know him and his wife and his practice and his ministry.

I also bought his limited Gibson SGJ off of him and I was playing it yesterday and I really like it. Thanks Ed.

Other updates that I don’t think I’ve mentioned on here is you can listen to my talk that I gave in Rotterdam on Solarpunk by searching Solarpunk A Grand Dress Rehearsal and it’ll show up on YouTube.

In it I talk about Cyberpunk, Solarpunk, Land As Platform and, Um I thought it was a good talk seems to have gone down quite well. So if you’re interested in that give it a search give it a listen I really enjoy how the show is going at the moment. I really enjoy making this thing weekly I’m, pretty happy and pleased with the last couple of episodes I really like the one about the visit to my great granddad’s grave.

There was the surprise pope content last week as Benedict Singleton of Rival Strategy put it and also there was James’s New dark age review, which I also enjoyed recording I also hit the psychological barrier of a thousand total listens.

So thank you very much to everyone who is listening. It’s actually closer to about 1200 listens over the last 13 episodes and hopefully just little old me and my Twitter channel means it will continue to grow. I also mirrored the podcast to my YouTube page, which is Jay Springett.

I’ve got a couple of other things that I’m working on for this particular channel that I’m quite excited for. It might break my rule around writing it and recording it within one hour, but I’m definitely going to record and edit it within an hour, and that’ll be coming out quite soon. So, I’m looking forward to making those.

What else is on the list of things to report? Hmm, let me think.

I bought Scrivener. Or I should say, I finally bought Scrivener. I’ve won NaNoWriMo a couple of years in a row now, and I’ve never actually sort of bought the trigger and bought the software. Bye. But i’ve been using it for a while now and i’ve ported a lot of the writing that i’ve been doing this year Into it.

It’s taken a while to get everything set up and learn the software because it’s very different from kind of google docs A big shout out to Alex Fradera of farmer versus fox blog for being my technical support and talking me through how you use it I really like it. I like the way that you can chunk up the manuscript so you don’t have an entire wall of text that you have to scroll through when you decide to work on a different section, which has been really helpful for some of the short fiction that I’ve been working on because it’s allowed me to break it down into scenes and paragraphs and work on those scenes in isolation from one another and just really tighten everything up and pin everything down or expand it where I think actually this section could be a lot longer.

Yeah. And quite unexpectedly, one of the short stories that I wrote earlier this year that I thought was fairly self contained has ballooned and another, I don’t know, 6,000 words has been added on to the end of it. I’m in one of those situations where I have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen to the main character, but I’m just going to need to keep writing to find out what happens next.

Speaking of writing, I want to recommend a book. I’ve just finished reading The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin. The book itself is from the early 70s, but was first published in 1987, and it recounts his journeys across Australia with the aboriginals learning about the song lines, which are the invisible pathways that crisscross Australia.

They’re the ancient tracks connecting communities, and the book itself is absolutely fascinating about how these stories work, and it’s a real testament to his writing, and there’s some real sensitivity given to the subject matter. There’s a line in it that made me think, where his traveling companion, the Russian, Arkady, says that Australia may have been a different place had it been settled by Russians or Slavs, or indeed any people that had an understanding or appreciation of open spaces.

Instead, it was the English, island people who came with their insular ways, thinking only of colonial settlements. So yeah, if you’re looking for something interesting to read, or have an interest in Australia, it’s really, really good. Highly recommend it. And that’s about it for this week. If you’re enjoying the podcast, please remember to like it or give it five stars in whatever source that you get it from.