Author: Gib

Happy Holidays

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Thank you for listening. I hope you have enjoyed the series. I will be putting the final episode of Notes from the Uncanny Valley up this week.

Please share on your social medias and if you have an apple account, you’d be doing me a big favor by visiting the itunes page and giving Notes a good rating. If enough people do, it will display an average rating and I’m told this will help to get it “out there.”

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-from-the-uncanny-valley/id1301551310

Also, feel free to reach out and let me know of your existence. What’s life like for you?

Happy Holidays to you and your cats.

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12. The Night Watchman

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“Maybe all black holes are intelligent civilizations that got sucked up their own assholes.”

0:00 —People call him Superboy…

01:14 —Notes on Bigfoot

05:00 —A bus ride through the snow storm

08:13 —Notes on the Fermi paradox

10:21 —The nightwatchman’s lullaby

13:14 —A cosmic prank in the park

14:06 — “SETI to yeti, do you copy? Over.”

14:43 —An unfinished email to future nonbiological intelligence

22:55 —Exit Sam.

24:30 minutes

“Baby (slowed down 800 percent)” by Justin Bieber, “Three Cheers for Existence,” by Deru, “Murmur’s Ebb” by Greater Than or Equal To, “1979” by Deru, “Kontakte” by Karlheinz Stockhausen, “Pathologically Bored” by Deru, and “Poa Alpina” by Biosphere

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11. Real Person Blues

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“Sometimes you’ve gotta beat the crazy outta them.”

0:00 —Intro

00:30 —Riding the train backwards through downtown…

02:34 —Notes on Déjà vu

04:12 —The Return of the Mummy’s Shadow

09:14 —Drifting through downtown again with the soundtrack out of sync…

11:00 —Roy suggests a way to deal with Sam and reveals Dietzen’s identity….

17:42 —Dan knocks on the door with a gift and some news…

19 minutes

“Vid Loss” by Pye Corner Audio,“Spiral Insana” by Nurse with Wound, “Blown-Out Joy from Heaven’s Mercied Hole” by A Silver Mt. Zion, and “Unseen Forces” by Justin Walter

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10. The Healthy Skeptic

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“This is an irony you couldn’t get away with in fiction—socially impaired programmers creating social media environments for society to socialize within. And the irony doesn’t stop there. Grandin points out that the programmers require intense concentration to look at information for long periods of time. Meanwhile, the technology and media they create distract and fragment people’s attention. Even Grandin, whose condition is characterized by an inability to recognize irony, recognizes this irony.”

0:00 —Intro: You’re not a hoarder, not if you can put it in order…

01:00 —Notes on weaponized autism

12:15 —Alone at the Social Skills Group Therapy

19 minutes

“Witchs Will” by Wilburn Burchette and “No Riders” by Pye Corner Audio

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9. My Selfie Hurts

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“Having been enlisted to take a picture of the happy pair in front of the city, to serve as social media trophy and prosthetic memory, I suddenly feel the weight of my duty. Maybe this is to document a special anniversary. Perhaps it’s his birthday. After briefly familiarizing myself with the gadget, I hold it at eye level.”

0:00 —Intro (Ghost in the machine)

0:39 —Photographing a couple at lookout point

05:13 — “The suspense is killing me.”

06:44 —More night trouble with the troubled neighbor

11:41 Minutes

“Baby” by Justin Bieber, “Unseen Forces” by Justin Walter, “Poa Alpina” by Biosphere  and “Blown-Out Joy from Heaven’s Mercied Hole” by A Silver Mt. Zion

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