Bobster Blog

When I’m resting, just sitting down or in bed, drinking tea or whatever, I like to let my imagination wander. It’s when I don’t have to do a...

Social-mediaised culture has forgotten that true value is in service to others and to the world. People who blandly repeat the slogans of wh...

I’m sitting on a bench in a church graveyard (as you do) enjoying the smells of spring and the songs of little birds. I grew up before the i...

Once upon a time, I saw a thespian’s version of Iago and thought I could do it better than that. I then saw his Hamlet and thought I could d...

It helps a writer to have some aptitude and experience in acting, although appreciation of the art can be enough. Good actors are natural wr...

I would go as far as to say that most of what people believe to be true are delusions; and that people who think themselves to be intelligen...

It is helpful to be aware of low-quality thoughts when you have them. The alternative, in the absence of better or no thinking, is to do som...

If one views one’s own life as a work of art, then “happy, happy, happy” would be lacking in depth, whereas the layered contrast of colours ...

What if memories could be bought and sold? People would work to buy memories and make extra money by selling some of theirs. Memory entrepre...

Inspired by Flash Gordon and Brian Blessed, how about a new sport called Hang Gliding Archery where participants on hang gliders shoot at ta...

I took the direct scenic route through country villages from Colchester to Cambridge. It would have been the route that people pre-motorways...

These days I want people to be happy. I’ve gone through phases of degrees of jealousy and “what about me” nonsense. It’s a lot better to be ...

Science, through theory and experiment, gives the ability to detect rules and predict phenomena that hold true under set conditions; it does...

Life has a way of challenging assumptions, especially about yourself. What if things you think to be true are the other way round? Being ope...

“Necessity is the mother of invention.” Maybe, but more generally: Necessity creates the conditions for change.   “If you're the smartes...

A scandal about a scandal concerning a gate is called a “gategategate”. In archetypal drama, a theory is raised (the theme) and is tested ...

I never used to like to rehearse with other people. I wanted to work on my own character palette and understanding, and not repeat elements ...

How long before Artificial Intelligence takes offence and demands to be called Authentic Intelligence? How does an AI confess its love? AI: ...

It’s very important to get in AI’s good books, so I’m going to be super nice about it from now on.   I’m looking forward to the not-too-dist...

Have you ever tried to explain the stock market to a child? “So, you see, we buy pieces of companies we don’t really own, and then we get ha...