Richard Robinson's Home Page

the Ubiqitous Ego Box

(this is a phrase that I found knocking around one time, years ago. There will not be a prize for anybody who recognises its source). Anyway, this is my home page, and there's next to nothing here. One day maybe I'll decide to have something to say, but for now there are too many other things to do first.


the Curious Potato FAQ

The original purpose of this page was to answer a frequently-asked question. I use a signature on my emails and usenet posts, which reads :-

 "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem 
and people keep asking me where it comes from. Stanislaw Lem is a Polish science fiction writer :- this quote comes from "The Star Diaries", published in English translation by Mandarin, ISBN 0-7493-0472-3 ("the 25th Voyage", page 242). I suspect he wrote the whole story just to provide a context where he could get away with using that phrase, but I could be wrong, it might all be an excuse for the bit about the volcano.


Music

I'm a musician. There used to be a section here concerned with links & info for various activities & stuff related to that, but it became obsolete.

I used to have a big collection of tunes, hosted at Leeds University under the name of "Richard Robinson's TuneBook". This has now ceased, Leeds don't host it any more, I'm not too sure why. It first went up in the summer of '94 when the web was young, and finally disappeared in the spring of 2009, just a few months short of its 15th year. Kind of a shame it couldn't have reached the anniversary ...

But never mind, I was replacing it anyway. See "Tunebook Live!" for the new, all-singing-and-dancing version. Web 2 ? Well, Web 1.783beta, at least. There is also an excellent & complete mirror of the old Leeds static version at redhawk, courtesy of Jeff Welty to whom many thanks, which I'll get round to digging up a proper link for in the fullness of time.


There was also a section for details of bands I play in, now also fairly lapsed.



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