01:08:50 – With inside, within side? Haunted lifts, loud “bark blowers” as an alternative to silo lift things, age is “just a number!”, the three states of apartment building locks and USB plugs, pleasant rain sounds, tragedy of the commons, live brewing coffee and caffeinated adventures, building a gaming machine (AMD versus Intel, the GTX 970 and GTX 980, the i5-6400, the FX-8350, Athlon nostalgia, PCPartPicker.com), congrats to Frank Edward Nora for his full time job, being stalked by a dancing guy in OfficeWorks, and feedback from Jimbo and Chad Bowers regarding fronts falling off.

21:27 – Clark and Dawe, fronts of tankers falling off, fronts of financial systems falling off, fronts of cars falling off, fronts of moose (mooses? moosii?) falling off, and other related ruminations. This episode would have been longer, but the front fell off.

52:35 – Anyone will tell you it’s a prison island, hidden in the summer for a million years. Happy Australia Day with this discussion of what should be the anthem, Captain Cook, our native peoples, where we all live, cliche Australian tourism advertising, Outback Steakhouse, and humbling flights over the desert. Topped off with a Midnight Citizen-inspired discussion on rapidly fading music and book retail (Coconuts, Borders, Angus & Robertson, Tower Records, HMV in Singapore, the magical late 1990s), and the darn space all those books and DVDs take up. Released late because work has been tough, hope it was worth it!

49:25 – Spicy Thai food, student housing mates, finding out we have Danish relatives, IKEA trips (the wonderful new cafes, custom tables, impulse purchasing), the coffee triangle, remembering David Bowie and Alan Rickman (mix tapes, fabulousness, ultimate villains), stupid things said about their passing (keeping their sicknesses a “secret”, that they “looked” healthy), re-recording episodes, jobs, and the ever-elusive letterbox key from strata.

40:26 – A mini heatwave and monsoon, psychological torture, taking the stairs in lieu of lifts, Sydney’s expensive New Year fireworks, late 1990s DirectX graphics, feeling like the world is a simulation, viewing empty skylines, nihilism and being the only real person, beautiful bird sounds, evening storms, taxis targeting pedestrians, a sufficiently vast universe to harbour other life, evolution, holodecks, philosophical honesty, rendering the world around humans, the observer effect, and that darn Star Trek Prime Directive!

24:05 – A shorter exposition of three terrifying scary trends: Ruben messing up Rubenerd Show 318, the changing of Lift to Fanta Lemon, and becoming subservient to computers through floods of information. Listener feedback provided by Jimbo.

50:15 – Drizzly data centre trips, birds, cryptographic randomness (lava lamps, headphone cables as sources of entropy), uber-ing a crowdsourced paradigm of synergising disruption, listener feedback (Jimbo, Bi-Coastal Becky), hoarses [sic], Jimbo interviewing me on his podcast, Kevin Tan, functionally-challenged data centre bathrooms, trudging through the rain, high school athletics I didn’t suck at (gymnastics, badminton), winning a primary school writing contest, and finding the chipset from the first computer I built in 1998. Now with all-new abrupt endings!

54:06 – Post-holiday budgeting (using You Need A Budget, paying back savings, scary credit cards, caution versus fun), Organic Sumatran coffee, Steam specials (The Ship: Murder Party, Transistor, Cities Skylines, Train Simulator 2016, Flight Simulator X, Sakura Swim Club), Fallout media fatigue, wanting to visit Whitefish in Montana, Tree Style Tabs, Kent Brockman, IKEA in Marsden Park, Maltese Crosses, and playing Train Simulator live (the NS Buffel and Flying Scotsman on the Marias Pass route).

44:53 – The first episode of 2016! Join Ruben on a stunning morning in Sydney’s Circular Quay as he watches the ferries go past the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge. Also inexplicable discussion on traffic helicopters, naming anime episodes in Plex, puddled iron in the Eiffel Tower, palm trees, Running Man, Americans who like Vegemite, disappointing San Fran coffee, alternate terms for podcasting, The Rocks precinct, and what’s possibly Australia’s oldest surviving house.

45:38 – The last episode of 2015! Discussing the sound track for the year (The Unparalyzer by Papadosio, Khaki by Whoha, Let It Happen by Tame Impala), The Other Side on The Overnightscape, unfortunate fly and coffee bean inhalation, talking to people in 2016, Germans celebrating Christmas Eve, the world’s greatest smells (baking bread, roasting coffee, grinding coffee, fresh sheets), Coffee Alchemy and the old Refinery Espresso, the bus factor, work life balance, and all the best wishes for a happy new year.