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As I sit here listening to The Beatle’s “You Never Give Me Your Money” from the Abby Road album, my mind has wondered back in time through vivid memories of simple moments in my youth. Moments representing the simple analog bliss of being… golden light of late afternoon peeping around the edges of sunglasses long ago lost.

It was a time before the digital world began to replace the analog world that I grew up in. Cars had no computers. They were mechanical and driven by material, physical means. Computers were still a novelty in the home. They were still high tech and almost sci-fi. Hand-held video game systems didn’t exist. Arcades were where we played video games – for $.25 per game! Cellphones had only recently began to be put in cars. Even pagers were still uncommon and weren’t possessed by non-professionals. Cable TV was still relatively new and so were VCRs. MTV played music videos. (more…)

If you’re a fan of Red Dwarf then you undoubtedly know who Robert Llewellyn is. For those who may not, Mr. Llewellyn plays the part of the android, Kryten, on the BBC sci-fi comedy “Red Dwarf.” Mr. Llewellyn was also host on the British television series “Junk Yard Wars” which aired on the Discovery Channel here in the USA.

He has created an interesting web-based video series called “Car Pool” which can be subscribed to in podcast-form via iTunes or can be seen directly on his website/blog at LLEWTUBE.com .

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