As it creaks and grinds in its subterranean lair, its regurgitates an eclectic soup of ideas and observations. We do not know why the machine exists, where it is going or why it chooses to paraphrase Ted Hughes’ Iron Man from time to time. If you like this blog then you’re most likely a well-travelled cynical miscreant with geekish, bizarre aspirations to androidism. If you don’t like it then you probably like going for walks, hiking and rescuing small defenceless children and animals. And you don’t like rap or heavy metal.