Ticket to the Blues

Recently there was a large flash flood in Spain. I saw the King of Spain and the president were together visiting the place but people were shouting abuse at them and throwing things at them. I thought to myself, what did the king do to you? Did he summon the storm? If someone doesn't do anything to you then why shout abuse at them? Some monarchs wouldn't even care or visit at all. 

In the middle of this month, a famous youTuber called Jake Paul will fight Mike Tyson in a Boxing match. I thought that he would become unpopular, if he wins the match it would be like he is beating up an old man, if he loses then he would look like he's a bad boxer because a retired boxer beat him. The best outcome for him would be a draw. Is coaxing retired boxers into a match a new thing now;  perhaps someone will try and get George Foreman into a match or Frank Bruno. I think many people will be happy if they see Jake Paul getting beaten up by an old man. 

I might watch the match just out of curiosity. 

What October 2024 Means to Me

In October I was astonished because there was no frost. There may have briefly been some frost that melted before I was aware of it but most of the time, mornings were frost free. Sometimes the temperature went up into double digits, 15°c or there abouts, something you'd expect in spring, not mid autumn. It was a year after the October 7th Hamas attacks, people were still arguing about it because the war spread north into Lebanon. I don't think about it because I have no control over anything, I'm not involved. I'm just an ordinary man that minds his own business. 

The labour party announced their planned budget, higher taxes and higher spending; God help us all. I just try not to think about lows and dips life. I just want to think about the things that bring a smile, delicious food, days off work, playing computer games, doing my hobbies, sipping coffee and thinking nothing, watching TV for a while, reading an interesting book, all those sort of things.  

Lots of famous powerful people passed away in October, Liam Payne from one direction,  Hamas and Hesbullah leaders, plus a few pioneering scientists. I imagined the waiting room in the after life will be quite interesting. How would they break the ice for small talk?

Life is short, especially when your cause of death isn't natural causes. Every minute you live is a gift. 

Game Talk

A few recent games I have played is Red Dead Redemption and Little Nightmares; they're not for kids. Read Dead Redemption is an open world platformer with RPG trimmings. 

In the game I like Nigel Dickens, if he was a real person I wouldn't like him much but in the game I like him. He is a merchant that sells so called health tonics, the trouble is he likes his product so much that he makes bold claims about it and it causes the towns folk to target him. 

I often wonder if they hid Nigel Dickens in red dead redemption 2. It is a pregrequal and goes back in time to when the gang first formed. Perhaps he would be like a Easter egg or hidden attribute of the game. Maybe he is hidden in a cave somewhere in the wild west Texas. If they make red dead redemption 3, they should put him back. 

Pinocchio Paradox

In the story about Pinocchio, his nose grew longer when he told a lie. I was wondering what if he said "My nose will grow Longer". If the nose stays the same then he is lying, but the nose is also lying because it isn't growing longer. If it grows longer, it is also lying because it is indicating he is lying but he told the truth, his nose grew longer; whatever the nose does in this situation would indicate a false positive value. 

I don't have any answer. Life is like that. I can say what happened if I tried something different when was younger, I don't know.

Suicide Nearby

A few days ago I learned there was a suicide near the polish war memorial. Most people in London know the polish war memorial is the north west edge of London next to the A40 duel carriageway before it turns into a motorway and intersects with the M25. We know there is a junction there to Ruislip with a large drop. 

Anyway. 

As an ordinary man, I thought I have a way to reduce suicides in my country. We should accept that suicides are logical. They make sense, let me explain. 

When the 911 planes hit the building, very hot air rushed up the building and started to grill the people on the floors above so they jumped off the building; they wanted to have a less violent death than being roasted alive. If they stayed in the building, they would be roasted alive, if they jumped they would quickly die with less suffering. I think that mindset is true of every suicide. Perhaps someone has terminal cancer and they want to be killed by sleeping pills instead of slow multiple organ failure over 3 months. Judas killed himself because he felt guilty about betraying Jesus, If he was a psychopath, he wouldn't care about what he did, he would just shrug his shoulders. He died because he had a heart and a moral fabric that gave him guilt. He died because he's a complete human. 

If we accept that suicide makes sense then we can listen to someone when they're talking about the way they feel and try to help them find another way. If someone just says "don't be silly or don't be crazy" then they're silencing the person that is trying to find another way to live. There is already very little small talk in society these days. 

Just listen. Sometimes that's all a person needs.

Runtime Gems

I recently learned there were some Google games that run without an app straight from the dialogue box, I guess they use run time scripts like python or JavaScript. I thought that was cool. 

Here are some of those games. 

Solitaire

MineSweeper

Memory Game

Snake

The cool thing is you can forward them to the chrome browser and use the chromebrowser to  add the link to the home screen 

When you click on 'add to Home Screen' menu item, a link to the software would appear on the phone's desktop. This means you can play a game without installing an app. 

Instant Tools Without An App

Yesterday I accidentally discovered there are some tools provided by Google that don't need to be in an app. I'm guessing they use real time running scripts on the local device. To me,  Google seems like a fairy or a friendly tin man that gives away most of his attributes for free. 

Here are some of those tools 

Spirit Level or type Spirit Level in Google, it uses the smart phones gravity sensors to guide the bubble. Very clever. 

Tuner It will tell you what note your voice or musical key is making. It listens to the microphone and detects the pitch of the sound. Wow.  You can tune a piano or train your voice to hit different frequencies. 

Dice Roller, you can roll a dice and add different types of dice. If you lost your dice, don't worry. You can even play liars dice. 

Coin Flipper, You can flip a coin if you didn't have one. 

We live in an amazing world where access to useful things can be low cost or free. I learnt many things from the internet. Very useful.