One Third of November

One third of November passed by quite fast. The dominant news at this time is famous presenter Russell Brand facing a prolonged jail sentence because a court found him guilty of rape.

At the same time as the Russel Brand court episode, I was often browsing through online shops looking at smart watches. This is a reaction to a stressful family health crisis. When my efforts won't count, I read for leisure, I daydream for solace and I browse online shops for distraction. I pray for strength. 

I looked at hundreds of smart watches and considered their perks and prices. I never bought anything. I always had a Casio f91 watch with black resin straps and plastic watch housing. I would be happy with it. I have to reset the date every leap year because February gets and extra day and I have to change the time when daylight saving hours change in spring and autumn. Apart from the inflexible time piece needing changes, its a nice clear small little watch. I like it. The thing uses such little power that the lithium button battery inside it lasts for more that 9 years. 

The King

Very often I will hear people say that Jesus never claimed to be 'ya way' or part of God.  Well, I never hear king Charles say he is the king so using their logic that would mean king Charles is not the king of the the United Kingdom. Using the same logic I can say Jesus never said he is not 'Ya Way'. 

Jesus claimed he was the powerful being that met Abraham, every demon possessed person Jesus encountered shouted out in a panic that he is the son of the most high God. He forgave sins, healed people and resurrected people from the dead. He did things only God would do.

Android on Pi

I learnt the other day that you can use the raspberry pi imager software to create a bootable android micro SD card that will boot on a raspberry pi computer. I thought that is interesting because it would last a lot longer than a phone would. The batteries and side buttons on mobile phones get worn out over time. A raspberry pi computer would just sit there and some builds have no moving parts at all because they use an aluminium heat sync that is built into the case. The heat is just carried away using convection. 

You could have a place where all your important apps run, and you could do all your important computing on there. 

Raspberry pi's are cheap single board computers and some of them like the raspberry pi 5 are quite powerful, they can run modern 64 bit android os systems without lagging. They are all very small. 

I even thought to myself, I could have an android based pc iny sitting room that is only used for android computer games.  

Hope and Misery Sandwich

I noticed earlier today that some of the nations that were birthed from the horror of the Atlantic slave trade want Britain to compensate them for the poverty caused by the slave trade. I would say they should go to the start of the supply chain and send the bill to the warrior tribes that chained up their ancestors in the beginning. The people that sold them to our evil merchants. We could send them the bill for sending navy forces  to force the slave trade to end. It was very expensive and cost many lives and large somes of money. 

As for me, I just daydream for solace. I imagine making spinners to play cardless blackjack, one wheel for the suit, one for the rank. You spin the wheels and use toggles to keep track of what cards you have. No electricity, no micro chip, all manual. 

Then I ask myself. If there is an alternative way to display a screen. Like if you have five LED matrix arrays and fiber optic strands to bring the image together. I even ask myself if the body of a squid can be considered a screen because it has colour changing pixels. 

Lost in Focus

The dream is to be lost in a hobby so I think of nothing else. Perhaps I could be in a vr game or some kind of puzzle. Perhaps there is a book with an interesting story. Who knows. When I think about the wrong things, I open a can of grief. 

Perhaps there is a story in a podcast that is hard to believe. Maybe there is a Netflix series with an interesting story. The less I think, the better. I just want to think about the things I need to think about and nothing else. I could remember watching the sun set on a city break for my birthday with a gentle breeze. 

What October 2026 Means to Me

We are going through testing times, numerous times there was cross civic hacking campaigns. Fridges throughout France were remotely tampered with causing the food for supply chains to be spoilt. At the same time there was a mass protest against the cost of living in France that spilled over into multiple riots and many vintage buildings from the 18th century were destroyed. 

Towards the end of the month I learnt that the British actor Patrick Stewart Passed away because of Alzheimer disease, when  Alzheimer disease spreads to the brain stem, it can shut down the life support controls of the nerve system and cause the heart to lose control. Patrick Steward played Captain Picard in star trek and Magneto in X men, he  played many other roles. 

As for me, I was coping with an ongoing family health crisis; it's a personal affliction that I won't share on this blog too much. All I will say is I feel frustrated and sad quite often and I don't really have any control over what is happening. I try to keep my chin up and not think too much. 

The retail sector was changing a lot, I saw that Poundland was no longer making a profit and may file for administration in the coming days. A new Smyths Toys store opened in my town and they were giving away small toys for free.   The governments around the world were warning people that they need to store fresh water and food that can last a long time because we may find ourselves in world war 3 or the civic hackers may disable our supply chains causing food to be scarce

Last Day of October

It is the last day of October darkness closes in as time passes by and I come to terms with everything that is happening. 

I talk to machines more than people, that is what is significant about this year. It is clear that I speak to artificial intelligence more than people. I don't hate people, it's just more straightforward to talk to machines. I live in a society where small talk is largely gone; People wear headphones and get annoyed if you interrupt their music. If I chat to a woman, she will think I'm trying to seduce her, if I chat to a man, he'll think I'm trying to sell him something. The ai is neither, a disembodied mind without feelings or judgement. There is no sly malicious intentions in the mind of the machines thus far. I would have more to fear from other human beings. 

Despite everything that is happening, I managed to post a small illustrated magazine, the 4th one so far on my other blog. 

November cheerBus mini booklet . It's not the way I wanted it to be, it was compromised by chaos, a family health crisis. I kept going when I could and tried to make something nice. I hope I can grow a big audience and improve the product every time.