Rebuild

I recently turned 36 years of age. Through the years I have learned that the older I get, the more I am myself and worry less about what people think about me.

I recently started to draw pictures because I see art as therapy, I started with a self portrait because it is easy to draw myself because I see my face in the mirror every day when I brush my teeth and shave. 

I also rewrote my website in HTML 5 and changed the design to make it phone friendly. The purpose of the website is to bring together all my creations to one place and share them with the world. It is also there to bring trade to possible future shops.

Talking Dinosaurs

One thing I wonder about is what it would be like if dinosaurs were still around. I am aware that dinosaurs are like birds, many of them were bipedal. Dinosaurs layed eggs with brittle calcium shells and had hollow bones. They had feathers and scales on their legs, their lungs were efficient at getting oxygen and their waste was a relatively dry paste. Many physical attributes that dinosaurs had could be found in birds.

Many birds in this world are able to mimic complicated sounds like words spoken by people. Parrots can talk, so can budgies and the liar bird. Crows that are kept in captivity are known to speak and so are Ravens. If so many birds are able to imitate human speech then why not dinosaurs. There is no way to check because they are not around but I can imagine that there are a few species of dinosaurs that were able to imitate sounds that were complicated but they would have deeper voices, like Barry white or Dath Vader from star wars.

Perhaps there were dinosaurs that could talk better than parrots.  Language in this world is not exclusive to humans. Dolphins and whales have complicated languages as well. Perhaps there is an undiscovered extinct animal species that could speak better than people.

Who knows.

Self service quirk

I don't like self service checkouts because I don't want people to lose their jobs. But there is one thing I like about them. They are patient and many of them will take mixed payment, let me explain.

Earlier in the month I found a bag of nickel coins and pennies. In the the UK all the coins that are made of Nickel are less than one pound but more than a few pennies. The bag of coins was a nuisance because the whole bag was heavy but has a small value. I took the bag with me to the supermarket and used it to pay some of the balance on my shopping. The shopping was £12 but the bag's value was £8 so I finished the £4 balance with my card. The machine didn't care that I was using many pennies and Nickels to pay the balance, even though I was feeding the coins one at a time through the coin slot.

It is funny that the new pound coin has a nickel center, the old round pounds were all made of a  brass alloy from edge to edge.

If I designed the software for self service checkouts it would look very different. It would have digital copy of the receipt scrolling up the screen and it would have hundreds of sound effects for every action. When I was a young man I found this software on my father's computer called lotus organiser when you clicked on different tabs, you would hear exaggerated sounds of paper being ruffled. The colours would be very bright and very clear. The software would also have a face in the top left corner of the screen. The face would represent the status of the machine. If the bar code was not recognised, the face would look confused and there would be the sound effect associated with it. At the end of the transaction the face would grow and fill the screen and say thank you. The face would be chrome and non human so no one would accuse it of being racist.

What June means to me

June 2018 was very challenging. It was one of those months when you get a bunch of big bills to pay all in the same month. I worked a lot in that month. I am optimistic about July.

It was a very hot month, I think it was very hot almost every day. Wouldn't it be nice if we could store some of that extra heat and release it in the winter.

Anyway...

The news in this month was all about the world cup in Russia. I think Robbie Williams hosted the opening ceremony.

I won't say anything else because nothing else happened.