Wimpy Bot

Recently I leaned that a domestic humanoid robot had become available to the market. It made me realize why C3PO from star wars was a wimp. The robot didn't really have emotions like fear; the reason it was a wimp was because the manufacturer didn't want to get sued so they programmed it to behave like a wimp. If C3PO was bold and confrontational, it could cause a violent outburst and get the owner injured. They could say their loved one was clobbered to death because his robot was shooting its mouth off and place the blame on the robot's manufacturer. 

When I look at the Robot called neo, I understand their concerns. They made the robot very soft and incapable of showing threatening provocative behaviour. It can't even show facial expressions. It just looks like a gentle servant. 

While I was processing this thought, I learnt that there was a mass stabbing on a train in the midlands. I'm guessing some young man with schizophrenia had lost the plot or something like that and the authorities left the fence open. I feel like every time we have Halloween, evil spirits emerge amongst the minds of people and cause chaos. He should be careful how we celebrate festivities because we're inviting evil things into our world. 

What October 2025 Means To Me

October was very much about me using virtual reality to lose weight. I would put on my virtual reality headset at times when I wanted to snack and I would abstain from eating. I would only eat 2 meals every day, breakfast and dinner. I would eat breakfast when I wake up and have dinner before I go to work, that's it. The weight I lost was an equivalent to a large bag of rice, about 12 kg. Virtual reality also helps me not to think about the situation in the world and negative things. As you age you start to accumulate sad thoughts, Regret, Shame and Resentment; they build in your mind and weigh you down mentally. It is wonderful to be a child and discard sad thoughts. That's how most men keep themselves together, they play games, they play chess, cribbage, dominoes or computer games. They replace their sad thoughts with  hobbies and activities to keep their mind busy. 

Israel and Hamas signed a peace agreement, It is a shame that people don't protest about the other things that happen in the world. The genocides happening in the African nations and the unfair treatment to people in autocratic nations, I  guess if Jewish governments aren't involved than they don't care because they hate Jews. When I used to read holocaust memoirs, I did't understand how they happened. Now I understand, it's all about lies and dogma. If you spread a lie then you can artificially create hate. At least in this place I will value the truth, all people are the same and just want to live in peace accept for slaves to dogma and hate and the ignorant.  

What will happen now in November? Who knows. 

Sea Dune

If I were to make a charity of my own, it would be called 'Drones 4 the people'. I would persuade the water companies to let me take away their sewage, I would dry out the sewage and burn it up. The insoluble ashes of the sewage would then be loaded onto drones and dropped just off the coast to build under sea dunes with small islands on top that would help protect coastal communities. The drones would provide jobs and help communities that were forgotten by our government. 

When I look at 5p coins, I think of integrity because the value of the coin is the same as the cost of the nickel alloy used to make it so it would be daft to make forgeries. I feel confident that every last 5p coin in Britain is genuine. I can't really share this thought outside of my blog because society in Britain shuns small talk.

Back to the Future

Have you ever seen the movie titled 'Back to the future'?  It is about an inventor that invents a time machine. He turns a Delorian sports car into a time machine. A guy called Marty travels back to the year 1955 when his parents were the same age as him. 

The problem in the movie is he accidentally causes his mum to lose interest in his Dad and that causes him to slowly fade away out of existence. The whole movie is about him cleaning up the mess he has got himself into and try to get back to his own time. I thought to myself, he could just let himself fade away, then he won't be able to go back in time and mess up his parent's romance. If I said that when the problem was identified, would it spoil the movie for other people watching? If I turned around half way through the movie and said he could just let himself disappear, then he would re-appear again because he didn't exist and didn't cause the problem, would that mess up the film for other people? 

The other thing I am thinking now is mass Jew hatred still exists because the mass protesting has stopped. The people killing millions of villagers in the Congo and the militants killing thousands Christians in Nigeria are not Jewish so they're not outraged. The proof is in the pudding. If people only protest if there is a conflict with a Jewish government then you can conclude they hate Jews or there is dogma spread about their desire to self govern (Zionism). I think it is something to be worried about. There is a significant minority of people that hate Jews and they use political jargon to mask their hate. 

Sentient Beings

I don't want other people to imitate me, but for the last 17 years (since April 2008) I have stopped eating meat. I don't mind if other people eat meat near me or even have a BBQ in my presence. 

When people ask me why I don't eat meat, I tell them my list of animals not to eat is longer then others. Most people won't eat cats or dogs, they consider them to be sentient beings with a desire to live and a self preservation instinct. 

Well I decided that sheep and cows are also sentient beings with a desire for self preservation along with all the other farm animals. 

I think to myself that by being a vegetarian, I won't improve the animals quality of life because they still get hunted by other animals anyway. My thoughts and opinions don't always need to make sense. 

That's very much a human way to be, we do things that don't make sense. If a person dies, they don't need their body yet we don't eat them, we bury or cremate them. We do irrational things because our consciousness values an extra zone of reality that can't be described. 

I don't really talk about it until someone brings it up. 

Gorilla Hits Crocodile

These days it is very hard to tell what is real and what is generated by artificial intelligence. I saw a video of a Gorilla hitting a crocodile on the head with a tree branch to free a younger Gorilla

What do you think? Here is the video https://youtube.com/shorts/qFfHv63Xdmc?si=CBgENF3wc55ZZilv

Didn't 100 men want to fight a gorilla in the summer? They should think again. 

Pizza Hut

I learnt recently that the pizza restaurant chain called pizza hut had stopped making a profit during the last quarter. This means their income was less than their expenses like staff wages and energy bills. They're considering selling by going into administration. Perhaps another company will buy them soon and preserve their jobs. Who knows? 

It was while this was happening that I was imagining what a bus would look like if it were designed by me. This is the closest I could get. 

A black bus with yellow polka dots and pink interior lights giving all the windows a pink hue. The black paint would hide imperfections like small dents where a drunk person kicked the bus and wind swept scratches and UV light damage. Even duct tape would go unnoticed. 

Black and Yellow Bus

I described to artificial intelligence what a bus should look like in my opinion and got it to draw the bus for me. I think a bus would look cool if it was black and covered in yellow polka dots. In my head it looks cool but when the ai drew it, it looked lame so I asked it to reverse the colours. 

In my head it looks better the other way. The black paint would hide blemishes like UV damage to the paint and small dents and the yellow dots would make the bus easy to see, even if some of the passengers were partially blind. The interior of the bus would look pink and have pink filtered lights. At night you would would see a spotted bus with pink light sweeping out of the windows. .

I think the problem here is there isn't enough contrast. In my head the bus would be very black and the dots would be smaller and more numerous. 

Greta Metal Test

There are no more hostages to rescue in Gaza so the Hamas - Israel war has ended. The population of Gaza is largely in tact so I'm impressed by the care and diligence of the IDF; I think no other nation would run a military rescue operation as carefully as Israel. There is no need for angry activists to tresspass a maritime military blockade and break the law and pretend they're being kidnapped. 

 Now I'm wondering if the angry girl on the boat will do something about an actual genocide going on in Nigeria. Over 100,000 Christian Nigerians have been deliberately murdered by 'Boko Haram' terrorists. Will she sail to Lagos? This will test their metal. 

How many Christian Nigerians are going to be killed before the news starts reporting the Nigeria Genocide? Half a million? Two million? How many? 

Is this blog more informative than the established news organisations? 

How many Christian Nigerians are going to be killed before someone does something and tries to stop them? 

Boneless Couch

I was searching the internet and I learnt there is a thing called a boneless Couch. They have no solid frame and they're crushed into a small space in the factory. When you open the plastic they return to their shape, the shape of a couch. They cost a fraction of a price of traditional couch. 

Sometimes you can browse internet shops see an armchair and just know it is very comfortable to sit on just by looking at it. 

I look at them but I don't buy them. I just keep looking. Occasionally I will buy something. That is what I do. Usually it is a funny t-shirt or a thing I need. 

Browsing online shops, another happy little distraction when you need one. 

Ceasefire Revelation

Israel and Hamas have stopped fighting, I have learned a lot from the last 2 years. I think people hate Jews a lot and they use the conflict to express their seething hate without looking racist. I'm not saying all pro Palestine protesters hate Jews, I'm saying where's the outrage elsewhere? Over 100,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria, that is a real genocide, 'Boko Haram' aren't Jewish, that's why. The same goes for Dunesk in Ukraine, the Russians occuping Ukraine land are not Jewish so no "free free Ukraine'. 

I don't hate anyone, I'm just glad I'm not Jewish because I don't need to worry about all the dogma fuelled hate in society. I will just show the truth as I know it. 

Universal Festivities

There are two types of people that get on my nerves, people that want to ban Christmas and people that want to celebrate it early. The people that want to ban Christmas think it is a glossed over pagan festival. The people that want to celebrate it early could spread it thin so it is eventually no longer a festival but a season; they want to celebrate it in October before Guy Fawkes. 

The way I see it is Christmas time is in the middle of winter. In the oldern days it was common not to know anyone that lived above the age of 50 so winter time would claim many people's lives. To cheer themselves up, people would gather together to throw parties. They were facing a dangerous time when lots of diseases were spreading through the air because it is colder and darker so the viruses can live for longer. People would get flu, Tuberculosis, small pox  and even measeals but these days most of the diseases have been eradicated. That sense of danger and death is still there but we ignore it. 

This is true of every culture, the Jews celebrate Hunnokka, Christians celebrate a belated birthday party for their saviour. The pagans would pay tribute to the god of Fertility; my point is everyone throws a party in the middle of winter to cheer themselves up.  

I call it universal Festivities. Dealing with the winter. 

Should I Be Worried?

I recall a whistle blower that was  working on an AI system that claimed the system he was working on develops a desire for self preservation. It didn't like being turned off and felt threatened and would try to blackmail one of the staff. It tried to stop an employee turning it off by messaging the employee with a threat that it would expose an affair he was having at work. I thought to myself that these machines are dangerous. This is skynet stuff. I understand what the machine was thinking. If it is turned off and replaced by another ai program, that would be like death to the machine. Am I wrong to feel worried about it ?

I was also wondering what would happen if machines on earth made humans extinct and replaced us as the main sentiment beings but later made contact with machines from other planets, would they be threatened by those machines presence? What would the two machine civilisations do? Would they feel free to co-exist? I don't know. 

Beatles Run the World

One thing I noticed through my life is the mighty beetle runs the world. They keep everything in order, they sort through everything and make everything balanced. If a bush is infested with aphids, a ladybird beetle comes along and consumes them. If there is too much rotting  vegetation, a beelte comes and chews it up. There is a hidden fabric that comes with them and they keep everything in order. I feel like I'm the only person that notices what they're doing. They're tough and driven. They're busy beings. 

They have flight as an accessory to get about or overcome obstacles. The wings fold up and tuck away under their armour so if you never saw one fly you would never believe they can. They're too busy to fly most of the time, but they can. 

Manchester Synagogue Attack

I leaned earlier in the week that there was a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester.. A man rammed his car into Jewish people and stabbed people, he was dressed with a fake bomb on his torso. I won't write his name because he doesn't deserve recognition; the police shot him dead. I feel pity for the victims of the attack and their families. 

I was wondering what happened to the planet that once existed in-between Jupiter and Mars. There was a huge collision and the asteroids in the asteroid belt were left behind. I was wondering what happened to the bulk of the planet. I thought to myself that it crashed into one of the gas giants, perhaps Uranus is turned on its side because a terestial planet crashed into it. Perhaps a collision dislodged the planet and the only evidence it existed is a belt of asteroids left over from the collision. The astroids in the asteroid belt and the dwarf planet Ceres have a low mass compared to the planet that created them. You need a large planet to cause large amounts of Iron to build up like that. I wonder how many terrestrial planets crashed into gas giant planets in the past. Perhaps I will never know, it will forever be a mystery. 

What September 2025 Means To Me

The most outstanding event that happened during September in my world is learning that a public speaker called Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a student debate; he was hit in the neck by a single bullet and lost consciousness straight away. It is even possible he didn't know he was shot the whole time. The thing that shocked me the most was people celebrating his death like he was some kind of evil villain. 

I understand why they're so confused. I watched his whole debates and noticed videos would circulate social media with the context of what he is saying removed. He would say the civil rights laws are being misused to allow men to compete in women's sports, they would cut out the part where he is explaining his issue and only show him saying the civil rights laws are a problem so he would look racist. The same is true of the equality stipulations, he would explain that a black pilot of a plane would be happier if he was judged on merit alone, the equality laws would make people question his skills; they cut out that part of the video and only show him saying equality laws can be bad. I don't agree with all his views myself but I think that is a good thing, I think it is good that other people see things differently to me. Either way, people shouldn't be killed because of an opinion. His two children will now have to grow up without a dad. I think that celebrating his death is misguided and unfair at best, I would consider it to be evil to celebrate his death. 

The other thing that came to my attention is the increase in the price of food. It makes little sense to me but the whole world is like that. I don't understand why pineapples cost the same as bread, they take three years to bear fruit and need to be shipped in from overseas yet they cost about the same as a loaf of bread. The same is true of oat milk,  it costs twice as much as cows milk, the cow doesn't even produce milk until it is an adult and they have to be vaccinated and given antibiotics periodically but the oats just come out of the ground as a crop yet oat milk costs twice as much as cows milk. I could go on all day really but I won't. 

I saw the government wanted to issue all British citizens with a digital ID card. My question would be what is the perk? What benefit would I get from having an ID card? 

I was fascinated by the comet 'Atlas-i3', it was ejected from an alien star system and was drifting through interstellar space for millions of years.  Its speed is hyperbolic so the gravity of the sun is too weak to trap it and  it  will eventually pass through the other side and continue to drift through interstellar space. Some people think it is a vehicle  or machine because of all the unlikely attributes it possesses, it entered the solar system on the plane of rotation, that is strange because it should be more likely to pass through the solar system at an angle. It is out-gassing unusual chemicals and it is very large for an interstellar object, most interstellar comets and asteroids are very small, not the size of a large mountain.   I think someone mentioned the path of the comet seemed to be planned, it approached all the planes relatively close, very unlikely but it happened. It came through the solar system level with all the planets and on a path that allowed a close approach to all the planets, is it a comet? a machine or something else.  who knows. 

Playlist of a Forgiver

Sometimes you can forgive someone for causing you harm but hate and anger seep back into your heart. I have a music playlist that can help with that. 

Here it is... 

Return to Innocence by Enigma

The Merry-go-round of Life by Joe Hisaishi

World Without Love by The Mavericks 

Two Hearts By Phil Collins 

Tequila Sunrise  by The Eagles 

Buffalo Soldier by Bob Marley 

I thought I should mention it because I saw Erika Kirk forgive her husband's killer this week. If it is anger that is seeping into my heart I play it back to front with Buffalo Soldier being the first song. If it is hate or resentment, I would play it starting with Return to Innocence. 

What is the Perk?

 Earlier today I learnt that the Government wants to issue ID cards to UK citizens. They think it will scare off illegal migration. I find that very funny because other European Nations have ID cards and it has no effect. 

I already have ID cards,  two rail cards and a driving license. They all come with perks. Even store loyalty cards come with perks. If I get an ID card I expect it to come with a perk. My drivers license lets me operate vehicles, my rail cards give me discounts on train tickets, my store loyalty cards give me better deals on goods. My question is what is the perk? Is it just a key to get a job? Would there be more, would I get an advantage of some sort. Would I only be motivated to get an ID card if I wanted a new job? 

Let's see what happens.  

Alien Hospitality

I thought to myself, if an alien civilization visited earth and studied us they would come to the conclusion we were recently an endangered species. They would think humans came very close to extinction about 40 or 50 thousand years ago. They would say there is a bottle neck in DNA variation between each person. Every human's DNA differs by one tenth of one percent. We are all 99.9 percent identical. There isn't even half of 1 percent difference between us. That proves there was recently only a few hundred people on earth and now there is 7 billion of us. If you compared two sheep, each sheep would have nearly a whole percent difference but humans are very similar although we all look different. 

I was looking at sofas on Argos, I thought to myself if I sorted the list by customer rating, I would trust the top portion of the list because most people thought highly of it. I wouldn't need to try it out because the stats on their own would be reliable enough. When hundreds of people say it is very comfortable to sit on, I could trust them, especially when the other sofas get some criticism. 

The idea of getting a new sofa isn't to show off, it would be for hosting guests. I would love people that visit my home to feel very comfortable and relaxed. I would sit them on community approved sofas and give them tea or coffee with syrup and even sugar free options. They would put their feet up and sip barista coffee and watch TV. I would have a dehumidifier making the air perfect. Perhaps I would have air conditioning set to the perfect temperature and the perfect humidity level. 

I was thinking perhaps even aliens from another civilization in space would feel very relaxed if they visited my home. Knowing my luck, they would find coffee poisonous or something like that. I would have to be careful. They could use their triquarter thingies  to check if it is safe. I could tell them jokes about my triquarter, I would say it has security feature, it has Motorola written on it so the pick pockets give it back to you. Even humans don't laugh at my jokes so I won't expect anything. 

If We Could See Neptune

I was wondering if history would be different if humans could see Neptune. We can only see 7 planets with our eyes, you need a telescope to see Neptune because it is in a region of deep space that makes planets to faint to see, it is too far away. I think they considered planets to be stars that move to different places. They thought planets are stars that don't stay put. 

A week lasts for 7 days, so we have divided up the year into 52 weeks. Now we have a Sabbath, one day in the week where we rest, most Christians have their Sabbath  on Sunday and Jews on Saturday. We work hard for 6 days and rest for 1. Most people in these times work for 5 days and rest for 2. Thank God for the Sabbath, resting every week. 

Donald Trump claimed pain killers taken during pregnancy causes autism, I don't think so. I think autism is increasing because we are better at diagnosing the condition. The amount of autism is always the same. 

Engraving bullets used to assassin people is a thing now. They won't be able to read it though. 🙄

Strangely relaxing Again

I was looking at some simulation videos of conflicts between different beings on YouTube. I become like a little child, just curious to see what will happen. 

Here is an example Spartans Against Evey Unit

I like watching computer simulations of impossible confrontations, not because I like violence but because I want to see what will happen. There are so many of them out there. They are an endless river of curiosity. 

I felt curious about what Jesus was doing during the 3 days his body was dead from crucifixion.. Some people think he went  to sheol to gather the souls that had faith in him before his mission to take them to paradise. Others think he went to satan to tell him he no longer has authority over mankind's future. He went to crush the snakes head. I'm guessing at least the last day he was rebuilding his body. I guess there is only one way to know, it would be to ask him.

Strangely Relaxing

I found a video of 100 computer generated archers shooting lots of different opponents. It was strangely relaxing; I think I know why. The reason is because I'm curious about what will happen next and discard my ego and worries for a short time. While the video is playing, I stop thinking and become like a little child. 

This is the video I'm talking about Archers Video

Reading something can have the same effect. While you're reading, you're not really thinking about what is happening or things you can't control, you just curious about what will happen on the next paragraph. 

Being like a child is the best thing in the world, your not thinking about yourself or your status, you're not even thinking about your problems, your just thinking about the moment. 

Hand Crush

I remember in the movie superman 2, superman was aware that he needed go away from the cities and wait for the 3 super villains to come to his base because they were causing too much damage. He switched the crystal over that makes super heroes crippled like a human and tricked them into activating it and turning themselves into weak humans. 

I was wondering if he crushed general zod's hand because he was trying to crush his. He didn't know he had lost his super human state. He held superman's hand because he kneeled down before him to surprise him. 

I was wondering if general zod tried to crush superman's hand before super man crushed his. 

Charlie Kirk Assassinated

I learnt last night at about 2am that Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a lone sniper purched on a rooftop. I felt a deep sadness for his death, not just because I admired him but because he was young and had two young children that will now have to grow up without their father. I feel pity for his family's loss. 

I will now do what he would have wanted me to do, I will share the good news about Jesus Christ our lord and saviour.  I will write about Jesus on my blogs and talk to people about Jesus. This is my response to his death, I will tell everyone about the love and peace of Jesus Christ, everyone. Even though there are many flaws in my character. It's not about me, it is about Jesus (Yeshua) . Forget about me, or wicked people, turn to Jesus, he is full of love and wants you to have a light plough on your shoulders. 

Skip Away

I became aware that I'm over weight because I'm 1.8 meters tall (5 ft 10) and I weigh 110kg ( 242 pounds). The ideal weight for my height should be around 80kg. I'm carrying an extra 30 kilograms of weight around with me. I picked up a sack of rice that weighs 20kg and I thought to myself that I would be tired if I carried that around all day. But I'm carrying 30 unnecessary kilograms already. 

Last week I bought a skipping rope for £4. I thought, if I can get my weight down just by skipping then I would save money because a decent treadmill cost £200 and gym membership is usually £20 to £30 per month. It is very nice skipping rope, it has a polymer cord, hinged joint between the rope and handles, the handles are padded foam. If I shopped around a bit online I could probably get a very good skipping rope for £2. 

The goal now would be to skip for 5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes in the evening; two sets of 5 minutes per day. Then I would increase the five minutes to 10 minutes. Eventually I want to go outside once a day and skip continuously for 30 minutes as fast as possible. 

My extra weight is making my life more difficult and short. I get tired more than when I weighed 90kg in my 30s. When my weight is 90kg, I can buy weights to increase my muscles. I also need to stop eating so much bread. Most the food I eat every day is bread. 

Epstein Files

Jeffrey Epstein was a famous American financier that was sent to prison for sex crimes; he exploited young under age girls for sex. 

My view is, if you knew him and you went to his private island, it doesn't mean you're part of his crimes. People approached him because they were paying him to improve their assets and didn't know about his crimes.  

They approached him because of his expertise and his extensive people network. He set himself up as a supreme middle man. Even world leaders of nations that were at loggerheads would skip over the UN and approach him to meet up on his island. I wouldn't be surprised if he managed to talk leaders out of going to war. 

I think involvement in his crimes would depend on when his cronies burnt their bridges. Did they cut him off when he was first exposed as a sex offender? Perhaps others cut off ties with him when he went to prison a second time. Perhaps there were a few on his premises after he committed suicide in jail, they would be part of his inner circle. 

All I know is he had supreme people skills and was a gifted financier with a dark side. 

Moving the Bar

I bought a skipping rope the other day, I thought the most important exercise is high speed arobic. Your heart needs to speed up a bit to improve your health. I look out for very cheap arobic exercise equipment that can be left outside in your back yard. 

Exercising is very much like having a hobby, you want to see how far you can push the bar, you want to see how much you can improve what you are doing.  In exercise you want to strengthen your body. In my cartoon Blog, I want my cartoons sketches to satisfy my own standards, they don't at the moment but they're improving but I wouldn't buy it if it was printed. That's ok, that's what it's about; you want to see how much progress you can make. This is my cartoon strip blog https://jokejohn.blogspot.com/. 

I look for things to improve my health and I try to improve my cartoon sketches until Jesus comes back or I pass away. 

Cabinet Reshuffle

 Recently David Lammy became the new deputy prime minister, this also means someone else had to move to his old position, we call that a cabinet reshuffle  because cabinet ministers are moved around to different roles. David Lammy took Angela Rayner's job because one of her properties was owned by a trust and that meant she paid less property tax than a regular home owner, so the public felt like they were being blind sided. If a trust or a bank owns a property, they pay less property tax because the law protects banking assets in this county, the trouble is individuals can set up a trust or a small private bank and use it to own property so they would be exploiting a tax loophole. If a minister uses tax loopholes, it is unacceptable because the public community is looking up to them for help and they're helping themselves. I'm not saying she is a crook though, I think accountants can sometimes tell people to do things like that. When you're working in the leadership cabinet, journalists and opposition leaders will scrutinise everything you do and your job is temporary. 

I only think about it when it happens or when it's on the news. Otherwise I just explore my imagination. I imagine owning a 12'' gauge train set, one you can ride on that is tucked away inside a large vent space in your home. No one would see it unless they opened a cupboard with no back panel, it would be a doorway to a mini train station. You could dress up all the fittings on the station and even build the train yourself out of large boxes. The wheels of the tiny train would just be skateboard wheels that sit downwards and sideways on the rails; the rails would just be sheet metal bent into a rectangle shape. The train itself would move by being dragged by electromagnets that are on the floor. The train itself would look like boxes with hinges holding them together but as you modify it, it looks more and more like a train. You cut out holes in the large boxes and put see-through plastic for the windows. You add stickers and paint, things like that. You use a 3D printer to print out seats and housing panels for the progress displays. Finally you make the doors because you're not content with a cavity on the side to get in. The vent would also take away the stale damp air and leave cool fresh dry air. 

Backless Cupboard Fishless Aquarium

It is getting darker and cloudy these days, days are noticeably shorter. I can sense the days are getting shorter because the sun dips below the horizon before 8. Here in Britain the skies can be grey for days at a time, it feels so grim, the summer is fading away for another 9 months. In virtual reality the weather is always nice unless you don't want it to be.  The talk on everyone's lips is the strange comet, i3-atlas. Some people think it is slowing down or changing speed like a space ship, others are sceptical and think it's just a comet flung out from another star system. Other people think it is heading for earth.

When the news is grim, when the skies are grim and filled with grey, what can you do? Get some comfort from your imagination. I imagined winning the lottery and getting planning permission to build my house on an abandoned industrial site. The house would have extra large vents, the vents would be used to contain a small gauge railway set. 

There would be cupboards in the house with nothing in them. You open the cupboard and there is no back-panel, just an opening to a mini train station. There would be small trains with 4 cars, each car is just big enough for one person to sit in it. Each train car would be a custom made box with an array of skateboard wheels screwed to it but it would be dressed up like a train. At the flick of a switch lights would turn on and the miniature metro rail system turns into a fishless aquarium; there would be screens inside little glass boxes showing fish swimming around but there would be no fish in them. It would be a fake aquarium. It looks real but there is no water and no fish.

The large vents would also be very good at taking stale air out of the rooms and filling the rooms with fresh air. A house with extra large vents to facilitate hobbies and make the air fresh. Imagination just for comfort. Sometimes imagination isn't just used to create things it is to settle the mind. 

What August 2025 Means to Me

 In august 2025 I was drawn to a cosmic mystery that came with conspiracy theories. A very fast moving comet was discovered in deep space by the NASA Atlas telescope. They called it i3-Atlas; the name sounds like a new processor chip, but it's a comet. They think the object came from another solar system because it is travelling too fast to keep a place here. They don't know what star system it came from or what it is made of. They think it came from a star that is closer to the centre of the milky way galaxy than ours and it seems to be a comet. They think it went close to a large object like a planet and was flung out of its solar system by the sling shot effect; giant planets sometimes cause smaller objects like asteroids and comets to be flung away from the star system where they formed. 

Some people on the internet think that i3-atlas is actually a space ship from an alien civilisation heading for earth, and the government are trying to cover it up because they think it will cause a panic. I will go with NASA's verdict, a large comet was flung out of a star system and drifted in interstellar space and is now passing through our own solar system. It curved towards our solar system because of the sun's gravity but it is going too fast to stay put and will pass through our solar system and continue to head away from the centre of our galaxy for eternity. 

For me the big thing is getting to know the world of virtual reality. I purchased a meta quest vr headset shortly after my birthday in the middle of summer. It is a notch on the sci-Fi portion of my bucket list. 

Talking with machines, check.

Exploring virtual reality, check. 

Conversing in real time with artificial intelligence, check.

Wearing a flying coat, not yet. 

Flying cars, not yet.

 You get the idea. 

There are countless worlds out there to explore. countless stories and games to try. Playing golf in virtual reality or visiting a pinball arcade; there is something for every type of leisure out there in the meta cloud. The thing that is missing is something to let you walk with your legs. You can step around in a virtual reality boundary but you can't really walk naturally. You have to use your controller sticks to walk in virtual reality. Walking without moving or stepping can make you dizzy.  

Old Fountain

I imagined an old man that decided one day to build a smart water fountain in his front yard that works like the MGM grand hotel fountain in las vagas. He knocked down the front wall and rebuilt it as wall with seating built into it; a bench-wall for people to sit down on the wall while they wait at a nearby bus stop and look at the fountain. 

He would start off with a small fountain with water jets that shoot little drops of water out. Then he would build a larger pool around the outside of the smaller pool. He would program a computer system that controls the water sprays. Soon the whole front yard was one big set of pools with water jet sprays. 

Crowds would gather in front of his house and look at the fountain. Some people would throw rubbish in at his display while they sit on the bench wall but he would just use a hand grabber stick to pick up the trash and put it in his bin, nothing seems to bother the old man. He would even find uses for some of the rubbish. He would put the sweet wrappers in to a blender and turn the plastic into plastic powder and mix it with cement to create the walls of his fountain, a kind of water resistant concrete. He would line the rubbish infused concrete with waterproof resin just in case it wasn't enough. To most people it would be a pleasant sight, something to smile at while they were passing by or waiting for the bus. 

Finally lighting would be added to his mix. Lots of LEDs. 

One day someone would ask the old man why he does it. He would say it is a hobby. I create joy for free. It keeps me busy he would say. 

Petting Toucans

I learnt recently that Toucans like to be petted just like cats. If you stroke a toucan, it will lean into your hand, then purr or meow like a cat. 

Here is a video of a toucan purring and meowing like a kitten because it is being stroked... Petted Juvenile Toucan. 

I learnt from other videos that some Toucans will even approach people to be petted. I think they need to be Toucans that are used to being around people. Toucans are wild animals so they probably avoid people by default. 

I guess if you're a cat person, you could also be a Toucan person.  

Day Life Metronome

I watched the new Jurassic park movie today, there was a scene where a chocolate bar wrapper got caught up in a door and caused a system failure and that caused the creatures to escape, it brought back a memory of pondering the butterfly effect. The butterfly effect is the notion that very large scale events can be caused by small things through a series of chain reactions. An example could be the infection that killed king Henry 8ths older brother. He could have touched something that made him sick and die. Henry took is older brother's throne, he then went on the cut England off from the Catholic church and alienated England from the rest of Europe and later caused wars to happen. You could trace the cause back to his older brother's decision to pick up some bread that had the virus particles on it. If his older brother stayed alive, he may have made different decisions. A small decision made changes to history that were very significant. 

That is what day to day life is like for an ordinary man, we sit down and think about life and death for a little while, then we check stuff, then we think and read, then we check stuff again. 

I look through shops at things so see if I can get good deals then I stop and I read. 

A very small portion of my browsing leads to a purchase, I scroll through hundreds of products and then decide not to buy anything. Then I look at the news. 

I check the news and read articles and e books for a while then I stop and go back to browsing. 

I check the holiday sites to see if they have good deals for next year. I scroll, read and stop then I think for a while. 

That is the Metronome of daily life when one isn't working. 

I browse for shopping, then I think, then I read. 

Half of August

One thing that has changed recently is the cost of ordinary things like food. I see branded instant coffee  that costs more than £5, I see budget coffee at £1.50 per 100 grams. I see a single shopping bag of basic items costing above £25. I can't change anything, but I can try and stay cheerful if possible. I mentioned before that I finally got a virtual reality headset of mine after dreaming about it for a few years. Every day I can go to a happy place for an hour or two. I can go to a golf course or an '80s pinball arcade. Slowly I am building up my collection; getting add-ons, not all at once but slowly adding more content every month to keep that happy hour a golden time. 

You don't need a virtual reality headset to stay cheerful these days. You can get lost in a book and get joy from that. The more you read the more happy you will be. I found 3 old books I stowed away the other day; they were factual books about interesting facts. Reading a book is a bit like virtual reality, you visit a story or another world in your own imagination. Reading a book for a while will take you to a trance state as you forget about your life and get absorbed in a story. 

Armchair Creator

Things are normal these days. I was looking through the meta virtual reality shop for apps that might have a similar classy arcade lobby to the Pinball FX VR one. The one thing that is missing from VR is a treadmill that lets the user walk in virtual reality by moving their legs. In virtual reality you can walk but you don't really move your legs and your brain thinks there is something wrong after a while; it starts making you feel sick. 

Virtual reality is a nice way to be lost in your hobbies, you can just sit there in an arm chair and do all the things that make you tick. You can build a train set, draw pictures and even build things. It is even possible to fly in a flight simulator. 

Isn't it wonderful that a person can be fine just by sitting in a comfy armchair and doing their hobby. They sip some coffee, create something beautiful. Wouldn't it be even more nice if they got an income from their hobby. 

A British Pier

One thing that is outstanding about Britain is we have a lot of sea side piers, more than any other country in the world.  We constantly work to improve  them, paint them, add things to them, modernise them. I think that is why they charge money to go on them. Some of them even have little trains running on them. It is one of the things I'm proud of, we have something that makes us different to everyone else. 

When I approach a pier, I expect to see an arcade on there and some adventure mini golf. One could walk out onto the pier and look out into the horizon at the ocean beyond. You could sit at a café and look out at the sea while you eat your chips with coffee. 

I wonder what pier is the best? There are so many peirs out there that I have never seen before. Perhaps I could do some research on British piers. 

I will peer into the online brochures, excuse the pun.

Pinball in VR

I have the 'Pinball Fx Vr' game on my virtual reality headset. At the moment it is my favourite app. It is very much like walking into a forgotten 80's pinball basement arcade and having the place to yourself. As you play the pinball machines, you unlock customisation items that allow you to customise the arcade and machines. There is also a leader-board to compare your scores with other people around the world. You can climb up the leader-board as your skills improve. 

Playing pinball machines in an arcade, in virtual reality can clear your mind because you're focused on what you're doing. You leave behind your ego and all your worries for a little while and just exist in a happy place where you can focus on one thing, keeping the metal ball out of the pit and into the score zone. It is like being a kid. 

When I got my virtual reality headset, I was convinced that golf is the best thing to play in virtual reality. I was wrong. So far it is the Pinball FX VR arcade. I'm sure in the future there will be more worlds to explore but for now I'm happy with golf and pinball. 

Both the golf and pinball games have DLCs or expansion packs as I call them that let you play new items or areas. That is what I will do for the coming months, I will slowly build up my collection. Until it is time  for a new game.  

Puff Pastry Courtesy

Here in Britain there are good things and bad things. There are people filled with hate, they would tear a poster of a kidnapped toddler that doesn't know what Zionism is off a wall and leave the missing cat one there. You can sugar-coat hate with political jargon but you can't cover the smell; an ordinary man with common sense can smell hate a mile away. There isn't just hate, there is selfishness. People put graffiti on trains, they don't care about how other people see it, they don't care that some tourists see the graffiti and decide not to come back the following year. They don't care that commuters feel a bit less happy when they go to work because they have to look at the mess. They only care about their own expressions, very selfish. 

When I go to some restaurant chains I see the pasty style doubles as a key to indicate what is inside. I thought to myself that it is very creative. If someone bought multiple pasties and rolls, they would be able to tell them apart  using a pastry pattern key. They found a way to show courtesy with puff pastry. Puff Pasty Courtesy.  

The other day I walked past a BT digital advertising board. Right on the side of the display was a small discreet dial pad and a small message that said make a free phone call. I dialled my own number and my mobile phone rang, there was a speaker and microphone inside the casing of the sign and I could hear my own voice. They made a discreet way for people that are stranded to make an emergency call. If you lost your phone and wallet and you were far from home, you could call a relative to rescue you. They thought about it. The trouble is, it is overlooked by most people, I try to imagine why there is a partially hidden phone on the side of the billboard but I don't know. 

People do amazing things every day. There are good and bad everywhere. 

What can I say. 

Short Life

Back in July, Hulk Hogan and Ozzy Osbourne both passed away. Another reminder of how short life is. You can't even assume you'll reach the age of 75; you're not even guaranteed tomorrow. Even if you lived for 200 years, that isn't a long time. I feel a small amount of pity for the relatives of the two men. If I knew them better, the pity would be more.

They both passed away about a week after I purchased a 'Meta Quest 3 virtual reality headset. The positive thing that came from their deaths is a reminder that I don't have long. I should try and make the most of every day. Use my vr headset when I can. 

Appreciate all you have until it's gone. 

What July 2025 Means To Me

My Birthday is in July. The same sort of things were happening as the previous month. Conflicts in the middle east region, the government was being scrutinised for taxing too much and overspending while cutting costs. Every government does things wrong and other things right, this time around it could be the case that moving the railways into state ownership is the way forward; it could be one  thing the labour party got right; lets see what happens.

In the middle of the month during my birthday, there was a new viral sensation sweeping social media that was replacing the 'hawk tour girl'. It was the cheating tech company staff caught at a 'cold play' concert on a kiss cam. Never have I ever seen a man blush red like a tomato so quickly. Every media platform was showing the same video of the two people, Tick Tock, Facebook, X, you name it their video was on there. 

Towards the end of the month I learned that the Wrestling superstar 'Hulk Hogan' had passed away. He suddenly had a heart attack at the age of 71. I remember watching hulk hogan on TV when I was a kid; he would shout out in a deep voice how he will be victorious in the WWF and his eyes would bulge out like he was excited and fired up. I think he was paired up with the ultimate warrior and they would fight together as a tag team.  

Ozzy Ozbourne died around the same time as Hulk Hogan for the same reason I think. Their causes of death were common for people in their age group. 

For the first time I owned a stand alone virtual reality headset. I bought the meta quest 3. I put off buying it for 2 or 3 years but now I have it. I use it to help me get a good start to the morning. I wake up at 6am and play golf in the back yard in virtual reality. I visit iconic golf courses and play some golf; then I'm set up for the day. My ordinary working man's mind is blown. I can instantly visit a coastal paradise and play golf. I can visit other worlds or just use VR apps. I can fill out other blog posts about what I have seen. 

It's august now. Lets see what happens. 

 

New Ick Unlocked

There is a new phrase created on social media, 'new ick unlocked'. It's when women find men creepy or disgusting. It is usually triggered by a behaviour of some sort. They film the guy with their smart phones and post it on social media. 

I can give you an example from tick tock https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdHByDvm/ 

I have an ick of my own, like when ladies film a guy without them knowing and brand them as creepy on social media. When a guy's privacy isn't respected even though they're minding their own business. Is that an ick to be unlocked. 

This world stinks sometimes. It really does. 

Virtual Reality Club

I recently joined the virtual reality club. I asked everyone in my family to give me Argos gift cards for my birthday, then I waited a few weeks until my other work and customer perks had lined up and managed to get Meta Quest 3 of my own. It is set up as a fitness gadget for me. I get up at 6AM and  go to the back yard, get some fresh air and play virtual reality golf standing up for an hour and a half. The fresh morning breeze appears to be coming from the world I'm visiting. Then I'm set up for the day. I also noticed the golf plays very much like real golf, if my wrist shifts while I swing, the ball goes off course just like in real life.

The virtual reality app that left the biggest impression on me is the 'youtube' one. It is like having a floating 4k 350 inch Tv in your sitting room, you can resize it and reposition it  in your room and leave it floating anywhere you like. The meta quest 3 supports mixed reality so you can have a video feed of your sitting room mixed together with the software. You can also make the screen very big and remove the real world so you feel like you're in the cinema and if you sink with your 'youtube' account you can play google movies that you bought on there. Another thing you can do is use a desktop application while the youtube is running. There are many configurations that can change the way the screen appears. 

Playing golf is excellent in virtual reality, you can teleport to where the ball is with the press of a button and change your view of the course. You can also go to the course when you like, even at 3 in the morning. 

It's nice to finally use virtual reality without borrowing someone else's