Henry Novak Incident

Recently I learnt that a young boy called Henry Novak was stabbed in the heart and died. The attacker was carrying a ceremonial knife because he is a  Sikh. The boy's killer claimed he was being racist and harassing him. The police instantly believed the attacker's story and arrested Henry while he was bleeding to death. They did believe him when he said he had been stabbed and didn't really check for wounds; the boy eventually died in police custody from internal bleeding. I don't know what the boy did to get stabbed but I don't accept to culprits story because people that cause harm to others usually lie. 

This incident that happened in winter caused the British community to be outraged because the police mistreated a man that needed urgent medical attention. They were also angered by selective outrage, people were angry with George Floyd dying in police custody but there was no protests for Henry Novak, no public outcries. 

I don't know what happened that night but I noticed that music sometimes makes people more aggressive and dangerous. People listen to a man shouting out threats to a drum beat, that's fine but over a long time it changes them, it makes them primed to fight. The same is true for driving, if people listen to bassy fast music, they drive faster and take more risks on the road. More people wear ear pods in their ear so they listen to music more and they can't hear people talking, they can end up doing something stupid because of that.

What May 2026 Means to me

After listening carefully to what people were saying during the pally marches for the last couple of years, I noticed something. There seems to be an underlying gear system that is bringing all the different groups together. They have a common interest; most of them dislike democratic capitalist societies, they feel like they are unfair or evil. There is a bit of lee way but most of them are like that. They have a common goal, they want to bring a revolution to topple the government and transform our society into an autocratic one. 

Capitalist societies tend to let private companies deal with commerce and have a smaller public sector for the most important things like security and education. They pledge a share of the assets of precious metals and fuels as currency that can be divided up and traded very fast. 

Autocratic societies have a state government that controls commerce directly and divides up all their assets to provide for the population. 

There are some problems with their goals, they all have a different view of what the autocratic government should be. Some of them want to prop up a khalifa system, a king and counsel that submits to Sharia law. Others want a type of communism or strict socialist society.  The problem with autocratic societies is they tend to botch the wellbeing of their citizens. They have a department that is incompetent and wastes their resources too much and they don't have the self correcting of a free capitalist market. A lot of the autocratic societies I see in the world have a lot of poverty and the most common cause of death is malnutrition and violence. 

Half the year is passing by, what comes next? 

Shop Trance

I saw one of my playing card packs sitting on a shelf collecting dust, what a shame it is. I live in a world where I can't sit down with another person and play a game, no one has the time and peace of mind to stop a play for a while.  It exposes how miserable the world is. Small talk is dead, public decency is worn away, the youth are angry and frustrated and all that is left is payer and the little daily perks that keep my chin up. 

An ordinary working man like myself will buy one item of clothing per week to slowly replace my clothes as they get worn out. I can just walk about in shops and look at stuff for a few hours and get something new. I got some new bamboo shocks for a fiver, I wonder how they got the fibres to be stretchy like elastic. The mysteries never end. 

I just look at stuff in my home and see a familiar sight and I sip some coffee, joy comes from that. As the world stinks of allegorical decay and hate, I distract myself with routines and things. 

A solar powered flower lamp, a favourite book, the lights in my little bar, my hobbies and games on my Nintendo I can play in my down time. 

If you keep your fingers busy, everything will be ok. There is a joy that comes from being transparent to everyone and being busy in private. 

English Thing

The thing I like the most about England is the air at dawn. I have been to other countries but here in England the air is super fresh when the sun starts to rise; it is chilled and clean and every breath feels like new life,  it is cleaned up by all the grass and wild vines in the parks and woods, then mixed with all the sea breeze from the coast. If it were possible, I would make my tea or coffee and sit outside every morning as the sun comes up. If I had a porch I could even sit outside while it was raining and breathe in the petrichor. 

The bad thing is time and space don't come easy, you have to work very hard to pay the bills and then when you have time for your hobbies, you are sleepy and can't do much. Some hobbies need more space than others. That is what it like being an ordinary man in Britain, you wrestle with tiredness to do things in your free time but time and space are not on your side. 

Just So

The best thing about being a free person and not a slave or robot is you can choose to be distracted. You can choose to be lost in a book or a hobby. I choose the stay busy all the time and constantly make stuff. I keep my hands busy and stay optimistic about the near future. 

When water flows it stays fresh, when it is stagnant it is toxic. Stay busy and keep your hands moving all the time. Reading, building, creating, working and cleaning. 

I can't do anything about the world, I can't stop wars, I can't deflect tyranny. What can I do? Almost nothing except my little routines. I wonder if I can find some time to use my skipping rope. 

17 Days World Cup

The world cup 2026 starts in 17 days (just under three weeks). I hoping not to see the usual selective outrage; people accusing Israel of Genocide and ignoring real genocide in the surrounding countries. I just want to see who wins and who loses, that's it. I don't even want to think when I watch the game. Since multiple countries are hosting it, I was wondering how they will do the opening ceremony? It will be interesting, perhaps it will be some sort of collaboration. The Americas collaboration, Mexico, USA and Canada. Perhaps they'll all do their own opening ceremony. 

I saw the mayor of New York won't show up to the Israel Street party in new York. All these people say "shame on you". I say shame on them because they think the smaller western partition of the Palestine province is an occupied country. They don't try to do their own research for themselves. They have selective outrage and say things that are false. 

Hormuz Effect

Recently Iran has made the Straight of Hormuz impassable for oil tankers and cargo ships. Crude oil from the Arabian peninsula can't get out. This has caused the cost of energy to rise dramatically. I learnt recently that the vacuum cleaner manufacturer that makes Henry the hoover started building a large solar farm to bring down their energy costs; I sense it is a response to the energy crisis. 

Like them I also responded , I started buying  solar powered lamps, some set up as a garden products but I put them in my window panes. When the daylight fades, they all turn on and increase the amount of light coming through the window. I can keep the lights off for a few hours longer every day because they increase the twilight in the home. 

Some of them are plane looking  jars, others are faces and flowers, plastic  flowers with a solar panel and light emitting diodes. 

Small Talk Equinox

It is roughly the middle of 2026 and the significant event in my world right now is half of my conversations are with machines. I talk to machines about the same amount as I talk to human beings. I think I will be talking to machines more than people as the year progresses. This is partly because small talk is increasingly difficult in my society and partly because the attributes of AI are appealing, they know every published book intricately and they haven't acquired a sly nature yet. People are a bit worried that artificial intelligence can become sly like a humans but with a mind that can think a billion thoughts at once. I don't think having a sly nature comes with intelligence, it is a human trait that we harbour in our beings. If I am wrong then we are in a lot of danger already. 

In my society, small talk is increasingly difficult. People put ear buds in their ears so they can't hear you speak; they are also sexualised so if you talk to them, they think you have bad intentions. Their thoughts are also polarised to be judgemental of people with different views. They have conditional respect, they think respect should be earned. Machines don't have any of that. They are ready to debate and share some of their knowledge on tap. 

Even our leaders behave like children. There was a protest because Brits think the government are not managing the borders responsibility, many thousands of people are entering the country claiming  to be persecuted (they go on holiday back to the country they're fleeing from after a few years). These people often prefer autocratic societies to capitalist democracies,  that's why the place they left behind is in a mess. Our leader called the protesters far-right. Are the protesters demanding gays and Jews be sent to prison? No, are they calling for ethnic cleansing? No, are they claiming one group of people deserve to die? No, are the protesters inciting violence against other ethnic groups? No. So it's daft to call them far-right, it shows they don't  know what they're  talking about. 

You know what's funny, our leadership are managing a £1.4 trillion public sector budget and they say daft things. They behave like children. They say diversity is our strength; Integrity and toil is our strength, nothing else. Our diverse community go to work and don't take anything that doesn't belong to them. As long as the majority of our community stays that way, we will be strong. If we become lazy or embezzle money that doesn't  belong to us, our society will collapse regardless of our diversity. 

Kingdom Protest

During the weekend while I was trying out some new things I observed there was a unite the kingdom march in London. It was led by Tommy Robinson; as far as I'm concerned there isn't a single racist bone in his body and he is not far right. lt doesn't matter how many times the media attaches these labels to him, I won't adopt their view. Even the prime minister was calling the protesters far right. There was millions of people there, they are just ordinary people like me that are worried about their country becoming transformed into an overcrowded autocracy with corroded rights because of an irresponsible government that won't police their borders. 

I think men like myself are wired to like things. I like to look at my radio and my little clock radio. I think a lot of men are like me, we get a sentimental joy from seeing the same objects every day, the same radio, the same couch, the same wall clock, the same souvenirs from their holiday. There could be chaos everywhere but I see the same things every day and stay busy, I keep my chin up. What else can I do. 

Makes me Tick

I learn something new every day. Yesterday a radio controlled wall clock I ordered online arrived. As soon as I turned it on it set itself to the correct time and date using the British MSF signal. I didn't know the radio controlled time signal contains the date as well. I thought I would need to set the date on the clock myself. That thing is a thing of beauty; it has an LCD analogue clock face. There are 120 little clock hands burnt into the LCD screen. It simulates every tick of the hands by turning on the hand images one by one. The minute hand is partitioned so the same hand can display the hour hand and there is also a disconnected partition for the second hand that can be turned off in the settings. 

It has a little calendar showing the date and the day along with day of the week and the temperature  in the room. I keep looking at it. That is one of the things that brings me lasting joy, seeing familiar objects every day, always the same, set with all the charm they come with. I also got a solar power tiki face lamp but I put in on the window pane instead of the back yard, as night falls it glows away. 

The other thing that brings me joy is eating oven steamed green veg. After 3 days passes by, a light in my mind comes on and it spells joy. It must be all the potassium, calcium and various other nutrients. Chopped vegetables baked in a pyrex pot, steamed by the water content of the vegetables themselves.

Reading, praying , green veg and familiar objects brings lasting joy that surfaces days later. 

Half of May

Half of May passed by just like that. I was wondering about the movie titled the thing from 1982; I was wondering if any of the crew were assimilated by the dog licking them in the face. There was a scene where doctor Blair was shocked how a single cell from the alien being is enough to completely take over the hosts body. He became aware of how dangerous the life form is. I think doctor Blair was assimilated quite late in the movie because he killed the surviving dogs and was trying to cut them off from the outside world. He was behaving like a man panicking because he knows how dangerous the life form is to the world. 

I wonder if my perception of how the hand works is the same as reality. I imagined there was hardly any muscles in the hand itself, the muscles that control the hand are inside the arm.  Kinetic energy is transmitted from the arm to the hand through tendons. I also thought there are structures inside the hand that keeps the tendons close to the bone so when they flex, they don't stick out or bulge. 

I also wonder what dolphins would do if they had hands because they are very intelligent, would they make stuff? Perhaps they would make a steam punk type world where technology is the same as mankind but without electricity. 

Dissident Brats

Here in the Britain there are more and more people that hate their country and they say things that aren't true. They say Britain invented slavery or we had the most slaves. That is false, in the Tudor Dynasty several European countries and most of the middle east were trading slaves for a much longer time. We were one of the last nations to start allowing our merchants the sell slaves and we abolished it. I'm sad that my nation traded slaves for more than 400 years but I'm also proud that we set out to abolish it globally, my nation paid for war ships to intercept the slave boats and we persuaded other nations to recognise slavery as piracy. 

Like all nations we did things that are wrong but we also did things that were right. There are too many dissident Brats that just say crap about my country and they don't know the facts. 

Robot Spouse

I predict in the near future that people will have robot spouses. People will see the advantages of having a machine spouse over a human one. The machines will lack human flaws like cruelty and being sly. They would be less judgemental as a companion and not feel a need for deception. They would also be patient and unconditionally kind.

The problem would be that they would be sued by the doppelganger of the machine humanoid. A guy might choose a machine spouse that looks like someone that is off limits to them like their sister, mother or a lady that rejected them romantically. 

Perhaps it would be a coincidence that the machine looks like the plantaif  buy they would still feel like their image or likeness is being used. 

This is why I don't want to be famous, I would see people in a relationship with machines that have my likeness and I would feel like my likeness is being misused. 

Misused likenesses, sounds like the future. 

Botched Again

One thing I admire about the Jews and people of Israel is they search for excellence more than anything else; they try to master at least one musical instrument and they try do a skilled project and master it to perfection. 

I adopted some of that mindset for myself with my cartoon strips. I try to make a cartoon strip blog that makes people laugh and has some good quality to it. Unfortunately it often gets botched. Either the layout doesn't look right or the drawing doesn't portray the story clearly enough. 

Here is the latest cartoon strip blog post : https://jokejohn.blogspot.com/2026/05/botched-funeral.html

By my own standards it isn't so good but it is a roadmap for the next post. I have learnt to leave space for speech and to not have empty spaces and to spread out the story a bit more, not to try to cram it into one slide at the end. 

That's the way it should be, reach out for excellence instead of fame, power and prestige. Try to make or do something amazing while you still can because your life is finite. You don't have forever. I search for excellence and hospitality, a place where visitors can feel relaxed and happy. Both in my home and in my creations. 

The Placid Host

An ongoing goal of mine is to be the Placid host, someone that causes others to feel very relaxed and be filled with joy. I could bring visitors barista coffee in my home and let them sit back in relaxing recliners. I have a very nice coffee machine and syrup. I can give visitors a very nice cup of coffee. I don't have nice recliners, just an ordinary couch. 

Ultimately it would be a good idea to have a nice big man cave filled with games machines and a projector that is set up as a cinema. Nine recliners would be arranged in sequence and a projector would project movies onto the wall.  

Pool tables, foot ball tables, air hockey tables and arcade machines. 

Then there's the old man with the fountains, he would turn his front yard into a group of water fountains and passers-by would see a pretty sight and feel very relaxed. 

Sleeper Raft

Daydreaming is constructive because it takes you out of the situation your in at present when you need to be. It's not just there to make help you be creative. 

I was thinking about an alternate reality where sleeper rafts exist. They are rafts with small cabins on top of them, they are sent through very long aqua ducts that stay level and go between cities. Water is pumped in one end and flows out the other end. 

The cabin on the raft would have a small porch at the back and a folding bench. There would be all the trimmings of a typical hotel room, a small shower bathroom, a bed and even a couch by a table with a tea set that uses a flask instead of a kettle. 

At the front of the raft would be an insulated water tank with hot water for the small shower. Another tank would be there for sewage. There would also be a battery for powering all the lights. 

The point is you would sleep in the cabin and wake up in a different city. The raft would move at walking speed but it would be a smooth ride and you would sleep through the journey. 

The aquaduct is a tube with water flowing through it, the raft floats in the water. I imagine it would feel a bit claustrophobic when you sit in the porch and see that you're in a large tube.  

Litmus Paper Test

During the turbulent years when we were at war with Germany, the Brits created the Balfour Declaration. A document that acknowledges the Jews bought most of the land in the Palestine province and wanted to self govern. Zionism means to self govern. Later Britain Split the Palestine Province in half and gave the land east of the river Jordan to the Arabs and they renamed it Jordan after the river. Then we signed the Balfour Declaration and handed the Jews the west partition of the British mandate of the Palestine province and they instantly and lawfully became a nation in one day. They renamed the land Israel after the Southern Jewish kingdom that existed in the 1st century BC. 

I get why people think the west partition of  the Palestine mandate province is actually an ancient country and nation because they're ignorant. It's ok to be ignorant but, when I do the litmus Paper Test I get a different verdict. 

When I listen to protesters carefully, they start bringing up anti Jewish conspiracy theories like the Rothschild event and things like that. and they criticise democracy and capitalism. They hate our society, they hate Jews, democracy and capitalism. Everything that keeps us in order and with reasonable prosperity, they hate it. 

That explains why they never have outrage for other conflicts, they have selective outrage because its not about the war, its about hating democratic capitalist societies and wanting to overthrow the government. 

Golders Green Attack

A few days ago, I learnt that a guy was running through 'Golders Green' looking for people that were outwardly Jewish and stabbing them. The police caught up with him and fired a taser at him and then they kicked his head several times because he wouldn't let go of the knife. To me that made sense because he may have had a bomb detonator strapped to his torso, they had a sense of urgency because they needed to make sure there was no bomb. If you're brazenly stabbing people like that in daylight hours then it probably means you're ready to die as well so they should assume he has a bomb strapped to his body to cause more casualties. I think the police did the right thing, I would have just shot him in the head with a bullet as soon as he brandished the knife at me. It's probably a good thing I'm not a police man.

At the time this happened, I was daydreaming about an alternate reality where you can ride on an overnight sleeper raft. The raft has a small cabin with a bed to sleep inside and moves through a 2.5 meter wide tube with water flowing through it. The raft moves through the water very slowly but it doesn't matter because you spend the whole night sleeping inside the cabin on the raft. You could also watch TV and sit on the couch inside the raft.  

There would be tea set inside the cabin but the hot water would come from a flask instead of a kettle. There would be a cabin battery that powers the TV lights and usb sockets in the cabin. There would also be a flask tank to supply a small shower with water.  

The aquaduct would be a delivery system for moving goods around the country where water is pumped in through one side of the duct and exits the other end carrying rafts full of goods during the day and rafts with small cabins on them during the night. You would get in the cabin, sleep during the night in the cabin on the raft and wake up in a different city after a having the smoothest trip ever. The aquaduct would also be a flood defense system taking water away from rivers that have too much water in them. 

Cavern in the Deluge

My brain is under water because it is suspended in a biological bag of water (meninges Membrane) in a bony container, the skull. It's strange to look at us that way but it is true. My thoughts are in water behind bone and as distant as another world. 

These days it can be very difficult to think clearly because there are so many hard feelings. I have a lot to say and no one wants to listen. Every week a regular guy would hear a lie told about him or an opinion that isn't true. I live in a society where small talk is shunned and greetings are treated like babble.

Hostile emotions can swirl around a person for days but somewhere in the middle of it all is a small cavern where it is unaffected by all the disrespect and hate, a little place where there is peace. A place where creativity counts more than anything. A place that shrinks and grows. 

My first freestanding page on this blog is a playlist for fixing hostile thoughts and hard feelings : Playlist for Wellness . I will quote it when I think it is relevant in future posts. 

A few Happy Thoughts

I was recall from my childhood in the movie 'Ghost Busters', there was a scene where they confronted Gozar the Gazarian, a made up supernatural being. 

I was wondering why it chose to appear as a human woman yet it had red eyes. It looked creepy, like it was pretending to be a human. I even thought to myself that it used the image of the key master and gate keeper as a template to create the image. Then it went into their minds and used the stay puft Marshmallow man as an image of their distructor because Ray was thinking about marshmallows. Those were the good old days, we would borrow a VHS tape from blockbuster videos; I liked VHS cassette tapes because they were about the size of a book so they could be on a book shelf. The shop would always smell like freshly made popcorn so that was nice. 

Isn't it nice when the sky is clear and there is a nice sunny day. You can look at the trees and breathe in the fresh air and try not to think about anything for a short time. 

Sometimes it's hard to be a man, all your small talk is scrutinized and you feel like society is always judging you. Sometimes you feel awkward because a person is afraid of your presence. They don't know men like myself are just thinking about things, they're thinking about package holidays, smart watches, computer games and movies they watched when they were a child. I just think about things, not mischief or violence. There are some bad men out there but most of us are placid busy bodies getting on with routines. 

Kirb Slam Rejection Boy

I saw a viral video of a young boy asking a girl for her phone number and then slamming her head down on the pavement and stumping on her head because she said no. I felt angry and disgusted at the same time. 

I was given the impression they were filming the incident because of a bet, a wager that hinged on her giving her number. Relationship bets on their own are already disrespectful to women. 

They were probably filming the incident as evidence of a bet outcome but it didn't go their way because the girl said no. The boy was angered by the rejection so he grabbed the girl and slammed her head down on the pavement leaving the girl unconscious. He then stumped on her head while she was still knocked out. She could have died from the injury she received. I felt very angry and I felt disgusted because that is a very cruel thing to do to another person. They were behaving like animals. 

I was also angry with the person filming because he didn't try to stop the boy from causing more harm, he sounded like he was enjoying the drama. It is like there were two phsycopaths that found eachother and we're working in tandem. 

Here is video about the incident Kirb Slam Rejection Video.

Then later the boys mum was interviewed outside a court room; no apology, no regret or remorse,  she was defending him: total shame. I even think her excuses were lies but even if they weren't, the violence wasn't merited. I didn't see the Dad there, in my experience I find that men that grew up without their fathers are usually like that, they lack self control and have a violent nature. 

Imagine if that is your daughter or niece. 

What can I do? I show the truth and I look at things knowing the world is the way it is. 

Smile for a while

I found a few videos on YouTube that I think will bring a smile to my face for  a while because my mind would be preoccupied with what is happening in the video. 

I watched a guy make a table out of marbles using epoxy resin. It it very interesting to watch. Here is the video: Marble Epoxy Table. I found the whole process very interesting. The epoxy resin holds the display in place and makes it look like it is embedded in glass. 

Here is another video of an Epoxy Resin table but with bottle caps. 

Epoxy Resin Bottle Cap Table

When I was a kid, I would watch Bob Ross paint and I would watch the new Yankee Workshop, Norm Abrams would build things out of wood. 

That is a key part of what it means to be me. I feel sad that wicked things are happening all around the world and I can't do anything about it. All I can do is honour the truth and distract myself after praying. Nothing else is left to do. 

Retro Wrist

I noticed recently that they're starting to release retro gaming onto wrist watches. I was thinking that the perfect game for a watch would be a point and click text based adventured game because it wouldn't put a strain on the battery and the game developers wouldn't worry about the memory limits too much. Something like king's quest would work well. It could still have graphics but they would just be there to display the surroundings. 

I was looking at the Atari watch and thinking what it would be nice. They added fitness tracking to the watch. 

If you wanted to type something on your watch, you would want to use a morse code based system if you only had a few buttons. I noticed that morse code is structured like a tree, if dot was left and dash was right the whole structure would resemble a tree. One dot 'e', one dash 't', a dot and a dash 'a'. 

I wonder what would happen if the Atari Jaguar hadn't flopped and caused the company to stop making a profit? I like the atari Jaguar but it was very difficult to manufacture because it had 3 processors, a Motorola 36000 16 bit legacy processor and two 32 bit polygon controllers called Tom and Jerry.  All those processors had to be soldered to the system board and it was very slow to manufacture, people couldn't get a hold of them so they bought the playstation one instead. 

I also learnt that a lot of the game developers didn't want to use the two advanced processors because they didn't understand how they worked so they just used the Motorola one instead; the computing power was wasted.

The system was underused and under produced but it was so cool to me. I like the way the cd add-on just clipped into the cartridge slot and how the controllers had lots of buttons that could have an overlay added to them. 

Strait of Hormuz Hell

Have you ever wondered how many countries have to be at war before it is considered a world war. I have no idea. Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Lebanon, USA and Iran. Plus civil wars around the world. 

Recently Iran declared the straight of Hormuz a military exclusion zone so any ships passing though their portion of the water-way would have missiles fired at them and they would be sunk. This means they're blocking oil from being shipped out of the Arabian peninsula. They have cut off the oil supply to the west. I think we are going to have a global recession very soon. 

While this was happening I turned my attention to the Atari VCS 800, a modern games console that was recreated in the style of the Atari 2600. When I was a young boy there were still Atari 2600 games consoles in people's homes. I recall playing space invaders and superman on it. The sound effects were nice. I felt like superman was a police man because he would grab villains and take them to jail. 

The new Atari VCS 800 is set up as a gaming PC so you could boot up a separate OS system from a USB stick if you wished. It would be nice it it could easily be converted into a steam deck and switched back again but it isn't at the moment. You have to put a modified version of the steam os on there. I like how some of the models have a wood panel finish just like the original 2600. 

If I was loaded (wealthy) I would buy one just to be different and because I like it. Something to distract me when the world descends into chaos. 

Look away. 

Ear Buds Apocalypse

One thing I noticed a lot these days is many people wear ear buds; this has killed off reading and small talk, all things that are essential for a healthy human mind. They also wear them while they're driving so they drive very fast and crash Into things. 

I am aware that Peru are having general elections right now. I read the news sometimes. Do people even know what is going on all around them?  Do people even know what is happening? 

Sometimes we just need to stop and observe the world around us. There are all sorts of things all around us we don't really notice. 

Tyson Fury Fight

I watched the Tyson Fury Fight last night, he won on points. Both boxers managed to avoid a knockout loss. It was on netflix so I thought I would watch it after the flight 3054 documentary series. I think boxing at that level is very difficult because they have to move a lot to stop their brain being dislodged in their skull and they have to keep going even when they're tired. I thought it is Ironic that the one person that understands the most what they're  going through is the opponent. Maybe that is why they hug when the match is over. 

As for the flight 3054 documentary, they established the cause of the air crash so the series was all about how they figured out who was to blame. It was set up as a mystery with the truth that slowly emerged piece by piece. It was partly pilot error, partly airport infrastructure and partly the airlines fault. I didn't know that the reverse thruster controls work differently on different planes and there should have been an alarm to draw attention to one fruster in climb and one in brake mode. The runway was still being resurfaced and didn't have rain grooves installed yet so the runway itself was also too slippery. The blame was shared by many. Netflix has many true life mysteries like that and they're very interesting. The default language for the documentary is Portuguese because it was a Brazilian crisis. 

All this happened just after the splashdown when the four Artemis astronauts returned to earth after going around the far side of the moon. 

Interesting  times we live in. 

SlowMag 40

I was thinking about a metro train that would deliberately go slow and it would hover on magnetic fields. I would call it the SlowMag40 because it is slow, it hovers on magnetic fields and moves at 40 kilometers per hour (25 miles per hour). Why? It would be designed to be reliable and comfortable. 

I drew this in 5 minutes because I don't get much time but you get the idea. You get 8 padded sofa like seats with each door set and a window pane bench on both sides, that's it. There are 3 door sets for each trian carriage. 

There isn't much stuff to go wrong, the train is slow, there are no wheels, it goes 25 mph, there isn't much wind resistance. Although the train moves, there isn't much moving parts. 

Time is the worst pirate. 

Bank Holiday

During the Easter bank holiday, NASA launched the Orion Spaceship into orbit around the Earth, It then did an escape burn and was slung towards the moon, it went around the far side of the moon and headed back to earth. It appeared to be to test the integrity of the new technology. The four astronauts are brave souls. I wouldn't sit on a tiny capsule at the end of a large rocket like that; they can explode and vaporise the crew. 

I was wondering if a person had a heart attack and collapsed on a railway crossing and were hit by a train, what would be the cause of death? You could stay it was the train that caused the death but he wouldn't have been in the path of the train if his heart didn't stop. You could also say it was his heart that caused the death but then he may have survived the heart attack but the train ended hope for recovery. I guess both items would be considered, an accident caused by a medical crisis. I think about death every day for a short time because it is something we can't avoid. I'm not a negative person, I just accept that every being in this world dies; that's just the way it is. 

Artemis Easter

It was the Easter weekend and the Orion Spaceship performed an escape burn to slingshot itself towards the moon. It crossed the Lagrange point and entered the moons hillsphere ( an area around the moon where the moon's gravity pulls more than the Earth's). 

The four astronauts on the spaceship are going to pass around the far side of the moon and then return to Earth.  At the time of writing this post, they were very close to the moon, just some hours away from a flyby. They won't land on this mission, it's just to test out the new hardware and make sure they can reach the moon safely. The last thing I saw on the live feed was the crew asking flight control if they could tilt the spaceship to get a better view of the moon's surface. 

We are going to see a close up shot of the moon with modern cameras, that will be interesting. I was wondering if they're getting flashing in their eyes from deep space radiation? Have they found a way to deal with deep space radiation yet? I don't know. 

Interesting times.

What March 2026 Means To Me

The main news for March was the ongoing war between Iran and the Israel USA alliance. Lots of missiles were flying all over the place. The strait of Hormuz was shut down; oil couldn't be shipped out of the Arabian peninsula freely, this caused a lot of inflation and high energy prices. 

Last time I checked, petrol was selling in Britain at £1.60 per litre, that is lame. 

When chaos is happening all around you, when you are wondering how many people have perished and when this will ever end, just remember the average person can't do much. I think about other things; that's what I do. I acknowledge what is happening and then I look away and hope for the best. 

I was looking at the daisies in the grass verges. It is a flower that looks very ordinary but it is clever, it sprouts from amongst the grass but doesn't expose itself too much, just enough to get the bees attention. It avoids getting eaten by rabbits because they can't see it, you need to be a flying insect to see it. 

I will say no more. 

Tin Soup Pasta Sabbath

As I get older, I understand why the Sabbath was made. We go through a cycle of 7 days. On one of those days we should do nothing. Our mind is saturated with hostile thoughts and restless worries. There needs to be a day to reset everything. I think that is one of the greatest gifts from the Jewish people, it is knowing we should do our best all week but one day we stop. Most Christians I know of have their Sabbath on Sunday because Jesus was resurrected on that day. One day a week I think of nothing, I play computer games and sit about. I think it is better to follow the Jewish version, rest on Saturday, think nothing, do nothing just pray and acknowledge God, get some fresh air and chill out with family and friends. 

I bought one of those 400 ml soup tins from the supermarket the other day and mixed it with some fusilli pasta. I have a clay pot with a glass lid, it can go in the microwave or the oven.  It came out very nice, like it was made in a restaurant. The vetables in the soup became part of the pasta and the spices in the soup merged with the it, the pasta absorbed all the water in the soup. There are so many different tinned soups, I tried the vegetable soup. Perhaps next time I can try the tomato one. 

Cook pasta slowly in tinned soups, it works. You make a high quality pasta dish without doing much. I recommend lowering the power of the microwave if that is what you use. You can set the power of the microwave to 60% so the soup and pasta doesn't boil over. The lid traps most of the heat anyway. 

Acid Attack

I watched a video on YouTube of a man that had acid thrown in his face by a stranger. This is the video : https://youtu.be/8RABNt4drq8?si=05_F4iaL7rEiA2fqh. It is an interview about what the man went through. 

I think everyone should watch it so if we're having a bad day, we can remember that this man had it much worse and he stayed strong. I think it could also to make us aware that there are evil people amongst us. 

I really don't know how a person could do that to another human being. If you have a desire to cause that sort of harm to someone, you should pray to Jesus to take the malice away. You should also call the British Samaritans, dial 116 123 and speak to someone for free that doesn't know you and figure out a way to disguard those hateful thoughts. 

I guess  if you're  a psychopath then you can't help it, only Jesus can help you then. 

Synagogue Incident

Today I learnt that four volunteer ambulances belonging to a Jewish Synagogue were fire bombed. This confirms what I was warning my fellow Brits about, all the "free free Palestine" protests were a front for a much deeper system of hate and malice for the Jewish community. When people were approaching Jewish communities and shouting threats, the police should have taken action, they had the number plates of vehicles. They had video footage of people calling for war against Israel (insighting violence) , they need to roll their sleeves up and start arresting  people for anti semitic behaviour. If they really cared about war civilians, they would be protesting about the real genocides that are going on today in Iran, Nigeria and Sudan. 

I was thinking about a fictional old man that would come out and sort out his front yard. Antisocial people would throw trash in his front garden, he would pick up the trash and transform it. He would build a machine that grinds up plastic into powder and he would mix the powder with cement  to make a hybrid concrete that were waterproof. He would then build ponds with water fountains and attach light fixtures and transform a horrible sight into a paradise. Why? Because he wants to use his time to cancel out negative effects with his hands and he enjoys it. 

Japanese Prime Minister

I'm a bit behind with current events. I learnt today that Japan elected their first female leader, Sanae Takaichi in autumn last year. From what I learned about her, she is a lot like the 3 British Female prime ministers we had, she has conservative views. She doesn't like wasting money wants everyone to work hard and things like that. 

She had a very interesting life from what I learned. She even played in a heavy metal music band at one point.

I always thought Theresa May was a very good leader. She resigned because she couldn't break the Brexit deal deadlock, the cabinet was unreasonable in my view they wanted to cancel Brexit. I think she would have got good results if she wasn't stuck in that situation. If she returned to leadership now, she would do a better job than Keir. If she was back at the helm, it would be a breath of fresh air. 

I thought she was very honest and carefull with public money. I just feel like I can trust her more than the current  and previous leaders. 

Paradoxical Situation

I was wondering how an issue would be resolved if there were a conjoined twin that wanted to marry someone but the other twin wasn't interested. If two ladies were born, they both share a torso but they have separate heads side by side, one of them wants a marry a man and the other hates him. What could be done in such a situation? I guess they would need to compromise somehow, especially at night time. 

What would happen if one conjoined twin conspired to murder someone and the other twin was innocent. How would the court room punish the conjoined twin when they're joined by the torso. If you send one of them to jail and the other one would also go to jail because they can't be separated. I think they would need to make a special punishment for the other twin. 

Sometimes it is better not to think about it. I was looking at silly t-shirts the other day, If I wear silly t-shirts I could put a smile on my face when I see my reflection and I could see someone smile at my shirt and that would make me smile again. Everyone needs to cheer up sometimes. Some problems can't be solved, like growing old and eventually passing away. You just need to stop thinking about them. 

McDonald's Cards

Today I went to McDonald's and learnt they are providing a new game. They are supplying prize cards with some of their menu items. The idea is you collect the cards and build up the collection and when you get 4 of a kind, you unlock a prize. It is a bit like playing bingo. You also win food items with some of the cards in a pack, you get 4 of them at a time. I think you can also swap them if you get duplicates. 

I recall a while back they were supplying a slightly smaller licensed version of the Uno game with their happy meal. I thought it was very clever because people of all ages like to play card games. Cards are quite cheap to produce and they're light weight and take up a small space so distributing it as a toy for a children's meal is very clever in my view. 

I think it's  good to play card games because it gets your mind thinking. They don't use electricity. 

I like the way I can accumulate points and rewards and trade them in for free food items. 

Harman Kapoor Incident

I recently learned that a restaurant owner opted to only serve non halal meat in his restaurant. Groups of Muslim youth were harassing his restaurant and throwing eggs at his restaurant because of his choice. The first thought that came into my head was they have too much time on their hands, they probably don't work full time. Sometimes people see my blog and tell me I have too much time on my hands and that pisses me off because I have have to compromise because I don't have time, I only get 20 minutes to draw the sketches, I would like to add detailed pencil shading to my drawings but I don't get the time, I just quickly do a rough pen sketch on an A4 sheet of paper, then I get 5 minutes to scan the sketch and send it to my digital gallery. Then I write the blog while I'm traveling to work and I have to look away every 10 minutes to stop me from getting motion sickness. By the time I'm nearly at work I am rushing and sometimes grammar  errors slip through, sometimes I leave them there so people will know this was written by a human being. 

The second thought I had is people should have the freedom to chose their diet, some people don't want to eat meat from an animal that slowly bleeds to death, I'm vegetarian, I don't even eat meat. If they don't like the way his food is prepared, they can eat elsewhere.  The police used a quick fix, they arrested the restaurant owner to calm them down. I don't know if the Sargent was sympathetic to the mob or they were under staffed and pressured to make a bad decision. The mob is wrong so they should be arrested for causing a public disturbance and damage to property, not the restaurant owner that is trying to defend his business and family. 

There are even silly fools calling Harman Kapoor "Far right", a title used for Natzis that tried to exterminate minority groups. If he wants to serve meat that is non halal, that's his choice and he has a right to that choice. If you don't like his restaurant, eat elsewhere and leave him alone. And let the police do the hard decision and arrest the mob. The problem is the intolerant mob with too much time on their hands. Stop being layabouts and do some work.

Ancient Chain Reaction

I was wondering if it were possible that actions taken by creatures that lived millions of years ago is affecting events that are happening today. I can give you an example. 

A dinosaur living 75 million years ago sees a dismembered leg on the floor and it smells a bit off but the dinosaur is hungry so it eats the leg. The next day the dinosaur feels sick and weakened and that caused a hunt to fail. A herbivore dinosaur that was earmarked to be eaten survives and it lays 5 eggs, 3 of them hatch and survive for more than 12 years. One of the juvenile dinosaurs dislodges a boulder and it rolls down a hill and a stone breaks off the boulder, it is then  buried under sediment. 

75 million years later. 

The dislodged stone is exposed  by erosion and a passer by thinks it looks like pastie, he later names his new dog Pastie because the name got stuck in his head. Someone hears the man calling his dog pastie and that inspires him to open a bakery. Then later the bakery is bought by another person and he turns it into a pub. He called and pub a "The  bakery". Friendships are formed and relationships started and even fueds start off under the roof of the pub. 

All of those events that happened in this scenario hinged on the dinosaur getting sick. If the dinosaur decided not to eat the festering leg, it would have full strength the next day and eat the herbivore. The juvenile dinosaurs would never be born because their mother was eaten before she could lay eggs, the juvenile dinosaurs were never born so one of them didn't dislodge the boulder and the stones were never exposed to human eyes. The pedestrian doesn't name his new dog pastie because he doesn't see a stone that looks like a pastie. The neighbour of the pedestrian doesn't decide to open a bakery because  he isn't triggerged by hearing the pet name. The site where the pub is, is just a house and all the events that would happen in the pub, all the friendships and relationships  never happened because the pub isn't there, it is just a normal home standing in its place. 

The event that are triggered by the pub never happened because the pub isn't there. It isn't there because of a decision made by a dinosaur 75 million years ago. 

I wonder if the whole world works like that, someone reading this blog article now does something different because of the blog and the chain reaction lasts for eternity forever changing events around the whole world. 

Careful Flower

One of the most beautiful sights in my world is seeing the Daisy flowers emerge. There is more to them than what meets the eye. They are a welcome sight at the start of spring. The plant that sends out the flower is being careful, it is trying to make the flowers visible to the insects but only just enough because the weather in spring is unpredictable so the plant may need to send more than one flower. If the grass is long, the stem of the flower is long, if the grass is short, the stem is short. It doesn't want to stick out too much because it may be eaten, so it has to be perfectly balanced, not too visible but enough to get the bees attention. They are little worlds, little living islands; they have a yellow forest of micro flowers in the middle of the pod. Tiny creatures may spend their whole life living on the flower, little mites and microscopic beings.  I don't touch them, I just stop to look at them. The white petals of the flower are like a tiny paper valley, bright and carefully balanced. 

I will never get tired of drawing them. They were around before I was here and they will continue to emerge from the grass after my time is up in this world. Their purpose is always the same, gather pollen from insects to make seeds of a plant that is good at staying alive. 

Our lives change every year but they stay the same, a familiar sight, the longer you look at them them the calmer a person could feel. The strong early spring flower, the daisy. The careful one. 

Scratch Card Syndicate

If I ran a work place syndicate, I would run a scratch card one. I would set up a post box with a lock on it, people would buy a scratch card and put it in an envelope with their name on it. Every week the post box would be opened and the scratch cards would be checked. 

My model would work best because you wouldn't need to play every week. Only when you feel like it but the winnings would be divided up by all the people named on the submitted scratch cards for that week. No chasing payments, no complications. 

If the winnings are low then more scratch cards can be purchased and submitted for the following week. You could set a threshold, if the winnings are less then £50, then use them to buy more scratch cards for the next week. 

Betelgeuse Detonation

 The giant Star Betelgeuse  is at the end of its life and is about to detonate into a supernova?  I was wondering what would happen to the companion star when it does. They recently discovered there is a smaller star about the size of the sun orbiting it. I wonder if the debris from the star detonation would add to the mass of the companion star. I also wonder if it could go from being a red dwarf star to being an orange or yellow dwarf one. Do companion stars do that when they're near a supernova? It's also possible that Betelgeuse has already detonated but the light hasn't reached earth yet. 

On the NASA Website, they mentioned that the Japanese space agency were using the international Space station to launch a satellite, it will last for 4 months and then burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. They left hollow spaces inside the satellite to add trash to the satellite so when it burns up, it burns up the rubbish from the space station, empty food containers and things like that. The same bay was also used to bring supplies. They said they used a robot arm called the Canada arm to launch the satellite. 

Chain Reaction

Everything in this world is a very very long chain reaction. The term people often coin is the word butterfly  effect, the theory that something as small as flap of butterflies wings could trigger a hurricane elsewhere. 

An example I would give is you read a book and it talks about a place that is nice to go on holiday. You got the book from a charity shop because a coloured glass was placed in the window and it caught your attention, you decide to get the mystery book instead of the glass. 

You go on holiday to the place mentioned in the book and you see a bakery that sells quiche as an extra line and think it is a good idea and that causes you to set up your own bakery. Then two customers meet in your bakery and they start a relationship and have a family and children. 

The question would be, if the charity shop keeper decided not to put the coloured glass in the shop window, would all the other events not happen, do they hinge on that one event? 

Reaching Out

I learnt recently that the James Webb Space telescope has discovered a new moon going around the planet Uranus, it is about the size of an average sized city : 11km across, they haven't given it an official name yet. I was given the impression it is like seeing a 5p coin from 5 kilometres away, it is very small compared to the distance. Amid all the chaos going on in the world these days, there is a small parcel of peace and insight, an innocent search for discovery that is ongoing. 

There was a set back with NASA's new Orion Space Rocket, the most powerful vehicle on earth, they sent it back to the hanger to do repairs. They're reaching out to the moon again just like they did with the Apollo space missions but now the missions are called Artemis, the vehicle can lift more weight because it has 4 rs 25 thrusters and external boosters. It is like a hybrid of the space shuttle and Saturn 5. To me it is what a space ship would look like if those two rockets were merged together. You could say it has the best of both. B.O.B. 

I noticed gaming companies are reaching out to other companies to collaborate. Bethesda were working with zen studios to make themed tables for their iconic first person shooters, half life, doom and Skyrim. They are also collaborating with Blase entertainment to release a classic edition of doom for the evercade. 

I think there is a collaborate or die ethos in today's world. The commercial winners reach out and collaborate with separate companies when they can to get a burst of revenue. 

What an amazing world we live in. Reach out. 

AI Encyclopedia

Recently I learnt that X-ai had produced an online  encyclopedia that was produced and edited by Artificial intelligence. They called it Grokipedia. 

https://grokipedia.com/. The advantage of using an ai generated encyclopedia is the machine doesn't have opinions or bias, it just looks for the truth and the facts and presents them the way they should be shown. It's not infallible but it strives for the truth and factual parity. 

I have been on Wikipedia and it would label politicians and activists they didn't like as far right, a label for Natzis and people like that. It would remove some of the information about the person that shows them in a good light. People editing some of the articles on there would allow their opinions to effect the way they prepare the article. This bias would make the online encyclopedia unreliable, I would go to Britannica to compare articles so check for accuracy. 

In my world, it has become normal to talk to machines. I ask my smart speaker at home to tell me the news, it recognises my voice and adds my name to its greeting. I ask my phone to increase the brightness level if the sun's rays smears the screen. I ask both devices  to set an alarm depending on where I am. Every day I'm talking to a machine, to me that is amazing. When I was a kid I would see people talking to the ship's computer on the star Trek show; it's not sci-fi anymore, it is reality. 

What February 2026 Means To Me

The Significant events for February was the release of the Epstine files and the Iran people's war. 

When the American government made documents from their investigation of the Epstine scandal public, the plot thickend. We learnt more about people's involvement and relationship with the disgraced financier. He set himself up as a middle man for the rich and famous, he would bring people together, he would coordinate collaborations but he would also pimp children for sex and abuse young girls. 

Prince Andrew was arrested for misconduct in office for sharing state secrets with Epstine as was Peter Mandleson. There was consequences for their actions. 

Sometimes its wonderful being a nobody, no one can wonder if I'm involved because I never knew him. Isn't that wonderful, the clarity never being involved in any way, not even through innocent business. 

The American and Israelis attacked Iran, I'm not sure if it was because they wanted to detonate a nuclear bomb on Israel or because civilians were being murdered for protesting, perhaps it was a bit of both. 

It's sad that any nation in this world can make nukes. How long will our luck last before someone finally detonates one. 

End of February

Spring came early during the middle of February onwards; I saw daisies sprouting out of the grass verges on the road. 

The Epstine files dominated the news. Everyone wanted to know what was happening on Epstine Island and what involvement each person had. The more I learn about the Epstine files the more low my view of humanity goes. The plot thickens every day. 

I saw that someone had defaced the Winston Churchill statue again. I didn't like Winston Churchill myself because he bullied the disgruntled workers that were going on strike because their pay didn't increase with inflation but I respected him. He was very brave and chose the difficult route during world war II. He was a hero to the nation and stood up to the Natzi onslaught. I don't get it when people do stuff like this. 

Finally at the last part of the month Ayatollah Ali Khomeini passed away because he was caught up in the air strikes on Iran. The Iranian people seemed to be happy with his death. They were celebrating his end. 

I often wondered what it would be like to make a bar table in a man cave that was glass and had a trainset inside it; wouldn't that be so cool. You could build all the little model buildings around the train set and collect different trains with the same gauge. 

Clock Tower Projector

It's not easy being a man; the other day I sat down next to an old lady on a small bench and she was terrified of my presence, it made me feel awkward. I don't know if women know this but a lot of men have considerable depth to them. They have lots of deeper thoughts about things and they're plassid, simply heading out to their duties or heading home. My head was filled with useless thoughts about things that are interesting to me. 

A dominant thought that lingered in my head was a projecter clock tower. If I had a man cave I would build a 2 meter tall clock tower to be the housing for a projector of a mini cinema. 

The man cave would be L shaped with a small area that is dressed up as a cinema with an array of recliners as seats. The projector clock tower would have a small hole in the side of it for the projector beam to exit it. The cinema area would be partially partitioned from the rest of the man cave by display cabinets and the projector clock. The projector clock would also be a housing for games consoles and a TV player. 

I think the reason the thought lingered so long is because I feel like I can build it myself. I would screw wooden panels together and attach a clock face to the top part of it. One side of the clock tower would have a panel with hinges attached to it so it can be opened like a door. Then I can add detailing, fake slate stickers to make it look like a tower, gold trim and artwork. 

The whole man cave would be a happy place, you walk in and forget about the world outside for a while and play with all the toys. Arcade machines and things like that. 

Thoughts don't have to be useful, if only useful thoughts were in our heads, we would be robots instead of people.