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.