A Bit Daft

I learnt recently that the prime minister has passed a law where people under 16 years old can't use YouTube and other video platforms. I thought to myself that he is being a bit daft. Does he not know that these platforms are on all the smart TV screens. Toy makers will stop putting adds on there and the company  values will go down, they will pay less tax. The platform will ask,  how old are you? 😂 

If they somehow pull it off and find a way to block under 16 year olds from using the platformss, they would be throwing content creators that make vids for children under a bus. 

I imagined a conversation with Kier Starmer and Blippy.  

kier :  Hello Blippy. 

Blippy : Hello Kier.

kier :  What's it like making children's  exploration vids

Blippy :  I work very hard and a burned a few bridges but it's worth it. 

kier : Well I have blocked children from your platform so your channel will die now. Have a good day. Cheerio. 

These guys need to come into the real world and think about what they're doing. 

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. 

Down Time Stack

A part of daily life as an ordinary British man is to make a list of things to do and also a list of things to watch during my down time when I'm resting. When I'm on my tea break at work I would have one hand on my phone and one hand feeding a sandwich to my mouth. With one thumb on one hand I would swipe through a list of videos and select some of them to watch later. They would be selected on my smart phone then played on my TV. The list of videos on my smart phone would be replicated by the TV that has access to the same account. 

To add to the list, I would scroll through videos on YouTube and press the three dots to open a menu. 

The three dots would open a menu with more choices about what to do with the video. 

Normally I would press the 'save to watch later' menu item. But sometimes I would add it to other lists. I have a public down time playlist that I can share with others called down time. 

There is a similar feature on Netflix, I scroll through the list of videos and add the ones I think I'll like to a list called 'my list'. The TV will have access to the same list.