Bob Ross

I'm not saying Jesus was like Bob Ross, but if he was I wouldn't be surprised. I recently noticed that Bob Ross is on Netflix now and I was a nineties kid so I am very familiar with his shows.

Bob Ross is very peaceful and very calm and gentle. I considered him to be the smoothest man in the world. An angry Puma could storm into his studio and he could calm it down just by talking to it and he makes painting postcard quality wildernesses look easy. Even wild animals could come to rest on the guys arm.

Anyway, I always imagined Jesus to be like Bob Ross in many ways. They would shout Lazarus is dead to Jesus and he would say "I'm just going to tell him to stop being dead, don't worry" then the guy got up. Jesus slept half way through a storm and told the storm to stop and it stopped, cool and smooth. Jesus hated violence and wars, that is why Judas betrayed him, because Judas wanted someone to fight the Roman occupiers and Jesus wasn't like that.

Jesus was the most blameless and kind and gentle man to ever live on Earth. He would have rejected all the wars on Earth, even the wars that were declared in his name. I see some of those qualities in Bob Ross.

I hope that Jesus is not angry with me for imagining that he would be a bit like Bob Ross in some ways. Or I should say Bob Ross was like Jesus in some ways. My mind is like that.

Man and Nature

One thing I noticed throughout my existence is that nature gives mankind free gifts and mankind doesn't take them gracefully. He just takes the ones he can exploit quickly for money.

I can imagine a conversation mankind would have with nature if they are just two people in a room.

Nature: "Hi Mankind".
Mankind: "Hi Nature".
Nature: "I would like you to have cold air"
Mankind: "What would I do with cold air?"
Nature: "you can pump it into your freezer to lower the running cost every winter".
Mankind: "If I did that, How would I exploit my own kind's needs for energy fully?
Nature: "You can still exploit them because they will save money and spend it on other things"
Mankind: "no"
Nature: "Ok, what about sunlight? it is full of energy"
Mankind: "This black sticky fluid is full of energy and I can control the supplies of it to maximize my profit"
Nature: "But the energy in the black sticky fluid came from sunlight anyway, why don't you go directly to the source?"
Mankind: "No, shut up bitch".
Nature:"what about wave energy, you can control the supply of that, You could have a monopoly of the coastal free energy"
Mankind: "I give you free plastic to play with in the coast"
Nature: "It is my fault, I allowed you live and I reduced you numbers in the past so your brothers and sisters had to get jiggy to restore your population, now you are stupid inbred fools".
Mankind: "why did you shake my city apart?"
Nature: " I told you not to build there because there is a fault line, you don't listen"
Nature: "You never listen and you destroy yourselves".

Dorian awakening

Recently the most powerful hurricane to reach the land since records began did serious damage in the Caribbean and American east coast. We had record high temperatures in Europe also. I put it down to global warming from the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

I see Venus in the sky about twice a year, my island home is cloudy and built up. But it is a reminder of what gasses can do to heat, you see Venus is hotter than Mercury but Mercury is closer to the sun. The reason Venus is hotter than Mercury is because Mercury has no atmosphere and Venus has a dense carbon dioxide one. So the dense atmosphere of Venus traps more heat than Mercury even though it receives less heat from the sun.

Anyway, I have a crude observation of my own. Here in the UK on October the 27th, the Day and night are equal in length so the hour on the clock goes forward. If the morning frost comes before the daylight saving day then I think to myself that we are ok and that we have burnt through most of the fossil fuels so the Earth will be ok in the long run. In late autumn here in the UK, we are supposed to start getting frost at
about 3am. If at least one day I see some frost on the bushes and grass in the morning then I will think to myself that we will be ok. It is crude and silly observation but that is what I do.

The Belt

If I was in charge of the transport system of a metropolitan area I would have a three tiered system, one that is free of cost to use and one that is cheap and one that is slightly costly.

The free of cost system would be a system of conveyor belts. This is how it would work.

There would be three belts, the first belt is slow moving, at walking pace. The second belt moves twice as fast and is directly next to it. The third belt is moving a jogging pace but only slightly faster than the middle belt. Commuters would step from belt to belt until they are in the third belt. The third belt has seats on it. It is not as fast as a train but it never stops moving and it is free to use and it would move the distance of a city in one hour. The belts are not rubber, they are solid moving platforms. They are large corrugated panels that are joined together and propelled by rollers below.

The cheap tier of the transport system would be very thin trains that are just wide enough for people to sit in single file sitting at 90 degrees to the trains direction, facing the doors. They are faster than the belt system but are not free. You would need to pay to use it but a small train would take you quicky to the station you want and it would take you to different lines so you wouldn't do much walking.

The final tier of the transport system would be the same as the second tier but you would be able to commute to other parts of the country.

The Chamon

Inside my head there is a thing called a Chamon. A Chamon is a games console. When Michel Jackson sang the word "come on", he funked the word up so it sounded like "cha mon, Yee hee". That is why I call the console Chamon, because you can give silly names to things but not people because that wouldn't be fair. So I called the thing Chamon which means come-on in funky english.

Anyway. This games console is the coolest toy because it is so versatile. It is a Bluetooth controller and it has a base unit that connects to the TV. It also has an app that lets you use the phone as a games screen mirror. And it has a tiny projector embedded inside it that projects on a clear plastic screen to create the effect of a hologram. The base unit has controller outputs for every console so the controller can be used on other consoles such as the Xbox. The projector has a tiny mirror inside it that sends the beam the other way when the device is placed flat on a table so it projects a screen on the table and lets you play interactive table top games like chess and solitaire.

It is bright yellow and it fits into a person's hand and all the buttons are bright red. This blog entry does not do it justice but it is likely to stay inside my head anyway.

Say it how it is

Well...

As you know, the five years precending the 2020s was bad for British Leadership. There was no cooperation between parties and no outstanding parties that had full control of parliament. Cooperation between parties was essential in the last 3 years.

To cut a long story short..

Mr Tight Fist asked the British people to choose if we stay in the EU. He gave us the impression that he had a plan in place for both outcomes. Plan b was simple, run from the helm. So Dancing Queen took over. She tried to play poker with our well being to get a good deal but Sing Poo the 1st showed everyone her cards, hmm that is crazy! She was forced to compromise and get a less appealing deal but Sing poo I & co blocked that deal, so Zippy linesman took over, he was more of a chess player and moved break period of parliament to September.

Now Sing poo claims that moving a break to September is a coup because they can't pass a law when they are on break.

Oh Sing Poo... You didn't want to cooperate in the years before, fine but at least say it how it is. I mean there was an attempted coup in Turkey back in July 2016 and military hardware was involved and illegal force. It was stopped. But you get the idea.

Moving a break period is not a snatch and grab on democracy. It is not a coup. It is a legal change of plans.

I agree with sing poos policy on the railways because they should be nationalised. Our railways are in a terrible state.  Not saying he would be a bad leader at all.

:-)

What August 2019 means to me

It is September now, the month when Summer meets Autumn. The fuzzy line between summer and Autumn finishes on the 20th. The last week of September is certainly Autumn.

This is Jacob's first August. He is one third of a year old at 4 months. He was born in the middle of Spring, in the middle of the Day, in the middle of Buckinghamshire. 10 minutes before former president of Peru Alan Garcia shot himself.

What a difference one third of a year makes to a baby. He has gone from a helpless little newborn filled with confusion to a determined infant that is starting to imitate words and sit up on his own. He grows by more than 150 grams per week and is close to 7 kilos now. He has nearly doubled in weight since he was born.  I am sure he will be close to ten kilos by the time he is six months old at the end of Autumn.

Throughout the world in August there was a lot of civil unrest. Protests in Hong Kong and London for different reasons. The Amazon rainforest was on fire and released millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Here in the UK there was a few heat waves and record temperatures, not sure it reached 40 degrees c, but it felt like it to me.

August was also the month when my mother in law returned to Peru. She helped us a lot and gave us some valuable parenting skills. We hope that my Peruvian family can visit again in the near future.