BBC Censorship

The BBC is a British television and radio corporation that is publicly owned by the state. Everybody has to pay a semi- compulsory fee towards the BBC. In recent months they were forced to police their own journalist's private lives because something as little as a personal tweet can be perceived as the BBC being biased. I don't think they should do that but I understand why. Everybody knows they can veto their TV licence fees if they want to so the BBC is under constant pressure keep viewers happy. 

I saw they did it to Gary Lineker, he used his own twitter account to express his veiws of the government. I didn't agree with his opinion but I would like him to have the freedom to express those views if he wanted. 

A lot of professional footballers become very wealthy when they're still very young so they sort of get separated from the real world in my view. I don't think they're daft, just cut off from the real world. 

An example is the BLM kneeling gesture, the BLM movement want to fire all the police officers working in communities with many Black people. If someone has a psychotic episode and starts swinging a machete on the street, who would they call? Pest control? They would have to take the law into their own hands; when you kneel down, you are making yourself look weaker and that gives the rival team an advantage. Why kneel for BLM? because you're cut off from the real world and don't see things the way they really are. 

Equinox Day

Jacob, my son. 

You're nearly 4 years old now. I love everything you do and always observe what you are doing and saying. It's the equinox now; the day and night are equally 12 hours long. Soon the days will be longer than the nights. There is so much going on in our world that I don't know where to start. I'll save it for a another post. 

Your Grandparents are still alive till this day. They taught me so many things. When I was a young boy, my Dad would buy me magazines about insects to read. He taught me to love reading. They taught me there are two things that bring real joy in the world, Praying and Reading. I'm grateful for my parents because the values they taught me keep me steady and upright. If they weren't in my life, I would have become an alcoholic or junkie. Thanks to them I'm a steady man that values wholesome things. If I don't measure up to your grandparents standards then forgive me, I did my best. 

In this world we find ourselves surrounded by people that don't have much respect. People are like beasts, they serve themselves and consider little of others. You could find yourself surrounded by people that are filled with hate and have nothing nice to say but always hold your head straight and keep your chin up. Find time to read a book and to pray. Cast all your cares to Jesus because he cares for you. Every time to have a grudge against another person, ask Jesus to take it away. The more you pray the better you will feel. 

I read every type of book, I read the Bible, sci-fi fiction, holocaust memoirs, science journals and blogs. 

Last third of March

It was mother's day yesterday and the equinox today. Mother's day is different every year because it is 4 Sundays after lent here in Britain. But the equinox is always on the 20th of march because the day and night are always equal that part of the year. The first sunday after the equinox, the clocks go forward. Every day from this day forward until the start of summer, the days will get longer and longer. 

If the equinox is on a Sunday and mother's day on the 20th then the clocks go forward during mother's day and they only get 23 hours. I do don't know how often that happens, I'm not rain man. It does happen sometimes though. They didn't think it through. They should make mother's day on Saturday. 

It is also the last third of the month. Tomorrow is the start of the third Alan-week. My own unique way of looking at the passing of time. 

Far King good old Days

I spent most of my life in what I call the modern Elizabethan era; Queen Elizabeth never used profane language, I would say the kings throne is far away, they were the far King good old days. A loop hole to let me swear without swearing. 

A very common toy in today's world is the fidget spinner and the fake button mesh thingy. When I was a kid we had the coca cola YoYo and the Coca Cola mini ball. 

When there was a world cup, the coca cola company would pay some of the costs of hosting the cup and in exchange they would have control of the merchandise. They would leave their mark on all the merch related to the world cup. I think they went a step further, they would find a way to get the merch out for cheap and still benefit from the deal. They would produce a mini football that was about 60% the size of the original ball and give it away with multipacks of the drink. I had a little coca cola ball myself. I would go outside and see how many times I could kick up the ball before it would fall on the ground. I also had a coca cola Yoyo, I'd try so many tricks. I managed to do a walk the dog trick with the Yoyo and look at myself in the mirror and think of myself as captain cool. 

The far king good old days. When flipping a YoYo and kicking a mini ball was the thing to do. We would look at the logo and associate coca cola with a happy time and occasionally buy a can. They found a way to make it work for everyone. They increased their sales, got toys to all the kids for nickels and paid some of the cost of hosting the world cup. They made it work. Marketing on another level. 

Little Gem

I went to the charity shop to see if they were still selling a steam punk lion ornament. I saw that they no longer had it. What a shame I thought, it would have been nice and would have kept all my books straight. I always find something I like in a charity shop. Sometimes they have a book I like, other times they have a DVD or Blue ray. The other week I bought some striped socks. There's always something in a charity shop that I like. The other day was no exception. I saw they were selling a second hand alarm clock radio by Sony. It was a beautiful thing and they were selling it for £5. 

I thought to myself why they didn't want it? Perhaps they were given a DAB clock radio as a gift so they no longer needed it. This clock only used FM radio, the sound in FM radio is transmitted directly into the radio wave so when the signal is absorbed by the antenna, it can be passed across a transistor, the current released by the transistor would be greater than the energy from radio pulse, the electrical output would then pass a copy of the signal to another transistor and be amplified a second time, then a third time. Eventually an analogue signal strong enough for a speaker would be generated. I think that is why they're called transistor radios. DAB is different, the whole signal shuts off completely and then back on again and the delay is timed by a micro chip and represents a data character. The data characters describes how to assemble the sound wave mathematically. The whole signal turning off and on in pulses encodes data, a bit like morse code. A micro processor can extract the data, even if most of the signal is damaged because it isn't using the wave itself for data. You need a micro chip that can understand the signal and data commands to get the sound but the sound in DAB is always in a good condition and they can use more radio bands that are useless for FM signals so you get a lot of stations. DAB radios are more like computers, transistor radios don't need micro processors. They're much more simple, just a simple circuit. 

When I looked at my Radio Alarm clock, I saw a beauty in it that most people don't see, a delicate balance between cost and functionality that was established when it was made all those years ago. It had a digital display and memory banks for radio stations so it was using a relatively simple micro chip but it was a simple one that could be made very quickly without too much cost. It had a dial on it to set whether the alarm is the radio or a buzzer or both or none. The fragment digital LCD screen is backlit with orange LEDs so you can see the time, even in the dark. The Radio Alarm and buzzer alarm could be different times, so the radio could turn on, then 15 minutes later the buzzer alarm if you wanted. I could be woken up to BBC radio 4 playing the news and if I'm in a deep sleep, the second alarm would be a buzzer that I set to go off 15 or 20 minutes later. There is also a button on the clock to play the radio on tap. There is a slight curve on every surface of the clock radio and it looks very beautiful to me. 

Always go to a charity shop because you may find something you need or like and you're supporting a charity. 

Half of March

We're half way through march, it snowed last week. Then it rained later in the day. I noticed there are still sodium street lamps where I live. Sodium is an alkali metal. If you pass a large current through Sodium, it turns into plasma. I think they picked that material because it appears the same colour as the sun. 

I remember reading a book called 'Dancing Wu Li Masters' by Gary Zukav, in the book it explains that sodium and hydrogen emit similar orange light when they turn into a plasma but the hydrogen plasma transmits more colours, over 100 of them and the sodium only transmits 2. They mix together to make an orange glow. The answer came from hydrogen not having any shells, the electron shells in atoms make it hard for electrons to move to different areas but hydrogen only has one electron so there are no shells inhibiting light transmission. 

It is nice to see the orange light of Sodium street lamps reflect off wet asphalt. It is like a little gold road. 

Football Day

Jacob, my son. 

You enjoy drawing pictures quite a lot. I wonder if it will be a hobby of yours in the future. Recently the BBC tried to terminate Gary Lineker from his presenting job on match of the day. I saw it as bullying because he used his own personal twitter account to express his opinion. I don't agree with his views but I think he should be free to express them on his own twitter account. 

In my view, many professional football players live in a wealth bubble from their teenage years so they are out of touch with the real world. I don't think they're daft, just out of touch with reality. I imagined Gary Lineker worked as the home secretary in government. 

Advisor: Gary, what will we do with all these illegal immigrants? 

Gary: Let them all come in of course. 

Advisor: But isn't that irresponsible, we have a chronic shortage of emergency social housing throughout the country, we'll be forced to borrow money to keep them in hotels. 

Gary: Don't put a price on people.

Advisor:  But sir, they have crossed a continent and failed asylum in 7 other countries already. 

Gary: The other governments are all racist bigots. 

Advisor:  But sir, we intercepted their text messages and saw they were discussing how the British minimum wage is more than a doctor's salary in their country so they can send the money home and build a huge mansion in less than 10 years. Why would they be building large homes in their country if they're claiming asylum? 

Gary: You're talking like the Natzi party in 1930's Germany. 

Advisor: But that's silly sir, they believed they were the Arian Race and blamed all their problems on Jews and Gypsies and tried to get them all killed. 

Gary: My comfy lifestyle from a young age had no effect on my ability to see the real world the way it is.

Advisor:  😆😂😂😅😅😆😄

Gary: Your Fired!!