Horizon and three

Recently, I learned that some of the postmasters that were affected by the horizon accountancy software glitch were not falsely prosecuted by the state owned post office because they paid the balance with their own income. Some of them closed themselves down because they were losing too much of their salary. Others refuse to pay the discrepancy and we're charged with fraud. It is sad to think about it. Try to think about food instead. 

All wheat based cereals have a very slight natural sweet taste and milk also has a sweet taste. I don't need to add sugar to it. Why sugar coat it, keep it simple. Keep life simple is the theme here. I try to divide everything up into 3 equal parts so they are smaller tasks. 

The Alan-moment is 20 minutes, one third of an hour. I try to get all my food preparation or cooking done in that space of time. Then the remaining 40 minutes I use to eat the food. 

The Alan-week is 10 days, one third of a month (roughly). The last week is sometimes 10 days and sometimes 11 or 8. 

I try not to think too much because there are endless ways for life to go wrong and thinking about them cause stress. 

First Third of January

One third of January passed by just like that. One minute we were celebrating , the next we are a third the way through the month. My resolutions for the year are very simple. One of them is to eat the same food but add vegetables to it. The fragments of vegetables would come between the wall of my intestines and sugars in my food and cause the absorbtion to slow down. I would have fibre in my diet and a way to slow down digestion so it is spread out evenly. 

I was just thinking that next year we will be one quarter the way through the century. I remember the millennium parties we had 24 years ago. 

Everybody seemed to have a millennium project going on. Even a church near where I live. 

They made a millennium Tapestry 😂

I remember everybody that sold lottery tickets could sell you tickets to the millennium dome because the tickets were sold through the machine. Smart phones hadn't quite caught on yet. 

Brain Cut and ZX Spectrum

One thing that is cool is to play a video of a compilation  of games of an old system from the past. I was looking at the ZX Spectrum yesterday, it was a popular micro computer in Britain during the 80s. The game data was loaded by Audio cable; the system didn't care where the sound was coming from but it was usually a cassette tape. I could load the game from a record player if the data was encoded on one. 

This is the video I saw zx spectrum compilation. I liked the golden axe port, it sort of looks like the original game. 

Later I watched a video about what happens to people when their left brain and right Brian are deliberately severed to stop seizures taking over their life. Their consciousness becomes fragmented in strange ways. 

Brain Cut in half video

First Bit of January

It is the first week of January and the winter appears to be returning to normal, the temperature is dropping down close to 0°c and there is a cold chill in the air. We recently had a new thermostat installed in our home. The Goldilocks temperature for us is 22°c, we consider 22 °c to be a comfortable temperature. All parts of our heating system conspire to keep the temperature at 22°C. A boiler gets a signal from the thermostat when it drops below 22, then it burns gas and heats up water and a pump pushes the hot water around our home until the thermostat reaches 22°c, then it stops and waits. 

I was thinking machines are driven by purpose, they don't possess malice or cunning, they're not sly or evil like people. 

Then I was thinking about the ZX81 and the ZX spectrum, the cheap micro computers that were popular in Britain during the '80s. They used cassette tapes that played tones to encode data through  an audio socket. I was thinking that those computers didn't care where the sound was coming from, I could have a sound file of the game codes on my smart phone and play it to the computer through the audio jack and it would work the same. It is even possible for a radio station to play the sound of the game codes and it would still load the software if it was connected to the radio with and audio cable. 

The older ZX81 computer was very simple, very small memory, black and white screen with no sound and people tried to push the limits of the hardware to see how far they can go. Someone managed to make a first person dungeon game on there called monster maze, wow. This is a video I watched on YouTube:  Video about ZX81 games. 

Good Poop

One of my new year resolutions was to add more vegetables to my starchy grain based food. I'm not sure if my reason is correct but this is what I think. 

When you eat bread, rice or pasta, the food turns into a liquid while it is in your stomach, then when it reaches your intestines, the gluten sugars quickly pass through the walls of your gut and into your blood. Then your pancreas releases large amounts of insulin to make your fat cells absorb the sugars. Then within two hours, everything is finished and you feel tired because the nutrients surged into your blood in a short space of time and suddenly there is nothing. 

I imagined that fragments of vegetables in the food would come between the starch and walls of your guts and get in the way of absorbtion so instead of taking 2 hours, it takes 5 hours for the gluten sugars to pass through. 

You still absorb all the glutens but it is spread out over a longer time and your muscles can use it straight away. The vegetables act like fibre and remain solid all the way through so it makes the stool less sticky. You absorb nutrients from the vegetables as well but most of it passes all the way through. Sometimes I eat enough vegetables to make my poop turn green. I will have less sticky slobs for poop and more fibrous firm stools. Perhaps all my poop will be green one day. 

This is the way I think at the moment. I'm not 100% sure it is the truth. 

Eight Eight Eight

On January the 1st, there was a powerful Earthquake in Japan. I was told it was 7.5 or 7.6 on the richter scale. Super earthquakes like that seem to happen more and more frequently; less than a year ago there was a similar earthquake in turkey, 11 months go in February last year. When you get a Richter 8 earthquake, it is like the number 8 ball in pool, game over. Everything gets smashed up when earthquakes are that powerful. 

The number eight reminds me of the zx 81 and zx spectrum computers. I think they used the Z80 8 bit processors just like the Commodore. These days my phone has an 8 core processor, each core is about 2 & half gigga hertz; my phones processor performs 20 billion instructions per second, a pocket super computer by my standards. 

New Year Resolution

My new year resolution is straightforward. Just four little things. 

Play More computer Games because life is very short. 

Pray more because God brings love, joy and peace. 

Watch more television because I overthink and get stressed.

Add Vegetables to my food. Most of the food I eat is starchy food like bread, rice and Pasta. Those foods turn into a ball of liquid while they're still in the stomach, then when they get into my intestines the gluten sugars pass through quickly so my pancreas has to make a lot of insulin. 

If vegetables are mixed with the starchy food, they can't pass sugars into my blood quickly because the vegetables get in the way and they act as fibre, especially sweetcorn. If I eat 400grams of pasta with vegetables, the pasta is spread out.