Alabama Dock Fight

There was recently a large brawl on a dock in a river in the city of Montgomery in the American state of Alabama. 

The co captain of a large river boat approached a smaller boat that was parked in the wrong docking point and was stopping the bigger boat from docking. The people on the smaller boat were very rude and aggressive, I got the impression they were a bit drunk with alcohol or they have a bully nature about them, like they were expecting to get their own way. After trying to reason with the smaller boat crew, one of them ran out and punched the boat captain in the face. The villain was a white man with flipflops on and the victim was a middle aged black man simply doing his job. 

I put myself in the shoes of the co captain of the large river boat. He had tried to reason with them and explain that the docking point was reserved for the large boat, he was telling them that the large boat can't dock until they move elsewhere. They responded by telling him to f*CK off and punch him in the face. He threw his cap to stay in fighting form and keep his head cool, he also crouched slightly to give himself a better center of gravity and balance. The Co Captain had clarity of thought. The pissed angry small boat crew weren't thinking clearly at all, they docked in the wrong docking point and we're wearing flip flops to a fist fight, they were a bit daft. They should edit the video so daft sound affects play, like "doiinggg", "fluuub" "buuuff" . 

I was pleased when strangers ran out to defend the co captain of the large boat because the whole crew of the smaller boat were rude bullies and they probably got away with their unfair behaviour before. I think one guy even jumped into the river to swim to the rescue. The boat bullies got nailed by random people that didn't put up with their behaviour. 

While this incident went viral around the world, I noticed a small plastic wall garden at my local shopping centre. I took a picture of it because I was impressed. Now I have a clear interest in wall gardens; vertical gardens that grow on a wall. 

The two thoughts are merged together in my head, wall gardens and the Alabama Dock Fight. 

Half of August

Half of August has gone by, I am like a mist in the air that slowly condenses into drizzle and fades away. I would fade away into un unthinking careless waste one day and all my thoughts would fade away with me.

I was wondering why the prophet Moses instructed his people to kill their animals as an offering to atone their sin. It doesn't make sense to me. I don't ask rhetorical questions, I really want to know. I speculated some theories of my own. Perhaps they are punishing themselves by damaging their assets, the reason I thought this was because the animal has to be without defect and burned up so nothing can be salvaged from the animal's body. This is just a speculation, it's not the truth. I don't know what the truth is. 

One day all my thoughts will be gone unless I am restored again in the future by God. 

More Wild Fires

Recently during this week there were wild fires on the Hawaiian Islands. I don't believe that all of the wild fires in the world today started from lightning striking dry bush. I think some of them were started by human activity. I thought it might be an idea to put CCTV cameras in drones that fly over forests to catch arsenists or people being careless with fire. If half of the world fires were started by people, I wouldn't be surprised. 

It was during the wild fires in Hawaii that I realized that chat GPT AI can play chess, the timing of the two events were in parallel. Chat GPT can tell you where to move it's playing pieces using the board grid reference and you tell it where you put your pieces as well. This means I can play physical chess board games on my own. I wonder if it can play black jack as well. 

Most Distant Star

I have 4 blogs at the moment but my favourite blogs are the NASA ones and Evercade. With the chrome browser you can add a page link to your phones desktop. 

You press the three dots in the top corner of the page 

Then you click on the add to home screen menu item. 

 I have a little folder on my phone's desktop with links to all my favourite blogs presented with icons asif they were apps. 

My Favourite blogs

Evercade

NASA James Webb

NASA Artemis

I like my blog but my 3  favourite blogs are space and games blogs curated by big companies. They're very interesting to read. 

Recently I learned that then most distant star ever detected is Earendel, I'm not sure how to pronounce the name though. Is it "Ear end el"  or "air end all" or "E ren del"  I will find out later. The funny thing is the star has probably exploded already because the light we see from the star is billions of years old. They only see one pixel of the star's light so there is a chance it is actually two stars according to NASA. The star produced a lot more heat than our sun either way. I think it is only visible from that distance because it is large and bright, I'm sure there are lots of smaller stars near it. It's very hard to imagine how many stars there are in the universe. 

This is the article I saw about Earendel. 

Earendel

Bibby Stockholm

Recently the British government has put together a large residence for asylum seekers to live in. It is a high concentration of living quarters built on a floating barge called 'Bibby Stockholm'. If you were a real refugee then you wouldn't care about living on a crowded barge for a year because it would be better than being killed by a tyrant. If I was a dissident fleeing death from a tyrant, I would be grateful they're giving me a place to stay, even if it is on a crowded barge. 

I my view the government are being responsible because they have been forced to accommodate the asylum seekers in hotels and were over spending public money. If they buy private land and build on land, they would be spending £ billions. I am proud of the government for trying to be responsible with public spending and have tried to find a solution that is good for everyone. The barge is on water so they didn't need to buy any land to build the apartments. 

They're not hateful or calus, they're just responsible. 

USA Open Air Dungeon

I thought I'd draw a sketch that describes the image I get of the United States of America in the present  day. I have the image of a dark open air dungeon full of chaos and disorder. I don't like this image but that is the image I'm given by social media and the news. 

I drew some smooth curves and arches because the USA is a mix a order and disorder together as one, good things are happening  there but mostly it is angry mobs outbursting violently and stressed out people trying to keep themselves together. There is a drug emergency, with whole communities of people completely stoned out of their head and frozen into a stupefied mess. 

I hope they can pull through and have a peaceful happy  existence. 

VR Golf

I was wondering what '90s Alan would think about me playing golf in virtual reality. Back in those days everything was different, the internet was very slow, AI was science fiction and Pluto was considered a planet.

During my wife's birthday earlier in the week, I briefly tried out the more formal golf game on my brother's oculus quest virtual reality headset, it's called 'golf +'. I played the adventure putting golf game called 'walkabout adventure golf' several times before but not formal normal golf. 

In this game there are actually 3 games in one. A formal full sized golf game, top golf which is like an adventure driving golf game and pro Putt which is an adventure mini golf putting game. It has many similar features to walkabout mini golf. You can go into giant mode and look down from above, you can teleport to where the ball is without walking and you can play alongside other people you know through the internet. 

I love playing golf in virtual reality. It is fun and convenient. I can play for free (after I purchase the game) and when it is a convenient time for me to play: even at 11pm. 

I found a video of someone playing the game on YouTube Guy playing golf plus

When will I get my own Oculus quest headset?