Sunday, January 01, 2012
First day of the new year
Hello 2012,
Oh well, the first first day of the new year, I wonder how many dictators will die this year?
The British Olympics to look forward to and I will be 63.
Oh well, the first first day of the new year, I wonder how many dictators will die this year?
The British Olympics to look forward to and I will be 63.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
> When I watch TV I always abide by a very simple rule - I always mute any
> advertisement. I find it enormously insulting that I'm subject to them.
> And US TV is incredibly bad. I'd estimate that up to one half of every
> show is actually advertisements even on 'news' programs, and even the
> 'news' often is just reports on new products, TV shows etc. which are
> disguised advertisements.
>
> It is truly continual attempted mind control...
>
> Edgar
Me too Edgar, I always think the people behind this phenomena break the
'golden rule' 'Do as you would be done by'. The constant repetition is
horrendous, especially with insurance ads. They do not consider the general
public 'one of us', so it is okay to insult our intelligence and moral to try
to brainwash us.
Human culture near world wide, has a big problem, where economics is only seen in terms of money and not about 'resource management'.
Another thing I find infuriating, is hordes of people shoving crap through my
letter box, not addressed to me. I find the waste upsetting in terms of caring about the only planet we have to live on.
The inane drivel talked on the media about jobs and unemployment. The answer is exceedingly simple, define 'work' then share it out. If this was carried out in an efficient manner, I doubt very much whether the entire working population would work more than two days a week.
My definition of 'work' is, the expenditure of energy, to the benefit of
others, that cannot be achieved by machinery and automation.
My definition of the economy is, design it, build it (or grow it) then deliver
it. The rest is information, is it in the right place and is it of the correct
quality? This is achievable via computers and the internet.
In England where the industrial revolution began, the area of an 'acre' was
defined, how big is an acre? Again simple, an acre is about the area of land,
one man with a horse and plough, can work in a day. After the 1st world war
and tractors came on the scene, one man and a tractor could plough around 30 acres a day, so 29 men are out of work, the same principle happened in many different areas of the economy.
Our addiction to the 40 hour week, makes no sense in terms of modern
technology.
The principle by which our economies seem to work, is to get as few people as possible, to do as much work as possible for as little money as possible, not strictly slavery but certainly heading in that direction.
Regards
Peter.
> advertisement. I find it enormously insulting that I'm subject to them.
> And US TV is incredibly bad. I'd estimate that up to one half of every
> show is actually advertisements even on 'news' programs, and even the
> 'news' often is just reports on new products, TV shows etc. which are
> disguised advertisements.
>
> It is truly continual attempted mind control...
>
> Edgar
Me too Edgar, I always think the people behind this phenomena break the
'golden rule' 'Do as you would be done by'. The constant repetition is
horrendous, especially with insurance ads. They do not consider the general
public 'one of us', so it is okay to insult our intelligence and moral to try
to brainwash us.
Human culture near world wide, has a big problem, where economics is only seen in terms of money and not about 'resource management'.
Another thing I find infuriating, is hordes of people shoving crap through my
letter box, not addressed to me. I find the waste upsetting in terms of caring about the only planet we have to live on.
The inane drivel talked on the media about jobs and unemployment. The answer is exceedingly simple, define 'work' then share it out. If this was carried out in an efficient manner, I doubt very much whether the entire working population would work more than two days a week.
My definition of 'work' is, the expenditure of energy, to the benefit of
others, that cannot be achieved by machinery and automation.
My definition of the economy is, design it, build it (or grow it) then deliver
it. The rest is information, is it in the right place and is it of the correct
quality? This is achievable via computers and the internet.
In England where the industrial revolution began, the area of an 'acre' was
defined, how big is an acre? Again simple, an acre is about the area of land,
one man with a horse and plough, can work in a day. After the 1st world war
and tractors came on the scene, one man and a tractor could plough around 30 acres a day, so 29 men are out of work, the same principle happened in many different areas of the economy.
Our addiction to the 40 hour week, makes no sense in terms of modern
technology.
The principle by which our economies seem to work, is to get as few people as possible, to do as much work as possible for as little money as possible, not strictly slavery but certainly heading in that direction.
Regards
Peter.
Monday, November 07, 2011
Then this
Further musings about what I may have glimpsed nearly 20 years ago. How come the standard model with its great amount of evidence for the four fundamental forces, gives no account for the phenomena that has evolved the ability to hypothesis four fundamental forces in nature?
So I s'pose what I'm trying to suggest is, that life itself is the fifth
fundamental force in the universe.
The fact that life itself has created the 21% oxygen ratio in the atmosphere,
is the kind of thing I'm driving at.
A science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon wrote a mindboggling book that I read many many years ago that sort of started me off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men
Another thinker that crosses the border between science and religion is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin
Regards,
Peter.
So I s'pose what I'm trying to suggest is, that life itself is the fifth
fundamental force in the universe.
The fact that life itself has created the 21% oxygen ratio in the atmosphere,
is the kind of thing I'm driving at.
A science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon wrote a mindboggling book that I read many many years ago that sort of started me off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men
Another thinker that crosses the border between science and religion is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin
Regards,
Peter.
A confession
I am a writer, I don't just write here, I write in other places on the internet, to name just a few, evolutionary psychology, slashdot, reddit and English Chess forum.
From now on, anything I write on the internet, I will copy to here.
Anyway here is a couple of emails I wrote to EP.
[evol-psych] A fifth force
From: Peter
To: "Evolutionary-Psychology"
It came up on this list the other week the idea of a fifth force.
This has got me thinking, the standard model has four fundamental forces, weak nuclear, strong nuclear, electromagnetic and gravity, granted they have not found evidence yet, for gravity within the atom, I'm given to understand that the search for the Higgs boson is to find that evidence.
So ok they find evidence for the Higgs, but remain ignorant because there is
in fact a fifth force affecting the nature of reality.
This idea hit me back in 1992, whilst delivering a load of biscuits to
Gloucester in my days as a truck driver.
Around that time I had been knocked over by Gleick's book 'Chaos'.
They were reading the bible on the radio, and they read this bit.
Mathew 13.31
The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and
sowed in his field. Which is less than all seeds; but when it is grown, it is
greater than the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and lodge in the branches thereof
_______________________________________________________________________________
Suddenly the penny dropped, I felt as though I had found the key to our
history. (Blinded by tears I found it hard to see where I was driving.)
I realised the flap of the butterfly's wing and the parable of the mustard
seed
Are both metaphors describing the same dynamic process.
When I learned of Fiegenbaum's constant and how ubiquitous it is in nature and mere dead piles of rock, I glimpsed a whole universe that existed only to the right of the decimal point. For me ever since I started to study biology, the biggest mystery was morphogenesis, I'm given to understand that you could fit all the information necessary with which to create a blue whale on a DVD, how does this miracle of compression occur?
I suspect a clue is in ratios like PI, they say you can discern no pattern in
PI, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Fiegenbaum's constant is the key, the bit that matters is the fractional point
after the 4, the .669 is the magical bit. What if it is possible that because
this constant is inherent in the geometry of our venous architecture, it is also a causal factor in the amazing history of our species.
The fifth force is the fractional part of Fiegenbaum.
For many years, I perceived history to be chaotic, that was 'till I came
across the mathematics of life via the Mandelbrot set.
It is my hypothesis that there is a deep mathematics to evolution based on
irrational fractions, the scary bit is with the realisation that mathematics
has had a hand on the tiller of history.
Regards,
Peter.
http://dollyknot.com/nonlinear/HELLO.html
From now on, anything I write on the internet, I will copy to here.
Anyway here is a couple of emails I wrote to EP.
[evol-psych] A fifth force
From: Peter
To: "Evolutionary-Psychology"
It came up on this list the other week the idea of a fifth force.
This has got me thinking, the standard model has four fundamental forces, weak nuclear, strong nuclear, electromagnetic and gravity, granted they have not found evidence yet, for gravity within the atom, I'm given to understand that the search for the Higgs boson is to find that evidence.
So ok they find evidence for the Higgs, but remain ignorant because there is
in fact a fifth force affecting the nature of reality.
This idea hit me back in 1992, whilst delivering a load of biscuits to
Gloucester in my days as a truck driver.
Around that time I had been knocked over by Gleick's book 'Chaos'.
They were reading the bible on the radio, and they read this bit.
Mathew 13.31
The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and
sowed in his field. Which is less than all seeds; but when it is grown, it is
greater than the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and lodge in the branches thereof
_______________________________________________________________________________
Suddenly the penny dropped, I felt as though I had found the key to our
history. (Blinded by tears I found it hard to see where I was driving.)
I realised the flap of the butterfly's wing and the parable of the mustard
seed
Are both metaphors describing the same dynamic process.
When I learned of Fiegenbaum's constant and how ubiquitous it is in nature and mere dead piles of rock, I glimpsed a whole universe that existed only to the right of the decimal point. For me ever since I started to study biology, the biggest mystery was morphogenesis, I'm given to understand that you could fit all the information necessary with which to create a blue whale on a DVD, how does this miracle of compression occur?
I suspect a clue is in ratios like PI, they say you can discern no pattern in
PI, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Fiegenbaum's constant is the key, the bit that matters is the fractional point
after the 4, the .669 is the magical bit. What if it is possible that because
this constant is inherent in the geometry of our venous architecture, it is also a causal factor in the amazing history of our species.
The fifth force is the fractional part of Fiegenbaum.
For many years, I perceived history to be chaotic, that was 'till I came
across the mathematics of life via the Mandelbrot set.
It is my hypothesis that there is a deep mathematics to evolution based on
irrational fractions, the scary bit is with the realisation that mathematics
has had a hand on the tiller of history.
Regards,
Peter.
http://dollyknot.com/nonlinear/HELLO.html
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Believe it or believe it not, I have a working FrogPad again.
With my FrogPad I can truly touchtype. I'm still not as fast as a two handed touchtyper, but over the years I have got faster.
Problem is I have had many ups and downs with my FrogPads, the reason for this is, altho' the design concept is good, the physical design is not very robust. The first disaster happened with a parrot named Fred who used to live with me, he prised off one of my keys, so I had to send it back to the States to get it repaired, this duly happened.
Then because of my clumsiness I managed to break the USB plug socket, at the back of the pad. The fact that the pad has a separate wire to the keyboard is a design fault. With most non WiFi keyboards, the wire is an integral part of the keyboard. I have had blue tooth, WiFi and Infra-red keyboards and I don't think you can beat the response of a directly wired keyboard.
I have dropped one on the floor which made it stop working, all these problems I have evolved work-rounds to.
For a while replacements were arriving from the States with a manufacturing fault in terms of the connection between the keypad and the electronic board, swapping around boards and keypads got around that one with help from a friend.
Then I discovered to my dismay, a FrogPad has a near total failure rate, with any contact at all with any liquid.
I managed to have one stop working, tried everything I could think of, to remove the very tiny bit of wine that had come in contact with it, to no avail.
Gave up and bought a new one and managed to carry on for ages and ages, then on 16/7/11 I did it again :( spilled the tiniest bit of wine on my FrogPad tried again and again, solvent distilled water you name it, so for around four months, I have been without what I would call a working keyboard.
The subject of this essay is the weird way, one thing leads to another, to sometimes world changing events.
So I gave up with the FrogPad, I can type on a normal keyboard, but with nothing like the fluidity with which I am typing this.
To persevere with one handed touchtyping, I bought an updated version of something that was around in the early eighties called a Microwriter
it works okay, but suffers from an awful keypad and that it has an unnecessary level of complexity, being that it is Infra red, most of all, there is the enormous amount of mental effort it is for me, to remap the finger movements needed to get the characters required, I can do it but find it cumbersome, had I set out off back in 2005, trying to touchtype one handed, with a CyKey I have little doubt I would be using it now despite its horrible rubbery keypad.
The best bit of a story should come at the end of a story, which is, how am able to type to type this on a FrogPad?
I get used to certain implements in my life, and get upset if I have to use a substitute.
I have my favourite teaspoon which I make my tea and eat my soft-boiled egg with, so I made my breakfast this morning as usual, nearing the point where I am to sit down and tuck into its yellow eggy goodness and somehow or other my somewhat errant right arm swung across and knocked my favourite teaspoon flying.
To this moment I have still have not found my errant teaspoon, but in the process of looking for it I found a bag of old FrogPad bits. There was one old bluetooth FrogPad that I had had problems with in the past and it looked in good shape, so I thought why not give it a go, stripped it down, detached the keypad and swapped it with the keypad of my last working FrogPad, viola I'm a writer again.
With my FrogPad I can truly touchtype. I'm still not as fast as a two handed touchtyper, but over the years I have got faster.
Problem is I have had many ups and downs with my FrogPads, the reason for this is, altho' the design concept is good, the physical design is not very robust. The first disaster happened with a parrot named Fred who used to live with me, he prised off one of my keys, so I had to send it back to the States to get it repaired, this duly happened.
Then because of my clumsiness I managed to break the USB plug socket, at the back of the pad. The fact that the pad has a separate wire to the keyboard is a design fault. With most non WiFi keyboards, the wire is an integral part of the keyboard. I have had blue tooth, WiFi and Infra-red keyboards and I don't think you can beat the response of a directly wired keyboard.
I have dropped one on the floor which made it stop working, all these problems I have evolved work-rounds to.
For a while replacements were arriving from the States with a manufacturing fault in terms of the connection between the keypad and the electronic board, swapping around boards and keypads got around that one with help from a friend.
Then I discovered to my dismay, a FrogPad has a near total failure rate, with any contact at all with any liquid.
I managed to have one stop working, tried everything I could think of, to remove the very tiny bit of wine that had come in contact with it, to no avail.
Gave up and bought a new one and managed to carry on for ages and ages, then on 16/7/11 I did it again :( spilled the tiniest bit of wine on my FrogPad tried again and again, solvent distilled water you name it, so for around four months, I have been without what I would call a working keyboard.
The subject of this essay is the weird way, one thing leads to another, to sometimes world changing events.
So I gave up with the FrogPad, I can type on a normal keyboard, but with nothing like the fluidity with which I am typing this.
To persevere with one handed touchtyping, I bought an updated version of something that was around in the early eighties called a Microwriter
it works okay, but suffers from an awful keypad and that it has an unnecessary level of complexity, being that it is Infra red, most of all, there is the enormous amount of mental effort it is for me, to remap the finger movements needed to get the characters required, I can do it but find it cumbersome, had I set out off back in 2005, trying to touchtype one handed, with a CyKey I have little doubt I would be using it now despite its horrible rubbery keypad.
The best bit of a story should come at the end of a story, which is, how am able to type to type this on a FrogPad?
I get used to certain implements in my life, and get upset if I have to use a substitute.
I have my favourite teaspoon which I make my tea and eat my soft-boiled egg with, so I made my breakfast this morning as usual, nearing the point where I am to sit down and tuck into its yellow eggy goodness and somehow or other my somewhat errant right arm swung across and knocked my favourite teaspoon flying.
To this moment I have still have not found my errant teaspoon, but in the process of looking for it I found a bag of old FrogPad bits. There was one old bluetooth FrogPad that I had had problems with in the past and it looked in good shape, so I thought why not give it a go, stripped it down, detached the keypad and swapped it with the keypad of my last working FrogPad, viola I'm a writer again.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Gaddafi
The end of an era
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Email to blog
I've rediscovered the way to email my blog, today is the day after Summer
Solstice, a bit overcast, but not raining. Planning to stay in my caravan the
weekend and try out my satellite dish.
Solstice, a bit overcast, but not raining. Planning to stay in my caravan the
weekend and try out my satellite dish.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Sorry for the hiatus
Bit annoyed at myself for not blogging here more. Been reading some of my back posts and have been reminded of stuff going back five years, I think I stopped because of sad stuff happening. Like losing Fred my parrot. Oh well hope he found a nice new home and didn't get eaten by a cat or something.
I am at that point of the year where I watch the world snooker championships at Sheffield I've been watching it now for 34 years I can clearly remember Watching John Spencer the first year it was televised and marvelling at the way he could control the cue ball. Now I watch for the window into psychology it gives me. The other reason I enjoy it is, I can sort of half watch it and do other things at the same time. Enjoyed watching Ronnie O'Sullivan yesterday vintage!
I am at that point of the year where I watch the world snooker championships at Sheffield I've been watching it now for 34 years I can clearly remember Watching John Spencer the first year it was televised and marvelling at the way he could control the cue ball. Now I watch for the window into psychology it gives me. The other reason I enjoy it is, I can sort of half watch it and do other things at the same time. Enjoyed watching Ronnie O'Sullivan yesterday vintage!
