SCC

Today, I have been mainly a journalist for Eureka Online Innovations Magazine…shh. As such, I gained exclusive access to MOD Thorney Island to witness a trial of the SSC [steam car challenge] aiming to set the land speed record for a steam powered CAR!!
The driver was Sir Malcolm Campbell's grandson - Donald Wales. He really WASN'T [or wasn’t] going to reveal what medical procedure he’d had recently. I interjected with rather journalistic [getting right into character I thought] tenacity when, in reply to requests from the Daily Mail man for him to smile more for the camera, he declared that he was dosed on pain killers. Not even the T/PR girl knew - but luckily the relatively green project manager forgot to pack the spare
thermocouples [bi-metallic temperature sensors]. As a consequence I awoke from my nap to miss the briefing [typical] informing the journalists that they had a wasted trip from London.
I, however, had not. I had to go into Emsworth anyway to deliver some books. I have also firmed up a vision for the future of [not steam turbines so much as] EXTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES. Steam engines run on renewable fuel and burn it in the way that nature intended - at atmospheric pressure. [cars produce noxious gasses due to pressurised combustion] BUT steam engines are heavy [fuel and water] and inefficient. Use them statically and you have a different story. Motion in reciprocating engines [steam, petrol and diesel] is all about releasing gas pressure. In external combustion, the FUEL ITSELF is not pressurised . Store gas pressure - in a cylinder - air compressor ... Drive a car vastly lighter less expensive / complex / dangerous [no explosive fuel or explosions].. Bish basche bosche and that’s it and all about d'it. Compress the air using whatever you want - steam engine, solar electric, you name it. Currently of course - air is free ! Even pressurised air at filling stations. Hello. Air cars are coming soon from a formula 1 engineer. Search youtube for air car. http://www.mdi.lu/english/ I told the P.R. girl - she handed me the sandwich which I'd asked her to make.
The project manager admitted to me that developing a turbine powered car had little potential to knock-on to the street. It may raise awareness and improve funding projects that might, however.
Had some fun with the army - there was a sergeant-major type who had obviously been assigned to keep us inline. He latched on to me as a
trouble-maker in no time. Perhaps I stood out as I was actually taking an interest. I said, quite simply, that he was mistaken [when he said he thought that I may have got some MOD building in a photographic shot of the car]. He had not approached Sky or BBC who were shooting directly at the building. I teased him later telling him to stand easy and that he was almost my bitch as my taxes paid his wages.
I enjoyed working with the s.c.c. team - fixing the catering tent after it blew over an urn of steaming water onto the pregnant [thank god I was right - and she wasn't just fat] PR girl - not a good day for the steam team from Lymington.

Thanks Winston

Woman in the book shop tells me the BNP are using Winston Churchill as a figurehead.. "well in those days it was England for the English." she said "so you are saying that it WAS ok then.. " I said.. she wasn't sure. "People said he was a warmonger" she said - people say I am - "but they choose not to see the provocation" [Hitler] Clem Attlee opened England up to the commonwealth apparently - quietly, without much fuss, legislation went through. What a great "Thank you" to Winston voting him in was!

Some girls do

some girls don't.. treat men like meat. If you don't come up to scratch u r scum.
If you do.. you win the chance to forego all intellect and self determination and serve a magazine-driven bimbo.

Trade wins ?

It is sexy to be arty - wacky - the Stones got laid - the suits didn't like it - they bought the Stones. The artist on the corner - same - the suited traders bought him for Athena..The kings road free spirit - total clothing rights charity shops gone mad - go down there now - elitist.. Anything that is desirable then gets a price and the traders move in. That includes football, sex, surfing, food.. rural English villages - they are full of suits in Porsches now .. What do we do ? legislate ?.. Traders also seem to have a radar against those who really ARE creative - its like they mimic the species that is competing withem and snuff out their behaviour replacing it with their own. Without creativity we are sunk. What do we trade as humans ? Products. If the human stock becomes only traders - what will they trade?

Happyness is my Busyness

War games

A chap for whom I have much respect and with whom I enjoy almost total alignment in terms of points-of-view said - if there was a war ..[all boys brought up in pampered cossetted female dominated environs.playing computer games - no exercise etc] I agreed BUT actually, soon wars will be fought remotely and controlled just as in virtuual simulated war games!! It will be hardware v. hardware just as it always has been without the flesh . So exercise for troop stock is not even an issue . male instincts are redundant but you still like a fit body in the sack no? help!!

Are the genders merging or is one going to preside over t'other? Have we invented our way out of gender specifix..

carcoons

carcousses

its a DEFENSIVE thing - I have just realised. Attack being the best form of defence.

If we could adjust the psyche of the WASP [white anglo saxon plonker ] just a fraction back from neanderthal and hyenesque then car wars would be over.

It all ties in with what I was saying about the inherant minding of others' business. Its a flaw I think that drives [!] out other perfectly good citizens - to France or the moors or Sherwood forest. The instinct is valid - see blog - ...But when it becomes disproportionate and missplaced it is - in my oh so humble opinion - a DISease.

People feel UNeasy - they compensate by carcooning themseles and taking the argument TO the enemy [anyone] who canot reply or defend.. and the arms race starts as any war escalates.. As the Eirish problem - how 2 initiate disarmamment - and in a slump there is more anxt more called 2 arms..

vote winning [lazy Sunny day afternoon blog]

Expecting the average Joe to decide the economic policies of the country is like asking the patient what medicine ...ooh the sugarry one.
Those with fiscal savvy should have more votes.
That's IT and all about it.
In the old days those who owned more assets had more votes. Broadly those with more assets did in fact hae more fiscal savvy. They also had ested inteests - in order to develop their wealth.. Conflicts of interests.
Maybe an exam in economics .. higher grade - more weight of vote

4 steps counter the blues

1. Daily brain food. Fish oil - ecospentanoic acid [I will test you on this]. Capsules badged as omega 3 etc. are inflatd due to perceived value [current publicity]. Buy Cod-liver oil. It contains food for neurotransmitters. It is like changing the oil and spark plugs in the car when it is missfiring.

2. Exercise

3. Sleep

4. Do-able goals. Set yourself only goals that you can achieve. That way you always succeed. Its your life - take control. Don't let others. Mute all adverts.


listen 2 the blues

sage i c

i see the future said sage.
banks will be learnt about only in history as will printed newspapers... online virgin banks and Branson space taste 4 all. Investments will be with knowledge and 4 [ad]venture ..robotics we will invest in things we want to back - like a friend comes to you with an idea to develop a local business - this will produce work nd products locally and income for its shareholders. You judge him and his plan and decide whether it is something you want to make happe!! You do not just trawl through yellow pages for a fund manager in EC1 with a ridiculosly over-powered audi and no scruples or vision.
wingsail freight and cruises - fuel cell electric vehicles with customised "awareness" noise like ringtones as they are dangerously quiet..- external combustion engines [steam cars]
4 day week - robots do the rest - as we rest and enjoy

it will come to pass trust me

as long as we work together as a team
and that means you do everything i say to quote Charlie croker in that film based in and celebrating a time when Britain's cheeky grit, creativity, flare and .. organisation triumphed

let's make it happen

morning rant

Wen2 B& Q last night was singing along to the in-shp music.. rapidly challenged by 3 sep hombres. Subtly invading space and hovering around my rear quarters - like a horse that spooks me and i ten 2 rear up and stamp..O.K the idea is that I am paranoid .. But I am learning to trust my gut instinct. What if they wanted to exercise a primitive thwarting without detection?. I concluded it by clarifying any ambiguity by muttering Clint-like into the M10 bolts " if you wanna fight - just say so.." None of them looked the type to know what grade of tensile steel the bolts were much less ..any "muscle" . I think I'll be ok. It helps to lay down the boundaries.
I woke this morning with this: Is it characteristic of British male to suppress other males and not to try to raise their game in order to compete? Or is it a Neanderthal descent thing in all cultures? Either way I see it as a definite area to work on - awareness [See fight club] if we are to survive as a gender and not play into their hands!! By the way the full moon lurks.

Blackbird sings

The black bird is hassled and stressed in the rookery.
He must find his own kind.
Don't let all that crowing make you feel inadequate. Find your own song. It is better.
Black-eyed boy, you will find your own space and time..

CONverse

I notice more and more that the emphasis is for people not to show ANY hesitation, any whim change … certainty self-assurance at all times ..

but what’s at the root of all this apparent certainty? I muse …
–genuine self assurance?
Is it perhaps a wall to stop anyone shining the slightest criticism at them; the search lights from the nazi fortress shine brightly OUTWARDS, never in on themselves…

The word "con" comes from confidence - i.e a con man uses the natural human assuption that if something looks like a rabbit, sounds like a rabbit etc...in all probability, it is in fact a rabbit and likewise someone whom appears confidently to be what they profess to be...

you look act eat, make love like a woman but you break like a little girl..To paraphrase Bob Dylan. and I’m talking about builders!!

There seems to be a climate of intolerance - I think they blame on Thatcher..

People almost accept that is ok to take pleasure from criticising or ticking someone off.
If you break the assumptions i.e. actually talk to people in check-out queues.. you are not lynched many people will be suprised to hear.

My favourite assuption breaker is "I am sorry, am I inconveniencing you?" Say it how it is. Cos that sure as hell is the impression that they are giving. But will they back it up.?..

"no no I was just wondering how long you were going to be"
"I see, so apart from your musings, did you have anything constuctive you wanted to say? We are trying to have a conversation here"

It is interesting how in the absence of dialogue the negative mindset rises... just speak !! You'll be amased ..

I was known as "Bill" for years as I muttered "Phil" when asked my name in the pub by my employer.. So you see I am the shyest .mo' fu' ever, but I do it.

I'm talking especially to you Londoners. Assert your rites .. Converse!!