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THINGS EVERY PERSON SHOULD HAVE

 

I read this earlier; http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2012/03/things-every-person-should-have.html

I like it, I like the comments also and they all pretty much cover everything a person should have. Check ‘em out below.

Things every person should have:

• A nemesis.

• An evil twin.

• A secret headquarters.

• An escape hatch.

• A partner in crime.

• A secret identity.

What else?

I’d add a talking animal sidekick, possibly a dog or a monkey.

An extraterrestrial, or ultra-terrestrial, friend.

A mentor, Mr Miyagi or Morpheus type.

A lightsaber.

A jetpack. 

A device capable of teleportation.

A time machine, Tardis or DeLorean.

An awesome, killer line, like Arnie’s ‘I’ll be back!’

A secret, a sinister government, or terrorist, organisation would kill for, I’m thinking S.H.I.E.L.D. or Hydra when I think of a government, or terrorist, organisation.

An amazingly hot partner, who will never have sex with you.

Their own detective agency, preferably Holistic.

The brain of an evil dictator kept alive in a jar.

A car that transforms into a big robot.

The location of a mysterious, isolated island, like the one in LOST, which leads into…

… a button to press to prevent the end of the World.

A really good superhero costume.

A chainsaw for a hand, and a boomstick for protection.

Really good taste in movies.

A fear of bad girls, or boys, depending on sexual preference.

Martial Arts skills as good as Bruce Lee, when he was alive and kicking, obviously.

The above are just a few of my own ideas about what every person should have, I’m sure lots of people have ideas, some of them better, of their own. But I’d be happy with all of the above, or just one, particularly the talking animal as a sidekick.

 

INCOMPREHENSIBLE STREAM OF THOUGHT

That’s what my blog posts and other forms of writing really are. Today, just for an example, I was writing my comic book, hopefully it will be illustrated and posted online sometime before the end of the year, at the moment I’m aiming for November, but it could be later, it would be earlier than that but the comic book I was working on turned out to have a character similar in name and powers to that of an obscure Marvel character, so I scrapped that comic book and the pages that were already illustrated, and started anew with a completely different idea, but anyway, there I was writing the comic book this afternoon, while watching the movie Vanishing On 7th Street, which is a sort of Twilight Zone style story and was an okay Saturday afternoon movie, I wrote, slowly, my comic book for a few hours on my iPad2, I got about eight comic pages fully written, the characters are fully realised inside my noggin, the dialogue changed a little from my initial thoughts to arriving upon the electronic page, I’m using my home village of Mansfield Woodhouse for the setting of the majority of the story, a few location photos, via my iPhone, need to be taken, it’s funny but I didn’t think of using this area as the setting of the story until today and now it kind of makes a lot of sense, why? Well the comic book is set in an area which was settled millions of years ago by Fallen Angels, in the areas Police station, known as The Keep, there’s a Fallen Angel imprisoned, apparently one of the most dangerous, over the road from the police station in Mansfield Woodhouse is a public house named The Angel, some of my story is set inside a public house named The Angel, this area and the events in the story are starting to synchronise, it’s startling when that happens, but while writing my comic book, and reading some of my recent blog posts, I became aware that my writing is just a stream of consciousness, a failed attempt by myself to spatter onto a page, electronic in this case, my thoughts, however I am mostly disappointed because I am unable to accurately type my thoughts successfully, instead of a coherent raging argument, or a witty review, I instead merely sound to myself lacking in literate argument, being devoid of witty discourse, which is kind of a shame, especially as my writing/typing is still more coherent and witty than my verbal espousing of words, I have considered on more than one occasion that I’d sooner only communicate with folk via electronic means, forever foregoing real life social interaction, I think that I  might have been born a century or two earlier than I should have been, perhaps some future dystopian World would be more to my liking, a World where interaction is severely limited if not forbidden, a World where people communicate over computer networks, I think I’d find that kind of isolation, that World empty of human space invasion far more appealing than this World of primitive simian style social retardation. 

I guess, though I struggle against it, having a writing style that is actually just a messy representation of a stream of consciousness might actually be unique, you know give my writing a different kink, after all there’s no right way or wrong way to write, a written blog post or comic book page only as to be spelt correctly using punctuation and grammar in a way that seems natural, words must flow easily, the mind of the reader engaged, fooled into interest as the writer states his, or her, intent, the fact that it’s only a stream of naked consciousness doesn’t really matter, my thoughts are after all perhaps similar to those of many, and though I think my writing is incoherent and a flim flam of nonsense someone somewhere, maybe not here, might think otherwise. Sigh, who knows.

 

WEBSITE DESIGN

Many years ago, well back in the days of 2009, I had decided to design my own website, I bought Dreamweaver and plodded along creating a website, but due to my lack of knowledge, incompetence or the incompetence of my chosen website provider the website failed to work, hence this blog site, which I am very happy with. However, this need of mine to create a website as never gone away, next week I will be starting a Web Design Course and eventually a Graphic Design Course (Adobe Photoshop) though I am having to purchase a Windows based computer, probably a brand spanking new Toshiba or Sony Vaio, I’ll see what deals there are, I’ll still be keeping this MacBook, as I have a great fondness (love) for the machine, but for the types of courses I’ll be pursuing through out the year personal access to a Windows based machine is essential, I have my Microsoft Certified Business Course later in the year, which if I pass I’ll be certified as a Microsoft Office Specialist and a Microsoft Applications Specialist, if I pass the courses I’m hoping they lay the groundwork for a job within the IT, or Web Design, industry, I would like to be capable of designing apps for the iPhone and iPad also, but time will tell if I achieve such an ambition. I have been, over the past few weeks creating pages for an online comic book, until yesterday when my lack of concentration ruined an entire page, of hard work, and I have had to start again, which is a massive shame but at the same time I can correct a few things I was originally disappointed with. It’s a complex comic book adventure, one I have been struggling with for the past year, or more, but I think I have nailed the ideas I am wishing to transmit from brain to page, hopefully at least, if of course my brain works. Due to the (Inter)National Script Writing competition in April I can hopefully present my script, converting it from comic book form into a screenplay for the competition, it’s another quest I have undertaken for myself this year, as well as finishing off the novel begun in November. 

I am under no delusions that I will ever be able to write as a profession, but writing, and illustration, are things I enjoy, I kind of think of all those people that would like to be rock stars but only manage to play small venues, local public houses for example, you don’t see them not pursuing their dreams, or not happily pursuing the things that they love, doing stuff for money is not what life should be about, though I could argue that it’s better to have a job doing something you enjoy than having a job doing something you have no interest in or hate. I would love to be a writer, making enough cash to be comfortable, to write books, comic books, TV and movie scripts, but I have to remain realistic, my goals are perhaps achievable if of course I have the talent, the motivation and the luck, we all have goals we would like to achieve, right?

But anyways I have been bashing out words for the creation of my website idea this morning, and if I am able I’ll be designing the website before the end of the year, November is my target, I’m at my most happy, when conscious, when I’m sat at this keyboard conjuring forth words, and trying to make them make sense, I’ll never give up being a writer, I’ll never stop writing comic books, or illustrating, badly, comic books, this is my life, I realise that now. My hobby. My passion, if you like.

I’m sure the Web Design Course will be difficult, for me, though I did well in my exams for the Microsoft Office Course I completed last year, I’m not convinced I’ll find web design easy, I’m hoping I’ll learn lots from the course and be able to design websites for fun once completed. At the moment this is my number one goal, it’s important, I think, to have them, goals, otherwise what’s the flaming point in anything?

 

THROUGHOUT HUMAN HISTORY, WE HAVE BEEN DEPENDENT ON MACHINES TO SURVIVE

Which isn’t actually true, or is it? The human race, originated in Africa about two hundred thousand years ago. For a lot of the time we’ve existed here on planet Earth we got by without machines. Though I suppose it’s what you interpret as machines, are tools machines? Apparently so, an early example of a machine being a flint axe, so perhaps machines really have made it possible for us, not just survive but to thrive. Obviously machines are more complex now than back then, but are we?

Some people obviously are, the people that create advanced machines aren’t like the people of more primitive times, clever folk have obvious intelligence advantages over our ancient selves, though not the same physical, or survival, advantages. Indeed I have read that people today are far weaker than people of the past. Stronger, faster, more durable, not as likely to moan about the fact that at night they are liable to wake up with a leopard eating their face.

I would guess without early machines we humans would never have become such a dominant force in the World. Without machines, like the hand axe, we couldn’t have crushed our enemies, defended against other predators. It’s remarkable, looking at us these days, that humans have existed for so long, have been so successful as a species. Of course that success has been at the expense of other species, even other types of humans.

If the human race does have a future, and if it’s one where someone will create an artificial intelligence, which seems likely, will, like in science fiction tales, that artificial intelligence decide that we weak, soft, squashy, flesh things are obsolete? Perhaps we will be thought of as vermin and eradicated, after all if we create artificial intelligence in our own image then that intelligence will also be violent, reactionary, vindictive and cruel, just like us, and the logical step for any human created intelligence would be to crush it’s rivals, namely us. It would certainly be an interesting future to exist within, intelligent machines exterminating humans, hunting us down and popping us in the posterior.

Machines have definitely made life easier, but not necessarily as rewarding as it once was. With everything that we have gained as a species has we have progressed doesn’t make up for everything that we have lost, far from it, we have lost so much and gained so little that our way of life has become such a pampered existence that for people like me we have no real idea about hardship, adversity, having to really live life to the full. Most of us don’t even know how to live our lives, we just function at the very basic level of human existence. Many people living in a nation like England in the 21st Century, enjoy all the fantastic machines that we have access to, all the benefits of the modern age, but still act like primitive barbarians, and I don’t see that barbaric behaviour changing any time soon.

The greatest human achievement, in my opinion, was the 1969 Moon landing, though it was Nazi ingenuity, and the bombing of English cities, particularly London, that led to this amazing achievement. Something good having come from something so bad. But what now for us? Is it time for us to change our mindsets, our way of lives and start to truly live in the 21st Century, because most of us don’t, most of us, mindset wise, are stuck in the 20th Century. Perhaps it’s time to have a different view of machines, and a different interaction with them, because they are evolving at such a fast rate we the human race just cannot keep up. But you can’t have change without huge social upheaval, and the starts to a new Century can be very bloody indeed, just take a look at the last Century, the way people fought wars changed in such a terrible way that these days in armed conflicts the greatest number of casualties are civilians. Some of the machines we use in wars are so efficient small nations can be wiped off the face of the planet in a matter of hours, perhaps minutes.

In the Matrix movies the interaction between humans and machines is very violent, humans being terrorists and machines being stable government states. The machines we are surrounded by in present day are easily controlled by people, without people to maintain them, operate them, they wouldn’t be able to perform the tasks they’ve been built for, we should, if we were truly clever, leave the status quo like that. But we won’t. People will always strive to prove themselves right, to stretch the boundaries of what we know, to mess with the way things are. I look forward to a machine apocalypse, though I do feel a zombie apocalypse would bring a greater chance of survival.