Currently indisposed

An unfortunate situation has arisen whereby I am currently indisposed to make regular postings. I will update with more information soon, but please bear with me.

Awesome new microscope acquired!!!

I am so excited today, for whilst I was away a Royal Mail calling card was left for me, saying there was a package to be collected at my local Post Office.

Unless I am very much mistaken, this is likely to be my awesome new microscope, just like this one. I have acquired it in an effort to learn more about the sciences of biology, zoology and - more specifically - histology.

It is a rather awesome beast, and already in my possession are some slides and equipment for sectioning and staining. Today will be a busy day! In particular, I am going to prepare and examine:

1. Specimen of lung tissue from a rat
2. Specimen of liver tissue from a rat
3. Specimen of hair (human, and of yours truly)
4. Specimen of leaf from a cherry blossom tree
5. Specimen of blood (human, and of yours truly)
6. Specimen of kidney tissue from a pig
7. Specimen of stomach tissue from a cow
8. Specimen of saliva (human, and of yours truly)
9. Specimen of rabbit dropping
10. Specimen of household fluff from behind my TV.

Obviously to begin with I will need to hone my practical skills and learn how to fully operate the microscope. But this should not take long as I already have a much smaller and less powerful one, so I know the basics. Then I will move on to theory and think about cross-disciplinary approaches (ie, potential applications to plasma physics, lasers, etc).

Amazing train timetables of BERLIN!!!

Yesterday I spent some time at the Berlin Haupbahnhof, and did study in some depth the amazing train timetable that is posted there just outside the main entrance to Washingtonplatz. Continental train timetables have always interested me more than British ones, because unlike in Britain, the trains are not limited by the fact the railway sits on an island. One can indeed travel all over Europe from Berlin, and many of these locations are DIRECT, without having to change.

So one can not only travel to great cities within Germany, such as Munich and Dresden and Frankfurt and Leipzig, and Hamburg and Stuttgard,  but also to many cities outside Germany such as Warsaw (Poland), Prague (Czech Republic, formerly Czechoslovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Basel (Switzerland) and....

.. one can even travel to Novosibirsk, which lieth in the far reaches of RUSSIA. Yes, dear reader, there verily is indeed a DIRECT TRAIN that runs all of this distance, leaving on a Saturday at 16:38 and arriving in Novobirsk the following Wednesday at 08:45!!!

Amazing or what!!!

So, I thought it might be interesting to ask you, dear reader, as to what the longest and/or most enjoyable train ride you have ever taken has been???? Where was it and would you recommend it to me.

Interesting legal info for protestors

Came across this little piece today, which will be useful for all of you (like me) who like to exercise your right to public protest.

Return to the Land of the Hun

Around a year and a half ago, I did have cause to visit the German capital, Berlin, along with the University in Greifswald, a small town on the Baltic coast. This evening, I return shall return to those very same places.


Last night, I had a dream whereby something remarkable had been discovered in that sleepy little German town. It concerned a development in the field of PLASMA PHYSICS, but the eminent professors behind the project were unable to complete their jigsaw, and thereby did not understand its significance.


I cannot say for certain that my dream was prophetic, but it does have that feel about it. If I can make a difference - no matter how small - to this project, then the final piece of the jigsaw will fall into place and mankind will have taken a great leap forward in his understanding of plasma physics. In particular, my 'big idea' in the field - namely that it is possible to use fission-derived plasma for the generation of electricity may (and I stress may) be about to come to fruition! Alternatively the project may have nothing to do with fission, but I can only find out my visiting in person.


If it does, dear reader, don't forget, you read it here first!!


Whilst there, I am also going to pay a visit to the Zoological Institute where I shall be seeking their views on the taxonomy of classifying animals. As I have stated before, the classification system is biased towards evolutionary biology and (since it is entirely man-made) also makes certain fundamental truths laid down in the Bible appear as wrong (even though they are not).


I am then going to spend a day in Berlin riding the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn and I shall also visit the DDR Museum in East Berlin.


These last minute trips can be quite expensive and I will also miss out on two embalming jobs, which I shall pass on to my rival, a man called Mark whose prices I substantially undercut . But commercial rivalries aside, I hope he shall pass on the favour to me some day. What needs to be done must be done, and it cannot wait, for the SAKE of SCIENCE.

Is this really a good idea?

Whilst I understand the need to protect London during the financial abomination that is the Olympics, I do wonder about the wisdom concerning placing SAM missile batteries on the top of apartment blocks in London.

Has this really been thought through???? Here are FOUR potentially DEVASTATING scenarios that could arise as a direct result of this deployment of these extremely powerful military devices.

1. They could be fired at the wrong plane. It is a well known fact that London's skies are the most crowded in the world. So if a plane were to be hijacked, and the command were given to shoot it down, the WRONG PLANE would be in danger of getting hit.

2. If Al-Qaeda or their likes got their hands on these weapons we could be in serious trouble. What security measures are being put in place to prevent an Al-Qaeda operative dressing up as a British serviceman and going on to the roof of these buildings? We need to be TOLD. If Al-Qaeda got hold of these missiles, they could then be directed to bring down unhijacked civilian airliners, or could even be fired at a high profile target on the ground, such as Big Ben or the London Eye.

3. Similarly, the FAR RIGHT may  obtain access to the weaponry and fire the missiles at an ethnic area of London, such as Brick Lane or London's China Town.

4. There will be a lot of foreign visitors to London during the Olympics. There is at least the possibility that certain hostile states will use the Olympics to smuggle in spies. A Chinese spy could, for example, take long range photographs of the missiles and send them back to Beijing in encrypted form. Then they could copy our technology and USE IT AGAINST US!!!!

Of course, I have always opposed the Olympics, I think they are a dreadful waste of money. Indeed, sport, generally, is a dreadful waste of time. But if they are indeed to happen, then let us entrust the RAF to keep our skies safe. WE DO NOT NEED MISSILES ON APARTMENT BLOCKS!!!!

Holiness

The Lord God tells us in the Bible, "BE YE HOLY". (1 Peter 1:16)

What many Christians do not appreciate is the literal meaning of "holiness". Holiness refers to the concept of being "set apart". I, for one, aim to be "set apart" in all things. Those who have known me for some time know that I am not one of the sheeple. I have my own views and my own ways of doing things. No one tells me what to do or what to believe. I am a free thinker, and all my life I have opposed the notion of the "in-crowd" and everything it stands for. So, we could say that holiness means to be different. I am different, and I am pleased to be different.

 Holiness does NOT mean to be conceited or moralistic. It does not mean that we Christians should dress in our Sunday best, and prance around feeling smug and self-satisfied, sneering with a sense of moral superiority at the lesser beings around us. That is not holiness; it is self-righteousness. People who call themselves holy are, in my experience, often not holy in God's sense of term, but instead fall into this latter camp. They often have little or no sense of humour, and fail to laugh at things like practical jokes and random outbursts of song and humour, that most right-thinking people would find funny. Well I have news for these pompous "prudes". Guess what.... GOD HAS A SENSE OF HUMOUR!!!!!!

 “The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.” ― Brennan Manning