Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Meta Quest plus. All new free apps are betches.
Breachers. Too much details to remember. Motion sickness.
The Climb 2. Unclimbable.
Dental Clinic. Mental clinic.
Thief Simulator. Develop a skillset doing B and E's. Criminality. No thanks.
Swarm. A swarm of motion sickness.
The free apps UNESCO Germany and Parallax is better than any of those paid apps.
I got Trainer VR for $10.
Train building. Similar to Toy Trains VR.
I might take the day off. It's raining. I didn't sleep tonight but yesterday afternoon I slept for three hours which can cause insomnia the same evening. My job is a volunteer job. Cleaning the streets. I plan to do this indefinitely. I'd like to see this area as much as possible look clean and free of excess weeds growing on sidewalks and around buildings. Cities in Europe and in Asia look clean particularly in the tourist areas. I can do my part. It's a rabbit hole. Impossible. My aim isn't to clean 100% but to at least make it look somewhat noticeably better than before.
I sweep the grounds of the Courthouse regularly. No one else seems to do it.
Today's train diorama. Work in progress.
I got Rollercoaster Hades Wrath and Rollercoaster 2 Thor's Hammer a deal. Get both for $8 Otherwise it's $4.99 plus $7.99. Reviews pretty much say it's as good as if not better than the other Roller coaster apps and there aren't many. Released on December 16, 2024 so it looks like I'm Johnny come lately to the party on this one. How did this slip past my radar? I didn't spend any other money today.
I'll give it a try and let you know what I think.
Hades Wrath. Next level. Over the top. 12 stars out of 10. Goes on and on. Lots of surprises. Not bad for $4. Rider mode only. No ahooter. No haptic feedback. $4 what do you expect? Cats on Broadway?
Trainer VR is really good. I started a train diorama. Just started.
Trainer VR
Pluses: Cheaper than Toy Trains VR. $9 VS $14. More variety of things. People, lampposts, etc etc.
Minuses. Very plain background. Not cozy. Very industrial. Stark. No hills, ground elevation options or water like with Toy Trains. No climate light setting, day, cloudy, night, etc as with Toy Trains VR.
I am really really trying to budget because if I scr*w up, then I won't have food and I'd die of starvation.
I don't think that I'll ever visit any other countries again because travelling takes too much expense and effort.
Coaster Mania looks good. However my bank account doesn't. I'm going to wait awhile. I won't get it for some time.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Swept the grounds of the Courthouse. No less than 5 people said thank you to me. Thsts nice!
I'm getting Coaster mania. The opportunity cost is a boel of wonton noodle soup or two Vietnamese spring rolls. I already have food. I have gyoza which I'm cooking with beer. The usual drill. Fry the gyoza, lid on. Then at whatever point, splash in some water or better, beer. I tried it with vodka one time. Cover the lid quickly. Fry and then steam.
For dinner I have pesto linguine with chicken.
I have also decided to get the Sweden Escape from World War 2 app. It has the old school vines like if I went in a time machine and went back there. Kinda depressing. World War 2, the European theatre.
Eff it. I got End of Night. $3.91. There must have been occasions where I paid more than that in taxes and tips alone after a restaurant meal. $3.91 in this day and age isn't a lot of money. It's a 20 minute trip to old benighted days in Europe.
The story is about a man who escapes from Sweden to Denmark during WW2. The movie Sisu did mention just offhand, that Sweden was under German military occupied during the Second World 2.
I checked out this app. Bleak. Black and white. Arthouse Europe. While on the app, I got a call. There is no reason anyone should be calling me. The name who called me is J sin 269. I turned off the VR glasses and when back on, I put a block on this person. I did that before for another called called Ranveer. Scammer. I wonder if it was the Chinese landlord trying to get me to go in on the welfare overseas travel scam again as his name begins with J. I wonder if he uses VR goggles though. I once saw a store in Slovenia on the internet and for some reason I really thought that he might have been a part owner of that store. But I've never heard him speak Slovenian. Even if he did, I would have just thought it was Russian.
This app is like Epic Roller Coaster VR meets Schindler List. Yikes is it ever bleak. So bleak that Charles Dickens Bleak House would seem like a Guardians of the Galaxy movie next to this old tin bucket.
The next one is the majorly one. Coaster mania.
As a child in the 70s, who didn't have the hot wheels tracks with the loop? And then run the hot wheels car down the ramp and through the loop?
"It is nothing without the loop." The Simpsons
Then many decades later, I got a Sony PSP video game where one can actually design a roller coaster. I got another Psp game where one can design an amusement park.
Then I got VR goggles with the one free standard issue roller coaster app, Epic Roller Coasters. Just one of the roller coaster rides, let alone all of them, are better than every video game of Atari 2600, Intellivision and Coleco Vision put together. More fun. More intense. Especially the shooter mode. Which is definitely better than all the Atari 2600 games put together.
This costs $14 and I'm psyching myself and bracing myself for the expense. $14 plus tax. Probably $16.50 or something like that.
The beautiful part will be months later, still playing the app, totally forgetting about the day that I paid the money for it. In that way, it will feel like it's a free app.
I got Coaster Mania. $12 instead of $14.
I saw the movie Primal Fear. There is indeed a twist ending but it's not the riveting earth shaking twist ending that everyone in YouTube comments said it was. A lot of hype. Essentially is it Mr Hyde pretending to be Dr Jekyll or is it Dr Jekyll pretending to be Mr Hyde? Watch the movie and find out. A completely legal eagle movie full of Courtroom scenes and lawyers.
I discovered a VR app called Hell Horde. Absolutely amazing and its free. This app is better than 75% of paid apps. I discovered it on applabgameslist dot com
Profound.
Moore's Law. Every 18 months, computers get twice as fast. I've onky had VR goggles for a year and it's already at the point where free apps are better than paid for apps of the past. Certainly with the tablet, Mad Bullets and Paper Train are each better than every Atari 2600 game of the 1980s put together. Some of those Atari games were about $30 new which was a lot of money back when minimum wage was $4 an hour.
I got a refund on End of Night. $6 refund.
I got Beverly Hills Cop $5. That was the movie of the year in 1994. To see it in the YouTube big screen.
I also got Clockwork Orange. On sale. $8. Kubrick. On sale. This is the first time that I watched The Clockwork Orange while on probation remembering that through much of the movie, Alex de Large was on probation, that is until he got busted again.
I was going to get Twilight Zone Steven Spielberg. But forget it.
Twilight Zone is no longer in sale for $7. It was on sale for a week. I didn't get it. Usually it takes me less than five seconds to decide that I want a movie. Twilight Zone uh, uh.
Hesitation. Good. Instead Clockwork Orange was on sale in its place.
Twilight Zone. The stories were who cares? Not that great.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Worked at the Courthouse Grounds. A few people complimented me.
I got two movies today. Splurged. Sinned.
Ready Player One $8. VR world. I'm there.
Tenet $10. I wrote my answers to the algorithm of time. The time travel objective experience and the linear subjective experience and how this is really a singularity. What we perceive as an eternity of linear time is a time dilation within a sinurity that lasts a second. A terabytes of information downloaded in less than a second like purchasing a movie off YouTube. Purchase it and you can watch the movie immediately after purchasing. Immediate download of a movies worth of information, data. A really good quantum computer can download ten terabytes in one second. That would be a computer that's worth literally millions of dollars. One day neural link can download terabytes of information to the brain in a second which would be a singularity within a time dilation.
In the old days it took Limewire 48 hours to download a two hour movie.
What we are experiencing as linear time is us parsing through the guts of the singularity.
There is such thing as no linear time or time travel. There is only an illusory time dilation and any variations of linear time including time travel within a singularity.
There is no such thing as linear time or time travel. There are only time dilations and singularities.
This terabytes of information in less than a second, singularity theory aditionally is able to incorporate the going backwards and forwards in time theory of Tenet.
I hesitate to say this idea of mine. Ideas can not be copyrighted only the certain phrasing of the idea. Cover tunes are often better than the original. The Japanese long ago had reverse engineered the television and the radio and made better televisions and better radios. My idea is an unpolished diamond. Universities are free to use this idea, to refine it like a polished diamond, and to come up with something better particularly in an applicative way involving technology and degrees from MIT which I visited in virtual reality. Anyways the technical technology part would be beyond me.
In the movie Passengers, the computer said, "This is the theoretical knowledge. The technology that uses this idea is proprietary technology."
This idea crosses different fields of knowledge. Science and spirituality. A download from the afterlife probably wouldn't wash as a scientific theory.
Tenet and Inception are two of the most confusing movies in all of Hollywood history and I have them on YouTube cinema.
Consistent with the theory of Tenet, I paid for the movie before getting it on YouTube. I got a prepaid credit card.
Anachronism. Depends how you look at it.
As China is the normalized* present, the West would seem to be a past anachronism and as the West is the hegemonized present, China would seem to be a futuristic anachronism.
Way more futuristic and advanced in China. So many YouTube videos.
*1979 Normalization Act
I got some coffee from Ethiopia at Shoppers. It had a picture of a lion on it. The other ones had a picture of a toucan and another had a lciture of a chameleon. The lion is the best animal. The other animals are all right. The coffee tastes pretty good.
Jamaican blue mountain coffee is good. Very smooth, not bitter at all even without sugar. But it's pricey and hard to find. Overseas markets like Asia get the lions share.
Jamaica blue mountain coffee can be reverse engineered. Get a sample of that strain. And find a place with similar growing conditions. Also try to get as many plants as possible Native to the region to grow along side. Also any fungi local to the region too.
Maria. She was a sweet lady. I don't know exactly how it would have worked out between her implosove anorexia and her explosive overprotective parents with whom not even the Pope would have been good enough for her.
Friday, April 4, 2025
Trump tariffs. The stock market experienced its worst day since the start of the pandemic. What do the two things have in common? Trump in the Oval Office.
Would that be a greatest common factor or a lowest common denominator? Depends on who you ask.
Trump would want a 3rd term. If the States becomes Canada's 14th Province, then a Prime Minister or else Premier Trump can have three terms like Trudeau did. Trudeau completed a ten year term in Office which numerically, the tenth year would be well into a Third term of a US President.
But you know what that would mean. Remember something called The Declaration of Independence 4th of July, 1776? That would be out the window.
US, minimum 4 year terms, to maximum of two.
Canada, as many terms as you can get, average record is 10 years for Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chretien, Stephen Harper, Justin Trudeau. They were each in there for more than 8 years at minimum which supercedes the time length of two American Presidential terms of Office. Or could last as short as about one year give or take a few months as in the case of Joe Clark, Kim Campbell, Paul Martin. No American President is there for only just one year. Some American Presidential terms of office were truncated so the requisite four years weren't completed as in the case of John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon for reasons I won't get into.
I spoke with a nurse yesterday about the pain in my upper arm when I bend my hand backwards. I asked if it was the result of a magnesium deficiency. She said I needed it was tendonitis and I need a tensor bandage for my upper arm which is sold at drug stores.
The nurse is from the Church I stopped going to. I wonder if it was a nudge to get me to go back there. I don't feel that anyone owes anyone else a lifelong friendship.
When asked if I am going back to Church, my mind tends to drift off into thinking about Real VR Fishing. The prime fishing spots and the wonderful species that could be caught. Then my mind drifts back to the conversation at hand and I'm trying to think of the appropriate words. The non sequitor of thoughts between Real VR Fishing and thoughts of possibly going to Church again causes a temporary confusion and before I could come up with the appropriate words, the other person says, "Have a nice day." and leaves. Strange. That happens every time. It's that kind of town.
I do think of going to Church again. The stained glass windows are very beautiful.
That Church has strange politics. The previous Priest retired or quit. I asked him if he would attend as a regular person. He said no and said some reason which went in one ear and out the other. Why would that be? Strange energy.
Churches are on the one hand, they will tell certain members, undesirables that it would be best if they were to worship elsewhere while with other lapsed members that they want to coopt into their cult, they'll try to nudge them to go back. They know that you know that they know that Church is boring. The local Churches have the most valid sermons. Pastor Joel Osteen is the real deal. Joyce Meyer is good as well.
I hear a Joel Osteen sermon and months later, still remember it. The local sermons are forgotten about the minute they're over. More generic liturgical platitudinous moral baiting.
Over the last week, I saw a couple of women from places I used to go to regularly. I wondered if they were there to in some sneaky way, nudge me to go back. And they talk to me like yeah we're all buddy buddy. In my mind I couldn't stand them and don't care if I nver happen to see them ever again. In life when you got something better, never go back to something that isn't as good.
The thing is, if they didn't go to some place for awhile, would I try to nudge them to go back? No. Why would they do that to me? Why? Because they're vapid airheads. Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained with incompetence as Napoleon once said. And undoubtedly for sure they do this to others too because people work in patterns.
Joel Osteen has way better sermons. VR and electric skateboards is off the scale over the top fun while Church is boring and extraneous. All these flakey personalities which I have absolutely nothing in common with. No thanks. Hardly anyone is there anyways. Whenever I go there the place is mostly empty.
I wish I was in China. The local Church is just some crackpot cracker backwater scene.
The Chinese Church. I would visit. The Chinese are my people racially. But I would ask them, in this day and age, now that the dynamic has changed, why would you opt to stay in Canada when China is more rock show and is where your money gets you more and better.
Be a majority in a futuristic rock show or be a racialized visible minority in some crackpot backwater.
People who are Muslim. I've seen a lot of places in the Middle East. Way more futuristic than the West. The SeaWorld in Dubai. In the West, Muslims are discriminated against. In the Middle East, Muslims are celebrated. In some strange bid at personal advancement, Muslims are living in Canada when they can be in a more futuristic place where they are a majority.
More Chinese are living in China than outside of China.
However more British people live outside of England than within. I wonder why. Could it be that England is on an island rather than on a mainland. A small town on an island is another level of backwater. England certainly isn't as futuristic or rockshow as China or the SeaWorld in the Middle East.
The shopping malls in Asia are state of the art futuristic. The shipping malls here. They are whatever they are. This was even so back in the early 200s let alone now.
I would advise anyone to not move to North America. Things are more futuristic where you are. Don't gamble on some crackpot notion that the sleepy West is better. It isn't. It really isn't.
China is into building. All the politicians in their legislature are on the same page racially. China's politicians are into building.
Canada's legislature is made up of all kinds of disparate races various and sundry. Instead of people who are into building, there are avaricious airhead politicians that sign free trade deals that allow for speculation. China didn't sign any free trade deals with their neighbours. Canada signs some free trade deal that benefits Americans more than Canada. Airhead. Or American moles in the Canadian government.
End result, China looks how it looks now, a spectacular futuristic show and the West looks the same as it did thirty years ago except somewhat more run down. Case in point downtown Vancouver. Compare that with downtown Shenzhen or downtown Guangzhou.
If everyone on Earth could be where they really truly in their heart of hearts wanted to be, at least half the people wouldn't be where they are now.
I'm arguably better off in the afterlife with my friends nds in the afterlife. I can't stand the Chinese language. English is a way superior language. But the West is a backwater. In China I'd be one of the racial majority. There's no feeling like it. I felt that when I was in Thailand. Then its back to this sh*t.
Forget about races. I don't know why I write crap mentioning this. I actually really don't care. It has been an issue at times but that's like milking a bad few minutes in one day not just all day but for a few years. The News would often mention the phrase White supremacy and for years on government forms were the words visible minority. That's why I wish I was in China all these years. Guangzhou city.
I just write what's on my mind. Even if it's spurious thoughts I don't agree with. My brain under this dimension is what it is. In the afterlife, I'll have a better brain.
I returned from Thailand in 2003. Futuristic shopping malls. Siam Paragon, MBK, Future Park. Then back to this. Then I saw on television a commercial, "So you have schizophrenia. Stay away from my family."
That's what you can expect from the ice rink bathroom break Carl Malden backwater energy of Canada. Backwater countries that can't do anything for themselves blame their citizens. "You're not successful because you must have schizophrenia." Rather than you're not successful because you're in a country that can't win a Stanley Cup in over thirty years, in a sparsely populated country which doesn't have the manpower and human resources to build like China does. The country couldn't even offer themselves advancement. How could they off you advancement? So instead of offering you advancement, they offer you resentment.
I might go to China and really like it there. But what if I go to the afterlife and like it even more? And I wouldn't have to worry about coming back because no one comes back from the afterlife. Ever.
I've been thinking about getting Pickleball One VR. $20. I couldn't afford it.
I thought of this while sweeping the grounds of the Court house.
Then. Match Point Tennis from the same developer is free and I have that. I also got the free Demo version of Pickleball One. The Demo is good enough. Tennis is Beverly Hills. Pickleball is lower middle class. The ball is like if you too a croc shoe and made it into a hollow ball. The plastic pickle ball has a Swiss cheese look to it.
People who play tennis live in stately mansions.
People who play pickle ball live in townhouses. This fact did not dissuade me from getting the app. Best free app ever.
Pickle ball is fun. Serve the ball only below the waist so you can forget about getting your kicks only waist up. Serve the ball only in a diagonal trajectory across the court. Diagon Alley, Harry Potter.
Incidentally, I am awful at this. I wind up missing most shots. The vast majority of them.
The demo is free for only 14 days. There is a song called Don't Tell Me It's Over. It's a funk instrumental. Can't find it anywhere else. The full version is $17 plus tax. $20. If I wait, I might be able to get a 30% discount.
Bowling is better.
The other day, a person was charged for throwing a small dog like a football. Did the dog do a perfect spiral? The dog was fine. What. Even after doing a perfect spiral? With VR football, if you use a certain technique, you can throw the ball in a perfect spiral.
First train model I made on Trainer VR. Primitive. Rudimentary.
This one is gone as I forgot to save. Make a new one.
Another one. Saved.
"Once more unto the breach, my friends, once more" Shakespeare
I got Star Trek Into Darkness $10. That movie is pivotal for any collection. The opening scene on the planet Nibiru. Better than the first one. The best Star Trek movie ever made in history.
I also got Star Trek Beyond. On sale. These movies are essential. Spectacular.
I don't fear the future any more. I just don't know what to think about it. One day I'll reach the point where I'll be optimistic.
"Do me a personal favor. Be optimistic." Princess Leia
Some aspects of the future for sure will be better than I imagined. That's been something throughout my life. I did things that I once never imagined ai would do. Good things, that is. Travel on a seaplane, a 747 jet plane, ride an elephant in Thailand, get an electric skateboard. Interesting times.
I have to save money. I have an objective. To stay overnight at a hotel either in Vancouver or Victoria. The James Bay Inn. If I stay there, I wonder if I'll get a sign from Emily Carr. She is a genius artist. She has an inimitable touch.
I have a print of her painting of a tree with red bark.
If I had an interview with Emily Carr, I would ask her, "Emily Carr, why didn't you get married? I wish the best for you and I wish you had had a happier life when it comes to getting married. But don't sweat it. Millions of people are happier being single. For a million different reasons."
Emily Carr thought marriage would take too much time away from her paintings.
For some strange reason, women who were married weren't as successful. Married women had a lot more expectations back then. And there were no microwave ovens. Or even electric stoves. It took ten minutes sometimes just to light the kitchen pot bellied stove hot enough for cooking.
Washing machines? Forget it. In Emily Carr's time clothes were all hand washed.
Since women didn't get the right to vote in Canada until 1949 and Emily Carr died in 1945, it means that she never voted. That's how they treated women back then which is just awful. Awful. Some of the smartest people are women. What a waste of political talent to not have had women voting back then. What can you say? Those were also the times when people thought it was a good idea to have ten rats fighting a dog or ten dogs fighting a bear in a betting pit. Real bonkers times.
I was thinking of visiting Sidney BC. I had a haunting memory but haunting memories can only last so long. I thought of visiting the gift shop and seeing sbitlut getting a World War One plane. German red triplane Red Baron. Or a Sopwith Camel which was the plane which shot down the Red Baron. Baron Von Richtoffen. A Sopwoth camel has a tan canvas upper wing with a U shaped sun roof. Push propeller isn't that powerful compared to a regular propeller plane.
These days, a person might be able to purchase a man sized or woman sized drone. Such drones can be like a flying car. These cars can only be flown in rural areas that are away from the cities. Hurricane model flying drone. $495,000. Pricey for sure.
Saturday, April 5, 2025
I was thinking of going to Sidney BC. But I have two haunting memories of Sidney.
On the day that Maria died, I was in Sidney. I didn't find this out until afterwards.
The one time Heather visited me but after the visit I left to go to Sidney and had dinner there. I should have had dinner with Heather! That will haunt me for life.
That's why I have haunting memories.
When I go to Sidney, I come back with a very good vibe. That town has the most incredible vibes.
The vibes are indescribable especially if it's only me who feels them. Some towns resonate with a heavenly vibe.
I'll always miss Heather. Every day I think of her.
My broken heart will never mend. Or it might.
God is the God of restoration. These last few days, I'd think of something, anything and get automatic frissons of bliss, nostalgia, good vibes. Before it was all ever just only frissons of fear, depression and anxiety. This surprised me. Perhaps it was the wave that was created when I moved all those worms from their previous place of less than half an inch of dirt on the sidewalk to a huge lush dirt mound. For them that must been like moving to a five star hotel. That would have been good karma.
I wonder if I'm going to have a broken heart for life. It feels like an ever persistent aching. Like as if my heart is like the Liberty Bell. Slightly cracked.
I love Heather, if not more than life itself, I would say as much as life itself. I would give up all my tomorrows on Earth if I could be with Heather in the afterlife. I'd not only get to be with Heather, I'd get to experience the phsyics of that dimension. And to not have physical death at some time in the future hanging over my head anymore would be just exquisite.
I had a strange dream last night.
Bangkok Thailand. Day time. A construction workers area. I saw an old style fence formed of vertical wooden slats. There was no light spaces between the slats. On the street, there was a small food truck. It had a few items on a small hand written menu, written in many colors with a felt pen. Three drinks listed on top of one another. The bottom one on the list was Pina Colada. Price below, circled, $25.
I thought that was pricey. I ordered one.
I moved to my left besides the cart. There was an area, a table connected to the food truck. I was waiting for my order. The food truck vendor, a middle aged Thai man with a small mustache. He pointed. The order was prepared already. Ready already. That's the physics of the afterlife. I should have known. I was used to waiting as with the Earth dimension.
There was a shallow open glass box which held orders. There were four glasses. I reached for one that looked like a champagne flute with champagne as there were two of them in that glass box plus one other drink. My order looked like a thin sundae fountain glass with what looked like red raspberry lassi in it.
Then I noticed a small shallow glass bowl with a flat bottom. It held something that looked like a transparent creme brulee. As I picked it up to look at it, I noticed a young Thai lady standing beside me. I said something strange, "This looks like toffee-a from the mafia." Yeah, dreams are weird.
Talk about life and unexpected surprises. I discovered Pinball Fx VR. I got it. $16. It has Indiana Jones. And the ark shows up as a special effect! That was unexpected. An hour ago as I write this, I didn't even know it existed.
3 free tables. All the other tables cost. But all other tables are playable for free for three minutes each time. Then it stops and you can do it again. That's good enough.
There's Xena Warrior Princess.
Life is good to me.
I am more than happy with this pinball app which surpasses all expectations. When I woke up this morning, I didn't know that I would know about the pinball app. This app is a honey sweet gift from God. Life can be worth living.
This evening at 8:10 pm, I discovered pinball in mixed reality using the Kubrickian Dr Strangelove red phone. Imagine me having a pinball table in my own room. I'm thinking of getting Indiana Jones and The Twilight Zone. The others I don't know if I care Star Trek is good.
I'll go to Sidney next time.
On Coaster mania, I made a roller coaster with a very high and steep hill. I called it the Mega Kamikaze. Anyone can do this. When I rode this, I didn't get the vertigo that I expected that I would. Somewhat fail. Some VR apps are really good at generating vertigo. There is one where the user jumps up and down. Every time after a jump up, on the fall down, there is always that stomach sweltering vertigo feeling. That app is genius.
My completed diorama.
My roller coaster called the Mega kamikaze. Coaster Mania VR.
It looks like the stock market before and after the Trump tariffs.
YOLO. I got Twilight Zone because that would be appropriate for Saturday night on Pinball FX VR $15. I also got Raiders of the Lost Ark because it's a favorite movie.
I won't get Star Trek. I never watched a single episode of Star Trek the next generation that I can remember. The original was good. The JJ Abrams Star Trek is good. Next generation and the new woke Star Trek are sub par in my opinion. Won't be getting. Can't afford. Not a priority plus the theme song which is kinda cheesy plays over and over again. I don't know if I should tell this story but when CDs and CD players were new in 1988, I got on sale a compact disc of classical music and television and movie themes on sale. Because it was a new medium, anything that was kinda good would sound even better on a CD than on a scratchy record. Star Trek the next generation theme song was on and it sounded pretty good on CD. I won't get the pinball. I remember my impression when I first saw it. The first visceral split second that decides and I didn't feel it. I thought the table looks kind of cheesy. Tacky. I was severely underwhelmed if not mildly horrified. The table looks like a pre fully colored page ripped out of an old Star Trek coloring book.
At the end of the Star Trek pinball experience, the Enterprise zips off quickly like every UFO I have ever seen in dreams. But it's the Enterprise which is one degree of separation. What next, a skateboard that just zips off into the distance? If it was a Close Encounters of the Third Kind or ET or the Day the Earth Stood Still 1950s version and the UFO zips off, I'd get it. The Enterprise? I don't know. Perhaps I'll get this later on this year if I ever have an extra $15 burning a hole in my pocket. Unlike a very rich person I can't afford to indiscriminately fling $15 here and there. I'm impoverished enough that an extra $15 purchase will have to wait until later this year.
Indiana Jones. Twilight Zone. 1st tier.
Star Trek The Next Generation. 2nd tier.
Remaining ones, 3rd tier if not scratching the bottom of the barrel.
Battle-star Galactica isn't the 70s one. It's the newer iteration. Indifference. Whatever.
I was going to Sidney. The Complete Trip to Sidney would include
Admission to the Aviation museum $22
Get something from the gift shop. $20
Eat at restaurant $35
Movie with popcorn and drink $20
Something to eat, take away, $20.
Thats a $100 day! I was going to do that except for the movie. There aren't any movies I'd currently want to see. An $80 day.
Forget the big screen and the high tech stereo system like cities such as Vancouver and Victoria has. The Sidney BC movie theatre has small screens like the Denman Theatre in Vancouver. What I am paying for is for two hours, to soak in the healing vibes of Sidney BC. When I get back to my apartment, I can sure feel it. The magical vibes of visiting another town.
Instead I got the pinball games. The Sidney trip would have all been on debit. The pinball games were on credit which means payment can be deferred for weeks.
Sunday, April 6, 2025
I'm not going to Sidney today. The weather is wretched, horrid. Pea soup.
I'm thinking of getting the Star Trek pinball table. $15.
For the love of Spock, get it!
I'm not shopping for any more movies. And Star Trek should be the last VR purchase I make for quite awhile. Cross my fingers.
Star Trek would cost about $15.50, with tax, rounded off. An East Indian take out dinner which I was planning to get at Sidney would have been about $23 with tops and taxes. And I already have food in the fridge as I went shopping two days ago.
Star Trek would last forever. A dinner goes fast but one must eat and food that is good actually lifts the mood. Eating bland repetitive food can cause some kind of depression.
One must eat to survive. One doesn't need to play Star Trek pinball to survive.
I'm saving my money for a dream trip to Vancouver which includes a sea plane ride to downtown Vancouver, a one night stay at one of the less expensive rooms at the Pan Pacific Hotel which is a five star hotel visit a couple of museums, eat at a few restaurants and then return home on the boat visiting the dining lounge which costs extra to visit.
Estimated price I have to save, $2,000. It will take me about a year to save that.
I wonder about the wisdom of that.
Getting a VR app for $15 which I would have indefinitely isn't a good idea but paying $500 a night in a hotel which is over fast anyways and if I bring my VR goggles, it's like I'm there but I'm also not there somehow for some reason is a good idea.
I thought of visiting the Michelin star Chinese restaurant across the street from City Hall. They serve a famous Peking duck for $200. Pricey for sure. Even a bowl of soup they serve there, I'm sure it's very good, is $35. That would only be an idea. Doing things that I'm not familiar with makes me nervous. Thsts a common thing with a lot of people. They seek familiarity and the comfort zone. The problem is that comfort zones tend to get smaller with time. One has to fight to enlarge their comfort zone. For world travellers, the entire planet is their comfort zone.
Well, 11:40 am. I got the Star Trek pinball plus two space games for $1 each. Star Fist Squadron and Uni-Mo Space traveler.
What the Spock, I got the Star Trek VR pinball app. $15. It's a cheap hit.
Price plus Star Fist - promises unforgettable worlds
Price plus Uni Mo - unique delightful dazzling tabletop adventure.
For one dollar. Not extravagant.
Star Tek pinball I mixed reality looks awesome. The Enterprise. The Romulan ship or else Klingon ship, I don't know, with green lights that glow within. Major.
Actually, it's no one's business and nobody needs to know about VR purchases and other people aren't posting them. Yes they are. And they do videos about it too. VR app reviews.
I saw the Lemur Camper advertised on Global News. Cost $18,995 plus tax. One can get extra hitches and accessories like jumper cables etc for a few hundred dollars.
There is a YouTube video on how to set it up and I was wondering if they were setting up the James Webb telescope. So many details.
It looks nice but not at all protective against intruders. Thin walls no insulation so this would be more of a summer rather than an all weather. There is space enough for two full sized beds and a living room with lots of space to play VR apps like golf without worrying about hitting anything or any VR fails.
For someone living at rent city, this tent would be like a five star hotel.
The company is based in North Vancouver. It might decide to set up a government contract where it builds tents for spaces like Tiny Town in Victoria and the Lemur Camper would be a new standard for tent city living.
Modular homes have more structural oomph and are protective against intruders.
Also Canada and the States aren't saying it, but they kinda half @ss wanna be like China and the tariffs is to raise money for massive construction and homebuilding that homelessness will be a thing of the past. Homelessness will one day merely be seen as an early 21 st Century problem. A slight speedbump in the overall ongoing steamrolling development of planetary human civilization.
Going traveling anywhere even to Sidney BC is to worry about money and food.
I hate the physics of this dimension. In the other dimension one doesn't have to worry about money or food ever again.
I used to say to Heather, "The good one goes to the lady." whenever. She always got the better portion.
Now it seems that is still going on as she gets the good dimension and I'm still stuck here in the worri s about money, worry about food dimension. The cortisol dimension.
For the answers I've come up with I feel I deserve an early reprieve. Especially the theory of what we are experiencing is parsing through the data of what is actually a less than one second download. Blink on blink off. Not consecutive blinks but it's all the same one blink on and one blink off over and over again. This algorithm would also enfold the notion of linear time and time travel as well as the double slit experiment as its a large enough theoretical algorithm to accommodate all of that.
The proof is whether two halves of an electron are thirty miles apart or thirty light years apart, it makes the same amount of time to when one end is tweaked, the other end reacts the same way in less than a second.
The Universe itself is also a less than one second download. The macro download. We in this Universe are the micro less than one second download.
We are a micro algorithm resonating within a similar macro algorithm.
We are a micro singularity within a macro singularity.
Who comes up with answers like that? You sure wouldn't get answers like that at Church.
God hasn't given me an early reprieve.
This is also the same God who thought it was a good idea to take away my mother as she died when I was very young. It's like I'm I'm begging for my life at every turn.
Writing down one's thoughts is supposed to be therapeutic.
I might add that this is just a theory. Who knows what the heck is really going on.
But who is responsible for the download? That would be God. It circles back to religion. Religion is truth. Any religion is good.
"To you your religion. To me my religion." Islam
"Trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding." The Bible
It fells apart when the question is asked, if everything is a download, then is God also a download. Who downloaded God? It's an ouroboros. The snake that eats itself. God downloaded Himself.
A joke: Jesus did DMT and said," I did DMT. I got so high that I saw myself."
That's more or less what we're working with.
In University, theory of mathematics is also a course. That's how highly they regard the theory of mathematics. Even an untrained mathemician untrained in Leibniz calculus can come up with all kinds of new theories that are impressive and then merely interpreted into the language of calculus. It happens all the time.
Star Fist Squadron. VR
Great app. Best dollar I spent in a long time. I spent $1 on worse things but I can't remember what.
Space warp was mind-blowing. Moore's Law. Computer games get better and better to the point where free apps are much much better than paid for apps of the past.
Unforgettable views? It was just hovering in space some distance from planets of the solar system which might not be the worst place to be in the Universe but I'm not sure if that would be the best.
Just like getting laid. That certainly wouldn't be the worst thing that could happen but I'm not sure if that would also the the best thing. There are possible dreadful consequences. Woman dies of childbirth. Or be on the hook for child support.
Relationships have some connection to family. Get married, start a family, I meet her family, she meets my family except that my family is just about non existent.
Family means coming from a solid family line that you can intellectually respect. My family? Not so much.
Jesus said that you can only plant something where the soil is good. If it's bad, again, not so much. He didn't say it exactly like that.
Talk about the Bible getting really weird. There is a story where Jesus tells a fig tree to die. What did that tree ever do to anyone?
Therefore Heather is the last girlfriend that I will ever have. She was the last of the Mohicans. I think I'll be single for life. However there is the notion that whatever you think your future is going to look like, just forget it. There will be things beyond your imagination.
Uni-Mo Star Trip VR.
A one dollar wonder.
Once I got the hang of it which took about a few minutes, it was good.
It has a sort of Dig-Dug feel. The player moves a virtual joystick that remote guides a thing on the board which vacuums up circles on the floor and then brings these circles to the huge flower in the center while avoiding whatever else moving things, aliens, etc that are on the board. Worth the money.
