books of prediction and chronology
I Read an interesting looking forward to the 1990s book was the book of predictions by wallace, wallace and wallechinsky a book of lists from 1981 looking forward to the 1985 of president Mondale and hypersonic travel and onto to house robots and asteroid mining in between jeane dixon upheaveals arthur C Clarke writing
his usual thing and nostradamus being vague
I like the snowman john lewis advert on british TV the previous john lewis advert was a young couple in love separated by nearly 90 years to celebrate the 1925-2012 existence of the store
a 2012-2099 advert of shared lifetimes would be harder to do between the cliched london media bloke and the one mind organism of the future
I had intended adding more of my learning resources to youtube
ie scanning in my 1979 star trek chronology 1980-2188 with its now non canon chronology of 2005 Moonbases and L5 cities by 2010 an over optimistic space race book of full page Starship statistics and paintings
with an alternative first contact UNSS Icarus and a Romulan war 2106-2109 some 1970s good wash colour paintings by Rick Sternberg of UNSS Galileo, Marshall class destroyers and USS Tritium you see these paintings on many websites
would have made the excuse for the video as star trek resources for learners to practice scanning and using movie maker
well I did get in the local paper for my lord of the rings maths worksheet and followed this with equally successful escape from death star maths
received an bangalore call centred accent phone call from google yes a PHONE call from google
informing me that was I aware I had published a book on google website have I ? checked it out type in christoher lantern his midnight name seventh down the page you do get link to the amazon uk page
turned out it was christopher lantern my ebook on KDP and when asked the call centre voice told me this was the PHONE number associated with the author so how do my KDP account private details end up as knowledge to google phone service
all they did was ask about my books how did I come to write it was I writing another one and said they were pleased I had chosen google
volume two the Rag letters will have to wait 72 poems this year
usually have writing doldrums in winter months poetry mainly a spring and summer occupation
but suddenly created the long beginning to zennor wedding in two minutes watching BFI archive about seaside 100 years ago
may need work -older poems go onto sunrise and watch to seaward also taking bits of the zennor theme
poems tend to follow similiar structure and language
been redundant just over a month and feel on scrap heap noted I was even written out of the organisation website I designed for them in March
having little response in my applications for work skills tutor jobs either as these are looking for business trainers with own transport and my horizon has strunk 20 years ago thought nothing of commuting to another city leaving in the dark coming home in the dark after a 14 hour day also noticed that car user is now considered a norm for full involvement in society despite the fact by 2070 no one knows what a car/automobile is some sort of dodo?
but after so long just having 5 minute walk to work feel like medieval villager not wanting to journey far but this is from same person who subscribes to astronomy picture of the day and has vivid dreams of other worlds and times
the 10 years 2002-2012 at the learning centre were nothing more than salary earning comfort zone where I could spend my time on using web 2.0 tools well at least since 2011 -anyone remember alta vista or ice rocket
reading books like the truth about the internet tomes "the net delusion", "the filter bubble" "the winter of our disconnect" pr the winter of our discontent a family not using youtube social media or google for six months poor things reminded me of a circa 1915 "what we did when all our domestic staff went off to war" and technology free lifstyle manuals spec email facebook and twitter are not all we expected them to be
i used to feel the same about CP/M and compuserve
