hello again,
i dont know what i want to talk about so its all just gonna roll outta my mind... in little drops.
why do i always seem to have so much motivation for things in my head but when it comes to doing the thing i feel motivation for my legs drop off, my eyes go blind, my knees say 'nah'.... well actually they dont coz they fell off with my legs.... my mind goes blank and then my lazy sloth chemicals take over my body forcing me to watch jeremy kyle, look at stupid stuff on youtube, read the paper or just stare blankly into space waiting for a real life situation to smack me in the face and scream 'sort ya life out ya arse! get that marmite off your shoulder blades and do something productive!'............well life goes on....
i was thinkin of goin to see the world as ive not seen it yet, everyone says its great.... maybe i'll jst go up to space so i can see it more clearly...... oh no wait i've got it i can just look at it on google earth!!! dont even have to leave the computer! isn't that just like life nowadays? i remember back in the war when if you wanted to communicate with someone you went to see them or arranged to meet up with them and not just email, txt or skype them!
I hereby call for Strangeday to sort themselves out and start gettin loads of gigs again, it seems to me that they dont seem to gig it up very often which is a shame, i thought those guys would be all over my face after their al-bum release (he he i said bum!) maybe i just dont check out when their gigs are gonna be well enough!? if you are with me though give me a 'hell yeah'!...(....) ((....) means listening out for a chorus of hell yeah's).
did you hear about the one with the fat rabbi and 44 mischevous monkeyrats?...... maybe another time yeah!?
Come on you spurs!!!!!
cRoSsRoAdSiNnIt!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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i was kinda thinkin today how strange teaching methods can be.....
my examples will follow...... read it, think about it, relate it to your own experiences, go 'oh yeah i get wot u mean' and then store it away somewhere dark!........
At a basic level of learning.... for my examples this would be GCSE P.E or a young football team...... a basic bit of knowledge is given for pupils or players to learn.... for my examples this would be 'the cause of fatigue in muscles is the build up of lactic acid' for the football team a defensive principle 'when you have possession of the ball in defence dont pass it across the face of the goal'.... Now these things have elements of truth in them but fail to give the bigger picture and this makes sense to a point as this allows pupils/players to learn slowly and build up their knowledge.... lactic acid plays a part in fatigue. its presence in the muscle is created via pyruvate which is a by-product of glycolisis (breaking down of glycogen to produce energy). Lactic acid is so unstable that in the presence of lactate dehydrogenase it becomes both lactate in the muscle and hydrogen atoms in the muscle. The cause of fatigue is brought about via the presence of these hydrogen atoms building up due to lack of oxygen delivery to the muscles allowing the hydrogen to carried away....... the defensive principle is simply to give a basic rule of not passing across the goal as this can lead to the opposition intercepting a pass close to your own goal and gifting them a clear shot on goal. The bigger picture is that this is a guideline rule for when the defence is under tight pressure from the opposition, obviously if there is no pressure on then there is no reason at all why a ball should not be passed across the face of the goal and that is even maybe a preferred option as it switches the point of attack while also finding space to play....
anyway my point is that on most cases the pupil/player learns the basic bit and never goes on to learn the whole bit due to not going on to a higher level of that subject and this creates stupidity as then the person who learns that build up of lactic acid causes fatigue or not to pass across goal believes this to be fact or whatever and then tells other people and this kind of thing leads to weird facts coming up that are not true. It doesn't really matter about the lactic acid thing i suppose but the football thing does nothing to improve the quality of football at lower levels. An improved lower level has an effect all the way up to the top..... more players with better understanding of football..... more competition for places in teams..... masses of quality players to select for the country..... win the world cup...... lots of money for the country...... countries pockets get baggy..... i think we all know what that means!?
i dont really make much sense when i go on like this but it releases endorphines into my brain so im just gonna carry on!
I gues what i mean is... when teaching someone something basic so they understand slowly and its not all too much too soon why not make sure of going on to explain the whole thing later on in the term or just even brush over it so they realise there is more to it. A good example here is that stupid thing people say that we only use 10% of our brains!? absolutely no evidence suggesting this is true and loads of evidence to suggest the opposite..... it probably came from some basic level of teaching psychology somewhere.... maybe what was meant was that at any given time we are only using 10% of our brain on average. this doesn't mean we have 90% of brain power we could use for things such as telepathy it just means that for example when you are relaxed the part of your brain that controls excitement is not being used contributing to the 90% that is inactive at that time....... geddit?
I hereby take the opportunity to apologise whole heartedly for this post!
CrossRoadzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
my examples will follow...... read it, think about it, relate it to your own experiences, go 'oh yeah i get wot u mean' and then store it away somewhere dark!........
At a basic level of learning.... for my examples this would be GCSE P.E or a young football team...... a basic bit of knowledge is given for pupils or players to learn.... for my examples this would be 'the cause of fatigue in muscles is the build up of lactic acid' for the football team a defensive principle 'when you have possession of the ball in defence dont pass it across the face of the goal'.... Now these things have elements of truth in them but fail to give the bigger picture and this makes sense to a point as this allows pupils/players to learn slowly and build up their knowledge.... lactic acid plays a part in fatigue. its presence in the muscle is created via pyruvate which is a by-product of glycolisis (breaking down of glycogen to produce energy). Lactic acid is so unstable that in the presence of lactate dehydrogenase it becomes both lactate in the muscle and hydrogen atoms in the muscle. The cause of fatigue is brought about via the presence of these hydrogen atoms building up due to lack of oxygen delivery to the muscles allowing the hydrogen to carried away....... the defensive principle is simply to give a basic rule of not passing across the goal as this can lead to the opposition intercepting a pass close to your own goal and gifting them a clear shot on goal. The bigger picture is that this is a guideline rule for when the defence is under tight pressure from the opposition, obviously if there is no pressure on then there is no reason at all why a ball should not be passed across the face of the goal and that is even maybe a preferred option as it switches the point of attack while also finding space to play....
anyway my point is that on most cases the pupil/player learns the basic bit and never goes on to learn the whole bit due to not going on to a higher level of that subject and this creates stupidity as then the person who learns that build up of lactic acid causes fatigue or not to pass across goal believes this to be fact or whatever and then tells other people and this kind of thing leads to weird facts coming up that are not true. It doesn't really matter about the lactic acid thing i suppose but the football thing does nothing to improve the quality of football at lower levels. An improved lower level has an effect all the way up to the top..... more players with better understanding of football..... more competition for places in teams..... masses of quality players to select for the country..... win the world cup...... lots of money for the country...... countries pockets get baggy..... i think we all know what that means!?
i dont really make much sense when i go on like this but it releases endorphines into my brain so im just gonna carry on!
I gues what i mean is... when teaching someone something basic so they understand slowly and its not all too much too soon why not make sure of going on to explain the whole thing later on in the term or just even brush over it so they realise there is more to it. A good example here is that stupid thing people say that we only use 10% of our brains!? absolutely no evidence suggesting this is true and loads of evidence to suggest the opposite..... it probably came from some basic level of teaching psychology somewhere.... maybe what was meant was that at any given time we are only using 10% of our brain on average. this doesn't mean we have 90% of brain power we could use for things such as telepathy it just means that for example when you are relaxed the part of your brain that controls excitement is not being used contributing to the 90% that is inactive at that time....... geddit?
I hereby take the opportunity to apologise whole heartedly for this post!
CrossRoadzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Hello again....
now i know you have all been waiting intensely for the result of the last post link game thing and while im sure you would all love me to tell you what it was exactly i think i'll just end the game here as i feel ultimately this game can only go in a downward direction from this point.... i'm kinda doin an Eric Cantona and finishing while its at its peak. I think its fair to say that there is only one winner in all of this and that it is the points master.... me! you see the game essentially had nothing to do with linking anything nor did it have anything to do with points..... i masterminded the whole damn thing before it even started with the aim something completely different to what i had you believe that it was and so involve you in something you would not have helped me to achieve in other circumstances other than for your own benefit...... Yes you may or may not have already guessed at this point i now hold the record for the most genuinely posted comments on a single post within the network of bloggers involved! by this i mean comments posted by yourself dont count and asking people to post a comment to aid you in breaking a record dont count neever!...... i win! and as the points were just a red herring you dont need to know how many points you all finished on and the reality is is that you were all just pawns being used to my benefit. I guess you could say you have all learned a valuable lesson about life and such as you could relate this to everyday situations and what not.
moving swiftly on.....
a convo i had with TheBum and others at the weekend stirred me into further research... you see i am a big fan of Derren Brown and i think some of the things he does are baffling and very interesting. i have read his book and watched all of his shows and although i agree and he explains himself that he is essentially a showman, what i believe to be true is that he is trying to explain to his audiences how illusions, hypnotism, psychology etc. all work in order to baffle you. He is also very passionate about frauds who claim magical powers. If he used actors or set-ups he would essentially be a fraud himself and after reading his book and watching him in live and pre-recorded shows i would be amazed if this was the case as he is very obviously passionate about psychology, his work and dedicates himself to what he does. I dont feel i am being naive to think this... i thought like others before seeing all of his shows but also reading his book where he explains what he is trying to do in depth. You see the structure of his programs is to lure you into his topic of trickery, using different types of tricks and such that are very different yet use the same principles, then he tells you how certain things are done. As a twist and to make his shows baffling he then goes on to do another more complex trick to make you think what the french connection UK! he does this to make you think outside the box as to how he did it.... the clue to how he did it comes from the explanation of the certain principles earlier on only it involves more complex ideas.
um that wasn't gonna be my point....... i somehow went into one... sorry! my point was gonna be about the news article TheBum read about Derren Brown admitting his russain roulette thing was a hoax. what has happened here (from what i can see from reading the article from the BBC and listening to what TheBum said) is a reporter has taken certain statements made from Jersey spokepeople and statements from the shows producers and taken things out of context and made it look like there was an admission from somewhere of a hoax. TheBum has read this and disregarded the clues that suggest this. (this ties in nicely with what Tobiwan and TehJayHawk harp on about in their blogs.)
What the Jersey police said to cover their own backs was that no live ammunition was used and no one was in any danger of being hurt. Ok they used blanks but you probably know blanks can still be extremely dangerous and can kill when fired at point blank range.... Derren was pulling the trigger with the thing pushed against his head. They said no one was in any danger of being hurt. this was not because it was a hoax, this was because 'after investigating into how the stunt was performed' they came to the conclusion that there was no risk. This means they found out how its done and realised its a tried and tested method of psychology used in many different forms by magicians all over the world. The man who loaded the gun was not an actor, the gun did have a blank loaded into it and Derren Brown new the trick would work and so had no problem pulling the trigger against his own head. Just because mistakes happen and this was potentially something very stupid to perform... NEARLY live on TV... in case something did go wrong..... doesn't mean it was a hoax! How did Harry Houdini die again?
oh and another version of the trick in a different format is magicians use polystyrene cups with fuck off great big nail which a member of the audience placed under one... the magician then slams his hand down on the cups one by one leaving the nailed one till the end. Use the internet and you will find footage of it going wrong in one case the magician used a member of the audiences hand and held her wrist slammed her hand on the wrong cup and as you can imagine his act stopped short.
The End
Im right
Cross Roads
moving swiftly on.....
a convo i had with TheBum and others at the weekend stirred me into further research... you see i am a big fan of Derren Brown and i think some of the things he does are baffling and very interesting. i have read his book and watched all of his shows and although i agree and he explains himself that he is essentially a showman, what i believe to be true is that he is trying to explain to his audiences how illusions, hypnotism, psychology etc. all work in order to baffle you. He is also very passionate about frauds who claim magical powers. If he used actors or set-ups he would essentially be a fraud himself and after reading his book and watching him in live and pre-recorded shows i would be amazed if this was the case as he is very obviously passionate about psychology, his work and dedicates himself to what he does. I dont feel i am being naive to think this... i thought like others before seeing all of his shows but also reading his book where he explains what he is trying to do in depth. You see the structure of his programs is to lure you into his topic of trickery, using different types of tricks and such that are very different yet use the same principles, then he tells you how certain things are done. As a twist and to make his shows baffling he then goes on to do another more complex trick to make you think what the french connection UK! he does this to make you think outside the box as to how he did it.... the clue to how he did it comes from the explanation of the certain principles earlier on only it involves more complex ideas.
um that wasn't gonna be my point....... i somehow went into one... sorry! my point was gonna be about the news article TheBum read about Derren Brown admitting his russain roulette thing was a hoax. what has happened here (from what i can see from reading the article from the BBC and listening to what TheBum said) is a reporter has taken certain statements made from Jersey spokepeople and statements from the shows producers and taken things out of context and made it look like there was an admission from somewhere of a hoax. TheBum has read this and disregarded the clues that suggest this. (this ties in nicely with what Tobiwan and TehJayHawk harp on about in their blogs.)
What the Jersey police said to cover their own backs was that no live ammunition was used and no one was in any danger of being hurt. Ok they used blanks but you probably know blanks can still be extremely dangerous and can kill when fired at point blank range.... Derren was pulling the trigger with the thing pushed against his head. They said no one was in any danger of being hurt. this was not because it was a hoax, this was because 'after investigating into how the stunt was performed' they came to the conclusion that there was no risk. This means they found out how its done and realised its a tried and tested method of psychology used in many different forms by magicians all over the world. The man who loaded the gun was not an actor, the gun did have a blank loaded into it and Derren Brown new the trick would work and so had no problem pulling the trigger against his own head. Just because mistakes happen and this was potentially something very stupid to perform... NEARLY live on TV... in case something did go wrong..... doesn't mean it was a hoax! How did Harry Houdini die again?
oh and another version of the trick in a different format is magicians use polystyrene cups with fuck off great big nail which a member of the audience placed under one... the magician then slams his hand down on the cups one by one leaving the nailed one till the end. Use the internet and you will find footage of it going wrong in one case the magician used a member of the audiences hand and held her wrist slammed her hand on the wrong cup and as you can imagine his act stopped short.
The End
Im right
Cross Roads
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Who said the Hawkins family weren't competitive!?
I dont think i have ever recieved 8 comments on one of my posts, yet start a silly little game and the Hawkins mob cant get enough!
I've had phone calls about gaining points and heard of gloating and squabbling amongst the masses!
Now..... this is how it works. I am the protector of the points and it is through my discretion that points shall be awarded, subtracted, multiplied, fried and high fived!.... scuba dived!
This game is by no means to be taken as a personal assault on yourselves!... or on your shelves!
The points king takes bribing and such as a very serious breaking of the rules!!! points shall be earned and if certain game players wish to climb the rankings then they need to start making those links!
Now the last link was.... when explaining the previous link i stated that i removed certain letters and replaced them with others..... the first 4 letters of the new letters spelt out ROSS..... ross is the first name of ross kemp.... who made a tv series called ross kemp on gangs!
the new standings look like this:
Tobiwan: 10,000 (still out in the lead for BEING CREATIVE in the first round, although earning nil pwuh this time round)
JayHawk:6,800 (this was half of the overall points allocated for this round for getting half right... oh and he has a game in hand)
AllThingsMother: 0 (this may seem harsh but unfortunately giving birth to me has no effect on getting points as this game isn't called 'give arguments as to why you should get points' it is merely called 'the linking game'! also this bordered on bribary however you made an attempt at guessing the link (the spleen thing..... dunno how you got there!?) and this has saved you from having points subtracted from you)....(thanks for joining in though its made the game a bit more exciting with more players!)
El'sBells: 0 (this is actually a gain in points since the last time. these points have been awarded for not getting mixed up in all the silly-nisss this game seems to have brought about!)
LookBeforeYouCrossroads!
I've had phone calls about gaining points and heard of gloating and squabbling amongst the masses!
Now..... this is how it works. I am the protector of the points and it is through my discretion that points shall be awarded, subtracted, multiplied, fried and high fived!.... scuba dived!
This game is by no means to be taken as a personal assault on yourselves!... or on your shelves!
The points king takes bribing and such as a very serious breaking of the rules!!! points shall be earned and if certain game players wish to climb the rankings then they need to start making those links!
Now the last link was.... when explaining the previous link i stated that i removed certain letters and replaced them with others..... the first 4 letters of the new letters spelt out ROSS..... ross is the first name of ross kemp.... who made a tv series called ross kemp on gangs!
the new standings look like this:
Tobiwan: 10,000 (still out in the lead for BEING CREATIVE in the first round, although earning nil pwuh this time round)
JayHawk:6,800 (this was half of the overall points allocated for this round for getting half right... oh and he has a game in hand)
AllThingsMother: 0 (this may seem harsh but unfortunately giving birth to me has no effect on getting points as this game isn't called 'give arguments as to why you should get points' it is merely called 'the linking game'! also this bordered on bribary however you made an attempt at guessing the link (the spleen thing..... dunno how you got there!?) and this has saved you from having points subtracted from you)....(thanks for joining in though its made the game a bit more exciting with more players!)
El'sBells: 0 (this is actually a gain in points since the last time. these points have been awarded for not getting mixed up in all the silly-nisss this game seems to have brought about!)
LookBeforeYouCrossroads!
Monday, February 04, 2008
Untitled...
well tobiwan seemed to be the only person to have a go at the linking game (see comments on last post) and although he did not win he gets 10,000 extra bonus points for impressing me with an outstanding link to my last post. I was stinkingly naive to think that there could be but one link that makes peoples spleens go pop. The correct link was that i mentioned Ashley Cole being a muppet..... Mr. Cole plays for Chelsea F.C. which is owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abromovich..... as such Chelsea have since been nicknamed Chelski......... i simply removed the letters h, e and l and replaced them with r, o, s, s, r, o, a and d! Easy!
So now the score reads,
Tobiwan: 10,000
El: -792 (for posting a comment but failing to attempt a guess at the link)
JayHawk: 0 (for not posting a guess and playing along although i know he's out there coz he posts from time to time!)
No one else has a score as im not really sure that anyone else reads this blog page...... does that make you 3 guys feel exclusive?
Crossroads-on-gangs
So now the score reads,
Tobiwan: 10,000
El: -792 (for posting a comment but failing to attempt a guess at the link)
JayHawk: 0 (for not posting a guess and playing along although i know he's out there coz he posts from time to time!)
No one else has a score as im not really sure that anyone else reads this blog page...... does that make you 3 guys feel exclusive?
Crossroads-on-gangs
Friday, February 01, 2008
ummm!?
ok a picture of me with my nipple out should have appeared on the previous nipple.... i mean post. sad times! it took me half hour to figure out how to post a picture but its just too hard and now my nipples will be...... wait i mean now i cant be bothered to try again! why dont they make it easy like dragging a picture straight out of kodak and putting it straight onto the nipple.... dammit!.... post. the people who design these computery things should really stay a-breast of the situation and try to make it simple for computer-illiterate freaks of modern society like mynipples...... i mean myself...... and my nipples.
try saying nipples 50 times out loud and for some reason the word sounds wierder the more you say it! now try saying just nipple.... really quietly.... almost a whisper...... now touch your left nipple gently........ urr you just touched your nipple while saying nipple to yourself quietly!
anywayz i gotta go get on with stuff i cant hang around here all day talking about nipples.... i might turn into one!
does anyone know where i might find Cheryl Cole? i've got a shoulder she can cry on.....
Ashley Cole..... what a muppet!
ive got a new little game for my blog, feel free to join in at any time. you have to guess at what the link is between my post and the style of crossroading at the end of the post. so for example if i were to post and at some point mention i was in a bad mood...... imcrossroads. geddit? now this can be as obscure and tedious a link as i see fit. answers will be posted on the following post and winners will recieve a special mention aswell.
Crossroadski
try saying nipples 50 times out loud and for some reason the word sounds wierder the more you say it! now try saying just nipple.... really quietly.... almost a whisper...... now touch your left nipple gently........ urr you just touched your nipple while saying nipple to yourself quietly!
anywayz i gotta go get on with stuff i cant hang around here all day talking about nipples.... i might turn into one!
does anyone know where i might find Cheryl Cole? i've got a shoulder she can cry on.....
Ashley Cole..... what a muppet!
ive got a new little game for my blog, feel free to join in at any time. you have to guess at what the link is between my post and the style of crossroading at the end of the post. so for example if i were to post and at some point mention i was in a bad mood...... imcrossroads. geddit? now this can be as obscure and tedious a link as i see fit. answers will be posted on the following post and winners will recieve a special mention aswell.
Crossroadski
Neee-Pley!
All shall bow to the mighty Neee-Pley!
Dont stare.... its rude to stare!
crossnipples.... i mean roads
Dont stare.... its rude to stare!
crossnipples.... i mean roads
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