Chorizo and scambled egg

The other night at an award winning tapas bar in a certain Yorkshire town I was served a tapa of Chorizo and scambled egg.

 

As a combo, I'm not so sure.

 

What I was more irritated by, well not irritated, but thought comment-worthy, seeing as I was one of about three people in the place, was that my feedback was met with a stony silence.

 

I didn't expect a free glass of sherry, but.... go feedback!

 

The scrambled egg needed much more seasoning!

 

Got to be prepared to receive it too.

Granny air bag

Granny air bag

The most amazing footage of a great, great moment, whether real or not.

Inception

Dream within a dream within a dream:

 

Liked the idea of creating a dream maze, the idea of ones subconscious taking the form of people who then attack any intruders and the idea of the impossibility of knowing whether we are dreaming or not. 

 

Great dreamscape reminiscent of Where Eagles Dare.

 

What else? Thought insertion and withdrawal...one could go on and on.......and on

Looking the part

Never been into wearing suits. They say that it neutralises one, that it stops people thinking about your clothes rather than what you say; the words, the song, the dance? Not sure about this.

I do accept that keeping up appearances is appropriate...sometimes. The mental state examination includes making a note of a patient's appearance.

Equally looking good can make you feel better. But you can look and feel good in a pair of jeans, can't you?

Nine key steps to understanding the internet

Taken from John Naughton, the Observer, News Review 20.06.10, a framework for seeing the phenomenon 'in the round'

1. Take the long view; it's too early to say what's going on
2. The web isn't the net; web pages are only one of many kinds of traffic
3. Disruption is a feature, not a bug; intentional facility i.e. deliberate
4. Think ecology, not economics; dinosaurs trudge (eg Encyclopaedia Britannica) alongside giant new life forms (Google, Facebook). "Increased bio-diversity closely correlated with higher whole-system complexity"
5. Complexity is the New Reality; intelligence, agility, responsiveness, and a willingness to experiment (and fail) provide better strategies to deal with the emerging environment
6. The network is now the computer; the transition to the cloud has profound implications, including greater dependency. We're sleepwalking into this brave new world.
7. The web is changing; no longer just a publication medium (web 1.0). Web 2.0  "small pieces, loosely joined. Web 3.0 "semantic web", global, self organising...
8. Huxley and Orwell are the bookends of our future; insights that we will be destroyed by the things we fear (Huxley) and love (Orwell)
9. Our intellectual property regime is no longer fit for purpose

Influencing others and changing people

It's not my intention to make this a self improvement/advice offering blog but..... let me suggest this to you...

 (reminds of that Peter Cook sketch where he plays McMillan and says "I received a letter, the contents of which are indellibly imprinted on my mind, let me read it to you")

.....when trying to influence oneself and others, there are ways of doing it;

• Evidence (philosophy and history)
• Money (economics)
• Force (Politics)
• CBT (psychology)
• Separation (geography)
• Conversation and love (?sociology)

For examples,

• If you do it like this, you'll achieve what you are trying to.
• Do it and I'll give you a fiver/you'll get rich.
• Do it or else.
• Do this and it 'll make you feel like you're getting what you want.
• Go away so I can get on with it.
• Come on, lets do it together. We'll get it done quicker, we'll both learn from it and perhaps we'll even enjoy doing it. We might even want to do it again.

How to converse

I'm not interested in learning how to chat someone up, but when you put 'conversation' into Google, you come up with some funny stuff. Either click on the links or do the search yourself

Have a great conversation
Come-Up-with-Good-Conversation-Topics
About Dating
how-to-be-a-brilliant-conversationalist

Structuring a post, a template if you like

One could use this structure:

1. Context, goals
   
2. Current processes
3. Outcomes

One could just write what one thinks and feels one wants to write.

Groups and cults

I've just set up a couple of Google groups, one to discuss Conversation itself and the other for people interested in EDCOE, Emergency Department Care of the Elderly.

For now they are invitation only, though my intention is to open them up if there seems to be an appetite.

If strangers follow for my tweets, they might want to participate in these group.