A Way Out

In Great Britain, all bar staff and premises that have a licence to serve alcohol are trained to respond to the phrase "Can I speak to Angela?" or "Is Angela there?". It is a code word for people that are being stalked or feel unsafe because of another person. If you say the phrase, they will take you to the staff room and lock you in there and ask if you want them to call the police or if you just want to wait there for a while until the person goes away or if you need a taxi. 

~ image generated by artificial intelligence (chatGPT)

In Britain there is also has a free telephone number you can call if you're going through a mental health crisis. It is the number 116 123; the number will go through to a Samaritans operator that will try help you escape suicidal thoughts or extreme stress without affecting your privacy. If you're  overcome by grief or dread, you can call them up and they will talk to you. The number is free and there are no strings attached. 

Emoji Chart

Have you ever looked at an emoji and wandered what it means? Do you know what an emoji is? An emoji is a small image that fits in the space of a text character and is treated like text by media systems. It's usually a smiling face. 

😀 = Happy or pleased with an answer.

😄 = Happy and amused with an outcome.

😁 = Happy and excited and cheeky. 

😆 = Playful laughter.

😅 = Close shave, awkwardness or relief. 

😂 = Shedding tears from laughing. 

🤣 = Rolling over with tears from laughing. 

😭 = weeping, sadness, grief. 

😉 = Playful, mischievous, fun. 

😗😙😚😘 = kissing, to send a kiss. Romance.

🥰 = loved, feeling loved. 

😍 = Infatuation, love, adoration

🤩 = Overcome with excitement, starstruck. 

🥳 = Celebration 

🫠 = Too hot, shame, awkwardness 

🙃 = Sarcasm, being silly. Playful. 

🙂 = Happy 

🥲 = Being touched by joy or nostalgia. 

🥹 = Being emotional 

😊☺️😌 = Different degrees of joy and peace.

~image generated by artificial intelligence (chatGPT) 

🙂‍↕️ = Agreement, agreeing to a statement. 

🙂‍↔️ = Disagreement or Disagreeing.

😏 = Feeling smug or a sense of irony. 

🤤 = Drooling, a craving or lust. 

😋 = Craving food or drink. 

😛 = Joking or Just Joking 

😜 = Joking and teasing 

🤪 = Joking teasing and sarcasm. 

🥴 = Feeling dizzy or disoriented. 

😔 = Disappointment.

🥺 = Seeking or feeling sympathy. 

😬 = Feeling nervous or discomfort. 

😑 = Lack of interest or boredom. 

😐 = Not wanting involvement. 

😶 = Speechless or lost for words. 

😶‍🌫️ = Being confused or absent minded. 

🫥 = Being excluded or hidden. 

🤐 = Keeping a secret or silence.

🫡 = Agreement and promise formal. 

🤔 = Pondering or to ponder. 

🤫 = Keep it a secret, don't discuss. 

🫢 = Feeling shocked or Surprised. 

🤭 = Pleasantly shocked or Surprised. 

🥱 = Normally tiredness. 

🤗 = A hug or gratitude. 

🫣 = Surprised in a nervous way. 

😱 = Fear or shock, negative. 

🤨 = Scepticism or disbelief. 

🧐 = Pondering sceptically. 

😒 = Mostly for irritation or annoyed. 

🙄 = Disbelief or impatience. 

😮‍💨 = Feeling relieved or exhausted. 

😤 = Mostly Frustration. 

😠 = Angry and Annoyed. 

😡 = Very angry and annoyed. 

🤬 = Anger 

😞 = Disappointment 

😓 = Disappointed and frustrated 

😟 = Worried 

😥 = Worried and Stressed 

😢 = Worried and Sad 

☹️ = Sadness, Feeling sad.

🫤 = Confused and Annoyed.

😕 = Unsure or slightly annoyed. 

😰 = Stress 

😨 = Surprise and fear. 

😧😦😮😯😲 = Different levels of surprise.  

😳 = Shame or embarrassment. 

🤯 = Mind blown, amazed. 

😖 = Being overwhelmed by negative feelings. 

😣 = Feeling helpless. Out of control. 

😩 = Frustration 

😫 = Exhausted and Frustrated. 

😵 = Physically overwhelmed. 

😵‍💫 = Dizziness. 

🫨 = Being shocked by news.

🥶 = Feeling cold or cold personality. 

🥵 = Feeling Hot. 

🤢 = Feeling sick

🤮 = Being sick. 

😴 = Sleeping, going to sleep. 

😪 = Sleepy. 

🤧 = Fever or sneezing.

🤒 = Fever only 

🤕 = Injured 

😷 = At hospital or doctors 

🤥 = Telling a lie. 

😇 = Kind or innocent.

🤠 = Cowboy related. Dualing wripped off. 

🤑 = Excited about recieving money.

🤓 = Geeky or Intelligent 

🥸 = Hidden personality or humour.

🤡 = A fool or a literal clown. 

Mc Nugget Tetris

In China in 2023, McDonald's released a fully licensed Tetris computer games console with its chicken nuggets meal. 

~image generated by artificial intelligence (chatGPT)

It is a black and white LCD brick game similar to the stick man LCD games released by tiger electronics. It was flogged as the mc Nugget Tetris Game and even played the Tetris theme tune. 

I was happy with the Uno playing cards myself; I thought they were quite cool. Around the same time here in the UK I recall McDonald's giving away Uno card deck with the children's happy meal. It was smaller than the original Uno playing deck but it worked fine. 

Sources

1) Google Gemini 

2) video https:https://youtu.be/y1rKPQxxpM8?si=7r2aHzjKvdQ1CEGd (you tube sometimes plays adverts before the video starts). 

Texas

Recently there was flooding in Texas. Here is some interesting facts about Texas. 

Texas is the 28th state of America and it existed as an independent country before it joined the union.

~image generated by artificial intelligence (chatGPT) 

Texas is absolutely huge. Many countries would fit inside Texas. Germany, United Kingdom, Italy would all fit the area of Texas at the same time. 

Texas has a surface area of 695,662 km². More than half a million square kilometres. 

Buy House Online

I searched Amazon and noticed it is possible to buy a prefabricated house for less than £10,000 

~ image generated by artificial intelligence 

You would need to buy land and have planning permission but the whole house would come through the post. Very cool. 

The price goes up with size but a lot of them are around £10,000 and have plenty of space. 

This one is twice the price but it has a porch and 2 or 3 bedrooms. 

A Tea for an AI sketch

I asked some artificial intelligence systems how much energy they use when summoned to draw an image. 

They all came to the conclusion that is varies from 100th of a kilowatt-hour to one tenth of a kilowatt-hour. 

It takes AI roughly enough energy to heat up a cup of coffee to make one image

~image generated by artificial intelligence (chatGPT) 

The AI systems agreed that the human brain uses about half a kilowatt-hour per day. The human brain is constantly processing image and sound information and controlling the body at the same time. The Human Brain does more processing work with less energy. It is a whole little world powered by an egg and cress sandwich. It hosts consciousness itself and countless thoughts. 

The Moon

Here are things you can do on the moon that you can't do on Earth. 

You can lift a car. If there was a car on the moon, you would probably be able to lift it because it would only be one sixth of its weight. It would still be very heavy though. 

On the moon you can build much taller buildings than on Earth because there is less pressure on the structures. It would be easy to have a building that was more that 1000 meters tall. On Earth it would be very difficult. 

You can see the stars the way they are in their true colour. During a moon night, the stars don't flicker, and you can see their colour the way it is; even the sun looks white on the moon because there is no air to scatter the blue portion of the light away from the light rays. 

On the moon you can leave a foot print or hand print and it can stay there for thousands of years because there is no air or rain to wash it away. 

On the moon you can enjoy a day that lasts for 2 weeks and a night that lasts for 2 weeks. One day on the moon lasts for 28 earth days (4 weeks). The day time is 2 weeks and the night time is 2 weeks. 

Sources 

The Value of the Moon: How to Explore, Industrialize, and Settle the Moon, and Why It Matters" by Paul D. Spudis

Beyond Earth: Our Future in Space by Michael J. Neufeld