I'm a Doctor, not a blogger.

I had intended to write a blog post about my plans for this year but then Star Trek: Online went free to play. So in honour of this wonderfully beautiful fact I'll write a short review of the game then I'll boast about a recent purchase I made, then I'll tell you my plans for the year, is that ok with you? (Don't answer that, this isn't a democracy.)

Star Trek: Online (STO) is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, or Muhmorpuhguh(MMORPG) I've played it for 3 or 4 days now and my honest opinion is that it's a very good game. I didn't like it at first because I couldn't quite work out what was missing that made it feel so hollow but once I placed it I was able to move on from that. What was missing was that space flight was lacking that "Oh my effing gee I'm in a space ship moving at a theoretical maximum of 9.9 times the speed of light to the power of 10" feeling and felt more like going for a stroll while having small white things thrown at you. But once you get over the disappointment of warp speed feeling more like a brisk jog. If you like Star Trek you really should give ST:O a go, it's a brilliant way to re-enter the incredible universe created by Gene Roddenberry. It hasn't been cannibalised for profit which was my biggest fear at first but it's so faithful, with hundreds of throwbacks to the series, whether that's NPCs (Non-Playable Characters) who are in some way related to a series character or a mission in reference to a series plot.
I started off playing as my favourite species in the Star Trek universe, the Ferengi, (Jooble Blob the Ferengi Engineer, to be precise.) but found myself unable to role-play properly as their preferred tactics in battle tend to be to run away screaming, but boy do they have the lobes for profit. I restarted in the late hours of Saturday in a fascinating new role, Lieutenant Commander Solak the Vulcan science officer, Captain of the U.S.S Un-Imaginable, formerly of the Un-Fathomable, jointly of the Un-Thinkable. He's having a whale of a time running missions for the United Federation of Planets. It really is a brilliantly faithful and enjoyable game, so much so in fact that it's torn me away from Skyrim, which has been my life since 11/11/11.


My recent purchase is a wonderful piece of magic called the Asus EeePad Transformer Prime (and yes, I'm aware of the cheap sales move to put the words "Transformer" and "Prime" in the same search key so Optimus Prime, of Transformers can give them some accidental advertising.) It's brilliant, in fact I'm typing up this post on it as we speak. It's a tablet that connects with a keyboard dock, thus converting it into a touch screen notebook.
It runs Android (Ice cream Sandwich, 4.0) on a 1280x800 touch-screen using the world's first quad-core tablet CPU and come with a standard 32GB flash storage, full specs here.
I'm still discovering things right now, like the fact that it comes with a free copy of splashtop remote desktop functionality for accessing computers on the same wi-fi seamlessly, I've played with that kind of software before but it's never felt as smooth, always been jittery and had resolution problems, this one changes the host PC(or Mac)'s resolution to match that of the remote device which was really the icing on the cake for me.
The keyboard dock is incredible, at first I half expected it to be a cheap clunky horrible affair that I'd only use to dock the tablet in when I wasn't using it but no, I find myself using it as a laptop more than a tablet, which I tend to use mostly for games and the occasional portrait view of something. The dock also comes with a built in SD card reader and USB slot for connecting an external storage of cd/DVD drive to.


My new year's resolutions are as follows, yes I know it's almost a month late but I only just decided to have some, so shoot me (please don't).
Learn a new word (how to spell it, how to pronounce it and how to use it in context) each week.
Go on a 2 hour long walk 3 times a week.
Get a job and finish my Computer Engineering Level 2 BTEC studies, been slacking off recently.
Study in intricate detail the back of my own hands so I can use the phrase "I know it like the back of my hand." and not feel like a liar.
and most importantly, blog once a week.

I'm feeling morbid.

So I'm feeling morbid and would like to make my post-death ritualistic wishes known.

And then I'll tell you about my newest best friend. Fun times.

Most importantly, I want my organs to be donated to science, along with a few tissue samples and bones. Keep in mind that it's VITAL that my brain is kept safe, I want a future brain robot, and while you're at it keep my hard drive(s) with it, I'll want my films/games/by then vintage software. I DEMAND to be a part of the future society where everyone is equal and hard currency has been outlawed.. stupid pennies.

Now that the organs have been harvested and my body is all researched out I want you to have my remains cremated. and stored in this awesome urn I've designed. It's basically a box made of brushed black metal with a little screen on the front saying Status: Dead for - YY:DD:HH:MM:SS:ss (Y = Years, D = Days, H = Hours, M = Minutes, S = Seconds, s = Milliseconds). This clock will continue ticking FOREVER.. I'm assuming that by the time I die we'll have batteries that fit in an urn that can power a small monochrome LCD stopwatch for a couple of millenia. (Yes, that's STOPwatch because I intend to stop it when I'm ressurected/put in a robot.)
Could 25% of my ashes be used to fertilize a newly planted tree please? I'd like to wake up in the future and tend to my own death tree, it's suitably morbid.]

The next ones can be overridden by my next of kin.

I'd like my funeral to follow usual funeral rules. No emphasis on a christian god please. However out of respect for my upbringing, family and friends I'd like a Christian burial. I respect other people's beliefs so I encourage the people who are there to talk about/pray to their own god.

If I haven't married and/or had children yet I'd like my man juice to be donated. Nuff said.

Although I know right now that I would NEVER do any of these crimes, hence my hatred of them. If I commit Murder, Rape, or in ANY way harm a child I don't want anyone to respect my wishes, I don't want a marked grave or any respect whatever. These things disgust me, they're my Unforgivable Curses.
Note: Manslaughter doesn't count as murder, knowing me, it was probably an accident.

Now that that's sorted, onto the next topic.
I met a wonderful girl called Cassy on Dailybooth, fell in love with her for a while, but that's sorted now, we're something even better than lovers.. we're best friends. She's a bit brilliant, and American, I do love how well she takes my mocking of her language... "English" pah, that's a deformity.. "Cookies" "Favorite" nonsense. She just started Youtubing and is surprisingly good.. I was worried about having to lie to make her feel good but no.. I didn't have to lie.

I'm not a racist, I'm just white.

I've just had a long debate about drug trials, the pros and the cons, and the problem with permission et cetera.
This particular trial is regarding Menigitis drug, 200 children were picked out for drug trials, 100 were given the drug that works (ceftriaxone) and 100 were given the experimental drug (Trovan) that was on trial.
11 Children died after being given the drugs and a dozen suffered mental and physical harm. Statistically that's 23 children out of 200, just over 10% harmed. YES that's bad but flip that around, it worked for 90% thats 90% of those children who will now have a "normal" life. The scandal with this is that the medicine company (Pfizer) didn't have consent to trial the untested drug on some of the children (this is bad, I'm not denying it.. but 90% success rates don't lie.)
The reason why I'm so angry and writing this blog post is because the children were Nigerian. The debate I was having was me against 3 other people (that's how I saw them), I was advocating for drug trials, they were advocating against them.
Then out of the blue, this is said:

BUT...the point here is why they didn't steal drug trials in their location, or test on them selves, [...]  from this angle what u r saying "It had to be someone, it might as well have been those Nigerians" ..but what u dnt get is that you are speaking directly to them.

I hadn't even THOUGHT about their nationality, what the hell difference does that make? Do Nigerians have better immune systems? This is about drug trials and the ethics of consent. Not drug trials and by the way they're black.
So I'm a racist because I don't see how skin colour and bloodlines make a difference. Now please, there's a comment section below, feel free to correct me. But I'm pretty sure that viewing all nationalities and skin colours as equal is the polar OPPOSITE of racism.

This got me thinking, I'm a white man and I've just been accused of being racist for not being sensitive enough.
I'm ok with that, as long as it's the same with black men, if a black man insults a white man because he's white that's racist too isn't it? I'm pretty sure it is. Lets have a look:




LOL! Black man doesn't like her boyfriend cause he's white, that's HILARIOUS. That needs to be nominated for awards.
Reverse those roles, white girl brings her black boyfriend home to meet her parents, and her white parents don't like him because he's black. This is racist, that film can't be allowed to hit cinemas.