Tube

Woke up midweek with the oddest dream, that they actually implemented tube travel in South London.  Then spent the next 30 or so minutes awake going through what it would mean and what stations would be represented. I came to the conclusion thatan off shoot from North Greenwich on the Jubilee line that went on to serve Bluewater shopping mall, via Plumstead and Bexleyheath, would be the best bet.

For those that don't know, the tube only really serves London, north of the river Thames. There are great links to the east and west along with inroads into Middlesex and Essex. But there is only token support for South London with the Northern Line terminating at Morden going someway to redress the balance.

I know we have the DLR now but consider this. When I was small our nearest tube was Elephant And Castle, a long bus trip away, and no New Cross station, does not count. 

While doing research for this, I found one of my holy grail's, an actual inverted map that shows the extent of the lines if they were represented from a south London point of view.

There are links to Leatherhead and Chessington, World of Adventures in the south, and Tonbridge Wells and East Grinstead in the extreme south east.  Dartford seems to have sprouted an airport, as it correlates to where Heathrow is in its inverse form.  Croydon is mainly part of the Jubilee line now so its goodbye trams and hello tube.

Most of south London proper, seems to be the same with only Camberwell gaining a tube stop and a few stops for Peckham and Walworth.

The not DLR now terminates at Kingston in the west rather than at Woolwich Arsenal, and what ever the white line serves Kew and its Gardens, much in the same way the district line does now.

As a final note, at secondary school in design and communication, one of the projects was coming up with a tube line that served south east London...  The more that changes, eh.

More computer Ideas.

Had this idea for awhile seeing as the found laptop I had is a total bust, and it goes something like this.

Its a bit of a hark back to the old days of computing this, but the weakest part of the laptop is of course the screen and whatever it uses to join to the main base unit.  It gets knocked and maltreated and before long its damaged often beyond repair. My idea is to make the screen optional, kind of like the Surface from Microsoft but not obviously a touch screen, unless of course you want that.

People seem to have either smart phones, tablets or big screen TV's that make would excellent replacement screens without you requiring an actual attached screen.  I'm not sure how or indeed if you can use a tablet as an external screen but most modern TVs can be put to use as an external screen thanks to modern displays (and appropriate cabling).  I'd love to see some modern day PC riffing off the old Amiga and ST of just a base unit but being light enough to carry round in a bag.

Dreams of Trevor Chester and worse.

My whole body system is down with a tenacious flu virus at present, so am typing this Ted style with a blanket over my head.

I.e. ultra conservative Muslims

The bastard made itself known on Tuesday, coming in from work all I could do was sleep, we had a prior engagement (an eyetest which resulted in some handsome new glasses),  and for the next 3 days it pitched between being zombie style lucid and trying to sleep.

Its not cheese that gives you nightmares its flu.  First I kept generating L shaped tetris blocks whenever I coughed, and if you cough a lot believe me they build up.  The next night was the  complete opposite, the golden age of rave with full on psychedelia at a breakneck pace.  We tried our best to work with this and would have made an absolute blinding video back in the day.   The third day was more sinister dealing with being accused in dream of being a paedo, (I'm not, but see those afflicted as having a type of psychosexual compulsion).  Oh and you are only a paedo if the child you fiddle diddle is under 13, you are thanks to Wikipaedia, known as an ephebephiliac which means lover of the young.  My dreams are lucid and we decided we'll pray to the God who'll help.  See above, yeah we even renamed the evil accuser as Death Adder.

Wheres yer child?

 Its sort of normalling down now, so this sort of shit should become a thing of the past soon.

But now I'm fired up and we'll might as well as give you a proper post on who Trevor Chester was.

Trevors
 
There was a proper kids entertainer called Charlie Chester and while not on television in the mid 80s to 90s, was probably known about through kids parents and grandparents. Its an obvious rhyme to child molester, see above, the sort of dodgy Trevor who tried to show kids puppies and give car lifts that we were warned about.  

Trevor is possibly a corruption or mishearing of this and spread through our playground, 4chan had Pedobear lifted from 2chan, we had a corrupted Charlie Chester.  Peace and indeed out.