by MindNinja | Oct 26, 2009 | Mind Power
QUICK! Think of a regular pack of 53 cards. Pick one of those cards.
“You picked the Joker right?”
Don’t feel bad if you did, 80% of people will pick the Joker when asked, because I mentioned 53 card deck, not 52. People are easy to manipulate. Lets try some more.
Think of a Card, any card, make a bright image of it in your mind.
“You thinking heart/diamond?”
Make sure you have a feel for the card! *bang fist to chest*
“You thinking heart now?”
You seeing how you can influence people into thinking along the lines you want? Lets have a couple of more.
Think of a card, see the number of the card in your mind.
OK, so you will not be picking Jack,Queen, King!
Think of a card, concentrate, see the picture on the card!
Now its likely to be a face card, Jack, Queen, King.
You put a load of these slight suggestions together into the sentence asking them to pick a card, and you will be able to guess the correct card 9 times out of 10.
This is the very basic beginings of more complicated mind control/Influence like the things Derren Brown does.
I am trying to teach myself these Jedi Mind Powers, and have decided to blog some of my experiments, thought, suggestions, as I go along.
So watch this space.
by GothNinja | Oct 21, 2009 | Travel
I thought I would tell you about an incident that took place the other week on my commute into the Asylum. Its an interesting look into the stupidity of the human mind, and how people will risk lives to get an extra few minutes before leaving for work. Its madness if you ask me, leave on time, leave five minutes early, Hell be five minutes late, its not worth dying for. If you want to risk your life and die, join the forces overseas. don’t risk innocent lives in collateral damage.
Let me explain.
I was driving along enjoying the countryside, I was the front car on my side the road, so clear road all the way. That is to say clear apart from the lane of oncoming traffic. Well It was early morning commute hour. So I’m driving along when one of the oncoming cars decides he wants to go faster so starts overtaking the rest of the traffic in his lane. The side affect of that is he’s now in my lane accelerating towards me, and there’s no way he can make the front of the cars and pull back in before he will reach me “This could be messy“. So being the sensible person I occasionally pretend to be, I decide to slow down in the hope he can make it.
“This may work… WTF!!!!!” Since I am now slowing down to try and avoid a head on collision, the car behind me has decided he’s in a rush so is now overtaking me to get in front. Yes dear reader we have two idiots trying to overtake into the path of oncoming vehicles AT THE SAME TIME! If i was not actually there at the time, I would expect this to be the plot of some comedy. We now have four cars heading towards each other at high speeds. Yes that’s two cars in each lane heading at each other. Its such a hard concept to consider since all you with normal minds will be going “what? he cant mean they were all heading at each other” I’ve made a small image to show exactly what I mean.
How this did not end up in a multiple car pile up, I am still trying to work out. As soon as it got into the situation shown, I drove my car off the road and up a grassy bank to make sure I was out the way. The car heading towards me managed since I was no longer on the road to drive through where I should have been, and using the gap created by the second idiot being in the wrong lane to pull back into his correct lane before he reached the next car along on my side of the road. The two cars on the other side of the road, thanks to some good emergency stopping & breaks managed to come to a rest with their bumpers touching, and the other cars had slowed down like me, seeing the possibility of a crash.
Why people, Why? Is it really so bad that you may be 1 minute late?
Please think and drive!
by CodeNinja | Oct 16, 2009 | Alarms, Family
I was at my parents place last night for a family meal. As I went to retrieve my laptop bag and coat to leave I spotted my father moving the furniture in their 1st room apart to make a large free area of floor. (No idea what you would call the room, it looks like a sitting room with a comfortable sofa, coffee table, etc. They just never use it for anything) ..
Now nothing my parents do really surprises me so I ignored it and collected my stuff, as i went to leave my Dad said “I’m just checking this thing i think i have a fault somewhere” So I look at him to see if he’s talking to me or himself. I get another couple of steps closer the door “I’m programing this nurse call system i designed…” OK i think, He must be proud of it and want to show me what he’s done. So I wander over to where he’s laying out blueprints, wiring diagrams, and such across the floor as his laptop boots up.
So he starts pointing out the several dozen call points, lift monitoring, alarm light/buzzers, display panels, control panels, etc. And explains how when a point is activated it displays its details on a defined display, lights up certain lights so nurses can easily see where the problem is. As he’s pointing to the blueprints and explaining I make the obligatory “ohhh” “ahhh” “cool” appreciative noises, after all I had just had a nice meal. So when he’s finished and been quiet for a bit I go to stand up, “I just need to redo part of it, the lights are not working right and…” I sit back down.
He now goes on to inform me the programing uses groups, areas, zones. *laptop is in the way of some paper and gets slid a bit closer to me* He shows me the software that you use to program and set up the whole system, and explains how once its all setup on the laptop you just upload it to the main control and it configures the entire system. He leans over to point at something on the blueprints *laptop moves closer to me as it was in the way of something* “See, This section I’m calling the yellow zone only I need these lights on when any points are activated, and this light here” *pointing at part of diagram as laptop is moved closer to me out of the way* “and its not working correctly“. He then reads out part of the instruction booklet he has about zones.
“Ah, I see the displays are groups, cal-points areas, and lights zones. Its not like the old skool alarm zones, I see where that must be confusing” I say. “and zones can be activated by areas or individual points, Nice” He looks at me blankly for a second, makes a quick note of what I said and goes “Humm what do you mean?” *laptop is turned round to face me*
I sigh. And show him on the software how the lights have multiple ways you can control them. “Oh, i think i set it up wrong when I programed the system. I’ll have to redo it all 🙁” Yes, I heard the emoticon in his tone of voice. So I sigh again as its always good fun, and start checking on the software for programing this stuff.
A couple of hours later and I can now program and design these systems to do whatever is needed, I’ve reset his program up to do what he needs as he walked through each section of the hospital, And I even managed to translate the terms it used into the terms my Dad is more used to using so he can do it himself from now on. It is hard, He has spent many years working on all sorts of alarm systems (He taught me how to wire/design alarm systems) and ever since year 1 a zone = an area of comman alarms items. In this system a zone is an individual or group of lights. So we have it all setup as he wants it, I stand up from the floor, streach and “Thanks, now how do we program it so if an alarm goes unanswered for a set length of time the other nurse stations are buzzed?” Sigh, sit back down.
At least he now has the basic system programed up, and better yet he understands the new terms, and how to use the software. So he should be able to do all future changes himself.
See, no such thing as a free dinner, There was not even a sweet!
CN
