Welcome to Minimal List: Maximal Velocity. This is our second RU-vid Channel and here you can find extra tiller chats between Jo & Michael, realtime footage of our cruises, cooking videos and anything else we decide to upload!
Narrowboat Perseverance has been home to Jo, Michael and Springer Spaniel George since 2017 and together we have traveled the whole of the integrated network of canals and rivers in England.
On our main channel we release vlogs one or two times a week of our adventures afloat.
That reminded me of my time in the ambulance service, and the many things that people inserted in various orifices... it made for interesting discussions in the pub.
I have lived alongside, and boated on, the Norfolk Broads, so am aware of the need to moor facing into the flow. Tidal rivers add to the complexity, because you need to know the state of the tidal flow at any given time in order to moor up safely. Facing the flow with the right amount of throttle (matching the river flow) and a bit of tiller can effectively move the boat sideways relative to the land, something you can never achieve with the flow behind you
My dream boat would be electric with a hydrogen fuel cell to charge the 10kw lithium ion sulphur battery bank with a 1000w of solar on the roof and a dual fuel burner with a wetback to heat the boat and water in the winter...now i just have to win the lottery!!!.🤣🤣
Trying to understand how to be safe again after a trauma is not easy. I hope that you give yourself enough of a break, and can enjoy the trips enough, to understand that you are amazingly resilient. Safe travels.
Whatever your future may bring, I just hope you keep documenting it on this channel. I still can't believe we left Europe, popping across the channel would've have been a great idea. I wish you had elaborated on 'The world that Elon Musk is after'. Another great vlog, thanks for sharing
Years ago, I found I got on with furries much better than with most people. I didn't have a self-identity at the time, tried a few things, and found pixie seemed to fit rather well -- especially when I could excuse my shortcomings with, "I only have a little pixie brain." ;) Unfortunately, the conflict inside was real, I'm a jumble of mismatched parts, and I'm back to not having a self-identity. So sorry to hear about your first dog vanishing, Michael, and your present concern. 🤗 Cornwall is nice. Or I should say Devon and Dorset are nice, Cornwall is even better! But I think lots of places are nice all along the South Coast. I don't know the rest of the country so well, but I'm just outside the Peak District right now and we have some stunning views even outside the actual Peak District. A routine would greatly improve my mental health, but my mental and physical health won't let me have one. And part of it is, yeah, my obsessive tendances can't be satisfied; they'll always find something more to obsess about. I like to type. You'd never gess, would you? ;) Oogh, Tumblr! I like webcomics -- amateur comics basically. I'm always on the look out for more, but when I see a comic is on Tumblr I just don't even bother clicking any more. Trying to catch up with the story or to re-read (which I do a lot) is just too much work. Ooh.. yeah, writing about your problems... I left a lot out of my first paragraph here. I'm sure I'll appreciate the results of your effort, Michael.
I never celebrate my birthday and when someone asks my age I actually have to stop and work it out..... because I spend so much time in the afr8can bush I forget my birthday.. normally get back to within cellphone signal and I have 100's of birthday wishes.
Feels like Michaels brain is a damn sight lighter after that :0 I wish I could ramble on like that. What I got from it is, Short term plan is make George happy, Long term plan is touch some new grass and clear your head a bit, how you get to those goals will be the adventure. And 50... bah, been there done that, its only a problem for those who feel like they haven't achieved milestones, and milestones are just rocks that occasionally get in the way, ignore them.
Thank you for that - this tiller talk is quickly becoming my favourite and I’m so glad you feel comfortable talking about these things. I hope it helps you and others. Much love to the 3 of you 🥰
Absolutely wish you two the best, regardless what the future brings. Your perspectives on MH are incredibly valuable for those who hear and can relate. Thank you.
Michael, I have the perfect antidote for you. My husband is a northerner and says that you haven’t lived until you’ve gone to Blackpool, seen the lights, stayed in a crummy b&b and drank Guinness from a plastic glass!! All sorted! Why on earth would you want to go to India instead? 🤣🤣🤣 Truthfully - we love India too. I hope you can get there eventually; it will always be waiting to calm and hug you. A talking book could be your answer as many people I know use them all the time particularly commuting or driving. Take care and hugs for George. NB Dr Syn
Thank you. Blackpool should be fun. A temporary distraction if nothing else and my dad will enjoy it which is the most important thing. Not sure about the Guinness though. Will have to have a think on that one. Thanks for the kind words and encouragement.
Hi Jo & Micheal, I like to do something special away on every 5 yr bday, I’m 70 this year and off to Darwin. I like to do things that involve a flight. May I suggest you put these tiller chats into a podcast. ( or they already and Ive missed it) Would be great to listen to when driving. I enjoy the chats. Glad George is in the mend 🤗 have a good week guys, 🩷🩷🙏🙏
A podcast is a good idea and something we have wanted to do for a while but we couldn’t record them on the back of the boat as the engine noise would be too distracting without the context of the video. Hopefully we’ll work out a way of doing it at some point soon.
I did the Tongariro Crossing in high school for science projects, back in the mid 70's and also would love to walk the Camino but financially that would not be likely at this stage of my life. I am with you re George, I would just spend all of my time worrying and then regret if they passed or when they have passed, and I wasn't there. You are Mum and Dad and although it is tough it is also so heartfelt to know they passed calmly in love. Love the plans, they keep you busy and it is always fun to see how they eventuate. Hope you can get over the Pennines, an area that does interest me. Not only the assault but Covid has made life different for not only yourselves but a lot of us, again any plans have diverged or morphed into something completely different. I love how you are battling on and can see possibilities. xx
High level programming languages are an abstraction from assembler which is itself an abstraction from machine code. I am old enough to have programmed in assembler but who these days does that? But we are about to add a new abstraction - AI. It's about to make programming accessible to many more people.
My problem with AI is that all it can do is remix what it was trained on; it’s not a new abstraction, it’s a new kind of copy and paate, but in which what you’re copying and pasting is the mean of what publicly available *on the internet* code happens to have some vague and unexplainable relationship with your prompt. I have seen it generate LOTS of vaguely sensible, but subtly buggy, code, exactly the sort of code I’d expect for students and other amateurs to have posted in statistically significant volumes on freely scrapable code repos, but NOT the functioning, well proven and battle-tested professionally vetted code that exists only in closed source repos that are DEFINITELY not able to be scraped for free. LLMs will enable people who can’t read high level programming languages to generate deeply flawed code in high level (and therefore low level) languages they therefore can’t vet, can’t test, and definitely can’t formally verify. I don’t think AI will kill us. But I do think AI used by humans to generate code will kill a lot of us. M
I use this "plain English programming" system which isn't AI, it essentially compiles pseudocode. I'm finding it's much easier to read the code. I've picked it up much faster than any other language. I've spent much less time with it than I have with C or Forth, but I'm more comfortable with it. However, the elements of programming which are not language as such are not going so well. The particular system I'm using -- the particular language except it's all English -- is hardly safer than C, and I have a tendency to forget when I need to allocate memory. :) I'm using CAL-4700 from "The Osmosian Order of Plain English Programmers", and the blog is the place to go if you want to look it up. An Español Llano also exists, but I couldn't find it. If you want it, I'm sure the Osmosian Order could point you in the right direction. Sometimes I daydream about adding automatic allocation and garbage collection to CAL-4700, it would be about as easy as such a job could be, but I need more experience with the language first. Ultimately, there could be a whole family of "plain English" languages. There's already a 2nd one called Idiom, though it uses punctuation in strange non-English ways. (I'd tell you how to find it if I could make sense of its creator Mike Gonta's sites.)
68 in a few days time, Michael, 50 is a breeze! You're ultra fit and have wonderful partners in Jo and George. Try to count your blessings. I've zero experience of MH issues so I'm not minimising your burdens in any way my friend. Keep well.
Happy birthday! MH issues are really hard to understand unless you or someone you are very close to experiences them. Thanks for choosing your works with kindness.
@@MinimalListMaximalVelocity Thank you. Both my late uncle and brother had/have MH issues. I've learned in life that one cannot understand everything in life and an external viewer cannot begin to understand the undeniably awful consequences of the condition. So I accept and try to support, but saying stuff like "I understand" is meaningless and unhelpful to the sufferer. Peace brings comfort to me, I hope that you find moments of peace too.
Yes, there’s enough human beings, IFF those human beings can be taught to read the most important languages we’ve ever created. I say employ them before we try to get the monkeys involved, not a job we want done for literal peanuts (or bananas). M
All very interesting and also fascinating. I hope the book happens, I'd love to read it, but can also understand the struggle to write it as someone who also has PTSD and mental health issues. Sounds like you've got the immediate future sorted, I hope you realise the other travel plans. In the mean time you have Blackpool to look forward to. Take good care you three.
I’d love to hear how Blackpool Illuminations were explained to Michael, but I’m looking forward to Michael’s description of Blackpool Illuminations after he has seen them, even more. Please promise me that that will be a subject of a future tiller talk. 😉
It really sounds like you’ve got a great short terms plan sorted and some incredible ideas for the future. George is an amazing boy and I’m sure just makes your lives complete. Take care to both of you and safe passage.
@@MinimalListMaximalVelocity Thanks. This channel is a little in front of the main one! I'd just worked it out. I was searching online for Bridge 62 and bridge 63. There are so many bridges with those numbers on so many waterways! For Michael's information, there was an interesting programme on Radio 4 maybe last year, about how software development is growing In Kenya. Young people involved with lots of start-ups.
@@MinimalListMaximalVelocity I didn't know you're coming up this way! Though I say "this way," but I don't think I've ever quite made it to the connected part of the Chesterfield. It's quite a ride away. I'd like to try to meet up, if only for a bit. If you want to, let me know when you're near Kiveton Park or somewhere. :)
The most sensible video of boating advice I’ve seen for a long time 👍thanks for sharing. It’s on equal par with the advice of approaching West Stockwith Lock by turning round and approaching from the right not the left 👍
At first I couldn't understand why you would post this video, don't all boat owners know how to moor correctly and safely? Apparently not. As you had all this on film anyway, I applaud you for publishing it as an example on how to moor correctly in fast flowing water. I am sure many will watch and learn and it may save them from more than a few bumps and possibly from damage. Great little short vlog, thanks for sharing 👍👍
I guess it depends on the speed of the flow. Maybe people have successfully moored up previously when the flow was pretty mild and haven’t appreciated how much harder it can be at other times. (There’s a very weak flow on the Llangollen Canal, but not enough to have much impact on navigation. Of course, it’s not practical to flip the boat around on a narrow canal, unlike the wide river shown here…)
Also a good example of how a single point line offers almost no real control or options. Having two points of connections offers actual options, but in this case it still might not have been enough control with a bow and mid line to let a single person safely haul in against that current. The force behind moving water adds up quickly.
