Famous last words.

Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l'ai pas fait exprès.
- Marie Antoinette
as she approached the guillotine, convicted of treason and about to be beheaded, she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner.

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
- Humphry Bogart

Now comes the mystery
- Henry Ward Beecher

Ne pleure pas, Alfred ! J'ai besoin de tout mon courage pour mourir à vingt ans !
Don't cry, Alfred! I need all my courage to die at twenty!
- Variste Galois
Spoken to his brother Alfred after being fatally wounded in a duel.

Nobody shot me.
- Frank "Tight Lips"
Gusenberg In response to a police officer who asked "Who shot you?"


When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!
- David Hume

I'll be in Hell before you start breakfast! Let her rip!
Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum
Said after springing up the gallow steps to his execution; the rope was too long, and he was decapitated

I haven't had champagne for a long time.
- Anton Chekhov
A sanitarium nurse gave him champagne to ease his death from tuberculosis.

Kiss me Hardy
- Admiral Horatio Nelson

I am just going outside. I may be some time.
- Captain Lawrence Oates
while on Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition, while suffering from frostbite and sheltering from a blizzard, Oates felt he was decreasing his companions' chances of survival. Oates voluntarily left the tent; it was his 32nd birthday. He was never seen again.


Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire
when asked by a priest to renounce Satan.

No me dejen morir así, digan que dije algo.
Don't let me die like this, say I said something.
- Emiliano Zapata
Mexican revolutionary during the Mexican Revoltion. He was shot in the back.



Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
- Karl Marx
To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

Wonders of Technology

I've recently discovered a secret joy in thinking "i wonder what it would be like if this existed" and i check, and it has! technology is certainly on a porabola that in a lot of your fantasies of 'i wonders' actually exist. last year i wondered could a living brain be in a robot, and theyve done it in Reading university (on a small scale but still) and this year i wondered if you could get something to power off the same way plants do like a venus fly trap and you can, a few universities have done this Edinburgh uni has made a robot work off a series of them!

see if theres things you wonder and check them out, they might exsist already!
(people can't have wings with the bones we have incase you were wondering)

Future of Technology and Nature

Since I've been working on this project I've asked some important questions about what myself personally would like to be and what I would like to change in this world, I do want to change it, maybe not dramatically, but I'd like to inspire and help in anyway I can.

Logically I consider the planets safety foremost for the reason of if there's no planet there's nothing left to help with, I may not be the most fitting person to help and I may be too late to do anything from what i hear, but I can hope, we can hope. Sustainability I believe means to continue.

Nature is an amazing thing in the fact that it can repair and balance it self, although you may feel superior when you chomp down on some bacon and say "it can't be that smart if it's stupid enough to end up on my plate." The pigs probably chuckling that what you're eating isn't actually bacon your eating but bacon flavoured chicken knuckles. Myself addressing food issues if for another blog once the film has started to roll. In natures seemingly meaningless object evolve meaning and massive complexity, from a simple leaf to the strange fact the woodpecker's tongue wraps around it's skull. So i propose that new technologies should also be as complex and allowed to evolve. If technologies fitted in with nature not just encourage nature but blend in, when it becomes part of nature then a house would act more like a birds nest the heating of it not because hot water pumping into hollow metal but warm man feathers.

If technology could keep it self working, it would mimic nature more. Instead of it plugging into the mains power supply but could run off food in the soil, air and rain it could become more like its surroundings.

I've been shown a great video of people working like this in architecture, I'm not an original thinker, I'm a little behind in fact. But the idea of my growing products doesn't seem so far off now and I think I'll be beaten to it.

http://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_armstrong_architecture_that_repairs_itself.html

the video link i thought was slightly funny when a man posted a comment cynically saying that shes thinking she can plant a seed and a house will magically grow, just you wait till you're living in you're seed house fending off the hungry hungry caterpillars

my lifes work?

i have had an idea today, its not an unfimilar idea ive had it before but never took it too seriously. but i thought that a very advanced technology seems like magic to those who havent heard of it. talk about television to the 1700s and theyll think your possessed, for one reason that youre talking about a tiny theatre in a box and two youre able to talk to a time period.

my idea is to have products, buildings that live. now bare with me, i do not expect this to happen over night far from it i was told that to get something done you have to think how long it will take you then double it ( a flippent comment but still ) i expect it to take my entire life therefor i will be dead before its achieved or a zombie.

now biomimicary was shown to me this year and i thought what if things we use could be grown we have egg factories (chickens) already so why not grow a tv. thats when i didnt take this very seriously. but recently ive thought if i could get the technology to produce the simplest thing i could think a lightbulb. now glow worms already emmit light so ill have to research how they do it. so if i could grow give birth to a creature or plant that could emmit light and you could keep it in your house in a pot a living lightbulb.

im no biologist, but its an idea, maybe not a completely implausable idea either. my lifes work would be to create the idea and technology so that future generations could expand and perfect it. what do you think?