One of my co-workers, said civilization ends where the restaurants don’t bring sweet tea as the default response to ordering ice tea.  Northern folk don’t understand that you can’t make proper sweet tea, by added sugar to cold tea.  (Sweetener has to be added while the tea is hot.)

On a related note, my friend Rodney Higgins  won for Best Editing Short Subject at a film festival on a cool movie related to this topic, called “Hey Grandma” Its Director, Sarah Hodges, has now uploaded it to a new YouTube channel, and if you have 9 minutes check it out: https://lnkd.in/eF9F2Ms

Horror movies, thrill rides, there have been safe ways to get a thrill; that have delighted Americans for generations.  This latest generation has seen NYC attacked and hundreds have lost their lives.

True fears are often quelled by the cliché phrase “never again”.  My cousin has written what might be called the definitive book on a nuclear accident, with chilling details of the problems at the time of accident with 20/20 hindsight.  The last third gets scary with the our own NRC not implementing lessons learned from Fukushima, as new regulations, mainly do to the cost to utilities.

Protecting the public like the frequency of inspecting the thrill ride for deadly damage is still a mater of cost analysis.  A hard truth, we have to live with.

Below is a link to David Lochbaum’s book, which I recommend.

http://www.amazon.com/Fukushima-The-Story-Nuclear-Disaster/dp/1595589082

Wow, the future arrived late.
I just experienced the new entertainment on a short Delta Flight from Raleigh to Atlanta, and I was shocked at my emotional level and that of my fellow passengers.  For years I wanted this bigger screen and a USB connector.

However the climb out commercials, followed by nearly endless public announcements about weather, snacks and Delta credit cards; has made it trivial.  Even on long flights the moving of headphone jack to blocking isle egress under the screen position has made this device use less desirable.

Watching my fellow travelers mimic my actions was fascinating.  I quickly navigated to moving map, then plugged my headsets in to my iPad for my flight’s real entertainment. Then looking up the isle, I saw this repeated by men sitting 2 and 4 rows further up.  With the new Delta iPad App’s “glass bottom plane” mode making the moving map lame, I’m thinking the airline should reduce the WiFi cost and save money used on the back of the seats.