In this show, recorded on New Year’s Day, Mike and Jim welcome Mind of Men listeners to 2010 as they cover the weekly round-up of interesting news, tech news, and politics and follow up with a main segment that revisits a previous topic in the alcohol series – Port Wine.
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- Just in case New Year’s Eve (or any other eve for that matter) doesn’t treat you well, Mike found an article that offers up 17 ways to cure a hangover.
Link: 17 ways to cure your hangover - Jim discusses the TSA reaction to the Christmas Day Northwest bomber with new regulations that are supposes to “make us safer”
Link: New TSA Regulations in wake of Christmas Day bombing are confusing at best - Mike came across a link to the government’s attempt to have us pay attention when driving with Distraction.gov and with a (lame) movie PSA they produced and then compares it to a video from the UK that will scare anyone into thinking three times before picking up that cell phone while driving next time.
Link: US government launches Distraction.gov, wants to scare you straight (video)
Link: WARNING – PARENTAL DISCRETION STRONGLY ADVISED – UK Texting and Driving, U.K., August 2009, (HQ) Master Original Video - In the world of sports – if the NBA didn’t have enough problems with their reputation, pulling guns in the locker room takes the cake
Link: NBA Locker Room Gun Showdown? ‘Too Funny,’ Player Says - And finally, in this section, it’s time for year and decade end round up lists, here’s a few we came across.
Link: Top 10 Stupid Tech Moves of 2009
Link: Latest BlackBerry Outage Caps a Year of Network Woes
Link: The decade in science
Link: ‘World News’ People of the Decade: Business and Technology
- Jim summarizes this year’s Consumer Reports Survey of Cell Phone Companies
- In one story with a political theme, Mike shares a story about how 13 State Attorney Generals are contemplating suing the government over the proposed Health Care Reform bill due to Nebraska’s sweet deal negotiated to win Senator Nelson’s nod.
Link: 13 State AGs Threaten Suit Over Health Care Deal
It was October of 2006 when the topic of Port was first discussed in a Mind of Men episode, now over three years later, Jim revisits the topic to shed some new insight and thoughts on the topic. Enjoy and let us know if you’ve seen the Bishop lately.
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This week’s cigar and libation pairing can be found on Episode 68 of the From the Havana Hut podcast.
Guys,
Few things:
1. On the airline security front – I recently completed a trip to Austin, and I found absolutely no changes going through a security checkpoint. Lines are bigger, but they are not doing anything different.
The solution to this problem is to follow the ticket trail for every passenger from the moment a ticket is purchased to the minute that passenger boards the plane. This is El Al’s trick, and it works. Is it costly, yes; but, to me, it is the price we pay for living in a society where lives are threatened by terrorists.
2 – On port – I am thirsty now! This is a good backgrounder on port. One thing is that brandy added to the fermenting juice is pressurized in order to instanly kill the yeast. Port houses have a particular Brix number in mind (sugar content), and they need to kill yeast quickly.
- Ed