Dave Grohl - Rock God
Dave Grohl to drink with miners who survived a fate worse than death (aka dying alive… wait that doesn’t make sense). Dave said “Its going to be a big night.” And “I’m not just talking about a few beers.”
The man is a truly a scholar and a gentleman.
The miners, Brant Webb & Todd Russell will be parting with the man himself.
Full story here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5301658.stm
Laptops, Paperbacks and Bombs
As I type this the developed world is one again cooling off - albeit slightly - from an Islamic fascist terror threat. Thankfully we are in an environment where something has been averted rather than executed. Yet for those of us scheduled to travel to and from the UK/USA in the coming weeks the security crack down can only offer so much solace.
Home Secretary John Reid has been quoted as saying the
terror threat remains yet on the same news website we're told that the current level of security checks
simply can not be sustained. I for one have been frustrated with the inconsistency in US policy at airports on whether you need to take your shoes off or not, and that Heathrow hasn't ever - in my memory, at least. I can predict that this heightened state of alert will lead to even more inconsistencies in security measures which will leave us regular travelers out in the cold. Will we be allowed 'electronic key fobs', laptops, drinks, books? Is my RX-8's key an 'electronic fob'? My advice would be to check with the airports you will be traveling through in advance. Although I probably won't follow this advice due to the hassle, yet I'm sure you don't want that $400 portable media centre being thrown in the rubbish bin.
Above all this makes be realise how a determined group of terrorists, with sufficient know how could take the bits and pieces onto a plane required to cause the kind of damage needed for disaster. We all know how safe air travel is but we also know how deadly it is when things go wrong. No amount of secondary restraint systems can stop nasty things happening to your body when its thrown into the side of a mountain at 400 miles an hour with several dozen tonnes of metal, plastic and other people. Take the fear of this knowledge and throw in yet another terrorist threat and I can see how many people will put off all but the most essential of travel. "The terrorists have won if you do that" they will cry. Well, they are praying on our primal fears, and people do want to stay alive. Can you blame them?
I'm shipping out a few dozen family members to the west coast from the UK in September for our wedding. I know there isn't much we can do and that we shouldn't let fear rule our lives but I have to admit there is more than an inkling of concern in so much of my family being in aluminium tubes 35K ft in the air traveling just shy of the speed of sound.
Will I even be allowed to bring a paper back to make the 12hrs go faster? I certainly won't be allowed any of my more modern methods. No Family Guy, Southpark or Little Britain synced up from my Media Center to my little Archos 400, no I-Pod... and according to
this I shouldn't expect to bring any books either.Safe travels.
