Notes:

I just listened to a story on Marketplace podcast that talked about the public relation issues of diabetes. Right now people view diabetes as something people have to live with. This does not rake in the donations. They need to sell diabetes as something that makes you sick and then kills you decades before you would have died otherwise. This would open the tap.

Also on Marketplace, a story about teachers getting too much education. The idea is that teachers with masters degrees do not teach any better than those with a bachelor degree. I've known for my entire life that education is only as good as pile of tools that it hands you to use in a career.

More from Marketplace. A few sales outlets are experimenting with video chat for sales people. That is, you have a bank of sales people in India your headquarters and use video chat for people to pick out their products. The example was jeans. Between this and the fast food places using people in other states to take your order, there really are going to be zero jobs for people to perform.

Why would space aliens want to come to Earth to plunder our resources when they can get pretty much anything they want all throughout the universe. The only thing we have here that is not know to be slopping over in the universe is life. If they are advanced enough to fly here from across the great void, what the hell do they want to take from us. No, If the little green men are here, or show up, it will be for the purposes of curiosity and research, or perhaps poaching that they make contact of any kind.

Speaking about a P51 restoration, G. Gordon Liddy related a story about process. The first thing you have to do when restoring a World War II plane is take it completely apart and coat every part with anticorrosion material. This is because the average life expectancy of those planes in a combat situation from assembly line to end of use was 90 days.

There are ski goggles with a sort of heads up display for GPS and other crap. Pretty cool. They say it works. It won't be any time at all before this kind of stuff is one contact lenses. Just like the science fiction novels. They look pretty snazzy too, or so I'm told. Heard on Totally Cool Tech.

I listen to a bunch of fictional podcasts. I also listen to things like Starship Sofa. It is a podcast that not only has fiction, but also talks a bunch about fiction. I do not learn nearly as much from the fiction podcasts as I learn from the news kind of podcasts. I would not give either of them up. I think they are both needed.