Being able to watch the history on the radar and back it up and play the loop is really cool. I zoomed into my neighborhood so I could see my intersection and watched it move through.
Ain’t technology great! At times, anyway.
I am by myself in this house (if we don't count Prissy) and my computer takes me anywhere I want to go - to you, to everyone on this thread, and to Bandera to talk to Bandera friend and my son who lives in London. When my computer doesn't work, I'm headed right then to Santa Claus computer guy on Dallas street.
I think back to my extensive years at a few universities and how easy it would have been to find information I had to dig out of the library in those days. Hours upon hours I spent at libraries. I learned how to read a page fast by looking at the center of the page and training my eyes to see the whole field left and right and scanning until I found what I was searching for. Now, I just put selected words in search and up it comes. Children in school these days have no idea what we went through to get knowledge in days before computers.
Let's say we lose power for years. Children would have to go back to actual writing and have to read books to get information. That would be major culture shock.
When son, Wayne, was in high school in advanced courses, he said he needed to read faster. We took him to Houston to a speed reading class that met at night - I can't remember how long we did that, but I understood his need for fast reading. His SAT scores were so high, he was put in MENSA at Rice University.
He lives in London and sent me beautiful pink roses flowers today for Mother's Day. Along with the flowers, the florist delivered a box of individually wrapped big fudge three dimensional squares with nuts and they are the finest I ever ate. There has to be a million calories in each square. Each square is large so eating one takes a while.
His film work right now is a series of three documentaries about psychotic psychopath killers. Since he is only filming in England, these killers were/are there. Think about that - they are nuts in England and going to kill people BUT HAVE NO GUN. For that reason alone, the series will be interesting to see what these killers used to kill their victims. I feel sure kitchen knives are one method and there was a push there not many months gone by, where the government thought about a law to not allow anyone in that country to take a kitchen knife outside the house.