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 Technorama Ep435 : 10th Anniversary | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:35

Coming up in this episode...(http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2015/04/iStock_000015341496Small-300x279.jpg) * Memories * More memories * Lembas bread Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-1aI) for complete show notes and video from the show. https://youtu.be/iWfr2z-0Hzk Feedback * Vmail - Trampas - Apple ][ Watch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCYn9drHx2E) * Vmail from Trucker Overdrive - old games * Vmail - wibbly wobbly show * Vmail - Shadowbird - least favorite superhero movie * Email from ADdude Hey Guys, First off, congrats on ten years. It seemed like just yesterday that I first listened to the show. Of course, I've kinda developed some memory problems so I've got a Quantum Leap-Sam Beckett-Swiss Cheese Memory thing going on. Long story short you can't trust my judgement on memories. Second off, In the last episode you asked which people thought was the worst super hero movie and it's Howard the Duck. I've seen a lot of Super hero movies with a lot of stuff: Shrek-Hulks, odd swamp things, Bat Nipples, Ice puns, Most of the punisher movies, Shaq as Steel, the music from the Daredevil movie. All of that was fairly bad but only the Howard the Duck movie had me just question movies, comic books, and my own judgement on life. It left me messed up. I mean it is pretty bad. Like yeah don't watch. Now on to happier topics. Some the things I most remember of your show over the last ten years. I do remember some of the shows interview you've had. I especially remember the Michio Kaku since I use finished reading his book when the interview came on. I always made sure to listen to the birthday shout outs around my birthday. I remember when I submitted my review for the Sarah Jane Adventures and you played it. Still remember Chuck repeating the line of mine that the young Slitheen "were like my nephews, both adorable and terrifying". Honestly I remember being on the chat room during the shows. I always enjoyed those. Stuff often keeps from making it on Sunday night now but I do remember having fun when I did manage to make it.  Even if I can't make it to the chat I make sure to listen to the podcast on my iPod. Thanks for the ten years of geeky joy. You've managed to bring a little more joy in my life and I'm sure of many of your other listeners. You guys should be proud of that fact. Sincerely, Alexis Duran ADdude P.S. I think I sent you a picture of Spider-Man/Storm Trooper. Did that happen too?   * Email: MadMarv - Evil April Fool’s Joke This was the most evil April Fools joke of the year IMO.  It puts a BSOD on your camera, but only on April 1st. http://boingboing.net/2015/04/14/on-april-1-magic-lantern-cras.html#more-379952 (http://boingboing.net/2015/04/14/on-april-1-magic-lantern-cras.html#more-379952) * Jorge (various back topics) First thanks for pointing me to Daredevil… As for the questsions: network devices: - SuperMicro 1U sever running my gateway (OpenBSD) and 2 zones for small tools like adblock, goto service (all in the house developed) - SuperMicro 4U SAN/NAS (also has a few zones because it has more resources stuff like plex,...) - RaspberryPi GPS/PPS backed NTP server - AirPort Extreme AP - AirPort Express AP - MacBook Pro - Desktop - Canon Wireless Printer - iPhone - Nexus 6 - Chromecast - Sony TV - Sony AV Receiver - HTPC - PS3 - DSi Those are just the physical things with an IP There are also 2 TP-link switched on there and a few vm's (8 or so) First pirated stuff was probably some floppies with some DOS games. (Oh yeah PC's with Turbo button... did anyone turn those off? - AT form factor was scary though AC current to the mobo! yikes) Not sure what the other questions were anymore   On This Day In History for April 29, 2015 This is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 246 days remaining in 2015.

 Technorama Ep434: I have no idea | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:28

Coming up in this episode... * Lots of robots * Computer history * Space flatulence Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-1aC) for complete show notes and video from the show.   https://youtu.be/LeUhVuDpGCo Feedback * How many networked devices are in your home - name them: * Mark - A Chromecast, Apple TV, Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, Lenovo laptop, 3 Samsung phones, iPad 3rd gen, iPad Mini 2, a Nook, (cont) @technorama (cont) HP Tablet, iPad 1, Airport Express, and I'm surely missing something. * Brad - Can I just send you the results of my nmap scan? On This Day In History for April 15, 2015 * It was on this date in 1738 that Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel receives its premiere performance in London, England. * Also today in 1755, Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London. * President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson, becomes President upon Lincoln's death 150 years ago today. * Also today in 1892, The General Electric Company is formed. * April 15, 1896, Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece. * The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survived 103 years ago today. * It was 92 years ago today that Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes. * That same date in 1924, Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas. * Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line on this date in 1947. * The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress on this date in 1952. * April 15, 1955, McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois. * The first Ford Mustang rolls off the showroom floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide on this date in 1964. * Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others on this date in 2013. * A total lunar eclipse occurs, producing a Blood Moon 1 years ago today. And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 15, 2015 News * Turkish Mayor sued for erecting giant robot statue. (http://thedailywh.at/2015/04/controversy-day-turkish-mayor-sued-erecting-giant-robot-statue/) Listener Birthday Calendar * 16 - Donna Tomasi * 16 - Daniel Johnson Jr. * 17 - Sam Roberts * 18 - Skaifey (Anthony) * 19 - Amanda (SusietheGeek's daughter & Geek in Training) * 20 - Geek Tech Live * 20 - Bryan Kennedy * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki (http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/). Hacks & Strange Stories * Sword fighting robots (http://gizmodo.com/we-definitely-shouldnt-have-taught-robots-how-to-sword-1697100626) * Can you fart your way across space? (http://gizmodo.com/is-it-possible-to-fart-your-way-across-space-1696991366) Shout out to the chat room Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. Remember When * 1940s prediction (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-1940s-plan-to-replace-jockeys-with-robots-1575204059) comes true with Robot jockeys (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/robot-jockeys-are-a-real-thing-just-as-people-of-the-1-1696283445) * Bard Graduate Centers look at the last 40 years of user experience (http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/03/the-interface-experience/) Media Corner * Attention getters: Spiders or Doctor Who? (http://io9.com/how-doctor-who-helped-scientists-figure-out-why-we-fear-1696437085) * Daredevil Geek Library

 Technorama Ep 433 : Honestly, I didn’t touch it! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:22

Coming up in this episode...(http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2015/04/6a00d834530c9c69e2017d40c5ba4a970c-800wi.jpg) * Invisible Jet * Play-D’oh * Max Headroom Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-1av) for complete show notes and video from the show. https://youtu.be/odrRS9EFL-g Feedback * Vmail: Groot * Email: Tom - Pi Day In honor of PI Day; do the math -- if you put a string around the circumference of a basketball, then the length of that string is the famous 2*PI*R formula from your early math class. *         But "elevate" the string 1 centimeter above the surface of the basketball, that string is exactly 6.2831853... cm longer. *         Do the same thing around the earth, that string will be considerably longer, but elevate the string 1 cm above the earth's surface and it will be exactly 6.2831853... cm longer -- no further a difference than the basketball. Blows your mind. On This Day In History for April 8, 2015 This is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 267 days remaining in 2015. * It was on this date in 1904 that Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times. * That same date in 1908, Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School. * Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity 104 years ago today. * Also today in 1946, Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors. * April 8, 1959, a team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL. * Also today in 1964, an unmanned test flight of Gemini 1 is launched. * The construction of the world's first building to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain 7 years ago today. Happy birthday goes out on this date to: * Astronomer and mathematician, David Rittenhouse, born on this date in 1732. * Also born on this date in 1859, Edmund Husserl, the Austrian mathematician and philosopher. * American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Melvin Calvin was born today in 1911. * April 8, 1917 is also the birthday of mathematician and computer scientist Winifred Asprey. * Estonian astronomer Grigori Kuzmin would have been 98 today. * Actor Stuart Pankin from "Not Necessarily the News" and many other fine roles turns 69 today. * The woman who plays Princess Buttercup from "The Princess Bride" and Claire Underwood from "House of Cards", actress Robin Wright is an awesome 49 today. * and finally computer programmer Mark Spencer is 38. And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 8, 2015 News * The World's Oldest Person Has Died At The Age Of 117 (http://io9.com/the-worlds-oldest-person-has-died-at-the-age-of-117-1694976912) * Amazon Dash - what could possibly go wrong! (https://www.amazon.com/oc/dash-button/ref=br_imp_ara-1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-hero-1&pf_rd_r=0XQ3YMXH4AY23014DS4X&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2068482462&pf_rd_i=desktop) (From Tom) Listener Birthday Calendar * April 8 - Christiana Ellis * April 14 - Danny Harnish * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki (http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/). Hacks & Strange Stories * National Air and Space Museum May Have Won April Fool's Day [VIDEO] - Geeks are Sexy Technology NewsGeeks are Sexy Technology News (http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2015/04/02/national-air-and-space-museum-may-have-won-april-fools-day-video/) Shout out to the chat room Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. Remember When

 Technorama Ep 432 : Gas Giants | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 47:13

It’s April Fools so it’s up to you to figure out which of these stories is real, and which is not… * Email out of jail(http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2015/04/gritty_k-300x225.jpg) * Kitty litter is dangerous stuff * The most interesting car passenger in the world Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-1ar) for complete show notes and video from the show. https://youtu.be/q-jWvXFMyHk Feedback * Krazy Joe Vmail House accessories and Mayberry * Loot Crate from Nicholas Hi Chuck, I heard you guys talking about the Loot Crate and I love them.  The only thing I didn't like was that my wife kept taking things from mine but we solved that by getting her her own.  Anything neither of us wants goes into a box that gets doled out to kids birthday parties or stocking stuffers or Easter Baskets, etc. You mentioned I lived in Alaska, but I recently had to make my own trek across country from Alaska to Florida.  I don't know if you remember but a couple years ago we adopted a little girl from China.  It turns out she has a rare form of Scoliosis that we could not treat in Juneau.  We were referred to Shriners Hospital in Tampa so in the long run it meant a move was in order.  Luckily we have family in Florida and the company I work for allows me to work from home.  Things are working out well enough we are about to complete our second adoption (our 4th child) in June. Thanks for the shout-out and the happy birthday, be well, -Nicholas * Shows from Marc Chuck, Kreg, and whomever else is in the binary studio: Yes, my birthday is still on March 29 (I forgot that I put my birthday in the wiki). Yes! I still work for the National Park Service and I am moving on in my career to Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state very soon. Yes! I became a fan of technorama AND freestyle right after I attended the podcasting course in Oakland. Your biggest fan! I am not a techno-geek so half the time when you start talking about programming and IT issues, it's all a foreign language to me. However, I have been a fan of computers since elementary school back in the 1970s. My favorite computer, bar none, was my Atari ST. I loved that machine and used it to type my dissertation and first book. I am not sure what happened to it, but I have many fond memories of that machine. The worst electronic sound, bar none, is our #@#!!(!_ smoke detectors. Yes, I know they are supposed to be loud, but come on. Thanks for all of the years of technorama. One of these days, I will start a podcast of my own . . . . . . Marc 'the other ranger' Blackburn On This Day In History for April 1, 2015 This is the 91st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 274 days remaining in 2015. * It was on this date in 1826 that Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine. * The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois 124 years ago today. * April 1, 1957, The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama. * 55 years ago today, The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space. * That same date in 1960, Dr. Martens released its first boots, the model 1460. * The United States Department of Transportation begins operation 48 years ago today. * It was 39 years ago today that Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. * April 1, 1976, The Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect, soon revealed as an April Fools' Day hoax, is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore. * Also today in 1997, Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing over perihelion. * Google announces Gmail to the public 11 years ago today. * Happy birthday goes out on this date to Danish mathematician Georg Mohr, born on this date in 1640. * Also born on this date in 1815, Otto von Bismarck, German politician, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire. * The man who played Mr.

 Technorama Ep 431 : Ohm On the Range | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:02

Coming up in this episode... * Jurassic Legos * Self-help books * Space Beer  Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-1ai) for complete show notes and video from the show.  https://youtu.be/OD_QxO1iuCI Feedback * First computer experience In 1968, my aunt gave me a book that described the instruction set of the IBM 1620 computer.  She is/was a programmer.  I was a senior in high school.  I read it, and was ready to program an application.  But I wasn’t inventive enough to come up with an application on my own.  But, I did get to work on a 1620 about 4 years later, during my engineering co-op job.  I got to use Fortran, I didn’t need the instruction set. Before my hands-on 1620 experience, in 1969 in engineering school, I wrote programs on a CDC Star and a Burroughs, using punched cards.  But once I found the ASR 33 Teletype in the engineering school, I stopped using the punched cards. Leon. (DragonCon ceiling fall) * First pirating MadMarv: Technically, I think I pirated were music CDs using cassette tapes probably back in the late 80's early 90's.  I don't even remember which CDs I copied.  I think this was before my family got its first computer.   In college I collected the usual crap ton of nothing important.  I'm wondering if I still have some of that stuff on old backups.  I know I kept folders of stuff from those days just because it doesn't take up much disk space by today's standards. But i'm not sure if I can find any of it now. Update, found the stuff. And I can't play the midi files. Damn you VLC. Well Quicktime plays it. Ugh. On This Day In History for March 25, 2015 This is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days remaining in 2015. * It was on this date in 421 that Venice is founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend. * March 25, 1634, the first settlers arrive in Maryland. * It was 208 years ago today that the Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world. * The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma 67 years ago today. * 57 years ago today, Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight. * Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama 50 years ago today. * 36 years ago today, the first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch. * Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station on this date in 1992. * It was 20 years ago today that WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham. Happy birthday goes out on this date to: * Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer born on this date in 1539. * Also born on this date in 1867 the man who designed and sculpted Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum. * Journalist and sportscaster Howard Cosell was born today in 1918. * 1928 – Jim Lovell, American captain, pilot, and astronaut * 1943 – Paul Michael Glaser, American actor and director And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 25, 2015 March 25 is also Tolkien Reading Day: Commemorating the (fictional) anniversary of the Fall of Sauron, Tolkien Reading Day is one of two major geek holidays dedicated to partaking of the Middle Earth imaginings of one J. R. R. Tolkien. And no, watching the movie and TV adaptations doesn’t count. Crack a book, you orc! News * Man plans hilarious self-help books in LA bookstore (http://thedailywh.at/2015/03/prank-day-man-plants-hilarious-fake-self-help-books-l-bookstore/) * Coming soon - Space Beer!

 Technorama Ep430: Suspect Number One | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:47

Coming up in this episode...(http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2015/03/FacebookUpdateSignNYC-179x300.jpg) * Pancakes * Netflix * Daleks Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-1aa) for complete show notes and video from the show. https://youtu.be/tgPBWseSii8 Feedback What was your first computer experience? DanDMan called in… Ralph emailed us: Chuck and Kraig, Boy, I must be old...I remember working with my roommate in college on writing a program and punching them on Hollerith cards...then promptly dropping the whole stack. My first personal machine was a TI-99/4A...loved that machine. Tape drive and all. I spent days typing in programs from magazines. 101  What was the first thing you pirated?  Listener “J” tweets: bootleg floppies with dos games and apps. Power Rangers… Shadowbird writes: 1) If you want to see "dark" Power Rangers done right, with all the usual Power Rangers comedy and kid-appeal intact, watch RPM. It's the last of the Disney run, and it's up on Netflix. Storyline is among the most serious in the franchise (for both Saban's two runs and Disney's run), but the characters have good development over the course of the series. 2) Question of the week: First thing I ever pirated were SNES ROMs when I was in high school. I was directed to sites that had SNES emulators and ROMs, and I'd downloaded them both at school and at home to play during any downtime. 3) It's been awhile since I've actually gotten to listen to the show, but I am happy to finally be back as a regular Technorama listener. I mentioned this on Twitter under the #thankacreator hashtag, but it bears repeating: Chuck and Kreg, you guys are the two biggest and longest-lasting influences on my love of podcasting. Last month, I started up a podcast with my "little brother"/best friend which for modesty's sake, I will not blatantly shill. 5 episodes in as of the time you read this on-air, I've realized just how much I was influenced by Technorama, as while we are considerably more long-winded (our podcasts hang around 2 hours), we tend to have a friendly banter style not unlike you guys. For all your inspiration, thank you both so much. Rock on, y'all. The Shadowbird, Jeremy On This Day In History for March 18 30, 2015 This is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining in 2015.  * It was on this date in 1850 that American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo. * March 18, 1906, Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 11 meters at an altitude of one meter. * The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside Milan 78 years ago today. * That same date in 1965, Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. * Also today in 1968, Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. Happy birthday goes out on this date to several mathematicians. In order order of their birth… * French mathematicians Jacques de Billy in 1602 and Philippe de La Hire in 1640, and Prussian mathematician Christian Goldbach in 1690. * American engineer and architect Nathanael Greene Herreshoff was born on this date in 1848. * and the man who invented the Diesel engine, Rudolf Diesel was born March 18, 1848. * also born today in 1898, co-founder of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, Jake Swirbul. * Actor Peter Graves would have been 89 today. * Dick Smith, who founded Dick Smith Electronics and Australian Geographic is a fine 71 today. * and finally all the best one of our favorite voice actors and TV hosts, Mike Rowe who is now 53 years old. And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for March 18 30, 2015 News * BBC to get UK kids programming (again) (http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/12/bbc-micro-bit-coding/?ncid=rss_truncated)

 Technorama Ep 429: A Romulan, A Klingon, and a Priest walk into a bar… | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:30

Coming up in this episode...(http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2015/03/image-300x225.jpg) * IT Adventures * Coyotes * Urination Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-1a0) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/JTxTAzgtcqU Feedback * Listener question: What was your first computer memory? MadMarv: My first memory of using a computer was in 1st or 2nd grade, and it was an Apple II or maybe an Apple IIc. The class got to use the computer for a week or so before it rotated through to the next class of kids. I got to play with a drawing program called Turtle and I gotten the hang of the program and made the best picture out of the class according to my teacher. Marv * What would you do with a Pi? Ben Vaughn: Hey guys,I got my hands on two Raspberry Pi 2 boards. I ordered them the day after they were announced and they got to me about 3 weeks later. I'm quite impressed with these little boards. I have them running Raspian, which is an ARM-port of Debian. If you logged in to one, you wouldn't know the difference between the Raspberry and any other Debian-based system unless you ran a uname -a and saw the unfamiliar architecture: Linux

 Technorama Ep428: Some people just want to watch the world burn in | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:35

Coming up in this episode...(http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2015/02/2d274907858387-image001-blocks_desktop_medium-jpg-197x300.jpg) * Lost Stories * Magic 8-Ball * Video Game Cartridges Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-19R) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/xV2YoE99ncU Feedback * What would you build out of a Raspberry Pi? * Mad Marv:I would try replacing the Debian server at my office with a Raspberry Pi.  The server runs DHCP and DNS for the office, and is also a dumb file server.  I'd like to try separating the network services and have the Debian server as a backup. On This Day In History for February 25, 2015 This is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 309 days remaining in 2015. * It was on this date in 1836 that Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver. * February 25, 1866, Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull - human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed. * 87 years ago today, Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission * Also today in 1933, The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier * U.S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas/Agena combination from Point Arguello in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida on this date in 1964 * That same date in 1971, The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online. Happy birthday goes out on this date to: * One of the Marx brothers, Zeppo, born on this date in 1901. * The man behind legendary characters such as Thurston Howell III and Mr. Magoo, Jim Backus was born today in 1913. * American talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael turns 80 today. * English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer George Harrison would have been 72. * Turning 53 today is Canadian-English computer scientist Faron Moller. * Comedian and actor Carrot Top turns 50. * and finally, Sam Gamgee from Lord of the Rings, actor Sean Astin is 44. And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February 25, 2015 Listener Birthday Calendar * 25 - Norbert (http://www.norbtek.info/) * 25 - Sandi Sheppard (Mark's lovely wife) * 28 - Wayne Something Something - Bethlehem PA * 29 - Paul Dove a.k.a Eilmer From Malmesbury UK If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki (http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/). Hacks & Strange Stories * Ever wonder what's inside a magic 8-ball? (http://imgur.com/gallery/m3FsjuI) Shout out to the chat room Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. Remember When * Jerry Lawson, a self-taught engineer, gave us video game cartridges (http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/20/jerry-lawson-game-pioneer/?ncid=rss_truncated) Media Corner * Young Girl Writes To DC In Support Of More Female Superheroes, So DC Turned Her Into One (http://www.techtimes.com/articles/34355/20150220/young-girl-writes-to-dc-in-support-of-more-girl-superheroes-so-dc-turned-her-into-one.htm) (Link to video in article) Geek Library * A Previously Unpublished Dr. Seuss Book Is Coming Out This Summer (http://io9.com/a-previously-unpublished-dr-seuss-book-is-coming-out-t-1686635036) * Read the lost Sherlock Holmes story discovered in Selkirk a century after Conan Doyle wrote it. (http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/02/20/read_the_lost_sherlock_holmes_story_discovered_in_selkirk_a_century_after.html) * Speaking of unpublished works surfacing…

 Technorama Ep425: Scooty Puff Jr | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:19

Coming up in this episode...It’s an ALL Remember When Episode(http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2015/02/computerfootball-300x290.jpg) Remember last time we did this? * Old Film * Radical Scientists * Lightbulbs Be sure to listen for the Computer Bowl Highlights through out the show! Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-19y) for complete show notes and video from the show. http://youtu.be/bWUVNEUvd8U Feedback * Zhadum * Will the computer guy Dean Jensen Chuck and Kreg, Listening to Episode 423, you asked what games people played during long car rides.  I had one of the early cartridge handheld games. Microvision - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It was great for its time.  There were a number of different games and I thought the graphics were really good until one whole line in the LCD disappeared and I couldn't see everything. On This Day In History for February 4, 2015 This is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 330 days remaining in 2015. * It was on this date in 1703 that In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death. * February 4, 1789, George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. * It was 79 years ago today that Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. * Also today in 1967, Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft. * Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg on this date in 2004. Happy birthday goes out on this date to * Russian physicist and mathematician, Nikolay Umov, born on this date in 1846. * Also born on this date in 1986, Germany physicist Friedrich Hund. * The man who discovered the Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh was born today in 1906. * Also born February 4, 1927 is Rolf Landauer, the German-American physicist . * Comedian, actor, and author David Brenner would have been 79 today. * Director and producer George A. Romero turns 75 today. * Also turning 75, a familiar tertiary character in many Star Trek films and shows, actor John Schuck. * And finally, American computer scientist and co-developer of the B programming language, Ken Thompson turns 72. It’s also SIMS day - to celebrate the launch of the Sims software game launched on this date in the year 2000! And Sunday Feb 8 is “Clean out your computer day” - but stay subscribed to Technorama. And that's the way it was, on this day in history for February 4, 2015 Listener Birthday Calendar * 07 - Chad W. Smith from Chattanooga, TN * 07 - Bryon the Big BS in PA, Williamsport PA * 08 - Jan Scott from Yorkshire, UK * 08 - Blake Noble * 09 - "Podcast" Mike Wills (http://podcastmike.com/) from Minnesota * 10 - Zach Akgulian - Appleton, WI * 10 - Drace (Shari from ND) If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. (Clip: Computer Super Bowl #2) Shout out to the chat room Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. Remember When * Code hidden in a bullet! (http://sploid.gizmodo.com/secret-message-found-inside-ww2-bullet-is-the-end-of-a-1682902455) - Fixed * Every Time Travel Movie Ever, Ranked (http://io9.com/every-time-travel-movie-ever-ranked-1682363164) * How Radical 70s Scientists Tried to Change the World (http://gizmodo.com/how-radical-70s-scientists-tried-to-change-the-world-1681987399) * JUST SURF THE NET: A Funky Tribute to The Internet of the 1990s! - Geeks are Sexy Technology

 Technorama Ep424: Dabo tables…and matching chairs | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:53

Coming up in this episode... (http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2015/01/IkeaDaboTable-300x225.jpg) * Snaketrooper * Another sign of the singularity * Circular stuff Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-19o) for complete show notes. Feedback * Will the Computer Guy On This Day In History for January 21, 2015 This is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 344 days remaining in 2015. It was on this date in 1789 that the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts. * January 21, 1899, Opel manufactures its first automobile. * It was 61 years ago today that The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States. * That same date in 1960, Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board. * It was 44 years ago today that The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts. * January 21, 1976, Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes. * Production of the iconic DeLorean DMC-12 sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland in 1981. * It was 11 years ago today that NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6. Happy birthday goes out on this date to: * Russian mathematician Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, born on this date in 1827. * Also born on this date in 1882, Pavel Florensky, another Russian mathematician. * Actor Telly Savalas was born today in 1922. * English actor, singer, and screenwriter, Benny Hill would have been 91 today. * Radio host and actor Wolfman Jack was born today in 1938. * Co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, is 62. * and finally actress Geena Davis is 59. and don't forget today is National Hug Day in the US. * In the dust bowl days, you could get electrocuted (http://io9.com/the-dangers-of-the-dust-bowl-included-electrocution-by-1678668802) And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 21, 2015 News * There is real robotics company called Cyberdyne (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/theres-a-real-robotics-company-called-cyberdyne-and-now-1679979930) * Prominent scientists sign letter of warning about AI risks (http://io9.com/prominent-scientists-sign-letter-of-warning-about-ai-ri-1679487924) * Storm trooper armor beats snake (http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-15/star-wars-stormtrooper-scott-loxley-saved-from-snake-bite/6018338) Listener Birthday Calendar * 21 - Michael Rabalais - Stingray42 * 22 - TAW012294 * 22 - Jason Tucker * 23 - Kathie Luke, IL * 23 - Chris Moody from PodioMedia Chat * 25 - Kreg Steppe * 26 - Will The Computer Guy * 27 - Mark in Memphis If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. Hacks & Strange Stories * (from MadMarv) - Man writes program to find ISBN numbers in Pi (http://artificialphilosophy.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/pisbn-project.html) Shout out to the chat room Join us on the live feed next Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you’ll see the announcement when we join the hangout. Remember When * Circular runways? (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/these-circular-runways-were-designed-to-catapult-planes-1679960133)What could possibly go wrong? * Remember CEDs (http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2014/03/eric-s-blog/videodisc-day-an-introduction-to-the-capacitance-electronic-disc-ced-.html) (capacitance electronic discs)? Media Corner * Real life flying TARDIS!

 Technorama Ep423a: Where the Rubber Meets the Road | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:04

Coming up in this episode...(http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2015/01/Jeremy-Brett-Sherlock-Holmes-sherlock-holmes-6544310-550-784-210x300.jpg) You are not seeing double. Sorry for the repost. Audio files got mixed when making this podcast. It is corrected now...Enjoy! * Sherlock * DOS Games * More of the Same! Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-19b) for complete show notes. Feedback * Voicemail from Z'ha'dum On This Day In History for January 14, 2015 This is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining until the end of 2015. Strange but true fact! In the 20th and 21st centuries the Julian calendar is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar, thus January 14 is sometimes celebrated as New Year's Day (Old New Year) by religious groups who use the Julian calendar. * It was on this date in 1911 that Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. * 65 years ago today, the first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight. * NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway on this date in 1952. * The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation 61 years ago today. * January 14, 1969, an accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people. * Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history 42 years ago today. * The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan on this date 10 years ago. * Also today in 2012, The Pirate Party of Greece is founded, on the model of the Swedish Pirate Party. Happy birthday goes out on this date to * German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Johann Matthias Hase born on this date in 1684. * Also born today in 1943, American biochemist and astronaut Shannon Lucid * Actor Carl Weathers turns 67 today. * Colin Ferguson, not the actor from SyFy's Eureka, but the Jamaican-American murderer turns 57. * Actor and Rapper, LL Cool J celebrates his 47th birthday today. * and finally American actor, director, and producer Jason Bateman is 46. And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 14, 2015 News * Breakthrough Quantum Hard Drive Holds Data 100 Times Longer (http://gizmodo.com/breakthrough-quantum-hard-drive-holds-data-100-times-lo-1678273916) * You can play 2,400 classic DOS games in your web browser (http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/06/internet-archive-dos-games/?ncid=rss_truncated)! Listener Birthday Calendar * 14 - Jack Mangan * 14 - Glynne Tolar * 15 - Ralph Whitfield (aka GoofyRalph) * 17 - fuffy_frog (aka Kristina) from Canada * 19 - Michael Hickerson * 19 - Darek Colanduno * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. Remember When * You Don't Really Want To Live In This Shiny Retrofuturistic City (http://io9.com/you-dont-really-want-to-live-in-this-shiny-retrofuturis-1678606217) * The age of in-vehicle entertainment  Media Corner * Batman V. Superman Might Be Split Into Two Films? (http://io9.com/batman-v-superman-might-be-split-into-two-films-1678610817) * Terrible dating advice from Disney Princesses to Belle (http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2015/01/09/terrible-dating-advice-disney-princesses-belle-pic/) Geek Library * Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Has Written A Novel About Mycroft Holmes (http://io9.com/kareem-abdul-jabbar-has-written-a-novel-about-mycroft-h-1678607205) * The mysterious origins of 21 tech terms (http://gizmodo.com/the-mysterious-origins-of-21-tech-terms-1678246145) End of Show Stuff We appreciate your support. If you like the show, there are many ways to show your love: * Call the Listener Line: 206-222-CHAT (2428)

 Technorama Ep422: Atoms Lie…The make up everything | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:44

Coming up in this episode...(http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2015/01/Technorama_Ep_422_-_Jan_7_2015_-_Google_Docs-300x221.jpg) * What your Robot Does * Star Wars Complaints * Jokes that can make you smarter Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes (http://wp.me/pe53l-196). On This Day In History for January 7, 2015  This is January 7 - it is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 358 days remaining until the end of 2015.  * It was on this date in 1610 that Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day. * January 7, 1785, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon. * That same date in 1835, HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago. * Also today in 1894, William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. * 111 years ago today, the distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS". * The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom 88 years ago. * January 7, 1954, the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM. * Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral on this date in 1968. * That same date in 1985, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. Happy Birthday goes out on this date to * Scottish-Canadian engineer and creator of Universal Standard Time, Sandford Fleming, born on this date in 1827. * also born on this date in 1873 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures. * Russian engineer and astronaut Valeri Kubasov would have been 80 this year. * American astronaut Frederick D. Gregory turns 74 today. * Also turning 74 today, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, John E. Walker (no, not THAT Johnny Walker) * Actress Erin Gray turns 65. * And finally, actor, producer, and director Nicolas Cage is 51. Special mention: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki)  And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 7, 2015 News * If your robot buys drugs, have you committed a crime? (http://io9.com/if-your-robot-buys-illegal-drugs-have-you-committed-a-1677183776) * Smithsonian is restoring the original model of the USS Enterprise (http://gizmodo.com/how-the-smithsonian-is-restoring-the-original-uss-enter-1676892739) Listener Birthday Calendar * Jan 08 - Elvis! * Jan 09 - Lingo (http://www.thebritandyankee.com/) from the Brit & Yankee pubcast (http://www.thebritandyankee.com/) If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.  Remember When * Isaac Asimov selling the TRS-80 pocket computer (end of show notes) * 6 technologies that have been two years away - forever (http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/6-technologies-that-have-been-just-two-years-away-for-1674497943) Media Corner * Star Wars complaints are nothing new (http://www.themarysue.com/marvel-star-wars-complaint/) Geek Library * 10 Futurama Jokes That Will Make You Smarter (http://io9.com/10-futurama-jokes-that-will-make-you-smarter-1676659998/+kcampbelldollaghan) End of Show Stuff We appreciate your support. If you like the show, there are many ways to show your love: * Call the Listener Line: 206-222-CHAT (2428) * Email at technorama@chuckchat.com * We are also on... * Twitter at @Ctomasi (http://twitter.com/ctomasi), @Steppek (http://twitter.com/steppek),

 Technorama Ep421: Happy New Year | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Coming up in this episode...(http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2014/12/url.jpg) * Minutia * Christmas * ...and The Future Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-190) for complete show notes. O...

 Technorama Interview: Brian Richardson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 47:42

Brian Richardson heads up Dragon*TV and we talk to him about that, his work at Intel, and on the Bios (Yes, the computer kind) (http://siliconchef.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/xcropped-brian_coat.jpg.pagespeed.ic.Q8pjLUoN-L.jpg)and also about his Music. * Siliconchef (http://siliconchef.com/) * Intel Evangelists - Brian Richardson (http://evangelists.intel.com/bio/Brian_Richardson_) * DragonConTV (http://www.dragoncontv.org/)      

 Technorama Ep420: 420 – Yeah, right! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 55:28

Coming up in this episode...(http://www.chuckchat.com/technorama/files/2014/12/star-wars-ornaments-300x300.jpg) * iKea * iRobot * and *I* don’t know if this show will be any good. Listen below with the audio player or Click Here (http://wp.me/pe53l-18S) for complete show notes. Feedback * Trampas: Barbie story On This Day In History for December 17, 2014 Today is December 17, the 351st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 14 days remaining until the end of the 2014. * It was on this date in 497 BC that the first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome. * That same date in 1790, was the Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone. * First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert was on this date in 1865. * Several flight related events were on this date. In 1903, the Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The first flight of the Douglas DC-3 was on this date in 1935. and it was 67 years ago today that First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber. * The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida 57 years ago today. * Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs 45 years ago today. * December 17, 1987, Final Fantasy is released in Japan on the Famicon, marking the start of the Final Fantasy series and saving Square from bankruptcy. * It was 25 years ago today that The first episode of television series The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", airs in the United States. * SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight on this date in 2003. Happy birthday goes out on this date to * French mathematician and physicist, born on this date in 1706. * Also born on this date in 1778, English chemist and physicist Humphry Davy. * Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins would have been 101 today. * The computer scientist who developed the APL programming language, Kenneth E. Iverson, was born today in 1920 * and finally actor, director, and screenwriter Eugene Levy, turns 68 today  And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 17, 2014 News * Real Blood Or GTFO: Klingon Bloodwine Now Available (http://geekologie.com/2014/12/real-blood-or-gtfo-klingon-bloodwine-now.php) * Romulan Ale (http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Energy-Drink-Romulan/dp/B00290DOQ6) Listener Birthday Calendar * 17 - Jorge Schrauwen (http://www.blackdot.be/) * 20 - Phil Burchill (will be 0x21 in 2006) * 21 - James Ballard KarakSindru (http://www.karaksindru.com/) * 22 - Bo Pace * 22 - Luke "Chuck's Stalker" Smith (2000) * 22 - Jason Pelloni, Tampa, FL * 23 - Richard Green If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki. Hacks & Strange Stories * Ikea Replaced All the Seats In This Movie Theater With Comfy Beds (http://gizmodo.com/ikea-replaced-all-the-seats-in-this-movie-theater-with-1669735910) * iRobot's newest machine is made for student hackers (http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/10/irobot-create-2/?ncid=rss_truncated) Remember When * 80th Anniversary Monopoly Set Includes Game Tokens From Across the Ages (http://toyland.gizmodo.com/80th-anniversary-monopoly-set-includes-game-tokens-from-1669827652/+megneal) * The top tech gifts of holidays past (http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/14/the-top-tech-gifts-of-holidays-past/?ncid=rss_truncated) * Send letters to the editor by computer! (http://i.imgur.com/uBiCzEP.jpg)  Media Corner * Hardcore 80s Sci Fi film suggestions? (http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/2p820u/hardcore_80s_sci_fi_film_suggestions/) * Christopher Lee: Metal Christmas III (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TnFIDKyX50)  Geek Library

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