Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> * New Metal<br> * Chimeras<br> * Something from a long time ago, but from this galaxy<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="http://wp.me/pe53l-1iC">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> [poweress]<br> <br><br> Feedback<br> <br> * QOTW: What do you do what you do?<br> <br> * Rob: I print t-shirts. I’ve been a printer since I was 11 years old way back in 1982. I was pretty much born to it. I’ve got ink in my blood. Plus the benefits are great. Well, none of the usual benefits, but I don’t have to wear a tie and I get to make custom shirts for myself.<br> * Scott: I am an Architect because I love herding cats…. after all that is what designing and constructing buildings is really all about. And also because I have not learned how to play D&D for a living!<br> * John: Computer repair is my thing. I love the problem solving aspect of it.<br> * Clinton: Because if I didn’t do it, it wouldn’t get done.<br> <br> <br> * Jorge:<br> <br> * Re: US Visit – I’ve been to the states once, on a road trip through the Midwest.<br> * Re: Cards – Also you guys usually get different cards! And yeah that was a church.<br> * Re: My brother’s promotion – Q: So chief of police… is like the highest function or? No idea how it works in the US.<br> * Re: Dunkirk – Dunkirk is France, very close to the Belgian border<br> <br> <br> * VM from Tee Morris<br> <br> On This Day In History for February 1, 2017<br><br> <br><br> This is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 333 days remaining in 2017.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1893, that Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.<br> * Also today in 1918, Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.<br> * Also on February 1, 1964, The Beatles have their first number one hit in the United States with “I Want to Hold Your Hand”.<br> * That same date in 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during the reentry of mission STS-107 into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.<br> * February 1, 2013, The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, is opened to the public.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * German lexicographer, historian, and cryptographer, Johannes Trithemius, born on this date in 1462.<br> * Born February 1, 1635, German archaeologist and scholar Marquard Gude.<br> * Jacob Roggeveen, the Dutch explorer was born 358 years ago today.<br> * French lexicographer and philosopher, Émile Littré was born 216 years ago today.<br> * American actor, Clark Gable, born on this date in 1901.<br> * Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1905.<br> * Welsh actor, director, and screenwriter, Terry Jones, born on this date in 1942.<br> <br> Listener birthdays:<br><br> January<br> <br> * 24 – Cynthia Fry<br> * 25 – Kreg Steppe<br> * 26 – Will The Computer Guy<br> * 27 – Mark in Memphis<br> * 27 – Chip Burkhead from The Scotchcast<br> <br> February<br> <br> * 01 – Matt Baum aka Racer X, Pittsburgh PA<br> * 01 – Brandon Kirkwold – MN<br> * 02 – Gary Lindros – aka Gary from Jacksonville<br> * 02 – Chuck Provenzano aka podlurker aka Chuck’s evil twin<br> * 02 – Oreo Cookie Monster<br> * 03 – Euan Campbell McGregor – Scotland, UK<br> * 07 – Chad W. Smith from Chattanooga, TN<br> * 07 – Bryon the Big BS in PA, Williamsport PA<br> <br> <br> * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href="http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/">Wiki</a>.<br> <br>
