Episode 577: It’s Episode 577




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Summary: <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="https://wp.me/pe53l-1rU">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * Finish this: If I could send a 140 character message to my younger self, I’d write…<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chuck.tomasi/posts/10158137799123455">Chuck’s responses</a><br> <br> <br> <br> On This Day In History for October 2, 2019<br> This is the 275th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 90 days remaining in 2019.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1535, that Jacques Cartier discovers the present site of Montreal.<br> * It was 94 years ago today, that John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.<br> * That same date in 1955, ENIAC, one of the earliest electronic general-purpose computers, is shut down.<br> * It was 60 years ago today, that Rod Serling’s anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS.  The first episode is “Where Is Everybody?”.<br> * Also on October 2, 1996, The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.<br> * 19 years ago today, The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * English anthropologist and academic, Edward Burnett Tylor, born on this date in 1832.<br> * William Ramsay, the Scottish-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 167 years ago today.<br> * Indian freedom fighter, activist and philosopher, Mahatma Gandhi was born 150 years ago today.<br> * Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor was born on that same date in 1890.<br> * Bud Abbott, the American comedian was born 122 years ago today.<br> * American cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon, Alex Raymond, born on this date in 1909.<br> * American chemist, occultist, and engineer, Jack Parsons was born 105 years ago today.<br> * American computer scientist and author, Vernor Vinge is 75 today.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1945,  American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Don McLean.<br> * Also turning 71 today is American actor and singer Avery Brooks.<br> * Also born on that same date in 1951,  English singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor, Sting.<br> * Also turning 45 today is Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist Sam Roberts.<br> <br> This also Stan Lee Day!<br> Listener Birthdays<br> <br> * 02 – Adam Rumpke<br> * 06 – John Deurholt (Jo Dho)<br> <br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 2, 2019<br> <br> * If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href="http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/">Wiki</a>.<br> <br> News<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-26/chinas-new-500-megapixel-super-camera/11539176">China’s new ‘super camera’ can instantly pinpoint specific targets among tens of thousands of people – China power – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)</a><br> * <a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-09-gap-electronics-faster.html">Jumping the gap may make electronics faster</a><br> * <a href="https://www.wyomingnewsnow.tv/content/news/Casper-Regional-Landfill-begins-burying-560707701.html">Casper Regional Landfill begins burying turbine blades</a><br> <br> (break)<br> Shout out to the chat room<br> What us live every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET on Facebook. Go to Join our page and get notified automatically. Join us on the live chat!<br> Remember When<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.space.com/planet-venus-could-have-supported-life.html">Venus May Have Supported Life Billions of Years Ago | Space</a><br> <br> Hacks &amp; Strange Stories<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/most-mysterious-song-on-the-internet-885106/">The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on th...</a>