In this episode…
- Do you know what’s in Mountain Dew
- One of the original video games turns 40
- And a few things for your virtual podcast stocking
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Introducing the team…
- Shout out to the chat room
- Happy Birthday to:
- 21 – James Ballard KarakSindru
- 22 – Bo Pace
- 22 – Luke “Chuck’s Stalker” Smith (2000)
- 23 – Richard Green
- 24 – MaDBooM
- 25 – Joel Parks (Agrojag-Ama)
- If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.
- Listen to the audio stream if you happen to be around. If you cannot make it, you can find us on ustream.tv. Search for Technorama.
Feedback
- Vmail: Will the Computer Guy x3
- Vmail: Tee Morris – Lamb Castration –ouch
- Email: David – Fixing his Christmas lights
- Email: Amber – Cell phones on airplanes
“I used to turn my phone completely off when they would tell you to, until the power button stopped working on my Nexus 1 so now I just put it in Airplane mode. Usually I need my phone when I land and I can’t always get to my power cable to trick the phone into turning on right away. Once I get a phone with a working power button I will probably go back to turning off my phone. -Amber I know the voices aren’t real, but they come up with some really great ideas.”
On This Day In History for December 21, 2011
- It was on this date in 1620 that William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- Arthur Wynne‘s “word-cross”, the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World today in 1913.
- also on this date in 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world’s first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.
- Today in 1967, Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days after the transplant.
- Apollo 8 is launched December 21, 1968 from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
- 17 years ago today Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.
Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:
- British Chemist Thomas Graham born today in 1805
- Also born today in 1890 geneticist and Nobel laureate Hermann Joseph Muller
- Actor Samuel L. Jackson turns 64
- and the man who brought us The Lion King, Little Mermaid, Kung Fu Panda, and many other hit movies, film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg turnss 61
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 21, 2011 News
Hacks & Strange Stories
Remember When
Media Corner
What the Chuck!
Geek Library
- The Internet Justice League – From co-worker Ben
- c-Jump and CPU wars – nerdy games
and a little something for your stocking
- Chewie sings Silent Night
- Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies on a Glass Harp
- 24 hours of ambient Enterprise-D noise
End of Show Stuff
- Last show of the year. We will be off for Christmas and New year. Next time you’ll hear us in podcast form will be Jan 11.
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