Technorama Ep428: Some people just want to watch the world burn in

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  • Lost Stories
  • Magic 8-Ball
  • Video Game Cartridges

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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
  • 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.

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*** No show next weekend. Chuck will be celebrating his mother’s 80th birthday.

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