Technorama Ep 432 : Gas Giants

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
Kitty litter is dangerous stuff
The most interesting car passenger in the world

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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. Carlson From WKRP in Cincinnati, and many other characters, actor Gordon Jump was born today in 1932.
Actress, singer, and dancer, Debbie Reynolds turns 83 today.
finally, happy 57th birthday to scientist Stephen O’Rahilly.

P.S. Today is Edible Book Day.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 1, 2015

News

Listener Birthday Calendar

03 – Trucker Tom Wiles
04 – Brian K – My Blog
04 – Joel McLaughlin (aka Gorkon)
04 – Timothy Low
05 – Chad Davis, Jon Issler (hsteckylf)
05 – Griffin Sylvester (Ildreancipher)
05 – Martine Tysmans – citytrips, travelling, jokes… (in Dutch)
05 – Ringmaster Greg from Dancing With Elephants
06 – Trevor Litecky (future Geek)
06 – RevTim
06 – John Cmar
07 – P.C. Haring
If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.

Hacks & Strange Stories

Guy busted for driving in the HOV lane with “The Most Interesting Man in the World”

Shout out to the chat room

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Remember When

White Babies will go extinct by 2015

Media Corner

Geek Library

Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s favorite joke
Higgs boson walks into a church, and the priest says, ‘I’m sorry we don’t allow Higgs bosons to come to churches.’ And [the Higgs] says, ‘But without me, you can’t have mass.’

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