Technorama Ep 453 : The Best of Oktoberfest

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Worst Halloween costume ever

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What was the worst sci-fi novel you’ve ever read?

Wayne: “Star Wars Millennium Falcon: Owner’s Workshop Manual” Had no plot whatsoever.

John: “Faster Than The Speed of Love” by Brian Griffin.

Justin: I’m actually having a hard time remembering any. If a book is so bad I put it down I just tend to forget about it unless I somehow pick it back up down the road.

On This Day In History for October 28, 2015

This is the 301st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 64 days remaining in 2015.

It was on this date in 1492 that Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.
That same date in 1538, The first university in the New World (in present-day Dominican Republic), the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
It was 379 years ago today that A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
Also today in 1664, The Duke of York and Albany’s Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
The first railroad in Spain between Barcelona and Mataró is opened 167 years ago today.
In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty 129 years ago today.
Also today in 1929, Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
That same date in 1942, The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
It was 67 years ago today that Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket on this date in 1971.
NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program 6 years ago today.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to

French mathematician and engineer, Antoine Deparcieux, born on this date in 1703.
Born on that same date in 1718, Ignacije Szentmartony, the Croatian priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer
Also born today in 1793, the founder of Remington Arms, Eliphalet Remington.
October 28, 1880, is also the birthday of Belarusian-Estonian astrophysicist and astronomer Wilhelm Anderson
The co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates turns 60 today.
Turning 55 today is Landon Curt Noll, American computer scientist, and mathematician
Princess Vespa from Spaceballs, actress Daphne Zuniga, is 53.
Another actress/producer, Julia Roberts is 48.
and finally also turning 48 is the video game designer and the co-founder of Id Software, John Romero.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 28, 2015

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October

28 – Dylan Licata (San Antonio)
29 – James Clark, MegaPodzilla
30 – WolfGeek (Indiana)

November

01 – Amber Elstad
03 – Ken Pace
03 – Craig Glassner (aka Ranger Craig)

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