Coming up in this episode…
- An alarming alarm clock
- An awesome children’s book
- Given a choice, what would YOU have named the transistor?
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Introducing the team…
- Shout out to the chat room
- Happy Birthday to:
- Sep 05 – Ben Vaughan (benvon) [1977]
- Sep 06 – Susan Murph (SusietheGeek) How to Grow Your Geek Podcast
- Sep 10 – Anthony Warnack (EastBayAnt) [1979]
- Sep 14 – Andrew Peters (Perl Hacker from the UK)
- Sep 18 – Jeff Schultz (Gorbash)
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Voice Mail
- Bruce Barr – Sci-Fi theme
On This Day In History
- It was on this date in 1682 that Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
- The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar today in 1752 – skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
- Groundbreaking for the United Nations headquarters in New York City was today in 1948
- and today in 1959, The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
- Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean 27 years ago.
- and it was today in 1998 that Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
Happy Birthday goes out this date to
- Danish geographer Claudius Clavus, born today in 1388
- German alchemist Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa was born in 1486
- in 1713, Johann Kies, the German mathematician
- also born today in 1837 – Nikolai Bugaev, the Russian mathematician
- another Russian mathematician, Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, was born in 1891
- Archaeologist Ernest Nash was born today in 1898
- also born today in 1909 –British naturalist and explorer Peter Scott
- The Lone Ranger, actor Clayton Moore was born today in 1914
- It must be mathematician birthday because Argentine mathematician Alberto Calderón was born today in 1920
- Happy birthday to ST:TOS Mr. Sulu, Walter Koenig turns 75 today
- and also turning 75 today is Ferid Murad, the American physician and pharmacologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
And that’s the way it was, on this day in History for September 14, 2011
News
Hacks & Strange Stories
- Remember when The Hulk joined the Ramones?
- An alarm clock that looks like a bomb
Remember When
What the Chuck!
What the Kreg!
- Here are some pictures from us at Dragon*Con via my Flickr Favs..Do you know of any? or have some?
Geek Library
- Awesome children’s book: That’s Not Your Mommy Anymore
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