Technorama Ep 450 : Super Moon Eclipse

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Moon
Pluto
and Uranus

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What tech gave you the most problems?
- Justin: Printers. Printers always seem to give me a headache. Be they office supported, home office, etc. They just always seem to be a failure point between digital data and making them real world accessible.

Don’t get me started on ink…

Norbert: iPhone 5 battery expanding.

Shaun: bad caps. http://www.badcaps.net/index.php?pageid=causes

Brad: Alarm system interface. Looks like an old phone pad with minimal intuitive design.

Ben: It isn’t the higher tech I struggle with so much (though your talk about typing reminded me of when I tried to learn the Dvorak keyboard layout). I struggle more with mechanical type things. I really struggle with things like changing out the mower and snowblower attachments on my tractor…

Marti: Remote controls with sticky buttons or a mouse with a delay.

Mark: Reading analog clocks. Everything else is pretty straightforward, but remembering which arm meant what always screwed me up..

Becky: Any and All techno gadgets! I’ll share my — for Dummies books. Probably outdated already 😛

On This Day In History for September 30, 2015

This is the 273rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 92 days remaining in 2015.

It was on this date in 1860 that Britain’s first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
133 years ago today, Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
On this very date 100 years ago today, a Serbian Army private becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated 80 years ago today.
76 years ago today, NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game between the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets and the Fordham Rams. Fordham won the game 34-7.
The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time on this date in 1947.
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world’s first nuclear reactor powered vessel 61 years ago today.
September 30, 1965, Trapped in the Sky, the pilot episode of Gerry Anderson’s beloved Thunderbirds, airs on ITV for the first time.
47 years ago today, The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
That same date in 1975, The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down 38 years ago today.
Also today in 1980, Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
It was 33 years ago today that Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to

German astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin, born on this date in 1550.
Also born on this date in 1832, Ann Jarvis, the activist and co-founder of Mother’s Day.
The founder of the Wrigley Company, William Wrigley Jr. was born today in 1861.
Also born September 30, 1882, Hans Geiger, the German physicist and academic.
Chances are… today is Johnny Mathis’ 80th birthday.
And finally British astronomer Richard Edwin Hills turns 70.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for September 30, 2015

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