Technorama Ep459 : Star Wars Super Spectacular

Coming up in this episode…

• Real mail to email
• Wet socks
• Santa didn’t get nuked

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Feedback

• Lejon from Chandler: Why D&D books don’t appear in libraries
• Wil the Computer Guy: TV shows/movies to be rebooted
• Wil the Computer Guy: Favorite quotes

On This Day In History for December 16, 2015

This is the 350th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 15 days remaining in 2015.

• It was on this date in 1497 that Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
• December 16, 1707, was the last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
• It was 242 years ago today as part of the American Revolution, the Boston Tea Party occurs when members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
• On this date in 1947, William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
• This is the date that the world officially adopted the name of “Euro”.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to…

• Uzbek astronomer, mathematician, and physicist Ali Qushji, born on this date in 1474.
• Also born on this date in 1863, the Spanish philosopher and author who is known for the phrase “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”, George Santayana.
• Born on the same date in 1863, the Spanish philosopher and author who is known for the phrase “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”, George Santayana.
• The founder of Pickwick Records, Cy Leslie would have been 93 today.
• Author and philosopher, Philip K. Dick was born today in 1928.
• Adam Riess, the American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic Nobel Prize laureate turns 46.
• and finally computer scientist, Jen Golbeck is 39.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for December 16, 1015

News

• Tokyo’s solution to rogue drones
• USPS will send you images of what’s in your mailbox

Listener Birthday Calendar

• 17 – Jorge Schrauwen
• 20 – Phil Burchill 42 this year (2015)! Ten years of listening to Technorama!
• 21 – James Ballard KarakSindru
• 22 – Bo Pace
• 22 – Luke “Chuck’s Stalker” Smith (2000)
• 22 – Jason Pelloni, Tampa, FL
• If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our Wiki.

Hacks & Strange Stories

• An Amiga has been running school district’s AC for 30 years
• Pee-powered socks

Shout out to the chat room

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Remember When

• That time a girl wrote to JFK asking if the Soviets would nuke Santa Claus

Media Corner

• Has anyone seen the Star Wars Toyota Celica?
• Carrie Fisher’s response to the ban on slave Leia toy

Question of the week:

• What’s your favorite TV show opening credits?

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