{"id":4482,"date":"2015-03-24T22:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T03:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=4482"},"modified":"2020-05-18T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T18:25:13","slug":"technorama-ep-431-ohm-on-the-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2015\/03\/24\/technorama-ep-431-ohm-on-the-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Technorama Ep 431 : Ohm On the Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming up in this episode&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jurassic Legos<\/li>\n<li>Self-help books<\/li>\n<li>Space Beer<strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Listen below with the audio player or <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-1ai\">Click Here<\/a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<\/i><\/b><strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_654\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4482-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep431_150325.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep431_150325.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep431_150325.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep431_150325.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Tech_Ep431_150325.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OD_QxO1iuCI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Feedback<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First computer experience<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>In 1968, my aunt gave me a book that described the instruction set of the IBM 1620 computer. \u00a0She is\/was a programmer. \u00a0I was a senior in high school. \u00a0I read it, and was ready to program an application. \u00a0But I wasn\u2019t inventive enough to come up with an application on my own. \u00a0But, I did get to work on a 1620 about 4 years later, during my engineering co-op job. \u00a0I got to use Fortran, I didn\u2019t need the instruction set.<\/p>\n<p>Before my hands-on 1620 experience, in 1969 in engineering school, I wrote programs on a CDC Star and a Burroughs, using punched cards. \u00a0But once I found the ASR 33 Teletype in the engineering school, I stopped using the punched cards.<\/p>\n<p>Leon.<\/p>\n<p>(DragonCon ceiling fall)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First pirating<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>MadMarv: Technically, I think I pirated were music CDs using cassette tapes probably back in the late 80&#8217;s early 90&#8217;s. \u00a0I don&#8217;t even remember which CDs I copied. \u00a0I think this was before my family got its first computer. \u00a0\u00a0In college I collected the usual crap ton of nothing important. \u00a0I&#8217;m wondering if I still have some of that stuff on old backups. \u00a0I know I kept folders of stuff from those days just because it doesn&#8217;t take up much disk space by today&#8217;s standards. But i&#8217;m not sure if I can find any of it now.<\/p>\n<p>Update, found the stuff. And I can&#8217;t play the midi files. Damn you VLC. Well Quicktime plays it. Ugh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>On This Day In History for <\/b><b>March 25, 2015<\/b><\/p>\n<p><em>This is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days remaining in 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was on this date in 421 that Venice is founded at twelve o&#8217;clock noon, according to legend.<\/li>\n<li>March 25, 1634, the first settlers arrive in Maryland.<\/li>\n<li>It was 208 years ago today that the Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.<\/li>\n<li>The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma 67 years ago today.<\/li>\n<li>57 years ago today, Canada&#8217;s Avro Arrow makes its first flight.<\/li>\n<li>Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama 50 years ago today.<\/li>\n<li>36 years ago today, the first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.<\/li>\n<li>Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station on this date in 1992.<\/li>\n<li>It was 20 years ago today that WikiWikiWeb, the world&#8217;s first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer born on this date in 1539.<\/li>\n<li>Also born on this date in 1867 the man who designed and sculpted Mount Rushmore, Gutzon Borglum.<\/li>\n<li>Journalist and sportscaster Howard Cosell was born today in 1918.<\/li>\n<li>1928 \u2013 Jim Lovell, American captain, pilot, and astronaut<\/li>\n<li>1943 \u2013 Paul Michael Glaser, American actor and director<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>And that\u2019s the way it was, on this day in history for March 25, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>March 25 is also Tolkien Reading Day: Commemorating the (fictional) anniversary of the Fall of Sauron, Tolkien Reading Day is one of two major geek holidays dedicated to partaking of the Middle Earth imaginings of one J. R. R. Tolkien. And no, watching the movie and TV adaptations doesn\u2019t count. Crack a book, you orc!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>News<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thedailywh.at\/2015\/03\/prank-day-man-plants-hilarious-fake-self-help-books-l-bookstore\/\">Man plans hilarious self-help books in LA bookstore<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/soon-you-can-drink-beer-brewed-space-yeast\">Coming soon &#8211; Space Beer!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><b>Listener Birthday Calendar<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>25 &#8211; Nicholas St. Gabriel<\/li>\n<li>26 &#8211; Chuck Tomasi<\/li>\n<li>26 &#8211; Chuck\u2019s nephew Travis Tomasi (nerd in training)<\/li>\n<li>26 &#8211; Brina Baird in Hampton, VA<\/li>\n<li>28 &#8211; Richard Balding (Chuck\u2019s first computer teacher.)<\/li>\n<li>28 &#8211; Steve Murawski<\/li>\n<li>29 &#8211; Ranger Marc Blackburn<\/li>\n<li>30 &#8211; Tony Mast<\/li>\n<li>If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/technorama.wikifoundry.com\/\">Wiki<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Hacks &amp; Strange Stories<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/this-catfish-was-just-named-after-a-star-wars-character-1691996443\">The catfish that was named after a Star Wars character<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Shout out to the chat room<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Join us on the Google+ hangout every Sunday night at 9:30PM ET to see and hear the show raw and unedited. Just circle Technorama Podcast, Kreg, or me and you\u2019ll see the announcement when we join the hangout<strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Remember When<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/geekologie.com\/2015\/03\/monthly-subscription-service-for-retro-v.php\">Subscription service for retro video games<\/a><strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Media Corner<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lego.gizmodo.com\/it-took-100-000-worth-of-lego-to-recreate-jurassic-par-1692607561\">$100,000 to make a Lego Jurassic Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paleofuture.gizmodo.com\/museum-giving-away-back-to-the-future-car-if-cubs-win-1690291323\">Museum giving away Back to the Future car<\/a> &#8211; yes, there\u2019s a catch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Geek Library<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/03\/20\/the-1982-jc-penney-christmas-c.html\">The 1982 JCPenney Christmas Catalog &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><b>End of Show Stuff<\/b><strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LISTENER QUESTION: What is your most hated technology sound?<strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>THANK YOU SHOW SUPPORTERS!<\/li>\n<li>Special 10 year anniversary show &#8211; Kreg will be at the Phoenix Binary Studio April 26!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We appreciate your support. If you like the show, there are many ways to show your love:<strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Call the Listener Line: 206-222-CHAT (2428)<\/li>\n<li>Subscribe to our <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/technoramapodcast\">YouTube channel<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Email at technorama@chuckchat.com<\/li>\n<li>We are also on&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Twitter at<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ctomasi\"> @Ctomasi<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/steppek\"> @Steppek<\/a>, and<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/technorama\"> @technorama<\/a><\/li>\n<li>on Facebook at the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/technoramapodcast\"> Technorama Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And even<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/114344045273696987673\/posts\"> Google Plus<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Links are in these show notes and on our website<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/\">www.chuckchat.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How about a donation to the tip jar: one time or monthly micro-payment.<\/li>\n<li>Or a review on the iTunes music store.<strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also Thanks to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mad Marv for providing the great blog content<\/li>\n<li>Everyone who sent us links during the week<\/li>\n<li>Those who joined us in the hangout<\/li>\n<li>You, for downloading and listening<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tell a friend about Technorama and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>binary high five<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming up in this episode&#8230; Jurassic Legos Self-help books Space Beer\u00a0 Listen below with the audio player or Click Here for complete show notes and video from the show.\u00a0 http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep431_150325.mp3Podcast: Download<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_656\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4482-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep431_150325.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep431_150325.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep431_150325.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/technorama\/www.chuckchat.com\/media\/technorama\/Tech_Ep431_150325.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Tech_Ep431_150325.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-1ai","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4486,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}