Episode 755: Ghosts can’t lie. You can see right through them.

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• Latest recovery update from Kreg
• Chuck accidentally discovered Samsung DEX (Patreon topic)
• Chuck investing time in Notion (more in the Patreon show)

Feedback

• Joe’s Voice Mail
• QOTW: If you could invent a gadget from any sci-fi movie or show, what would it be and what hilariously impractical use would you put it to?

On This Day In History for October 23, 2024

This is the 297th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 69 days remaining in 2024.

• It was on this date in 4004 BC, that the world was created… as proposed by James Usher according to the Bible.
• Also on October 23, 1906, Alberto Santos-Dumont flew an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe.
• That same date in 1911, The Italo-Turkish War saw the first use of an airplane in combat when an Italian pilot made a reconnaissance flight.
• Also today in 1958, Belgian artist Peyo’s comic characters, the Smurfs, made their debut in Spirou magazine..
• It was on this date in 1970, that Gary Gabelich set a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
• October 23, 2001, Apple Computer released the iPod..
• On October 23, 2007, Space Shuttle Discovery was launched on STS-120, with Pamela Melroy becoming the second female space shuttle commander..

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

• American engineer, Samuel Morey, born on this date in 1762.
• Ludwig Leichhardt, German-Australian explorer was born on that same date in 1813.
• German astronomer Gustav Spörer was born 202 years ago today.
• William D. Coolidge, the American physicist and engineer was born 151 years ago today.
• Born October 23, 1894, American astronomer and academic Emma Vyssotsky.
• Felix Bloch, the Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born 119 years ago today.
• Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Ilya Frank, born on this date in 1908.
• Born October 23, 1920, Japanese-American meteorologist and academic Ted Fujita.
• Austrian-English businessman, co-founded Acorn Computers and Olivetti Research Laboratory, Hermann Hauser, born on this date in 1948.
• Also turning 60 today is American computer scientist and businessman Eddy Cue.
• Born October 23, 1970, American television presenter and engineer Grant Imahara.
• Canadian-American actor and producer, Ryan Reynolds, born on this date in 1976.

Listener Birthdays

• 25 – Mad Marv – spelled “K – Y – L – E” but pronounced “Marv”. Hope that helps
• 25 – HMNSHLD
• 25 – BritOnTour (Jason)
• 25 – Scott (Minneapolis)
• 28 – Dylan Licata (San Antonio)
• 29 – Big Jim Clark, MegaPodTastic
• 30 – WolfGeek (Indiana)
• Nov 1 – Amber Elstad

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for October 23, 2024

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News

• Rivian Rolls Out ‘Knight Rider,’ ‘Back To The Future’ Car Costumes For Halloween
• AI researcher scrapes usable data from a 35-second screen recording for less than one cent via Google Gemini
• Parents sue after student disciplined for using AI on school project in Massachusetts

Hacks & Strange Stories

• New open-source project transforms Android phones into ham radio transceivers

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Pass me the remote

• Kreg
  • A Quiet Place – Day One – Paramount+
  • (Re-Watch) Shitt$ Creek – Hulu
  • Only Murders in the Building (Almost Done for the Season) – Hulu

• Chuck
  • Foundation (AppleTV)
  • Rings of Power – Season 2 (Prime Video)
  • Dark Matter (AppleTV)
  • Built For Mars (Disney+/NatGeo)
  • It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown (AppleTV)

Geek Library

1. First coherent picture of an atomic nucleus made of quarks and gluons
2. SpaceX plans to launch this space station. It looks futuristic
3. Whatever Happened to the DEATH STAR?
4. The Hidden Engineering of Landfills
5. Secrets of the Grand Canyon’s Formation | How The Earth Was Made (S2, E1) | Full Episode
6. End the line: The last Sun Sparc Workstation
7. Why we should go back to writing in runes
8. The Birth, Boom and Bust of the Hard Disk Drive
9. The Doorway to the Underworld is Growing and We Can’t Stop It
10. They Dumped 2 Million Tires Into The Ocean. What Happened After 50 Years Is Very Shocking!
11. The Wild Story of the Taum Sauk Dam Failure
12. When a Billion Years Disappeared
13. Revealing USA’s Biggest Engineering Secret
14. HDMI video from your Apple II with this cheap and simple project (A2DVI)
15. The Day Humans Almost Disappeared Forever 930,000 Years Ago
16. Activities That Can Be Traced Back to Pagan Culture
17. The math that proves the Earth isn’t flat
18. The Most Controversial Problem in Philosophy
19. Why the Summit of the Great Pyramid is Missing
20. Exploring Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest!!! | History Traveler Episode 274

Question of the week

• If you could instantly become an expert in any emerging technology, which would you choose and why?

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