Episode 504: You Can Keep Your Seat




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Summary: Coming up in this episode…<br> <br> * Keeping the old OSes alive<br> * What’s the deal with Red Shirts, really?<br> * The Things you can learn from YouTube<br> <br> Listen below with the audio player or <a href="http://wp.me/pe53l-1js">Click Here</a> for complete show notes and video from the show.<br> <br> <br> Feedback<br> <br> * Mad Marv:<br> <br> * Hi guys, I was listening to the show in front of my computer for a change.  Regarding Tarzan and the Mowgli girl story, I read the original story.  It wasn’t realistic but is worth reading and the story holds up well for a hundred year old book.  In the story he learns to speak French but read English.  I don’t think that’s really possible, but it’s funny.<br> <br> <br> * Voicemail: Gary from Jacksonville – Interview with Grant<br> <br> On This Day In History for April 19, 2017<br> This is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 256 days remaining in 2017.<br> <br> * It was on this date in 1770, that Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.<br> * Also today in 1770, Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.<br> * The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord. on this date in 1775.<br> * On April 19, 1892, Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.<br> * 90 years ago today, Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.<br> * It was 46 years ago today, that Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.<br> * Also on April 19, 1971, Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.<br> * The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night. on this date in 1987.<br> * 24 years ago today, the 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die..<br> * The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168. on this date in 1995.<br> * On April 19, 2013, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.<br> <br> Happy birthday goes out on this date to:<br> <br> * German musician, grandfather of J. S. Bach, Christoph Bach (musician), born on this date in 1613.<br> * Ole Evinrude, the American inventor was born 140 years ago today.<br> * Austrian physicist and mathematician, Richard von Mises, born on this date in 1883.<br> * American scientist, Glenn T. Seaborg was born 105 years ago today.<br> * Jayne Mansfield, the American actress, singer, model was born 84 years ago today.<br> * English actor, comedian, composer and musician, Dudley Moore was born 82 years ago today.<br> * American astrophysicist astronomer, Kim Weaver, born on this date in 1964.<br> * Canadian astronomer, Brett J. Gladman is 51 today.<br> * American actor, writer, producer, director, and teacher, James Franco, born on this date in 1978.<br> * Canadian actor, Hayden Christensen is 36 today.<br> <br> Listener birthdays<br> <br> * 19 – Amanda (SusietheGeek’s daughter &amp; Geek in Training)<br> * 19 – Ken Kennedy<br> * 21 – Kim and Kreg’s Anniversary<br> * 23 – Runtime<br> <br> If you want to get on the Technorama Birthday Calendar, visit our <a href="http://technorama.wikifoundry.com/">Wiki</a>.<br> And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 19, 2017<br> News<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/16/early-computing-pioneer-robert-taylor-dies/">Computer pioneer Robert Taylor dies</a><br>...