Show 081: Stargazing

Hi, I'm Art "Mercury, Messenger Of The Gods" Hollingsworth, and my co-host tonight is Mike "Neptune, God Of The Sea" Scott, and Bryan "Mars, God Of War" Hineser.

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What's Going on?
Bryan
- Went to a backyard star party at S&S Optika
- to night went out and looked

Art
- Daughter's desk almost complete. Next project is a set of bar clamps.

Mike
- Sister in Law is here visiting
- Put up my Christmas lights
- Visited Great Divide brewing for the second time. Tried a Berliner Weisse

 

Computer History
- December 2, 1954 - US Navy dedicates NORC Machine
- December 4, 1985 - Cray X-MP Supercomputer Begins Operation
- December 6, 1907 - Mathematical Logician Rosser is Born
- December 7, 1928 - Mathematical Linguist Chomsky is Born

The computer history segment is brought to you by The Computer history Museum, where computing history lives. Visit them at  computerhistory.org .

Fake Commercial
Sloan's Clones - Thanks to SciFi Surplus!

New and Interesting
Send us your Geek Gift suggestions / wishlist - Mike
World War 7 Phase 2 - Mike
12 Days of CRYPTness - Mike

The 12 Days of Zombie Christmas - Mike

Blizzard has an account for Diablo and Starcraft on Twitter - Mike

Scott Sigler may be coming to Denver again - Bryan

Two circulating beams bring first collisions in the LHC - Bryan

Black Friday 2009 - Bryan

 

New Evidence of Life On Mars - Art

 

Podcast or Podcast Novel Promo
7th Son Descent Reboot - J.C. Hutchins
The Round Red Stone

- Jeff Burton

The Segmentish Type Thing

Top 6 apps you need to do your job

Mike:

- The command prompt

- Microsoft Management Console

- a Internet browser

- Outlook

- RDP / Terminal Services Client

- OneNote

Bryan:

- Xterm or Terminal

- RDP

- ThinkAnywhere Client

- ThunderBird

- VirtualBox with XP VM

- POS Client

Art:

- TrueCrypt

- Firefox

- Virtualbox

- PortableApps

- Thunderbird

- eGroupware