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6:04pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY:
Hello Mark and all. One piece of tech I'm thankful for is the Android Bluetooth adapter for my phone. Now I can listen to WFMU when I'm driving in the radio wasteland of the north country.
♥
6:05pm
StringOFperils:
The steam-powered polygraph still rules.
🤖♥
6:05pm
ultradamno:
Halloween is superior. You can elect to buy candy and costumes, but that's for other people's delight
🤖♥
6:06pm
ultradamno:
...and you're encouraged to support horror
🤖♥
6:06pm
Handy Haversack:
I'd like Thanksgiving a lot more if it weren't so meat-centric in the wider culture. That gets awfully oppressive. And, you know, the whole "let's celebrate killing people for their land" aspect of it. But I like that we have a holiday that isn't religious and where you have time to cook and eat stuff you don't regularly get to.
But Marathon, Hellraiser, and SWAGVENT are the only holidays worth keeping. We should get rid of the others before they do more harm!
🤖♥
6:06pm
Ken From Hyde Park:
Thanksgiving parades generally beat other holidays' parades.
Found a copy of my #73 bus poem from 1988??
"Aberrant Thoughts on the 73"
I'll send it to the email...
6:09pm
Saltonstall:
Medical technology in general. I don’t know how to work any of it, dunno what exactly all of it does, but thanks to medical professionals there are folks with expertise operating the tech
6:11pm
MarciB:
Do my Blue Air purifiers count? Pretty grateful I bought them a few days before the Canadian wildfires turned NYC skies orange last spring.
♥
6:11pm
Mark Hurst:
Alan's "outdoor roofed hangout space," built with power tools, pictured here on the playlist.
🤖♥
6:13pm
tim:
I am thankful for the technology that allows WFMU to stream!
🤖♥
6:13pm
ultradamno:
Also, the gaslight, because we wouldn't have a word for people trying to fool us into believing an alternate reality without it.
6:13pm
Rick K.:
Thankful for digital tuners and clip on tuners on my guitar
6:13pm
traven:
A job well done, Alan, my compliments.
6:14pm
DogWaist:
I am thankful for my 2006 iPod classic and rockbox open source software it’s how I mainly listen to music in my car now…even though it has Bluetooth I choose 3.5 mm jack and sometimes plug it into my Walkman and listen to cassettes.
♥
6:15pm
dale:
hey now. 15 or so years ago i built a firewood shed like that. i just enclosed it, using windows i got free on marketplace and bought a solar generator for meager power like some LED lights and a radio. better tools make you a better journeyman.
♥
6:16pm
Folsom:
Dan's show is pretty good, I hear it in the morning while working out.
6:16pm
Billybob:
UPC codes. I watched a show last night about the history of grocery stores. At some point in the 60s, lines at the registers had become a problem, with the cashiers banging out the prices for every single item on cash registers, so the heads of the various supermarkets got together with the CEOs of grocery suppliers, and came up with UPC codes. Problem, solution, voila!
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6:16pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY:
Something I'm NOT thankful for. When some business sends you an invoice via email, and the assess a $25.00 "convenience fee" to pay it online. Total BS.
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6:17pm
dale:
my shed was like alan's, but i was going for a greek temple feeling.
🤖♥
6:18pm
tim:
I have friends who absolutely loved the minidisc and used it for ages!
🤖♥
6:19pm
Webhamster Henry:
I submit the BBS and XModem: RIP Ward Christensen! the secret ingredient of social media when it was a force for good, mostly.
🤖♥
6:20pm
herb.nyc:
Hey. Thx for reading, mark. Thought - if my parents just died maybe I’d ask Alan to use his power tools. And saw parents head off, and ask Elon to do some cryogenics (bad joke. Sorry)
🤖♥
6:20pm
ultradamno:
There was a funny moment in that HBO Koresh/Waco mini where the agents outside the compound are looking at Lawnmower Man and saying "he LIKES this?"
When I saw Helios Creed in Bloomington I remember overhearing him say to someone that he had just seen it at the theater down the street. He liked it and I'm not contradicting that guy.
🤖♥
6:20pm
Webhamster Henry:
And I echo praise for 21st century medicine - radiation zapping last year cured my cancer. AND got me some excellent CAT scan data that I turned into a Tshirt.
6:21pm
A2B:
YES! Thank you, Dan! I stlll have my MD console player, and it still works! I've also recorded some things off of WFMU on it! And I have "Johnny Mnemonic" on DVD (the *first* DVD release)!
🤖♥
6:22pm
tim:
One could argue that Greg Lake abused the good of synthesizers but I save that for the next show.
Your shed looks awesome, I'm working on assembling and refabricating a playset for my daughter. Took me 8 days to take apart and bring home. Going to take much more time to build it nice
6:23pm
mateo:
I am thankful for iPods with Wolfson DAC and rockbox firmware, for electronic ink tablets and pirate books, for live radio streaming and, needless to say, for electric stringed instruments and valve amplifiers
thank you! T!-11 is now like 45 a sheet, screws are 10 bucks a pound...it's getting pricy out there. all the trim and framing wood is stuff i scrounged stopping at builder's source in middletown for free pallets and wood.
6:26pm
Anonymous Frequent Commenter:
Thanks Mark!
Some older 12-step programs still meet over the phone... but IMHO that's not great. Difficult to tell who's talking, share detailed info, etc.
6:26pm
Fishman:
I know people who have achieved sobriety on AA Zoom meetings exclusively
🤖♥
6:27pm
Mennlinn Rebarts:
Some certain social media platforms provide their own baked-in Ludavico Technique.
6:27pm
A2B:
↳
Fredericks @6:23
Just one down side: The discs themselves are not shockproof. Iearned that the hard way with on MD I dropped. It still plays, but I can't erase and re-record on it, else it becomes totally unusable.
6:28pm
chresti:
Jeff G!
6:28pm
traven:
Right now I can't help but think of the John Prine song "Living in the Future".
All the more reason to rescue the ones that exist, and to take care of them so that someone in the near future can utilize what's inside of them. They might be unobtainable for various reasons. They might be essential.
6:36pm
chresti:
Problem with fobs is that they require batteries?
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6:36pm
dale:
i'm thankful for overnight broadcast band dx'ing. been waking up in the night and scrolling around am radio and loving the magic of hearing boston, atlanta, washington, philly, toronto, cleveland, chicago....
🤖♥
6:37pm
ultradamno:
Yeah, cable companies wiped that out with their own DVRs
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6:37pm
egould:
What do you have against ads for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis?!?
6:38pm
respectablename42069:
Tivo was a force, I remember audience members losing their minds when receiving them from post school afternoon talk show giveaways
"Gets rid of blackheads, heartbreak, and psoriasis
Christ, you don't know the meaning of heartbreak buddy "
♥
6:39pm
dale:
jim programmed a fisher price see and say?
6:39pm
Billybob:
↳
ultradamno @6:24
I got a free Britney Spears minidisc with some purchase back around 2004 or so. Never played it, even tho it was the one Spears song I kinda liked. Used it as an overhead fan pull thing.
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6:41pm
JohnEBGood:
Oh wow Dale. Who received the message?
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6:41pm
herb.nyc:
Flip side of zipping thru tv commercials- I taped shows off tv w vcr. As I watched I hit pause during commercials. But I’ve some shows that the timer recorded. Commercials are intact. And years later, I watched those old commercials, and laughed. Or was reminded of old pop culture.
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6:44pm
Feldy:
I loathe noisy, gas-powered leaf blowers, but I bought a whisper-quiet cordless one and it's fantastic
6:44pm
dk50b:
Big second for broadcast radio, have loved it since my youth, including DXing AM stations at night, and it helping build my musical tastes. Sadly, I know firsthand younger generations' use of streaming and apps is killing it.
That reminds me of the old print newspapers I have that date back to the 1920s, 30s, 40s etc. The big stories are good, but the old ads and the little filler stories are the best.
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6:45pm
Handy Haversack:
Matt Warwick's air fryer recipe for a grilled cheese is to coat the outside of the bread in mayo.
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6:46pm
Webhamster Henry:
How about a nice new SURVEILLANCE air fryer?
I think all of the NYRB imprint is on acid-free stock. A lot of my library form the last 50 years is holding up well. The Penguins, not so much...but the riches are still there, even though the seem printed on autumn leaves. If we're all still here at all in 125 years, it'll be a miracle, at this rate.
I didn’t watch the fight. But I walked into my local pizza joint to order a takeout pie; and was greeted by Mike Tyson’s naked old ass on the 70” screen TV.
Did not like.
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6:46pm
JohnEBGood:
Go go go Olivia and Air - Fryers. Yes, Gret for hot dogs!!
I'm reading a lot of microfilm , and old newspapers were like social media, reporting parties, graduations, vacations, and stuffed with filler articles , poems, comics, and ads for thinks you can't buy anymore.
6:48pm
A2B:
(Phil must be a closet steampunk, lol!)
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6:48pm
full_english_breakfast:
personally i am thankful for USB but not the proliferation of different USB connection types
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6:48pm
herb.nyc:
That Land Phil sure plays some loud scary music between 3&6am
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6:49pm
Dano59:
For my independent-study homework I'm gonna rewatch Connections with James Burke, and The Secret Life of Machines.
the problem with air fryers is that the convection fan bearings ALWAYS seize up from the greasy environment they live in. two or three years out of an air fryer is all one should expect.
6:49pm
Henry Hudson's Distant Relative:
Robocall blockers! RoboKiller, Nomorobo et al.
6:49pm
Billybob:
I remember at some point when Silly Putty no longer picked up the ink from the color Sunday comics. I don't know if the ink changed or the paper.
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6:50pm
ultradamno:
I saw that the story broke that Pokemon Go was help map earth for AI...that captchas are basically doing the same thing (but to teach driving cars) has been ignored in the stories I've seen.
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6:50pm
dale:
the only great thing about an air fryer is that they cook food quickly without turning your kitchen into a sauna in summer.
I know the captcha issue has, I don't recall if the Pokemon Go thing has or not.
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6:52pm
herb.nyc:
Haha, of course Perro (& dogs) love grass. It feels so good. But nyt had article recently of Los Angeles homes removing grass and concrete in front of their homes. And putting in farms gardens. (I hate being a party pooper)
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6:52pm
StringOFperils:
Don't take grass for granted. That un-monetized real-estate is just screaming for a concrete cap. The green of grass is increasingly worth more than the green of money.
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6:53pm
JohnEBGood:
Happy Thanksgiving Mark and my WFMU family : )
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6:53pm
Ike:
I don't understand the air fryer hype, but maybe I just didn't try the right recipes... or maybe I just have a particularly crappy secondhand air fryer.
all Air Fryers are not created equal. Big enough to heat a pizza? or a turkey? More expensive.
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6:53pm
Will thee SG OCNY:
The other big issue with air fryers is Teflon, or more specifically PFAS PFOA.. stainless steel is much safer if you can get a more expensive air fryer
6:54pm
A2B:
Just a theory behind the reason why DJ Pedro Caliente named his show "Secret Canine Agents": He's either a fan of the old FoxKids cartoon "Spy Dogs", or he loved the "Cats vs. Dogs" movies.
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6:54pm
Handy Haversack:
I will say this in the plainest text I know how to use: Thanks, Mark! I am thankful for Techtonic every damn week!
I also just open a .txt file to take notes on whatever the hell is going on.
You never need to wonder for long if someone you're talking with is vegan, or has a rescue dog, or Has Never Owned a Television.
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6:55pm
JohnEBGood:
Air fryers are part of nu wave ovens. They gr8
6:56pm
Billybob:
I was recently lamenting how I used to like doing color infrared photography with the setting changes, the exposure differences, the various filters I used for different effects...and how now, all it is is one of many options in Photoshop.
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6:56pm
Webhamster Henry:
I use Nano and Lynx (terminal HTML browser)
.docx stinx, but markdown is pretty good!
Ha, I'm like a little less than two-thirds of those and NEVER mention it! People are always like, "Is he a rescue?" And I'm all, "The dog? Well, he's from the pound -- I mean, where do YOU get dogs?"
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6:57pm
dale:
had a couple of nu wave ovens and they are great. until the fan seizes up. have ninja foodie now and i don't see it lasting forever because it's impossible to clean the inside.
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7:00pm
Mark Hurst:
Thanks, everyone! Good comments & submissions! Have a great Thanksgiving.
🤖♥
7:00pm
ultradamno:
Also, venmo...because I now know what Gaetz uses for euphemisms in his memos
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7:00pm
Will thee SG OCNY:
Thank you Mark Hurst, anyone who submitted, and the accu peeeps!!! Be well everyone!!!
7:00pm
traven:
↳
Webhamster Henry @6:59
Amen!
5:52pm
joe_rosevear:
OK, I'm a few days late, but I'm thankful for Linux, especially Slackware Linux. It has been a real pleasure using it for computing and writing shell scripts.
And I'm thankful for the Internet, especially duckduckgo.com and pi.ai. Both of these have brought much awesome improvement to my skills and abilities.
Listener comments!
: Mark! Techtonateful!
Will thee SG OCNY: Good evening Mark Hurst and all!!!
chresti: Hi Mark and techtoniques!
David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids.
Handy Haversack: Mark! Thankful Techyons!
Webhamster Henry: Hi Mark & Friends! Time for a nice, upbeat show!
Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Mark and infrawoodenstructure!
ultradamno: I'm going with electric unicycle theawesomer.com...
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Hello Mark and all. One piece of tech I'm thankful for is the Android Bluetooth adapter for my phone. Now I can listen to WFMU when I'm driving in the radio wasteland of the north country.
StringOFperils: The steam-powered polygraph still rules.
ultradamno: Halloween is superior. You can elect to buy candy and costumes, but that's for other people's delight
chresti: Espresso machines
ultradamno: ...and you're encouraged to support horror
Handy Haversack: I'd like Thanksgiving a lot more if it weren't so meat-centric in the wider culture. That gets awfully oppressive. And, you know, the whole "let's celebrate killing people for their land" aspect of it. But I like that we have a holiday that isn't religious and where you have time to cook and eat stuff you don't regularly get to.
But Marathon, Hellraiser, and SWAGVENT are the only holidays worth keeping. We should get rid of the others before they do more harm!
Ken From Hyde Park: Thanksgiving parades generally beat other holidays' parades.
Spikey BXL: Hi Mark, luddites
ultradamno: I suppose that does get oppressive, along with the celebration of oppressors
MarciB:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:06
Love this, Handy!Spikey BXL: BeMyEyes is what I am thankful for. Wish I'd get more call to help more people.
morphe':
↳ David (in London) @6:00
David van der StokeFound a copy of my #73 bus poem from 1988??
"Aberrant Thoughts on the 73"
I'll send it to the email...
Saltonstall: Medical technology in general. I don’t know how to work any of it, dunno what exactly all of it does, but thanks to medical professionals there are folks with expertise operating the tech
Handy Haversack: The inclined plane is pretty cool.
Mike Sin:
↳ Saltonstall @6:09
Gotta agree here. At home ECG Monitors probably added a few years to my father's life.index: I'm thankful for llm's!
egould: Pdf2xl
Spikey BXL:
↳ Mike Sin @6:10
Stellar work on Weegee earlier 👌🏻👌🏻A2B: Evening Mark, Technocrats & Techno-Crits!
Just found this on Listener Jonny in MA's profile, which is somewhat on the flipside of tonight's topic:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=573927144750910&set=a.573927171417574&type=3&ref=embed_page
MarciB: Do my Blue Air purifiers count? Pretty grateful I bought them a few days before the Canadian wildfires turned NYC skies orange last spring.
Mark Hurst: Alan's "outdoor roofed hangout space," built with power tools, pictured here on the playlist.
tim: Hello, Mark and friends!
Will thee SG OCNY: I've been using power tools... Using a drill press snd fostner bits right now
Handy Haversack:
↳ Mark Hurst @6:11
Alan's backyard concerts: always a great time! Well done, power tools!Tom from Stirling:
↳ Mark Hurst @6:11
Wowmorphe': Well Done Alan !!!
tim: I am thankful for the technology that allows WFMU to stream!
ultradamno: Also, the gaslight, because we wouldn't have a word for people trying to fool us into believing an alternate reality without it.
Rick K.: Thankful for digital tuners and clip on tuners on my guitar
traven: A job well done, Alan, my compliments.
DogWaist: I am thankful for my 2006 iPod classic and rockbox open source software it’s how I mainly listen to music in my car now…even though it has Bluetooth I choose 3.5 mm jack and sometimes plug it into my Walkman and listen to cassettes.
dale: hey now. 15 or so years ago i built a firewood shed like that. i just enclosed it, using windows i got free on marketplace and bought a solar generator for meager power like some LED lights and a radio. better tools make you a better journeyman.
Folsom: Dan's show is pretty good, I hear it in the morning while working out.
Billybob: UPC codes. I watched a show last night about the history of grocery stores. At some point in the 60s, lines at the registers had become a problem, with the cashiers banging out the prices for every single item on cash registers, so the heads of the various supermarkets got together with the CEOs of grocery suppliers, and came up with UPC codes. Problem, solution, voila!
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Something I'm NOT thankful for. When some business sends you an invoice via email, and the assess a $25.00 "convenience fee" to pay it online. Total BS.
dale: my shed was like alan's, but i was going for a greek temple feeling.
photos.app.goo.gl...
Tom from Stirling: 3 A M Eternal. Ha
tim: I have friends who absolutely loved the minidisc and used it for ages!
Webhamster Henry: I submit the BBS and XModem: RIP Ward Christensen! the secret ingredient of social media when it was a force for good, mostly.
spodiodi: *groan* back to the shadows
Handy Haversack:
↳ spodiodi @6:19
Only the spodi knows!herb.nyc: Hey. Thx for reading, mark. Thought - if my parents just died maybe I’d ask Alan to use his power tools. And saw parents head off, and ask Elon to do some cryogenics (bad joke. Sorry)
dale:
↳ tim @6:18
did they have laserdiscs?ultradamno: There was a funny moment in that HBO Koresh/Waco mini where the agents outside the compound are looking at Lawnmower Man and saying "he LIKES this?"
When I saw Helios Creed in Bloomington I remember overhearing him say to someone that he had just seen it at the theater down the street. He liked it and I'm not contradicting that guy.
Webhamster Henry: And I echo praise for 21st century medicine - radiation zapping last year cured my cancer. AND got me some excellent CAT scan data that I turned into a Tshirt.
Mennlinn Rebarts: <3<3<3
biomurph: Meditation is an ancient technology. I don't practice hard, but the folks that do get alot out of it.
morphe': In one of his '50-'60s novels, Philip Dick wrote about people walking around with mini-phonographs on their belts..
Handy Haversack:
↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @6:21
Nice, Mennlinn. And herb!A2B: YES! Thank you, Dan! I stlll have my MD console player, and it still works! I've also recorded some things off of WFMU on it! And I have "Johnny Mnemonic" on DVD (the *first* DVD release)!
tim: One could argue that Greg Lake abused the good of synthesizers but I save that for the next show.
Will thee SG OCNY:
↳ dale @6:17
Your shed looks awesome, I'm working on assembling and refabricating a playset for my daughter. Took me 8 days to take apart and bring home. Going to take much more time to build it niceKen From Hyde Park:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:21
No budging!Handy Haversack: I am Anonymous!
GC in Bmore: Hang on —-synthesizers are not necessarily Digital! But still wonderful. Analog synthesizers are having a golden age currently FYI
tim:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:22
Handy who?Mark Hurst: internetaddictsanonymous.org, website for the ITAA (Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous)
Mark Hurst: ITAA episode of Techtonic: www.wfmu.org...
Fredericks: MiniDisc are reusable!
mateo: I am thankful for iPods with Wolfson DAC and rockbox firmware, for electronic ink tablets and pirate books, for live radio streaming and, needless to say, for electric stringed instruments and valve amplifiers
Webhamster Henry:
↳ GC in Bmore @6:22
My synths are either purely software or hybrid Digital + Analog.Handy Haversack: Good call, anonymous listener! Keep coming back!
morphe': The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World
Thomas M. Disch
ultradamno: I don't recall mini-discs, but Strange Days was the high water mark of early VR movies....until eXistenZ anyway
Webhamster Henry:
↳ mateo @6:23
I'm listening to this show right now on an iPod Touch.Fishman: What a great show!
dale:
↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:22
lots of good lumber and hardware in playsets.thank you! T!-11 is now like 45 a sheet, screws are 10 bucks a pound...it's getting pricy out there. all the trim and framing wood is stuff i scrounged stopping at builder's source in middletown for free pallets and wood.
Anonymous Frequent Commenter: Thanks Mark!
Some older 12-step programs still meet over the phone... but IMHO that's not great. Difficult to tell who's talking, share detailed info, etc.
Spikey BXL:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:22
You are legionFishman: I know people who have achieved sobriety on AA Zoom meetings exclusively
Mennlinn Rebarts: Some certain social media platforms provide their own baked-in Ludavico Technique.
A2B:
↳ Fredericks @6:23
Just one down side: The discs themselves are not shockproof. Iearned that the hard way with on MD I dropped. It still plays, but I can't erase and re-record on it, else it becomes totally unusable.chresti: Jeff G!
traven: Right now I can't help but think of the John Prine song "Living in the Future".
egould:
↳ ultradamno @6:20
I saw ‘Lawnmower Man’ at that theater. I wonder if Helios Creed was there?JohnEBGood: I love radio!! And telephone. Thomas Edison, Graham Bell. What was the first radio message?
Feldy: Yes, Handy! Print is NOT dead
ultradamno: I took vocational print shop in high school...I like the press.
JohnEBGood: Oh yeah, patio is awesome Alan : )
mateo:
↳ Webhamster Henry @6:24
oh shit is that possible?? i'm still looking for a real ipod with bluetoothDavid (in London): Handles, great proposal, expertly delivered. Runza magic.
egould: Digital media is very susceptible to being ‘memory holed’.
Folsom: We'll see how books hold up if they don't have good ink and paper.
Handy Haversack: bookshop.org...
dale:
↳ JohnEBGood @6:29
watson - i need you!Jeff Moore:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:32
BTW, nicely written audio comment, @Handy!biomurph: mom is running in the rain and then jumping into an open car door!
Handy Haversack:
↳ Jeff Moore @6:35
Thanks, Jeff, David!Billybob:
↳ morphe' @6:21
I think it was Chrysler that put record players in some of their cars...late 50s I believe.wenzo: Yea you used to have to put WFMU bumper stickers all over your car to find it…
StringOFperils:
↳ Folsom @6:32
All the more reason to rescue the ones that exist, and to take care of them so that someone in the near future can utilize what's inside of them. They might be unobtainable for various reasons. They might be essential.chresti: Problem with fobs is that they require batteries?
biomurph:
↳ biomurph @6:35
At 92!!A2B:
↳ Folsom @6:32
Provided President Schlump doesn't make "Fahrenheit 451" a reality.Will thee SG OCNY: Some great things to be greatful for so far
dale: i'm thankful for overnight broadcast band dx'ing. been waking up in the night and scrolling around am radio and loving the magic of hearing boston, atlanta, washington, philly, toronto, cleveland, chicago....
ultradamno: Yeah, cable companies wiped that out with their own DVRs
egould: What do you have against ads for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis?!?
Handy Haversack:
↳ StringOFperils @6:36
bookshop.org...JohnEBGood:
↳ dale @6:34
Who sent the message?dale:
↳ JohnEBGood @6:37
alexander graham bell.respectablename42069: Tivo was a force, I remember audience members losing their minds when receiving them from post school afternoon talk show giveaways
Handy Haversack:
↳ egould @6:37
"Gets rid of blackheads, heartbreak, and psoriasisChrist, you don't know the meaning of heartbreak buddy "
dale: jim programmed a fisher price see and say?
Billybob:
↳ ultradamno @6:24
I got a free Britney Spears minidisc with some purchase back around 2004 or so. Never played it, even tho it was the one Spears song I kinda liked. Used it as an overhead fan pull thing.JohnEBGood: Oh wow Dale. Who received the message?
herb.nyc: Flip side of zipping thru tv commercials- I taped shows off tv w vcr. As I watched I hit pause during commercials. But I’ve some shows that the timer recorded. Commercials are intact. And years later, I watched those old commercials, and laughed. Or was reminded of old pop culture.
ultradamno: Whoa...two hours of prog tonight! That could be up to five full tracks! mastodon.social...
Marie in Chicago: My fave technology is a toilet--I'm so rreatful that my "output" is flushed away
?: Gosh, without the toilet and the written word, there'd be no Facebook or WFMU messages board
Marie in Chicago:
↳ @6:41
Is that Andy? @)Folsom:
↳ StringOFperils @6:36
How many books are made with acid free paper? Also, I think the ink needs to have metal to keep from fading.David (in London): I bought a high end Dyson vacuum cleaner but I never use it. It just sits around gathering dust.
traven: The invention of the sewing machine was a major technological achievement. Clothing was now able to be mass produced.
Dano59: Buy Now: Is Rev. Billy involved?
ultradamno: Netflix also did a startling doc on elder abuse recently, but it was plagued by buffering issues.
Handy Haversack: Good one, String. And along those lines: www.ravenbookstore.com...
tim: I hate to be so negative but if you have something like a 'smart' toilet or heated seat toilet, you're screwed.
egould:
↳ ultradamno @6:43
Hahaha!maurer: !!! the electric guitar !!!
Feldy: I loathe noisy, gas-powered leaf blowers, but I bought a whisper-quiet cordless one and it's fantastic
dk50b: Big second for broadcast radio, have loved it since my youth, including DXing AM stations at night, and it helping build my musical tastes. Sadly, I know firsthand younger generations' use of streaming and apps is killing it.
chresti: Air fryer!
Billybob:
↳ herb.nyc @6:41
That reminds me of the old print newspapers I have that date back to the 1920s, 30s, 40s etc. The big stories are good, but the old ads and the little filler stories are the best.Handy Haversack: Matt Warwick's air fryer recipe for a grilled cheese is to coat the outside of the bread in mayo.
Webhamster Henry: How about a nice new SURVEILLANCE air fryer?
StringOFperils:
↳ Folsom @6:42
I think all of the NYRB imprint is on acid-free stock. A lot of my library form the last 50 years is holding up well. The Penguins, not so much...but the riches are still there, even though the seem printed on autumn leaves. If we're all still here at all in 125 years, it'll be a miracle, at this rate.egould:
↳ ultradamno @6:43
I didn’t watch the fight. But I walked into my local pizza joint to order a takeout pie; and was greeted by Mike Tyson’s naked old ass on the 70” screen TV.Did not like.
JohnEBGood: Go go go Olivia and Air - Fryers. Yes, Gret for hot dogs!!
dale:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:45
who grills in an air fryer? USE A PAN AND/OR GRIDDLE.Dano59:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:45
notice Olivia didn't mention THAT - or the cleanupultradamno:
↳ egould @6:46
I think that was the iconic image from the whole thing...I was listening to Burn It Down while everyone was waiting for it start.Mr. Corey LLC: I love Olivia's show, but I am confused by air fryers... isn't that just a fancy name for "convection oven"?
Handy Haversack:
↳ dale @6:46
Hey, I'm just the messenger. To the extent I know what an air fryer is, it sounds like it needs counter space, which means I'll never have one.Webhamster Henry:
↳ Billybob @6:45
I'm reading a lot of microfilm , and old newspapers were like social media, reporting parties, graduations, vacations, and stuffed with filler articles , poems, comics, and ads for thinks you can't buy anymore.A2B: (Phil must be a closet steampunk, lol!)
full_english_breakfast: personally i am thankful for USB but not the proliferation of different USB connection types
herb.nyc: That Land Phil sure plays some loud scary music between 3&6am
Dano59: For my independent-study homework I'm gonna rewatch Connections with James Burke, and The Secret Life of Machines.
chresti:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:45
Ew!dale:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:47
the problem with air fryers is that the convection fan bearings ALWAYS seize up from the greasy environment they live in. two or three years out of an air fryer is all one should expect.maurer: super fuzz big muff!
Henry Hudson's Distant Relative: Robocall blockers! RoboKiller, Nomorobo et al.
Billybob: I remember at some point when Silly Putty no longer picked up the ink from the color Sunday comics. I don't know if the ink changed or the paper.
ultradamno: I saw that the story broke that Pokemon Go was help map earth for AI...that captchas are basically doing the same thing (but to teach driving cars) has been ignored in the stories I've seen.
dale: the only great thing about an air fryer is that they cook food quickly without turning your kitchen into a sauna in summer.
dk50b: Possible solution to biggest air fryer problem www.allrecipes.com...
Jeff Moore:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:43
I don't want to yuck Olivia's yum, but when she sang the praises of her air fryer I just wanted to share this, which gave me a chortle:www.theguardian.com...
Handy Haversack:
↳ ultradamno @6:50
I think that's been covered here? Certainly it's on my mind whenever Bandcamp panics because I'm on a VPN.castor: I’m thankful for Headlamps with red lights! Helps you do sneaky things at night hands-free.
Dano59: Thankful for: the printing press, the French press, the phonograph, the radio, and the camera.
wenzo: Fingertip technology
ultradamno:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:50
I know the captcha issue has, I don't recall if the Pokemon Go thing has or not.herb.nyc: Haha, of course Perro (& dogs) love grass. It feels so good. But nyt had article recently of Los Angeles homes removing grass and concrete in front of their homes. And putting in farms gardens. (I hate being a party pooper)
Handy Haversack:
↳ Jeff Moore @6:50
Like the first rule of Cross Fit: Always talk about Cross Fit.ultradamno: www.msn.com...
Hansie: Thankful for techtonic!
StringOFperils: Don't take grass for granted. That un-monetized real-estate is just screaming for a concrete cap. The green of grass is increasingly worth more than the green of money.
JohnEBGood: Happy Thanksgiving Mark and my WFMU family : )
Ike: I don't understand the air fryer hype, but maybe I just didn't try the right recipes... or maybe I just have a particularly crappy secondhand air fryer.
Dano59:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:47
all Air Fryers are not created equal. Big enough to heat a pizza? or a turkey? More expensive.Will thee SG OCNY: The other big issue with air fryers is Teflon, or more specifically PFAS PFOA.. stainless steel is much safer if you can get a more expensive air fryer
Webhamster Henry:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:52
That's so true. When my ex was cross fitting, it was forefront in her life.egould:
↳ Dano59 @6:51
French Press youtu.be...Henry Hudson's Distant Relative:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:50
Which reminds me. Bandcamp!A2B: Just a theory behind the reason why DJ Pedro Caliente named his show "Secret Canine Agents": He's either a fan of the old FoxKids cartoon "Spy Dogs", or he loved the "Cats vs. Dogs" movies.
Handy Haversack: I will say this in the plainest text I know how to use: Thanks, Mark! I am thankful for Techtonic every damn week!
I also just open a .txt file to take notes on whatever the hell is going on.
Ike: ♫♪.ılılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llılılı.♫♪
Webhamster Henry: ASCII? How about UTF-8 UNICODE? I am a renowned ASCII artist, BTW. www.echonyc.com...
Will thee SG OCNY: I like notepad++ and edit pad... Droid edit on my phone
chresti: Radio!
Jeff Moore:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:52
You never need to wonder for long if someone you're talking with is vegan, or has a rescue dog, or Has Never Owned a Television.JohnEBGood: Air fryers are part of nu wave ovens. They gr8
Billybob: I was recently lamenting how I used to like doing color infrared photography with the setting changes, the exposure differences, the various filters I used for different effects...and how now, all it is is one of many options in Photoshop.
Webhamster Henry: I use Nano and Lynx (terminal HTML browser)
.docx stinx, but markdown is pretty good!
Handy Haversack:
↳ Jeff Moore @6:55
Ha, I'm like a little less than two-thirds of those and NEVER mention it! People are always like, "Is he a rescue?" And I'm all, "The dog? Well, he's from the pound -- I mean, where do YOU get dogs?"Folsom: Real people use EBCDIC.
dale: had a couple of nu wave ovens and they are great. until the fan seizes up. have ninja foodie now and i don't see it lasting forever because it's impossible to clean the inside.
morphe': Thanks Mark and all !!!
JohnEBGood: You know, I'm retired. The conversation always ends up with food!!
Webhamster Henry:
↳ Folsom @6:57
Real people use BCD, before it got "extended"egould: Thanks Mark.
SeaCreature: Wow thanks Mark, great show
castor: Thank You Mark!!!
TDK60: Did folks mention the spork? Hi tech.
Handy Haversack: Great one, Mark!
David (in London): Thanks Mark.
StringOFperils: Sometimes the internet ain't so bad. Thank Mark!
chresti: Thanks Mark!
Dano59: great show this wk Mark
StringOFperils: s
ultradamno: I'm sure they are great, but as previously observed good air fryer seem like more of an investment than I'm prepared to make
tim:
↳ Handy Haversack @6:56
But did Radio rescue you?Billybob:
↳ herb.nyc @6:52
I've seen the front yards utilizing native plants rather than grass. Usually looks like hell.Jeff Moore:
↳ Folsom @6:57
Yeah, I used to be able to read text just from EBCDIC card-punch patternsDeano de los Muertos: Boy am I late and Mark sounds stressed! I’ll have to archive this one. Stay strong!
Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark. Thankful for the various technologies that bring us all together on Monday evenings.
tim: Thank you, Mark!
Webhamster Henry: I'm thankful for the film restoration tech that has revived so many nearly lost classic films!
A2B: Give me C64 BASIC anytime!
I'm thankful you're alive and defending our right to user-safe technology, Mark!
Keep fighting the good fight!
Webhamster Henry: Thanks - Hear ya next week!
bleubombersune: Thanks Mark
Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone! Good comments & submissions! Have a great Thanksgiving.
ultradamno: Also, venmo...because I now know what Gaetz uses for euphemisms in his memos
Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Mark Hurst, anyone who submitted, and the accu peeeps!!! Be well everyone!!!
traven:
↳ Webhamster Henry @6:59
Amen!joe_rosevear: OK, I'm a few days late, but I'm thankful for Linux, especially Slackware Linux. It has been a real pleasure using it for computing and writing shell scripts.
And I'm thankful for the Internet, especially duckduckgo.com and pi.ai. Both of these have brought much awesome improvement to my skills and abilities.