58 - What is Crochet?
Good morning, this is Alex Landefeld with episode 58 of the Minute Tech podcast -
coming to you for Thursday, December 27th, 2007
On this tech podcast about the broader meanings of technology, we'll mention:
- On-Star Down, Egypt's Intellectual Property, and Mars Flows;
- Minute Tech guest Carol Burrows on "What is Crochet?"
- Books about Ancient and Modern People.
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"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji" - e-mail leonardtolbert-[at]-hotmail-[dot]-com for more info.
And:
Ravelings by Carol. Pittsburgh-region classes in needle-craft - encompassing crochet, embroidery, knitting, & tatting, as well as an associated lace collection. For more information, contact Carol at carolb207-[at]-alltel-[dot]-net.
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Tech News:
On-Star's analog communications network will no longer function after February 18th, 2008. For some On-Star equipped cars produced as recently as 2005 the On-Star digital network is neither available nor can be upgraded to. Please make a resolution to check with your automobile dealer about this, if you have continued to subscribe to On-Star services.
On Earth, if you're planning on building a Sphinx at the end of your driveway or a Pyramid on your family's funerary plot, you may need to pass that decision by the Egyptian government. Egypt's Supreme Council of the Antiquities is copyrighting the images of the Sphinx and the great Pyramids at Giza, enabling Egypt to collect royalties (so to speak) from anyone copying any of it's museum pieces or historic monuments. This stems in part from an Egyptian newspaper in Luxor suggesting that Las Vegas' Luxor hotel pay part of it's proceeds to the central Egyptian city of Luxor, which maintains the Valley of the Kings. I wonder which country invented the wheel?
And finally, on Mars it appears that ice in the form of glaciers is forming or has formed in several areas of the polar regions. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft has imaged several regions which appear to show flowing, rippling glacial ice, with white peaks of ice. Of course, you know what speculation this'll lead to? Where there's ice, there may be residual microbial life, and where there's microbial life...well, I suppose the Earth becomes even less the center of the universe. :-)
Tech Question: What is Crochet?
Minute Tech guest Carol Burrows, on "What is Crochet?" , takes us on a tour of a world she's infinitely familiar with. Do you have a world you're infinitely familiar with? drop me a line at minutetech@gmail.com.
Podcasting - Blogging News:
Have you picked up any good books this holiday season? If you cannot find any around your house or apartment/flat, here are two books to look for at your local used or new bookstore for a good read.
The first is something of an antique, having first been published in 1915 with reprints in 1933 and 1943: "Countryman's Edition of Morey's Ancient Peoples", by William C. Morey and Irving N. Countryman. This interesting exploration of humanities past is full of inaccuracies in light of all the new scientific discoveries of the past 50 years....but also full of very good information and insights - it is a pleasure to read through and see some of the old pictures. The book covers pre-historic peoples up through the fall of the Roman empire. My favorite references are to translation aides, such as the Rosetta Stone, which gave a path to translating Egyptian hieroglyphics, and the Behistun Rock, which gave a first peek into translations of ancient Babylonian cuneiform inscriptions.
The second is William J. O'Neil's "24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success." Published in 2000 by the founder of business newspaper Investor's Business Daily (IBD), "24" is a great step-by-step guide to investing in a stock market. Although geared toward the American stock market, the ideas in this book can be applied to any stock market. And, although intended as a guide to be use along with the IBD daily, the book stands very well on it's own. From "What every investor should know going in"to "Sell rules every investor should master", O'Neil covers the gamut of important ideas that anyone considering or intending to make his or her money earn more than just a passbook savings account should learn and breath...
Thats all for today on Minute Tech podcast.
you can reach me at minutetech@gmail.com -
and my blog is at minutetech.blogspot.com
"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji"
- On-Star Down, Egypt's Intellectual Property, and Mars Flows;
- Minute Tech guest Carol Burrows on "What is Crochet?"
- Books about Ancient and Modern People.
Go to the Minute Tech iWeb page to subscribe or listen to this podcast: Minute Tech.
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phyllostachys 52: Minute Tech 37 show notes
37 - Who were the Ancient Africans?
Good morning, this is Alex Landefeld with episode 37 of the Minute Tech podcast -
coming to you for Saturday & Sunday, November 24th and 25th , 2007
On this tech podcast about the broader meanings of technology, we'll mention:
explorers in Antarctica and in Earth orbit and Apple's Burst settlement,
we'll discuss who were the ancient Africans, talk about twitter posts and recent beer findings,
and wrap up with a biographical sketch of Willa Cather.
---------------
Minute Tech podcast is brought to you in part by:
Larry Tolbert's Sunday Morning Wu Style Taiji - 9:30 every Sunday morning at the Dunamis Baptist Church, in Wilkinsburg, PA.
"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji" - e-mail leonardtolbert-[at]-hotmail-[dot]-com for more info.
And:
Ravelings, by Carol. Pittsburgh-region classes in needle-craft - encompassing crochet, embroidery, knitting, & tatting, as well as an associated lace collection. For more information, contact Carol at carolb207@alltel.net.
A couple of Show Notes for today: Back from the brief Thanksgiving holiday hiatus and back on schedule; I got some excellent critiques from listeners and will be attempting to streamline the show. I'll alter the intro to highlight the topics of the current podcast, and try to keep the topics somewhat more focused. The changes at this point to the three primary sections of the podcast: the "Tech items" section will become "Tech News"; the Tech Question will remain as it is, and "Podcasting/Blogging tidbits" will be renamed to "Podcasting - Blogging News."
Tech News:
(1) Astronauts on the International Space Station, or ISS, have just completed a new set of space walks. They added power and coolant fluid lines to the newest module and re-inspected the solar panel movement joint, which had been found to have metal shavings in it;
(2) Canadian Cruise Ship Explorer was attempting to re-enact the 1914-1916 expedition of Ernest Henry Shackleton, motoring through waters around Antarctica, when it struck an iceberg and slowly sank. All 150 of those aboard, from Canada, America, Europe, Australia and Japan, successfully escaped via lifeboats and were eventually taken to a Chilean air base on Antartica, before being flown to Chile.
(3) Apple Inc. settled it's patent litigation with Burst.com. Burst owns patents covering compression technologies for sending large files, such as video and audio content uses, over the internet, and had sued Apple for using some of their technology in Apple's products. Apple has settled by paying Burst.com a 10 million dollar licensing fee. Burst.com will now search for others who seem to be using their patented processes.
Tech Question:
Who were the Ancient Africans?
As I said in a previous podcast, if you look back in time far enough, we all emigrated from somewhere to our current locations. I personally moved from Cleveland to Pittsburgh. My ancestors variously moved from various parts of Europe to America. My distant ancestors probably moved north from southern Europe to northern Europe, and if we look back 10's or 100's of thousands of years, I wouldn't be surprised to see, as science tells us, a movement of peoples from Africa and the Middle East out to other Mediterranean lands and eventually north to Europe, bringing domesticated animals and crop-growing techniques.
A timeline of human culture in Africa suggests the following, about the time-period of 600,000 to 200,000 years ago:
"Wide spread of species across Asia, Europe, and Africa. Fire use develops. The earliest true human being in Africa, Homo sapiens, dates from more than 200,000 years ago.. A hunter-gatherer capable of making crude stone tools, Homo sapiens banded together with others to form nomadic groups; eventually nomadic San peoples spread throughout the African continent. "
This information comes from a timeline from Cora Agatucci's class listings on her culture & literature of Africa courses at the Central Oregon Community College - a Link will be in the show notes. Is it accurate? Learn and investigate.
So, the ancient africans were not only the peoples who arose into the native africans of today, but also the nomadic peoples who spread out of Africa in search of better game, more land and different resources.
Podcasting - Blogging News:
From my region of Twitter Space this morning, Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun Times twittered that he'd nearly run down the batteries of his Amazon Kindle by surfing the web wirelessly, and Merlin Mann of 43 Folders gave a link for his 10/21/05 podcast in which he jokingly spoke of provide transcripts for each of his podcasting shows, including some level of transcript on cuneiform clay tablets.
Perhaps I need to do a series on beer and wine - every now and then I get the bug to learn how to brew beer or vint wine...and then I taste some of the awesome beers and wines that others are making...and the desire leaves. Just like that. This past weekend I picked up a six of Bell's Expedition Stout. I have never tasted such a thick, heavy stout as this. The foam is even dark. Whoa. Now, I'm not having any this morning, but remembering from the last few nights. I got this in Cleveland, at the Wild Oats food store in Beachwood...I wonder if I can get it locally? Guess I'll go to their website, www.bellsbeer.com to find out!
Our biographical note for today: Willa Cather -- born in Virginia in 1873, Willa Cather was an influential American writer
who began her writing career in Pittsburgh, writing reviews for the "Pittsburgh Leader." After Pittsburgh, Cather moved to New York City to write for McClures magazine, which published her first novel, "Alexander's Bridge", in serial format. Cather went on to write such titles as "O Pioneers!" and "My Antonia".
Thats all for today on Minute Tech podcast.
you can reach me at minutetech@gmail.com -
and my blog is at minutetech.blogspot.com
"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji"
- Explorers in Ocean & Orbit?
- Who were the ancient Africans?
- Twitter news from Ihnatko and Mann.
Go to the Minute Tech iWeb page to subscribe or listen to this podcast: Minute Tech.
Good morning, this is Alex Landefeld with episode 37 of the Minute Tech podcast -
coming to you for Saturday & Sunday, November 24th and 25th , 2007
On this tech podcast about the broader meanings of technology, we'll mention:
explorers in Antarctica and in Earth orbit and Apple's Burst settlement,
we'll discuss who were the ancient Africans, talk about twitter posts and recent beer findings,
and wrap up with a biographical sketch of Willa Cather.
---------------
Minute Tech podcast is brought to you in part by:
Larry Tolbert's Sunday Morning Wu Style Taiji - 9:30 every Sunday morning at the Dunamis Baptist Church, in Wilkinsburg, PA.
"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji" - e-mail leonardtolbert-[at]-hotmail-[dot]-com for more info.
And:
Ravelings, by Carol. Pittsburgh-region classes in needle-craft - encompassing crochet, embroidery, knitting, & tatting, as well as an associated lace collection. For more information, contact Carol at carolb207@alltel.net.
A couple of Show Notes for today: Back from the brief Thanksgiving holiday hiatus and back on schedule; I got some excellent critiques from listeners and will be attempting to streamline the show. I'll alter the intro to highlight the topics of the current podcast, and try to keep the topics somewhat more focused. The changes at this point to the three primary sections of the podcast: the "Tech items" section will become "Tech News"; the Tech Question will remain as it is, and "Podcasting/Blogging tidbits" will be renamed to "Podcasting - Blogging News."
Tech News:
(1) Astronauts on the International Space Station, or ISS, have just completed a new set of space walks. They added power and coolant fluid lines to the newest module and re-inspected the solar panel movement joint, which had been found to have metal shavings in it;
(2) Canadian Cruise Ship Explorer was attempting to re-enact the 1914-1916 expedition of Ernest Henry Shackleton, motoring through waters around Antarctica, when it struck an iceberg and slowly sank. All 150 of those aboard, from Canada, America, Europe, Australia and Japan, successfully escaped via lifeboats and were eventually taken to a Chilean air base on Antartica, before being flown to Chile.
(3) Apple Inc. settled it's patent litigation with Burst.com. Burst owns patents covering compression technologies for sending large files, such as video and audio content uses, over the internet, and had sued Apple for using some of their technology in Apple's products. Apple has settled by paying Burst.com a 10 million dollar licensing fee. Burst.com will now search for others who seem to be using their patented processes.
Tech Question:
Who were the Ancient Africans?
As I said in a previous podcast, if you look back in time far enough, we all emigrated from somewhere to our current locations. I personally moved from Cleveland to Pittsburgh. My ancestors variously moved from various parts of Europe to America. My distant ancestors probably moved north from southern Europe to northern Europe, and if we look back 10's or 100's of thousands of years, I wouldn't be surprised to see, as science tells us, a movement of peoples from Africa and the Middle East out to other Mediterranean lands and eventually north to Europe, bringing domesticated animals and crop-growing techniques.
A timeline of human culture in Africa suggests the following, about the time-period of 600,000 to 200,000 years ago:
"Wide spread of species across Asia, Europe, and Africa. Fire use develops. The earliest true human being in Africa, Homo sapiens, dates from more than 200,000 years ago.. A hunter-gatherer capable of making crude stone tools, Homo sapiens banded together with others to form nomadic groups; eventually nomadic San peoples spread throughout the African continent. "
This information comes from a timeline from Cora Agatucci's class listings on her culture & literature of Africa courses at the Central Oregon Community College - a Link will be in the show notes. Is it accurate? Learn and investigate.
So, the ancient africans were not only the peoples who arose into the native africans of today, but also the nomadic peoples who spread out of Africa in search of better game, more land and different resources.
Podcasting - Blogging News:
From my region of Twitter Space this morning, Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun Times twittered that he'd nearly run down the batteries of his Amazon Kindle by surfing the web wirelessly, and Merlin Mann of 43 Folders gave a link for his 10/21/05 podcast in which he jokingly spoke of provide transcripts for each of his podcasting shows, including some level of transcript on cuneiform clay tablets.
Perhaps I need to do a series on beer and wine - every now and then I get the bug to learn how to brew beer or vint wine...and then I taste some of the awesome beers and wines that others are making...and the desire leaves. Just like that. This past weekend I picked up a six of Bell's Expedition Stout. I have never tasted such a thick, heavy stout as this. The foam is even dark. Whoa. Now, I'm not having any this morning, but remembering from the last few nights. I got this in Cleveland, at the Wild Oats food store in Beachwood...I wonder if I can get it locally? Guess I'll go to their website, www.bellsbeer.com to find out!
Our biographical note for today: Willa Cather -- born in Virginia in 1873, Willa Cather was an influential American writer
who began her writing career in Pittsburgh, writing reviews for the "Pittsburgh Leader." After Pittsburgh, Cather moved to New York City to write for McClures magazine, which published her first novel, "Alexander's Bridge", in serial format. Cather went on to write such titles as "O Pioneers!" and "My Antonia".
Thats all for today on Minute Tech podcast.
you can reach me at minutetech@gmail.com -
and my blog is at minutetech.blogspot.com
"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji"
- Explorers in Ocean & Orbit?
- Who were the ancient Africans?
- Twitter news from Ihnatko and Mann.
Go to the Minute Tech iWeb page to subscribe or listen to this podcast: Minute Tech.
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