Day two of National Podcast Post Month - NaPodPoMo, and day 255 of The Daily Podcast Practice show.

Today is Plan Your Epitaph Day.

Born on this day in 1924 in Jersey City, New Jersey,  American recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder

Today's word is epitaph.

National Podcast Post Month Day 1 - join me for the journey over the next 30 days.

A Halloween Monograph

Today is Halloween, the day that is traditionally observed by young children and teenagers dressing up in costume and going door-to-door filling their treat bags with all manner of things that are bad for them to eat, but oh so delicious.

Born on this day in 1847, in Livorno Ferraris, Italy, physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris.

Today's word is monograph.

Just three days to NaPodPoMo (national podcast post month)

Today is National Internet Day.  Why?  Well on this day in 1969 - 52 years ago - Charley Kline, a young grad student on the UCLA campus sent the first internet message to his colleague, Bill Duvall, at Stanford.  Another man, a computer scientist named Joseph Licklider, also deserves credit for being an internet pioneer with an early vision of a worldwide computer network long before it was built.

Born on this day in 1837 in Clarke County, Georgia,  African-American slave and quilt maker Harriet Powers.

Today's word is appliqué.

Just two days to NaPodPoMo (national podcast post month)

Today is Create A Great Funeral Day.  Follow the link and check out the five great reference books.

Born on this day in 1964 in Belleville, Illinois, American engineer and NASA astronaut, Sandra Magnus.

Today's word is thermionic.  Thermionic is an adjective that means, relating to, using, or being the emission of charged particles (such as electrons) by an incandescent material.

We’re going to be different today.  We just talk about the project called Buy Nothing.

National Podcast Post Month or NaPodPoMo starts on Monday, November 1, just 5 days away. I will, of course, continue podcasting during this event.

Today is game two of the world series of major league baseball in the USA.  The Atlanta Braves won yesterday’s game against the Houston Astros 6-2.  Let’s see how they do tonight.

Today is also  National American Beer Day

Born on this day in 1925, in New York City, American electrical engineer and inventor Albert Medwin.

What life skills are rarely taught but extremely useful?

YouTube: Dad, How Do I.

For you moon-watchers out there, we have a Waning Gibbous moon in the sky tonight.  We’ll be at the third quarter moon in just two days, October 28.

Today is National Mincemeat Day, and I know mincemeat as a pie filling because dad really liked it, and his mother made it on holidays.  I haven’t tasted it in probably 50 years.  It’s not exactly one of the delights on the menu at McDonalds.

Died on this day in 2021, that’s today, Canadian-born American comedian, actor, and social satirist, Mort Sahl, considered the first modern comedian since Will Rogers.  He was 94.

Question #144. What kinds of things do you like to cook or are good at cooking?

For you moon-watchers out there, we have a Waning Gibbous moon in the sky tonight.  We’ll be at the third quarter moon in three days, October 28.

Today is World Pasta Day.  If you like processed carbohydrates, then you like pasta.

Born on this day in 1838, in Paris, France, French composer Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, a.k.a. Georges Bizet.  Not a household name, but he wrote one of the most-performed operas in the WORLD, “Carmen”.

Today's word is canon, a sanctioned or accepted group or body of related works.

National Podcast Post Month is coming up quickly.  Participants publish one podcast episode each day for the 30 days in November.  And I plan to participate, of course!

I’m a philomath, and I never knew it. I love learning, just to learn. That sort of explains a lot about my life.  I don’t need to apply the knowledge, I’m just interested in acquiring it.