Overview

There is some reminiscing about past tech and the skills we learned by doing it the old way that have served us well as tech progressed.

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It is fall, so plenty of opportunity to hike and enjoy the fall leaves.

Trivia

The Palmer method is the style of cursive that we’ve learned in school. What was the style taught before this?

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Transcript

Alan: think I changed my backdrop from last time. Sorry. The fall. I love the fall colors. Yeah. Hi. I got my pumpkin shirt on. I you said you were gonna grab a shirt and I was like, man, I’m wearing a boring blue shirt. I need to get something much better .

I honestly, I, it’s nice that it’s getting cooler outside because I have all kinds of ultra comfy there and it’s funny, I don’t get cold.

I’m there, I have not enough surface area for the amount of mass that I carry so you don’t get cold. And yet there’s some things that just feel like, good on ya. They’re cuddly and soft and stuff like that. So I get to break out all the winter

Stephen: wear. Yeah I felt the same way. I’m like, Ooh, it’s almost time to wear sweatshirts and sweaters, which I get to wear for two months out of the year and really?

That’s it. Hey, sorry. You know what? Today is celebration. Tell me. It is a loveless day.

Alan: Ah the first computer programmer, the inventor of, Yeah, very cool.

Stephen: Okay. Bingo. Yeah. She worked with bas analytical computer like 200 years ago or something like that. Under

Alan: 50. Exactly. And I’m not sure if it’s anecdotal or not, but isn’t she the one that came up with debugging?

Yeah. They found a bug in the actual physical computer that was causing something to either short out or at least not work correctly. By her removing the moth , that’s where we actually got the expression for debugging a computer program.

Stephen: And she was the first female programmer, one of the first programmers so lots of celebration in that little simple, geeky day.

Exactly.

Alan: There’s actually a computer language ...