Things Learned

11/23/11 - Guardsman Bob is from Denmark.

11/24/11 - Samsung makes washers/dryers.

11/25/11 - TSO recruits local orchestra members for their shows.

11/26/11 - What "The Uncanny Valley" is

11/27/11 - My old phone runs better with little to no apps installed on it

11/29/11 - Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo

11/30/11 - Cmd + Shift + 4 + Spacebar = screencap window

12/1/11 - CPI and SPI ratios for project management

12/2/11 - /etc/bootpd.plist is where the DHCP settings are in OSX Server

12/3/11 - A whole lot about Skyward Sword's gameplay mechanics.

Extra Topic 1: Bone the Fish - What Happened to Jump The Shark?

Extra Topic 2: Google Wave: we came, we saw, we played D&D | Google Wave: why we didn’t use it| Microsoft Launches Google Wave (2021)

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11/8/11 - COCOMO stuff, how to calculate it

11/9/11 - What a context diagram is.

11/10/11 - Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land is Your Land"

11/11/11 - Ocarina of Time Master Quest has graves in Dodongo's Cavern.

11/12/11 - Lion VNC is broken for Windows

11/14/11 - DVDs can only have 18 buttons on a menu (relearned)

11/16/11 - How big a 3D Projector is

11/17/11 - The PCAC now has Wifi

Extra Topic 1: 'American Pie' is Rock Band's final DLC song | Rock Band Guitar Peripheral Maker Mad Catz Files for Bankruptcy

Extra Topic 2: Earthcomber| Earthcomber – Personal Radar for iPhone | Earthcomber - Crunchbase | Earthcomber Drops Patent Lawsuit Against TechCrunch, Loopt | App Maker Uses GPS Patent To Sue Zillow, Trulia

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10/23/11 - relearned (maybe remembered) the "group by" clause in SQL

10/24/11 - Relearning Java

10/27/11 - LoL on Windows can possibly run on a flash drive.

10/28/11 - My phone still can't really handle HD video capture that well.

10/29/11 - Trees with leaves on them are very easily brought down by snow.

10/31/11 - Lion Recovery and the fact that you should repair your disk after updating from Snow Leopard to Lion.

11/1/11 - more stuff about cp in Terminal - mainly with replacing files and copying apps.

11/2/11 - Glassfish server on the Mac doesn't like blank passwords.

11/3/11 - How absolutely annoying Apple Qmaster is to get working properly.

11/4/11 - Motion Blurs in Photoshop

Extra topic: Occupy Sesame Street blog post

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10/12/11 - Something clicked with Normal Form with Database Design today.

10/13/11 - Setting up the new Cluster Printers on Macs.

10/14/11 - Some stuff on card counting (from the movie Holy Rollers)

10/15/11 - The old LoL installer/patcher will still update to the latest version. That, and some Windows 8 stuff.

10/17/11 - About the Kenny Barron Jazz Trio

10/19/11 - "Bleach is mostly water, and we are mostly water, therefore, we are Bleach"—Metalocalypse

10/21/11 - Xsan upgrade process for Lion upgrade.

10/22/11 - What "Edward Fortyhands" is.

Extra Topic: Madison Who’s Who Scam

Extra Topic: Haunted Overload

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-Kevin MacLeod - Babylon [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]

-Kevin MacLeod - Backed Vibes Clean

-Kevin MacLeod - Bicycle

-Doctor Turtle - Flush Your Rolex

-Kevin MacLeod - Soporific

-TrackTribe - A Brand New Start

-Kevin MacLeod - Eastminster

-Kevin MacLeod - AcidJazz

Doctor Turtle - Which That Is This (Long Version)

9/26/11 - A way of closing gaps while editing in Final Cut

Final Cut Pro 7 Shortcut Guide | Closing Gaps in FCP7 | Close all gaps in Final Cut Pro 7| FCPX Magnetic Timeline

9/27/11 - Doritos have different flavors based on region.

List of various Doritos flavors| 102 Doritos Flavors from Around the World| The Psychological Secrets Behind Nacho Cheese Doritos | Top 10 Weirdest Doritos Flavors from Around the World

9/28/11 - How to make fake blood

Making Fake Blood | The Twisting History of Fake Blood on Film| How Fake Blood is Made for Movies

10/3/11 - Finder has a "background" option for thumbnail view, and flipping a video horizontally in Final Cut

10/4/11 - Smarter column filtering/handling in Excel, as well as stupid glitches associated with it.

Filter data in a range or table| Excel Filter problems and fixes

10/5/11 - DOCX files are just ZIPped folders with XML files and other assets. Change the extension to ZIP, extract, and go to the Media folder to find the original images.

10/6/11 - According to a textbook, Microsoft Office was on the Mac in 1986.

The first MS Office Ad | History & Evolution of Microsoft Office Software | The History of Microsoft - 1986

Extra topic - iPhone 4S

Apple Special Event, October 2011 | “iPhone 5” Event Predictions

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        Doctor Turtle - His Last Share Of The Stars

        Jesse Spillane - Number 0

        lietoofine - Parachute Descent

        Kevin MacLeod - Faster Does It [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]

        Quantum Jazz - If I Can't Dance It's Not My Revolution

9/12/11 - How to make a sweet navbar thing similar to Google's

9/13/11 - Caveat Emptor = Let the buyer beware

9/15/11 - The origin of the term x86

9/16/11 - Minecraft 1.8 stuff

9/18/11 - Fire Alarms have PA systems built into them (usually)

9/21/11 - SQL Server on Mac

9/23/11 - Where Nova Scotia is.

9/24/11 - Re-learned Beirut

Extra topics: 1SaleADay

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8/30/11 - Some specifics on the fiber switch at the student cable access network

8/31/11 - What a Padiddle means

9/1/11 - The Denver Baggage system fiasco

9/3/11 - The card readers on campus would be the absolute last thing to lose power.

9/6/11 - The Remote Desktop dashboard widget will observe/preview a selected computer.

9/8/11 - What a Tanner is

9/9/11 - Sorting columns in Excel.

Links regarding the Chromebooks extra topic:

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8/15/11 - Making tables using only divs

8/16/11 - The Wii and Xbox Rock Band drumset motherboards are only slightly different.

8/19/11 - The HP Touchpad can run Android.

8/20/11 - Adobe AIR apparently causes space issues on Mac OS Lion

8/22/11 - JDiskreport works in OSX Lion if you use the Java version.

8/26/11 - Most people in the single rooms of my old dorm stayed there for another year.

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In this special episode, I just want to go over the current state of the show, and highlight some upcoming changes.

TL;DL: Going forward, future episodes of Things Learned will be moving away from the weekly episode release format. Instead, I will be focusing on more qualitative spotlights of the most interesting things learned over a more variable range of time.

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8/7/11 - The original iPhone couldn't MMS

8/8/11 - How to manipulate a database on a webpage

8/9/11 - Heroes of Newerth has a huge initial install file.

8/10/11 - CSS references need to be in the head tag to validate

8/11/11 – Exposé existed in OSX 10.3

8/12/11 - Galio is a pretty good tank.

8/13/11 - One of the pedals on a piano is the softening pedal

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