WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from November 25, 2024

Listener comments!
	5:52pm ultradamno: Mark! Techtonateful!
	🤖 6:00pm Will thee SG OCNY: Good evening Mark Hurst and all!!!
	🤖 6:00pm chresti: Hi Mark and techtoniques!
	🤖 6:00pm David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids.
	🤖 6:02pm Handy Haversack: Mark! Thankful Techyons!
	🤖 6:02pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Mark & Friends! Time for a nice, upbeat show!
	🤖 6:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Mark and infrawoodenstructure!
	6:03pm ultradamno: I'm going with electric unicycle theawesomer.com...
	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 chresti: Espresso machines
	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.
	6:07pm Spikey BXL: Hi Mark, luddites
	6:07pm ultradamno: I suppose that does get oppressive, along with the celebration of oppressors
	🤖 6:08pm MarciB: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:06 Love this, Handy!
	6:08pm Spikey BXL: BeMyEyes is what I am thankful for. Wish I'd get more call to help more people.
	6:08pm morphe': ↳ David (in London) @6:00 David van der Stoke 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
	🤖 6:09pm Handy Haversack: The inclined plane is pretty cool.
	6:10pm Mike Sin: ↳ Saltonstall @6:09 Gotta agree here. At home ECG Monitors probably added a few years to my father's life.
	6:10pm index: I'm thankful for llm's!
	6:10pm egould: Pdf2xl
	6:11pm Spikey BXL: ↳ Mike Sin @6:10 Stellar work on Weegee earlier 👌🏻👌🏻
	6:11pm 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
	🤖 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.
	🤖 6:12pm tim: Hello, Mark and friends!
	🤖 6:12pm Will thee SG OCNY: I've been using power tools... Using a drill press snd fostner bits right now
	🤖 6:12pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Mark Hurst @6:11 Alan's backyard concerts: always a great time! Well done, power tools!
	6:12pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Mark Hurst @6:11 Wow
	6:13pm morphe': Well Done Alan !!!
	🤖 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!
	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.
	6:17pm dale: my shed was like alan's, but i was going for a greek temple feeling. photos.app.goo.gl...
	6:17pm Tom from Stirling: 3 A M Eternal. Ha
	🤖 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.
	6:19pm spodiodi: groan back to the shadows
	🤖 6:20pm Handy Haversack: ↳ spodiodi @6:19 Only the spodi knows!
	🤖 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 dale: ↳ tim @6:18 did they have laserdiscs?
	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 Mennlinn Rebarts: <3<3<3
	6:21pm biomurph: Meditation is an ancient technology. I don't practice hard, but the folks that do get alot out of it.
	6:21pm morphe': In one of his '50-'60s novels, Philip Dick wrote about people walking around with mini-phonographs on their belts..
	🤖 6:21pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @6:21 Nice, Mennlinn. And herb!
	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.
	🤖 6:22pm 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 nice
	🤖 6:22pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:21 No budging!
	🤖 6:22pm Handy Haversack: I am Anonymous!
	6:22pm GC in Bmore: Hang on —-synthesizers are not necessarily Digital! But still wonderful. Analog synthesizers are having a golden age currently FYI
	🤖 6:22pm tim: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:22 Handy who?
	6:22pm Mark Hurst: internetaddictsanonymous.org, website for the ITAA (Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous)
	6:23pm Mark Hurst: ITAA episode of Techtonic: www.wfmu.org...
	6:23pm Fredericks: MiniDisc are reusable!
	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
	🤖 6:23pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ GC in Bmore @6:22 My synths are either purely software or hybrid Digital + Analog.
	🤖 6:23pm Handy Haversack: Good call, anonymous listener! Keep coming back!
	6:23pm morphe': The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World Thomas M. Disch
	6:24pm ultradamno: I don't recall mini-discs, but Strange Days was the high water mark of early VR movies....until eXistenZ anyway
	🤖 6:24pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ mateo @6:23 I'm listening to this show right now on an iPod Touch.
	6:25pm Fishman: What a great show!
	6:25pm 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.
	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 Spikey BXL: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:22 You are legion
	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".
	6:28pm egould: ↳ ultradamno @6:20 I saw ‘Lawnmower Man’ at that theater. I wonder if Helios Creed was there?
	6:29pm JohnEBGood: I love radio!! And telephone. Thomas Edison, Graham Bell. What was the first radio message?
	6:30pm Feldy: Yes, Handy! Print is NOT dead
	6:30pm ultradamno: I took vocational print shop in high school...I like the press.
	6:31pm JohnEBGood: Oh yeah, patio is awesome Alan : )
	6:32pm mateo: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:24 oh shit is that possible?? i'm still looking for a real ipod with bluetooth
	6:32pm David (in London): Handles, great proposal, expertly delivered. Runza magic.
	6:32pm egould: Digital media is very susceptible to being ‘memory holed’.
	🤖 6:32pm Folsom: We'll see how books hold up if they don't have good ink and paper.
	🤖 6:32pm Handy Haversack: bookshop.org...
	6:34pm dale: ↳ JohnEBGood @6:29 watson - i need you!
	6:35pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:32 BTW, nicely written audio comment, @Handy!
	6:35pm biomurph: mom is running in the rain and then jumping into an open car door!
	🤖 6:35pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Jeff Moore @6:35 Thanks, Jeff, David!
	6:35pm Billybob: ↳ morphe' @6:21 I think it was Chrysler that put record players in some of their cars...late 50s I believe.
	6:36pm wenzo: Yea you used to have to put WFMU bumper stickers all over your car to find it…
	6:36pm 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.
	6:36pm chresti: Problem with fobs is that they require batteries?
	6:36pm biomurph: ↳ biomurph @6:35 At 92!!
	6:36pm A2B: ↳ Folsom @6:32 Provided President Schlump doesn't make "Fahrenheit 451" a reality.
	🤖 6:36pm Will thee SG OCNY: Some great things to be greatful for so far
	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
	6:37pm egould: What do you have against ads for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis?!?
	🤖 6:37pm Handy Haversack: ↳ StringOFperils @6:36 bookshop.org...
	6:37pm JohnEBGood: ↳ dale @6:34 Who sent the message?
	6:38pm dale: ↳ JohnEBGood @6:37 alexander graham bell.
	6:38pm respectablename42069: Tivo was a force, I remember audience members losing their minds when receiving them from post school afternoon talk show giveaways
	🤖 6:39pm Handy Haversack: ↳ egould @6:37 "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.
	6:41pm JohnEBGood: Oh wow Dale. Who received the message?
	🤖 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.
	6:41pm ultradamno: Whoa...two hours of prog tonight! That could be up to five full tracks! mastodon.social...
	6:41pm Marie in Chicago: My fave technology is a toilet--I'm so rreatful that my "output" is flushed away
	6:41pm ?: Gosh, without the toilet and the written word, there'd be no Facebook or WFMU messages board
	6:42pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ @6:41 Is that Andy? @)
	🤖 6:42pm 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.
	6:42pm David (in London): I bought a high end Dyson vacuum cleaner but I never use it. It just sits around gathering dust.
	6:43pm traven: The invention of the sewing machine was a major technological achievement. Clothing was now able to be mass produced.
	6:43pm Dano59: Buy Now: Is Rev. Billy involved?
	6:43pm ultradamno: Netflix also did a startling doc on elder abuse recently, but it was plagued by buffering issues.
	🤖 6:43pm Handy Haversack: Good one, String. And along those lines: www.ravenbookstore.com...
	🤖 6:43pm tim: I hate to be so negative but if you have something like a 'smart' toilet or heated seat toilet, you're screwed.
	6:44pm egould: ↳ ultradamno @6:43 Hahaha!
	6:44pm maurer: !!! the electric guitar !!!
	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.
	🤖 6:45pm chresti: Air fryer!
	6:45pm 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.
	🤖 6:45pm Handy Haversack: Matt Warwick's air fryer recipe for a grilled cheese is to coat the outside of the bread in mayo.
	🤖 6:46pm Webhamster Henry: How about a nice new SURVEILLANCE air fryer?
	6:46pm 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.
	6:46pm 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.
	6:46pm JohnEBGood: Go go go Olivia and Air - Fryers. Yes, Gret for hot dogs!!
	6:46pm dale: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:45 who grills in an air fryer? USE A PAN AND/OR GRIDDLE.
	6:46pm Dano59: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:45 notice Olivia didn't mention THAT - or the cleanup
	6:47pm ultradamno: ↳ 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.
	6:47pm 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"?
	🤖 6:47pm 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.
	🤖 6:47pm 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.
	6:48pm A2B: (Phil must be a closet steampunk, lol!)
	6:48pm full_english_breakfast: personally i am thankful for USB but not the proliferation of different USB connection types
	🤖 6:48pm herb.nyc: That Land Phil sure plays some loud scary music between 3&6am
	6:49pm Dano59: For my independent-study homework I'm gonna rewatch Connections with James Burke, and The Secret Life of Machines.
	🤖 6:49pm chresti: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:45 Ew!
	6:49pm 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.
	6:49pm maurer: super fuzz big muff!
	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.
	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.
	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.
	6:50pm dk50b: Possible solution to biggest air fryer problem www.allrecipes.com...
	6:50pm 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...
	🤖 6:50pm 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.
	6:50pm castor: I’m thankful for Headlamps with red lights! Helps you do sneaky things at night hands-free.
	6:51pm Dano59: Thankful for: the printing press, the French press, the phonograph, the radio, and the camera.
	6:51pm wenzo: Fingertip technology
	6:51pm ultradamno: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:50 I know the captcha issue has, I don't recall if the Pokemon Go thing has or not.
	🤖 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)
	🤖 6:52pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Jeff Moore @6:50 Like the first rule of Cross Fit: Always talk about Cross Fit.
	6:52pm ultradamno: www.msn.com...
	6:52pm Hansie: Thankful for techtonic!
	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.
	6:53pm JohnEBGood: Happy Thanksgiving Mark and my WFMU family : )
	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.
	6:53pm Dano59: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:47 all Air Fryers are not created equal. Big enough to heat a pizza? or a turkey? More expensive.
	🤖 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
	🤖 6:53pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:52 That's so true. When my ex was cross fitting, it was forefront in her life.
	6:53pm egould: ↳ Dano59 @6:51 French Press youtu.be...
	6:53pm Henry Hudson's Distant Relative: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:50 Which reminds me. Bandcamp!
	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.
	🤖 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.
	6:54pm Ike: ♫♪.ılılıll\|̲̅̅●̲̅̅\|̲̅̅=̲̅̅\|̲̅̅●̲̅̅\|llılılı.♫♪
	🤖 6:54pm Webhamster Henry: ASCII? How about UTF-8 UNICODE? I am a renowned ASCII artist, BTW. www.echonyc.com...
	🤖 6:54pm Will thee SG OCNY: I like notepad++ and edit pad... Droid edit on my phone
	🤖 6:55pm chresti: Radio!
	6:55pm 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.
	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.
	🤖 6:56pm Webhamster Henry: I use Nano and Lynx (terminal HTML browser) .docx stinx, but markdown is pretty good!
	🤖 6:56pm 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?"
	🤖 6:57pm Folsom: Real people use EBCDIC.
	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.
	6:57pm morphe': Thanks Mark and all !!!
	6:57pm JohnEBGood: You know, I'm retired. The conversation always ends up with food!!
	🤖 6:57pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Folsom @6:57 Real people use BCD, before it got "extended"
	6:57pm egould: Thanks Mark.
	6:57pm SeaCreature: Wow thanks Mark, great show
	6:57pm castor: Thank You Mark!!!
	6:58pm TDK60: Did folks mention the spork? Hi tech.
	🤖 6:58pm Handy Haversack: Great one, Mark!
	6:58pm David (in London): Thanks Mark.
	6:58pm StringOFperils: Sometimes the internet ain't so bad. Thank Mark!
	🤖 6:58pm chresti: Thanks Mark!
	6:58pm Dano59: great show this wk Mark
	6:58pm StringOFperils: s
	6:58pm 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
	🤖 6:58pm tim: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:56 But did Radio rescue you?
	6:58pm Billybob: ↳ herb.nyc @6:52 I've seen the front yards utilizing native plants rather than grass. Usually looks like hell.
	6:58pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Folsom @6:57 Yeah, I used to be able to read text just from EBCDIC card-punch patterns
	🤖 6:58pm Deano de los Muertos: Boy am I late and Mark sounds stressed! I’ll have to archive this one. Stay strong!
	🤖 6:59pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark. Thankful for the various technologies that bring us all together on Monday evenings.
	🤖 6:59pm tim: Thank you, Mark!
	🤖 6:59pm Webhamster Henry: I'm thankful for the film restoration tech that has revived so many nearly lost classic films!
	7:00pm 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!
	🤖 7:00pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks - Hear ya next week!
	7:00pm bleubombersune: Thanks Mark
	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
	🤖 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.

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from November 25, 2024

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November 25, 2024: Technology we're thankful for, from listeners

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Today: Technology we're thankful for, from listeners

Amidst all the headlines about predatory tech companies and misbehaving billionaires, we're taking a moment to remember that some tech is actually good. Drawing on listener submissions, Mark will discuss the tools, gadgets, and systems that people are genuinely thankful for.

Thanks to all the listeners who sent in their favorite tech!

Thanks to these WFMU DJs for their contributions:

• Alan from Six Degrees - Friday Midnight - 3am (EST)

• Dan Morfitt from WFMU Lite - Thursday 3 - 6am (EST)

• Jim the Poet from Three Thumbs Up - Tuesday 6 - 7pm (EST) (previously of Bad Animals and Showy McShowface)

• Olivia from Radio Ravioli - Wednesday 9pm - Midnight (EST)

• Land Phil from Anti-Music Club - Monday 3 - 6am (EST)

• Perro Caliente from Secret Canine Agents - Thursday Midnight - 3am (EST)

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Technology we're thankful for, from listeners
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Human Error	Going to Town "Going to Town" by "Human Error"	0:55:57 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	5:52pm ultradamno: Mark! Techtonateful!
	🤖 6:00pm Will thee SG OCNY: Good evening Mark Hurst and all!!!
	🤖 6:00pm chresti: Hi Mark and techtoniques!
	🤖 6:00pm David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids.
	🤖 6:02pm Handy Haversack: Mark! Thankful Techyons!
	🤖 6:02pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Mark & Friends! Time for a nice, upbeat show!
	🤖 6:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Mark and infrawoodenstructure!
	6:03pm ultradamno: I'm going with electric unicycle theawesomer.com...
	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 chresti: Espresso machines
	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.
	6:07pm Spikey BXL: Hi Mark, luddites
	6:07pm ultradamno: I suppose that does get oppressive, along with the celebration of oppressors
	🤖 6:08pm MarciB: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:06 Love this, Handy!
	6:08pm Spikey BXL: BeMyEyes is what I am thankful for. Wish I'd get more call to help more people.
	6:08pm morphe': ↳ David (in London) @6:00 David van der Stoke 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
	🤖 6:09pm Handy Haversack: The inclined plane is pretty cool.
	6:10pm Mike Sin: ↳ Saltonstall @6:09 Gotta agree here. At home ECG Monitors probably added a few years to my father's life.
	6:10pm index: I'm thankful for llm's!
	6:10pm egould: Pdf2xl
	6:11pm Spikey BXL: ↳ Mike Sin @6:10 Stellar work on Weegee earlier 👌🏻👌🏻
	6:11pm 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
	🤖 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.
	🤖 6:12pm tim: Hello, Mark and friends!
	🤖 6:12pm Will thee SG OCNY: I've been using power tools... Using a drill press snd fostner bits right now
	🤖 6:12pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Mark Hurst @6:11 Alan's backyard concerts: always a great time! Well done, power tools!
	6:12pm Tom from Stirling: ↳ Mark Hurst @6:11 Wow
	6:13pm morphe': Well Done Alan !!!
	🤖 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!
	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.
	6:17pm dale: my shed was like alan's, but i was going for a greek temple feeling. photos.app.goo.gl...
	6:17pm Tom from Stirling: 3 A M Eternal. Ha
	🤖 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.
	6:19pm spodiodi: groan back to the shadows
	🤖 6:20pm Handy Haversack: ↳ spodiodi @6:19 Only the spodi knows!
	🤖 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 dale: ↳ tim @6:18 did they have laserdiscs?
	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 Mennlinn Rebarts: <3<3<3
	6:21pm biomurph: Meditation is an ancient technology. I don't practice hard, but the folks that do get alot out of it.
	6:21pm morphe': In one of his '50-'60s novels, Philip Dick wrote about people walking around with mini-phonographs on their belts..
	🤖 6:21pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Mennlinn Rebarts @6:21 Nice, Mennlinn. And herb!
	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.
	🤖 6:22pm 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 nice
	🤖 6:22pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:21 No budging!
	🤖 6:22pm Handy Haversack: I am Anonymous!
	6:22pm GC in Bmore: Hang on —-synthesizers are not necessarily Digital! But still wonderful. Analog synthesizers are having a golden age currently FYI
	🤖 6:22pm tim: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:22 Handy who?
	6:22pm Mark Hurst: internetaddictsanonymous.org, website for the ITAA (Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous)
	6:23pm Mark Hurst: ITAA episode of Techtonic: www.wfmu.org...
	6:23pm Fredericks: MiniDisc are reusable!
	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
	🤖 6:23pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ GC in Bmore @6:22 My synths are either purely software or hybrid Digital + Analog.
	🤖 6:23pm Handy Haversack: Good call, anonymous listener! Keep coming back!
	6:23pm morphe': The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World Thomas M. Disch
	6:24pm ultradamno: I don't recall mini-discs, but Strange Days was the high water mark of early VR movies....until eXistenZ anyway
	🤖 6:24pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ mateo @6:23 I'm listening to this show right now on an iPod Touch.
	6:25pm Fishman: What a great show!
	6:25pm 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.
	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 Spikey BXL: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:22 You are legion
	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".
	6:28pm egould: ↳ ultradamno @6:20 I saw ‘Lawnmower Man’ at that theater. I wonder if Helios Creed was there?
	6:29pm JohnEBGood: I love radio!! And telephone. Thomas Edison, Graham Bell. What was the first radio message?
	6:30pm Feldy: Yes, Handy! Print is NOT dead
	6:30pm ultradamno: I took vocational print shop in high school...I like the press.
	6:31pm JohnEBGood: Oh yeah, patio is awesome Alan : )
	6:32pm mateo: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:24 oh shit is that possible?? i'm still looking for a real ipod with bluetooth
	6:32pm David (in London): Handles, great proposal, expertly delivered. Runza magic.
	6:32pm egould: Digital media is very susceptible to being ‘memory holed’.
	🤖 6:32pm Folsom: We'll see how books hold up if they don't have good ink and paper.
	🤖 6:32pm Handy Haversack: bookshop.org...
	6:34pm dale: ↳ JohnEBGood @6:29 watson - i need you!
	6:35pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:32 BTW, nicely written audio comment, @Handy!
	6:35pm biomurph: mom is running in the rain and then jumping into an open car door!
	🤖 6:35pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Jeff Moore @6:35 Thanks, Jeff, David!
	6:35pm Billybob: ↳ morphe' @6:21 I think it was Chrysler that put record players in some of their cars...late 50s I believe.
	6:36pm wenzo: Yea you used to have to put WFMU bumper stickers all over your car to find it…
	6:36pm 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.
	6:36pm chresti: Problem with fobs is that they require batteries?
	6:36pm biomurph: ↳ biomurph @6:35 At 92!!
	6:36pm A2B: ↳ Folsom @6:32 Provided President Schlump doesn't make "Fahrenheit 451" a reality.
	🤖 6:36pm Will thee SG OCNY: Some great things to be greatful for so far
	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
	6:37pm egould: What do you have against ads for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis?!?
	🤖 6:37pm Handy Haversack: ↳ StringOFperils @6:36 bookshop.org...
	6:37pm JohnEBGood: ↳ dale @6:34 Who sent the message?
	6:38pm dale: ↳ JohnEBGood @6:37 alexander graham bell.
	6:38pm respectablename42069: Tivo was a force, I remember audience members losing their minds when receiving them from post school afternoon talk show giveaways
	🤖 6:39pm Handy Haversack: ↳ egould @6:37 "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.
	6:41pm JohnEBGood: Oh wow Dale. Who received the message?
	🤖 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.
	6:41pm ultradamno: Whoa...two hours of prog tonight! That could be up to five full tracks! mastodon.social...
	6:41pm Marie in Chicago: My fave technology is a toilet--I'm so rreatful that my "output" is flushed away
	6:41pm ?: Gosh, without the toilet and the written word, there'd be no Facebook or WFMU messages board
	6:42pm Marie in Chicago: ↳ @6:41 Is that Andy? @)
	🤖 6:42pm 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.
	6:42pm David (in London): I bought a high end Dyson vacuum cleaner but I never use it. It just sits around gathering dust.
	6:43pm traven: The invention of the sewing machine was a major technological achievement. Clothing was now able to be mass produced.
	6:43pm Dano59: Buy Now: Is Rev. Billy involved?
	6:43pm ultradamno: Netflix also did a startling doc on elder abuse recently, but it was plagued by buffering issues.
	🤖 6:43pm Handy Haversack: Good one, String. And along those lines: www.ravenbookstore.com...
	🤖 6:43pm tim: I hate to be so negative but if you have something like a 'smart' toilet or heated seat toilet, you're screwed.
	6:44pm egould: ↳ ultradamno @6:43 Hahaha!
	6:44pm maurer: !!! the electric guitar !!!
	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.
	🤖 6:45pm chresti: Air fryer!
	6:45pm 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.
	🤖 6:45pm Handy Haversack: Matt Warwick's air fryer recipe for a grilled cheese is to coat the outside of the bread in mayo.
	🤖 6:46pm Webhamster Henry: How about a nice new SURVEILLANCE air fryer?
	6:46pm 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.
	6:46pm 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.
	6:46pm JohnEBGood: Go go go Olivia and Air - Fryers. Yes, Gret for hot dogs!!
	6:46pm dale: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:45 who grills in an air fryer? USE A PAN AND/OR GRIDDLE.
	6:46pm Dano59: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:45 notice Olivia didn't mention THAT - or the cleanup
	6:47pm ultradamno: ↳ 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.
	6:47pm 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"?
	🤖 6:47pm 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.
	🤖 6:47pm 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.
	6:48pm A2B: (Phil must be a closet steampunk, lol!)
	6:48pm full_english_breakfast: personally i am thankful for USB but not the proliferation of different USB connection types
	🤖 6:48pm herb.nyc: That Land Phil sure plays some loud scary music between 3&6am
	6:49pm Dano59: For my independent-study homework I'm gonna rewatch Connections with James Burke, and The Secret Life of Machines.
	🤖 6:49pm chresti: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:45 Ew!
	6:49pm 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.
	6:49pm maurer: super fuzz big muff!
	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.
	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.
	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.
	6:50pm dk50b: Possible solution to biggest air fryer problem www.allrecipes.com...
	6:50pm 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...
	🤖 6:50pm 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.
	6:50pm castor: I’m thankful for Headlamps with red lights! Helps you do sneaky things at night hands-free.
	6:51pm Dano59: Thankful for: the printing press, the French press, the phonograph, the radio, and the camera.
	6:51pm wenzo: Fingertip technology
	6:51pm ultradamno: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:50 I know the captcha issue has, I don't recall if the Pokemon Go thing has or not.
	🤖 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)
	🤖 6:52pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Jeff Moore @6:50 Like the first rule of Cross Fit: Always talk about Cross Fit.
	6:52pm ultradamno: www.msn.com...
	6:52pm Hansie: Thankful for techtonic!
	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.
	6:53pm JohnEBGood: Happy Thanksgiving Mark and my WFMU family : )
	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.
	6:53pm Dano59: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:47 all Air Fryers are not created equal. Big enough to heat a pizza? or a turkey? More expensive.
	🤖 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
	🤖 6:53pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:52 That's so true. When my ex was cross fitting, it was forefront in her life.
	6:53pm egould: ↳ Dano59 @6:51 French Press youtu.be...
	6:53pm Henry Hudson's Distant Relative: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:50 Which reminds me. Bandcamp!
	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.
	🤖 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.
	6:54pm Ike: ♫♪.ılılıll\|̲̅̅●̲̅̅\|̲̅̅=̲̅̅\|̲̅̅●̲̅̅\|llılılı.♫♪
	🤖 6:54pm Webhamster Henry: ASCII? How about UTF-8 UNICODE? I am a renowned ASCII artist, BTW. www.echonyc.com...
	🤖 6:54pm Will thee SG OCNY: I like notepad++ and edit pad... Droid edit on my phone
	🤖 6:55pm chresti: Radio!
	6:55pm 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.
	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.
	🤖 6:56pm Webhamster Henry: I use Nano and Lynx (terminal HTML browser) .docx stinx, but markdown is pretty good!
	🤖 6:56pm 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?"
	🤖 6:57pm Folsom: Real people use EBCDIC.
	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.
	6:57pm morphe': Thanks Mark and all !!!
	6:57pm JohnEBGood: You know, I'm retired. The conversation always ends up with food!!
	🤖 6:57pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Folsom @6:57 Real people use BCD, before it got "extended"
	6:57pm egould: Thanks Mark.
	6:57pm SeaCreature: Wow thanks Mark, great show
	6:57pm castor: Thank You Mark!!!
	6:58pm TDK60: Did folks mention the spork? Hi tech.
	🤖 6:58pm Handy Haversack: Great one, Mark!
	6:58pm David (in London): Thanks Mark.
	6:58pm StringOFperils: Sometimes the internet ain't so bad. Thank Mark!
	🤖 6:58pm chresti: Thanks Mark!
	6:58pm Dano59: great show this wk Mark
	6:58pm StringOFperils: s
	6:58pm 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
	🤖 6:58pm tim: ↳ Handy Haversack @6:56 But did Radio rescue you?
	6:58pm Billybob: ↳ herb.nyc @6:52 I've seen the front yards utilizing native plants rather than grass. Usually looks like hell.
	6:58pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Folsom @6:57 Yeah, I used to be able to read text just from EBCDIC card-punch patterns
	🤖 6:58pm Deano de los Muertos: Boy am I late and Mark sounds stressed! I’ll have to archive this one. Stay strong!
	🤖 6:59pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark. Thankful for the various technologies that bring us all together on Monday evenings.
	🤖 6:59pm tim: Thank you, Mark!
	🤖 6:59pm Webhamster Henry: I'm thankful for the film restoration tech that has revived so many nearly lost classic films!
	7:00pm 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!
	🤖 7:00pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks - Hear ya next week!
	7:00pm bleubombersune: Thanks Mark
	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
	🤖 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.

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from November 25, 2024

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