#23: Klingons and the Cognitive Surplus

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: key deathwatch, mobile carrier deathwatch, klingon deathwatch, and Google Meat, Mk I.

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• Action photos from Lauren’s Akron LUG presentation on Scratch and Raspberry Pi
  • Lauren’s impromptu app



• Gunnar sitting in Red Hat’s new office, which dominate the Raleigh skyline


• Soylent Green is Google!: Something to snack on while you wait for your mind to be uploaded


• Netflix US removes Star Trek III due to missing Vulcan and Klingon dialogue
  • Klingon lesson of the week:
  • “Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam” means “today is a good day to die”
  • Bonus link: How to Learn English Through Awkward Aerobics in 1992 Japan



• What could possibly go wrong: Shloosl Copies Your House Keys Using a Smartphone Photograph
  • Millions of Kwikset Smartkey Locks Vulnerable to Hacking, Say Researchers
  • Add these books to your reading list



• Lauren won’t need to ask for an iPhone, she can now make her own
  • • OpenBTS: Mobile carrier deathwatch?

  
  
  • Almost related: Republic Wireless, and they are located in Red Hat’s old NC State offices
  
  
  
  


• Gunnar driving to Mil-OSS LANT, RIGHT NOW


• Dave moderating an open source tech leadership panel at Fedscoop’s Lowering the Cost of Government with IT Summit
  • Preview: Luke Fretwell and Gunnar talk Open GIS with FCC GIO Michael Byrne



• Gunnar and Dave are working ahead on the Red Hat Government Symposium


• 10gen and Red Hat Deliver Integrated Security Solution for MongoDB
  • Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux Identity Management for MongoDB SSL cert management & data in motion encryption
  • Use Red Hat Enterprise Linux Identity Management to centrally manage MongoDB users



• 10 Annoying Sounds People Need to Stop Making
  • Dave is guilty of pulmonic ingressive voiceless alveolar glide and mid-central vowel, with optional unreleased final bilabial stop, and cybersecurity



• More Zeppelin news (near Dave’s house): Goodyear bids goodbye to blimps, says hello to zeppelins
  • YA Novel for Lauren, if she likes Zeppelins: Leviathan

Cutting Room Floor

• Raspberry Pi based robotic beer dispenser
• How To Setup Your Own Free Mail Server (using RoundCube on OpenShift)
• (83% accurate) vampire robots?
• Cocktail party idea: yarn based laser grid
• First Open Source Airplane Could Cost Just $15,000
  • Ted Brunell’s interview
  • OpenROV: Open source robotic submarine



• HT Lauren: Vulcan’s Trekcetera Museum opened August 2, 2013


• Yes, There’s an Air Force Class Flying With My Little Pony Patches


• 167 Theremin Players Perform Beethoven


• Pay attention to detail: Hotel Takes Special Requests from Guests Very Seriously

We Give Thanks

• Lauren’s computer science teacher Mr. James Allen for attending Lauren’s Akron LUG presentation and being so supportive
• Dave Hamblin, Community Support Lead at Premier Farnell, and Element 14 for raffling off a Raspberry Pi at Lauren’s Akron LUG presentation
• Rick Nemer, Steve Alexander, and all the folks who organized and attended Lauren’s Akron LUG presentation