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Show Notes for September 17, 2015

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Show Notes for October 1, 2015

"The Konami Code (Japanese: コナミコマンド, Konami komando, "Konami command") is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video games,[1] although the code also appears in some non-Konami games." Egypt "Several Ancient Egyptian solar ships & boat pits were found in Ancient Egyptian sites.[1] The most famous is the Khufu ship now preserved in the Giza Solar boat museum beside the Great pyramid at Giza. The full-sized ships or boats were buried near Ancient Egyptians' Pyramids or Temples at many sites. : "The Khufu ship is an intact full-size vessel from Ancient Egypt that was sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2500 BC. The ship now is preserved in the Giza Solar boat museum. The ship was almost certainly built for Khufu (King Cheops), the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt." "It measures 43.6 m (143 ft) long and 5.9 m (19.5 ft) wide." &quo

Show Notes for October 8. 2015

Lenco Bearcat December 2010: California approves its first molten salt solar power plant Vegas AVERAGE LAS VEGAS TEMPERATURES Hottest day Tie: July 24, 1942 and July 19, 2005 117° F (47° C) Freezer SPT UF-304SS estimated energy cost : $28.80 / year

Show Notes for November 12, 2015

TAG Heuer Connected Press Conference @daringfireball says "you certainly can’t fault TAG Heuer CEO Jean-Claude Biver for a lack of enthusiasm" Google Self-Driving Car Pulled Over For Going Too Slow

Show Notes for November 19, 2015

A heat pump "is a device that provides heat energy from a source of heat to a destination called a "heat sink". Heat pumps are designed to move thermal energy opposite to the direction of spontaneous heat flow by absorbing heat from a cold space and releasing it to a warmer one . A heat pump uses some amount of external power to accomplish the work of transferring energy from the heat source to the heat sink. […] While air conditioners and freezers are familiar examples of heat pumps, the term "heat pump" is more general and applies to many HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) devices used for space heating or space cooling. When a heat pump is used for heating, it employs the same basic refrigeration-type cycle used by an air conditioner or a refrigerator, but in the opposite direction - releasing heat into the conditioned space rather than the surrounding environment. In this use, heat pumps generally draw heat from the cooler external air