Things Learned

4/9/12 - How to play Shuffleboard. Shuffleboard Table Care and Maintenance 4/12/12 - About the French Wars of Religion 4/13/12 - Foobar2000 shows the current time of the music in the status bar. 4/15/12 - The response to Christos Anesti 4/16/12 - Russia photoshopped people out of stuff before Photoshop existed. How Photos Became a Weapon in Stalin’s Great Purge 4/17/12 - Stuff about the Henrician...

3/26/12 - You can apparently buy items in shops in D&D Why Magic Shops Ruin the D&D Fantasy 3/27/12 - The origins of the Amish/Mennonites 3/28/12 - Netbeans has a specific Python edition. Get nbPython | NetBeans Python Editor | NetBeans - Python Wiki 3/29/12 - The Python Programming Language Python 0.9.1. part 01/21 3/30/12 - Transport Layer uses port numbers for addressing Service Name an...

3/12/12 - Set Affinity in Task manager pertains to CPU cores. Processes, Threads, and Jobs in the Windows Operating System | What is Windows Priority and Affinity and what advatanges does it provide? 3/14/12 - What Speccy is. Speccy Tutorial for Beginners | Hackers compromised free CCleaner software, Avast's Piriform says | Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data 3/...

2/26/12 - Figuring out Erasmus's The Praise of Folly 2/27/12 - cat command in Terminal cat(1) — Linux manual page 2/28/12 - Concatenate function in Excel (wasn't able to really get it work though) 2/29/12 - How the Elo touchscreen computer works ELO touchscreen does not respond to touch or has lost alignment at point of sale. 3/1/12 - Emperor Kangxi had the longest reign in China history. The Sacr...

2/12/12 - IBM's Thinkpad was the first laptop to have a keyboard light THINK: A brief history of ThinkPads, from IBM to Lenovo | IBM ThinkPad 701C: The Iconic Butterfly Keyboard | The ThinkLight: Shedding Light on the Legend (ft. David Hill) | What was the first backlit keyboard? 2/14/12 - How to burn a USB Lion disk and rotate multiple pages at once in Preview Make a Bootable Mac OS X 10.7 Lion I...

1/31/12 - The 4th Lateran Council 2/1/12 - About the Ming Empire 2/4/12 - What a "dirt block" drink is. Dirt Block (Minecraft cocktail) 2/5/12 - Using Foobar2000 2/6/12 - Christopher Columbus did a lot of terrible things. Was Christopher Columbus a Hero or Villain? 2/7/12 - Setting up Google Sync with Exchange on iOS. Sync heck: DalDAV vs Exchange Server – a Google Apple review | What are the pros...

1/15/12 - Minecraft's sun rose and set in the wrong places until 1.9 Sun – Minecraft Wiki 1/16/12 – Soundcloud MySpace lost 13 years worth of user data after botched server migration 1/18/12 - Some correct proportions for tablet compatible clickable images. 1/19/12 - Re-learned Lion's signature feature in Preview How to use Preview in OS X Lion to digitally sign documents | Fill out and sign a PDF...

1/1/12 - How to play Words With Friends 1/2/12 - Food Poisoning really sucks 1/3/12 - Microsoft released the Critical Update Notification Tool for Win98, but then changed the name to Critical Update Notification Utility to avoid using the unfortunate acronym. /r/todayilearned post 1/5/12 - 10.4 is probably the last OS you can get to run well on a G4. 1/6/12 - id and Apogee Software's histories All...

12/18/11 - Red Robin has bottomless fries If I order bottomless fries at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, how many fries would I have to eat in order for the restaurant to lose profit on my order? 12/19/11 - Ping google.com -t will give some more info on pings 12/20/11 - Gas gauges have an arrow pointing which side of the car it's on. The Fuel Gauge Arrow 12/22/11 - How to use Combofix ComboFix – Bleepi...

12/5/11 - Deja Vu is your brain is trying to apply a memory to a situation you are in, failing, and then making you feel like it's familiar anyway. Vuja De | The Matrix - Deja vu | Deja Vu: What It Is, When It May Be Cause for Concern | What Causes Déjà Vu? Neuroscience May Finally Have the Answer | Neuroimaging and cognitive changes during déjà vu | Presque Vu: An Annoying Mental Effect You Have...

11/23/11 - Guardsman Bob is from Denmark. In a Pros Mind: HotshotGG | HotshotGG Raging | Player Report - Yesterday | Guardsman Bob on Twitch 11/24/11 - Samsung makes washers/dryers. Samsung's Heritage 11/25/11 - TSO recruits local orchestra members for their shows. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Band and Family | 'Little gift' from Trans-Siberian Orchestra strikes the right chord | The Trans-Siber...

11/8/11 - COCOMO stuff, how to calculate it Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II | COCOMO II on YouTube | COCOMO: Not worth serious attention | COCOMO calculator 11/9/11 - What a context diagram is. What is System Context Diagram? 11/10/11 - Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land is Your Land" Pastures of Plenty | Woody Guthrie-This Land Is Your Land | The Story Of Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your La...

10/23/11 - relearned (maybe remembered) the "group by" clause in SQL SELECT - GROUP BY- Transact-SQL | SQL Group By 10/24/11 - Relearning Java 10/27/11 - LoL on Windows can possibly run on a flash drive. How to Play League of Legends From a Flash Drive 10/28/11 - My phone still can't really handle HD video capture that well. Cheaper than most, better than all: the 2013 Nexus 7 reviewed | How SSDs...

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) Holy Rollers (2010) (with Eisenberg) | Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians (2011) (IMDB) | RottenTomatoes | 11th Annual NH Film Festival 10/15/11 - The old LoL installer/patcher wi...

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 fr...

9/12/11 - How to make a sweet navbar thing similar to Google's Google Goes Black With Black Navigation Bar Test | W3C CSS Navigation Bar 9/13/11 - Caveat Emptor = Let the buyer beware FindLaw’s “What does ‘Caveat Emptor’ Mean?” 9/15/11 - The origin of the term x86 Microprocessor Hall of Fame | Intel: Happy Birthday, 8086 | Definition of x86 9/16/11 - Minecraft 1.8 stuff Java Edition Beta 1.8 9/18/...

8/30/11 - Some specifics on the fiber switch at the student cable access network 8/31/11 - What a Padiddle means Carl Benz | History of the Headlight | Origin and meaning of Padiddle | Wikipedia for Padiddle | Scientific Phone Apps & Mobile Devices (Springer Nature) , 3 (1), 7–20. 9/1/11 - The Denver Baggage system fiasco BAE Automated Systems Inc. Automated Baggage Handling System DIA | MSNBC...

8/15/11 - Making tables using only divs Stack Overflow Tabulizer 8/16/11 - The Wii and Xbox Rock Band drumset motherboards are only slightly different. e-kit Adapter Guide Playing Rock Band with a Yamaha DTXplorer Harmonix Controller Compatibility Page Bluetooth Interconnectivity Example 8/19/11 - The HP Touchpad can run Android. Bounty for HP Touchpad Android Port Article on bounty Engadget artic...

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. This episode's music comes from th...

8/7/11 - The original iPhone couldn't MMS https://appadvice.com/appnn/2009/05/why-cant-first-generation-iphones-receive-mms https://www.aiseesoft.com/solution/mms-messaging.html https://www.macworld.com/article/198643/iphone_3.html http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/3568/pixer-brings-mms-picture-messaging-to-the-palm-os 8/8/11 - How to manipulate a database on a webpage 8/9/11 - Heroes of Newerth...

7/31/11 - Minions can't crit https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Critical_strike 8/1/11 - Effective use of Flash in LoL https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Flash 8/2/11 - Which frats at UNH are unrecognized and why. https://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20081002/NEWS/810020417 https://www.fosters.com/article/20111026/GJNEWS_01/710269947 https://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20111107/NEWS...

7/24/11 - Droid Charge screenshot feature: Just hold Back and then press Home. https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/1759/how-to-take-a-screenshot-with-an-android-device 7/25/11 - The Clone Stamp in Photoshop https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/clone-stamp-remove-object.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G0Q58-C0ME http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Aq47xw7ZFTs/TyeMMxkqOGI/AAAAAAAAKDI/dDY--4r...

7/17/11 - A better tank Heimer build 7/18/11 - Stand in spawn with Tear of the Goddess and spam abilities to gain max mana fast. https://www.ign.com/wikis/league-of-legends/Tear_of_the_Goddess 7/19/11 - Tricks to validate pages for HTML5. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/rel 7/20/11 - Asset management in Dreamweaver. https://youtu.be/fZov_-7_U7M?t=10 https://youtu.be/Pp...

7/10/11 - Mission Control has a few extra gestures built in https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/6/ http://macnix.blogspot.com/2011/07/change-mac-os-x-107-lion-ical-and.html https://youtu.be/LPMjUtfQPks?t=863 7/11/11 - CSS3 Gradients. https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_gradients.asp https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Images/Using_CSS_gradients https://cssgradient...

7/3/11 - All instruments mode in Rock Band 3 https://harmonix.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/217924338-How-can-7-people-play-Rock-Band-3-at-once- https://www.giantbomb.com/rock-band-3/3030-27919/forums/rock-band-3-all-instruments-mode-ok-idea-poorly-im-462958/ https://youtu.be/40aL4x0r-qg 7/4/11 - I've been spelling Marshmallow wrong. https://mandelaeffect.com/ https://screenrant.com/nintendo-gameb...