[BC] Broadcast Engineer Christmas Li st...

[Mark Humphrey]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Dave Dunsmoor <mrfixit at min.midco.net> wrote:

>    Or "The Cuckoos Egg" by Clifford Stoll. A fine accounting of tracking down a computer cracker "way back when". Excellent detective work by a guy who didn't (initially) know what he was doing.

Clifford is VERY entertaining.  In this 18 minute TED video, he
demonstrates how to measure the speed of sound with a scope and
measuring tape (must see), sums up his view of the future, talks about
the time he found words of wisdom under pigeon manure after being hit
with tear gas by a cop, and manages to work in a plug for his Klein
bottles -- not necessarily in that order:

http://blog.ted.com/2008/03/27/clifford_stoll/

Hey, now that's a great gift idea for someone who has everything else,
a Klein Wine Bottle!

http://www.kleinbottle.com/

By the way, Cliff was once a broadcast engineer at WBFO (while at SUNY
Buffalo) but somehow escaped.

Mark