Sam
This island was colonized & mostly owned by my ancestors.
What is Puerto Rico?
The AAC codec, used for encoding audio.
What is Advanced Audio Coding?
NOR, XOR, & AND are all examples of this.
What is a logic gate?
Before Smartrip cards took over, WMATA used paper farecards with this creature printed on the front.
What is a panda?
This memory card, unabbreviated, has become the industry standard for digital cameras.
What is Secure Digital?
This muscle group was injured by me as a child leading to the most excruciating pain i've ever experienced.
What is the neck?
Analogue audio is often sent in this format over long distances so as to remove noise.
What is balanced audio?
This programing variable stores a memory address.
What is a pointer?
This bike trail, passing through Fairfax County, was once the rail bed of this railroad.
What is the W&OD railroad?
Linux, MacOS, and Solaris are all derivatives of this OS developed at AT&T.
What is UNIX?
Behind black beans, this vegetable is my second favorite.
What is broccoli?
This type of microphone was used in the olden days and gave vocals a specific quality.
What is a ribbon mic?
Java, C++, and Python are all examples of this programming paradigm.
What is OOP?
With their heavy use of exposed concrete and repetitive design motifs,The DC metro stations feature this design paradigm.
What is Brutalist design?
This term refers to software which is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution.
What is Open Source?
My uncle & state senator aunt live in this Oregon town.
What is Corvallis?
While movies are usually at 48000Hz, CDs are recorded at this sample rate.
What is 44100Hz?
The most common method of representing signed integers on computers in binary.
What is two's compliment?
Huntington station Metrorail station, located on this line features an Inclined elevator.
What is the Yellow Line?
A bug in the Bash shell caused this well publicitized exploit allowing users to execute arbitrary commands.
What is ShellShock?
A minority of people including Sam Harmic are missing these bones.
What are the distal pinky toe bones?
While computer images use the RGB color space, television is encoded using these two values.
What are Luminance and Chrominance?
This programing language was the precursor to the C programing language.
What is B?
Union Station used to feature this location commonly sarcastically referred to as "the Pit".
What was the National Visitor Center?
The computer interface standard IEEE 1394 is better known by this name.
What is Firewire?