the evil tester show - episode 001 halloween 2017
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The Evil Tester Show ‐ Episode 001
Halloween Special 2017
Alan Richardson
Houdini
Charles FortGhost HuntingUnconventional Influences
http://eviltester.com/show/001‐halloween‐2017/
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TLDR; The world needs a new TestingPodcast, so I created one
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We are in the Uncertainty Business.We find and investigate anomalous Phenomena
Anomalous ‐ "deviating from what is standard,normal, or expected."
We are part of a long tradition of Anomalous Phenomena seekers.
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The Podcast
AudioVideoShow Notes
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Charles Fort
You can find the books of Charles Fort online at Mr X'sResologist.net
http://www.resologist.net/
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Quotes from Charles Fort's "The Book ofThe Damned"
"A PROCESSION of the damned.By the damned, I mean the excluded.We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded."
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Quotes from Charles Fort's "The Book ofThe Damned"
"Our especial interest is in modern science as a manifestationof this one ideal or purpose or process:That it has falsely excluded, because there are no positivestandards to judge by: that it has excluded things that,by its own pseudostandards, have as much right to come in ashave the chosen."
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Quotes from Charles Fort's "The Book ofThe Damned"
"The data of the damned.I have gone into the outer darkness of scientific andphilosophical transactions and proceedings, ultra‐respectable,but covered with the dust of disregard. I have descended intojournalism. I have come back with the quasi‐souls of lost data.They will march. "
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Quotes from Charles Fort's "The Book ofThe Damned"
"I think that things raised from this earth's surface to thatregion have been held there until shaken down by storms‐‐The Super‐Sargasso Sea. "
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The Ghost‐Busters Century 1900 illustration was used withpermission from the artist
https://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/
A fantastic artist who has created Dr Seuss style versions ofCthulhu, Doom, HP Lovecraft
Checkout their Twitter feed
https://twitter.com/DrFaustusAU
And their Deviant Art profile ‐ https://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/
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Houdini
Sequence in The Master Mystery where he is tied up, hanging froma wall, knocks out his captor, takes off his shoes and socks, picksthe pocket of hist unconcsious guard which his feet, picks up a setof keys with his feet, uses his toes to unlock a door, then walks upthe door while hanging to give himself leverage to untie the ropeholding him with his teeth. This is all pre‐ jackie chan stuff.
https://youtu.be/7m6f5hU4GRo?t=6m28s
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Later expose of spiritualists "A Magicianamong the spirits"
https://archive.org/details/AMagicianAmongTheSpiritsByHarryHoudini
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Houdini Seanceevery halloween for 10 years after his Death, Houdini's wifeBeth held a seanceaudio of the last Houdini seance you can find online onArchive.org
https://archive.org/details/TheFinalHalloweenHoudiniSeance_860
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Houdini Museum continues the tradition today and if you go off to,you can join in the seance
http://houdini.org/seance‐harry‐houdini‐attractions‐pocono‐poconos‐scranton.html
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Books Shown or Mentioned
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Books Shown or Mentioned
The Complete Books of Charles Fort by DoverThe Complete Books of Charles Fort: The Book of theDamned / Lo! / Wild Talents / New Lands
Memoirs of a Sword Swallower by Daniel P. MannixHoudini's Strange Tales, edited by Patrick Culliton and T.L.WilliamsHoudini, His Life and Art by James Randi and Randolph Sugar
Houdini by William Lindsay GreshamThe Great Houdinis by Mel Shavelson
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Books Shown or Mentioned
Houdini on Magic ﴾Dover Magic Books﴿ by HoudiniThe Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's FirstSuperhero by Williiam Kalush and Larry SlomanDeath and the Magician: The Mystery of Houdini by RaymundFitzsimons
The Houdini‐Price Correspondence by Gabriel CuronMagic and Mystery: The Incredible Psychic Investigations ofHoudini and Dunninger by Houdini and DunningerThe Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini by Ruth BrandonHoudini: A mind in chains : a psychoanalytic portrait byBernard C. Meyer
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Books Shown or Mentioned
Houdini!!! by Kenneth Silverman
"A Magician among the spirits" ‐https://archive.org/details/AMagicianAmongTheSpiritsByHarryHoudini"Miracle Mongers and Their Methods" by Harry Houdini ‐https://archive.org/details/MiracleMongersAndTheirMethodsByHarryHoudini
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BIO ‐ Alan RichardsonAlan Richardson has more than twenty years of professional ITexperience, working as a programmer and at every level of thetesting hierarchy from tester through head of testing. He hasperformed keynote speeches and tutorials at conferencesworldwide. Author of multiple books on testing and automating.Alan also has created online training courses to help people learnTechnical Web Testing and Selenium WebDriver with Java. He worksas an independent consultant and coach, helping companiesimprove their use of automation, agile, and exploratory technicaltesting.
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