You may be a geek…

19 thoughts on “You may be a geek…”

1. Timely Post – as I just came in to work I am listening to Mark & Brian – and they are interviewing this actress on the TV show Big Bang Theory – that just happens to be a Phd in neuroscience. She was on this show called Blossom for years, took 12 years off, got married, had children and got a Phd.

   Then too – to answer this opened-ended question – you may be a geek if you spend time on Blogs like CG talking about Steve Jobs, PARC and Windows vs Linux.

   bill (incognito) – lower case here in honor of Unix, C and Dennis Ritchie, who recently passed away)

2. …and I suppose if you can identify the Rocket….

   Nike-Hercules

   bill (ex Army air defense)

3. Ah, yes, built and flew many like this back in the day. My kids skipped it but I just found a box of old Estes parts and motors and look forward to flying them again when g’children come along.

4. Southern Man:

   I will post pics from our outing to fly the big one.

5. with a tolerant wife!

6. Yes, indeed.

7. Anonymous,

   RE:Dennis Ritchie.

   From the article:

   Ritchie’s C is even more important, in many ways, than Unix — it is the fundamental building block upon which much of what we consider to be the modern world was built.

8. Setbit (btw I like your pseudonym)

   When I learned “C” I couldn’t believe how elegantly simple – efficient – and small – it was.

   And in true “C” fashion, you’re supplied enough rope to hang yourself ;-)

   Get that computer to do all kinds of weird things in memory.

   Compare ‘C” to COBOL – which my friend the super-programmer refers as “You write your program and it is self documenting” – although I have had to go into some COBOL code that
   was so twisted that one time – I patiently walked though 1000 lines of code only to realize on the 3rd day – it was all dead code.

   It did nothing.

   I was told before “C” there was a “B” at Bell Labs – don’t know about “A” ;-)

   bill (incognito)

9. Naah, that doesn’t make you a geek. Now, if there were pet lizards in the house…

10. If you unloaded the powder from your father;s shotgun shells to use the powder in model rockets, you may be a geek. He never found out and we never blew ourselves up.

11. OK – did Jonathon wear horn-rimmed glasses – taped on at least 1 arm – and have a plastic pocket pen holder?

    Reminds me of the movie October Sky.

    of course on that basis Werner von Braun was most likely a geek…

12. I know the Big Bertha’s use 18mm engines. What size engine do you use on the Hawk?

13. Am I geek for wanting to know why there is a blank picture frame on the mantle with the rockets?

14. Estes rockets. Those WERE the days.

    I must ask about the 6 (identical?) rockets. Are there subtle changes changes in each, 6 builders, or what?

15. Lex – it is probably just “white’ed” out from the flash

16. I should get with you and shoot some rockets whe I get back to Minooka. I have engines from 1/4 A to G. I would hate to be a fireman responding to a fire at my house. I probably have 300+ model rocket engines stashed there.

17. Cute fireworks. Do you have any big stuff?

18. taped on at least 1 arm

    I used strips of toilet paper with epoxy, much better than tape. A short length of wire from a paper clip inserted into the screw hole and bent around also works much better than screws for securing the hinges.

19. Michael Says:
    November 10th, 2011 at 1:24 pm
    Naah, that doesn’t make you a geek. Now, if there were pet lizards in the house…

    Could be. Or if there were a shrine In your garage displaying all the Cox model plane engines you had as a kid…

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