You may be a geek…

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If this is your house, you may be a geek.

A row of colorful model rockets on a fireplace mantelpiece in a home, with a blank painting in the background. (Jonathan Gewirtz)

(Cross posted at Jonathan’s Photoblog.)

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)

  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.

  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)

  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…

  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?

  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.

  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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