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At 7:55am on September 24, 2008, Libraritarian said…: Wish I could take credit for the background theme, but I just came across it ... I'll take credit for having the good sense to know it's perfect for me! btw I also read science, medical, art and animal encyclopedias, thesauri, books about books and the love and reading and writing and collecting thereof, cookbooks, cereal boxes, children's books (Tadpole's Promise, destined to be a classic) ... Whatever I can lay my eyes on. We have the Oxford English Dictionary at the library - can you imagine what a Happy Libraritarian I am? Now I'm going to go see what you had to say on the OCD/CDO site! I must, you know. 8^)
~ Catherine

At 2:41am on September 24, 2008, Scott Campbell said…: Haha, that's cool.

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What kind of geek are you?

I read undergraduate textbooks on mitochondria for fun

Why do you consider yourself a geek?

Late Night Fun: 12 Oreo cookies, glass of milk, and a Full-On dictionary ...

What are your "geeky equipment" specs?

Original Apple Lisa up in the attic, Apple Newton 1.0 in a box around here somewhere, a room full of hard drives, power supplies, ATX cases, ancient graphics cards, how many floppy drives?, solder guns, ram sticks in random drawers, mobo on top of mobo ... oh, OK ... shut up ...

What do you want to be when you grow up?

lab rat working on understanding organelles

What makes you laugh?

satire

What is the thing in life you treasure most?

audiotape of my mother talking and laughing ... she has been gone many years now

What's the geekiest thing you've ever done?

Solder two capacitors on a mobo on the floor in my office in full dress and hose ... had my shoes off, though ... big wigs walked in and, back then, I didn't understand that I was supposed to be embarrassed ...

What do you do to entertain yourself?

think

Favorite music, movies, books, shows, artists, games, people, events, hobbies, etc.?

At one end, Patrick O'Hearn and Enya ... at the other end, Gary Numan, Enigma and Nickelback; Enemy Mine, Legend, and, of course, LOTR; I would need six pages to list all the books I have; House, Fringe, Atlantis and all the stuff on Nat Geo, Science and Discovery; Vermeer and Escher; MTGO, Guild Wars and the circa 70's Tempest; Michio Kaku; The Eagle Has Landed; reading, reading, reading, care of little animals, putting together computers, podcasts on my Zune, laundry and dishes ...

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Going Full On With Solar

Greetings ... today I want to tell you about a friend of mine. I call him "The Mini Genius." He is completing a solar plant at his home and it has been great fun. He built it all from scratch and wrote the code in assembly. Total ground up. He mounted his solar cells on an old satellite dish ... one of the big monsters from way back ... that moves by remote control. He is constructing a mobile housing assembly for his battery array and has already gone live.

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