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Desmogod

Fri Mar 10 2006, 02:03AM

Registered Member #139 Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 11:01AM
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Further to Steve's suggestion, here is the Geek of the week thread.
I also nominate Andrew for making us all jealous and NOT losing his lunch, whether it be assisted or not.

Hazmatt_(The Underdog)

Fri Mar 10 2006, 03:36AM

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Talking about Geek of the week, I typed my name in google just to 'see what I was up to'

Apparently I sell telephone poles for power distribuition and have won 2 nobel prizes without my knowledge, oh and at one time was host of a radio talk show, man...I didn't know there were that many matt keyser's out there, how wierd!

Steve Conner

Sat Mar 11 2006, 05:31PM

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I've already nominated Andrew due to getting a ride on the vomit comet and his work with ferrofluid that was so classy, about.com stole it :-@ If nobody else gets more than two nominations by the end of Sunday, he gets it.

Maybe we should make a separate sticky thread and invite each week's geek to post a picture of themselves and a blurb.

I tried hazmatt's experiment, and Google thinks I am a real estate agent in Carrolton, Texas.

The "real" me appears somewhere on the 7th page of hits.

ragnar

Sat Mar 11 2006, 11:09PM

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Wilson's plasma vortex is very original, but admittedly not as great as the vomit comet... maybe he can get last week's award? hehe

I'd nominate myself, too, because as of last Friday I've had a girlfriend for 3 weeks (apparently) =D... a VERY geek-counter-intuitive achievement..

craigsarea

Sun Mar 12 2006, 12:17AM

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wrote ...
I've had a girlfriend for 3 weeks (apparently)

Pictures

?

What do you mean when you say apparently? Didn't you know she was your girlfriend

Coyote Wilde

Sun Mar 12 2006, 02:20AM

Registered Member #175 Joined: Tue Feb 14 2006, 09:32PM
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Dude, if you aren't aware, how does that count? Or even work? Even my social skills aren't that bad.

Also, how geeky is she? I'm comming up on a month with my bella, and she's nearly as nerdy as I. Knows lines from Star Wars, laughs at math jokes... _loves_ the idea of HV, very encouraging to rebuild the projects I've fried and give her a show... once I finish the sonoluminesence setup and 6" telescope, and... but she encourages all that, too. Finally, a gal who understands polyprojectitis!

Oh, and did I mention she's a model, too?

... yeah, I'm waiting to be hit by a bus, too. Meteorite, maybe?

EDIT: Forgot to add *steals blackplasma's thunder*

Seriously though, congratulations, mate. We're all rooting for you (even if some of us are only using sudo.)

Simon

Sun Mar 12 2006, 05:44AM

Registered Member #32 Joined: Sat Feb 04 2006, 08:58AM
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blackplasma wrote ...

I'd nominate myself, too, because as of last Friday I've had a girlfriend for 3 weeks (apparently) =D... a VERY geek-counter-intuitive achievement..

I'm sorry, but that automatically disqualifies you. Completely.

Is she the one who gave you a hug after New Year's?

Nucleophobe

Sun Mar 12 2006, 07:55AM

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Coyote Wilde wrote ...

Seriously though, congratulations, mate. We're all rooting for you (even if some of us are only using sudo.)

Ahhh that was too much for me! Nice one though

I vote Andrew as well

Steve Conner

Mon Mar 13 2006, 11:57AM

Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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The first 4hv Geek Of The Week is *drum roll* Andrew! I invite you to start a Geek Of The Week Winners thread in this board and post a picture of yourself and a thank-you speech

I guess you can now start voting for next week. I nominate Mike Harrison (mikeselectricstuff) for his stunning work in reverse-engineering a Kodak high-speed video camera, building a digital recorder for it using FPGAs to replace the old tape-based recorder, and shooting some cool movies at 1000 frames/sec. See his thread in the project board for details.

Mike also built a 1 million volt Marx generator and runs the popular electricstuff website, which was one of the sites that encouraged me to get into HV in the first place.

He even has that rarest of geek qualities, a sense of humour, that manifests itself in devices like the Destructotron and the Jacob's Ladder-o-Phone Of Fire.

Extreme Electronics

Mon Mar 13 2006, 02:15PM

Registered Member #74 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 09:17AM
Location: Nottingham UK
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Ill second the nomination of Mike Harrison

After seeing his high speed camera in action last weekend. He deserves it just for the incredible amount of hardware and software he has had to put together to get images out of the camera.

Derek

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