spaf2d ago

A few people who are out there following my posts may have known Georgie Gobel (the Purdue George, not the comedian from the last century).

George apparently died last month. He was a passionate early Unix user, inventor, and experimenter. Besides early work with multiprocessor Unix, he is perhaps best known for his 3-second lighting of a charcoal BBQ, a feat that earned him the 1996 Ig Nobel in Chemistry.

RIP.

https://www.jconline.com/obituaries/psbn1445636
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Goble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sab2Ltm1WcM

Show threadSteve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱🪊2d ago

@spaf thank you for sharing that sad news. I remember loving the barbecue story when Dave Barry wrote about it. Legendary.

https://www.davebarry.com/misccol/charcoal.htm

Dave Barry Official Website

Show threadPaul Turnbull 🇨🇦2d ago
@shayman @spaf I wish the pictures from the liquid O2 bbq experiment were still up. Maybe they are somewhere but of course the 1995 link is dead. :(
Show threadSteve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱🪊
@Chigaze check the YouTube link on @spaf 's original post. There's still video.
Apr 2 at 5:07pmWeb
Show threadPaul Turnbull 🇨🇦2d ago
@shayman Doh! :)