Mastodawn

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

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Chuck

@spaf RIP. I met George at a Usenix workshop and was struck by his curiosity. It is probably because I was young and naive, but I miss attending workshops where everyone was just interested in exploring the things that computers could do. Those don't seem to happen much anymore.