The Silicon Graybeard

In the World of the High Tech Redneck, the Graybeard is the old guy who earned his gray by making all the mistakes, and tries to keep the young 'uns from repeating them. Silicon Graybeard is my term for an old hardware engineer; a circuit designer. The focus of this blog is on doing things, from radio to home machine shops and making all kinds of things, along with comments from a retired radio engineer, that run from tech, science or space news to economics; from firearms to world events.

Saturday, March 15, 2014

If I Had This When I Was a Kid

I would have never left the house:

I clearly remember taking one of mom and dad's chairs, laying the back on the floor and pretending I was in a Gemini capsule. But LEDs hadn't even been invented in those days, and I sure wasn't capable of doing any of this stuff.

My nominee for Dad of the Year.

6 comments:

Mark JMarch 16, 2014 at 9:19 AM
That is so badass!
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drjimMarch 16, 2014 at 1:38 PM
That's one lucky little boy!
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AnonymousMarch 16, 2014 at 4:30 PM
My ham shack should be one tenth that neat.
Neat as in cool AND neat as in orderly.
Terry
Fla.
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Stefan vMarch 16, 2014 at 5:36 PM
G'day SG,

I'm studying reloading for academic interest and remembered you were setting up a bench and had asked for info...and when I came across this link:

http://emptormaven.com/reloading/

...I thought of you. Hope it's of help!

Best Regards,

Stefan
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SiGraybeardMarch 16, 2014 at 8:12 PM
Stefan - Thanks! Looking that over right now.

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kfgMarch 17, 2014 at 10:19 PM
We had butterfly chairs. They made the most coolest Mercury capsules ever.
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