George Goble died recently – known for first dual-CPU-Unix and fast BBQ lighting
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- finaard - 7654 sekunder sedanHis obituary or wikipedia page are well worth a read for what he was involved in - though he probably is best known for lighting a BBQ in under 5 seconds by use of liquid oxygen, and getting into trouble with the local firedepartment for that.
He used to have that video on his website - which I've discovered via a Usenet discussion not too long after it happened. It was one of the first videos I've downloaded via a web browser, and almost certainly the first video made with a digital camera I've ever seen.
- tantalor - 6844 sekunder sedanLighting a charcoal grill with liquid oxygen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPxDOEdsX8
- nullbyte808 - 1810 sekunder sedan"A striking example of his forward-thinking occurred years ago on a beach in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where George-sitting on the sand with a laptop connected via his cell phone-became one of the first people to read email over a mobile connection to a computer at Purdue. As a friend noted, "This was a real bit of history… At the time Apple had a whole engineering team trying to do this and here's George on the beach making it happen.""
Amazing. RIP.
- sponaugle - 6296 sekunder sedanSad to hear! I worked for George for all of my undergraduate time at Purdue. He was an amazing boss with such a passion for all things unix. For a while he had the UNIX license plate on his minivan.
- thesuperbigfrog - 3214 sekunder sedanGeorge's personal home page (seems to be a mirror: https://www.bkinzel.de/misc/ghg/index.html) with the grill lighting video and the TWINKIES experiments (original site gone, but archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20060101093459/http://www.twinki...) were amazing web sites in the late 90s.
- davidbjaffe - 619 sekunder sedanWhen I was in junior high school and high school, I would hang out at the Purdue University chess club. He was a regular, prone to laughter, a funny guy. We would play double speed chess (which we called "p'dorky") and other silliness. I had no idea he went on to do the cool things that he did.
- runjake - 2765 sekunder sedanFor you youngsters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Goble
- SirFatty - 6082 sekunder sedanHe was great in "The Birds and the Bees".
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