This is where my love of Steampunk comes from, the idea of the 17th Century Gentleman Natural History Philosopher and collector. I always wished I had been one.
{Without all the actual Victorian real life desecration and removal of items from their cultural context of course)
You could lock me in there, slide some crackers under the door periodically, and never see me again!!! How did he come by an Enigma machine??? I would even be happy to be his insurance rep, just to be able to read the list of contents.... Wow.
Just yesterday I saw an interview on Flog It with a Brit who won't let HIS Enigma machine out of his sight :-))
But there were thousands of them in use. This guy said that every little group of people in that war had to use them, so there were certainly quite a few left.
Wired Magazine did an article on this guy last month, kind of like a centerfold shot for geeks. I was drooling all over the pages. So many individual items in his library were so unique or very rare. THe thought of having so many rare things together was mind-blowing.
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You sure could have a good time in there!
I want a tour...and then stay until I'm glutted which would take years or maybe a lifetime or two...
Wow! I mean WOW!!!!
OMG...OMG..I wants to lives there.....
I can haz Sugardaddy ????
I haz wishez for sugardaddy!!!
you guys crack me up :-)
Sounds awesome - do you know if he has any kids? Adoption might prove easier than marriage, bwa ha ha ha
Two words - MARRY ME! That is truly geek heaven, He really is a geeks geek and that comes from a practicing geek!
Not just a geek honey - OUR kind of geek.
This is where my love of Steampunk comes from, the idea of the 17th Century Gentleman Natural History Philosopher and collector. I always wished I had been one.
{Without all the actual Victorian real life desecration and removal of items from their cultural context of course)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of that much geekery must be in want of a wife :P
So few women understand the joy of being a true geek in the land of Barbie doll wanna-be's.
Sadly, reading the text he has a wife :( Shame, why is it all the good geeks are married, leaving only the losers?
You could lock me in there, slide some crackers under the door periodically, and never see me again!!! How did he come by an Enigma machine??? I would even be happy to be his insurance rep, just to be able to read the list of contents.... Wow.
Perhaps we could all turn up at his door and demand entrance. Its far more exciting than Aladdins cave
Shall we form a library harem for him?
Adoption, now that's a good idea!
Well you know I was thinking a job - caring and cataloguing all those for him. We get to play to our hearts content *and* get paid for doing it !!!!!
And the vast majority of those few women are right here on my friends list :) :) :)
Just yesterday I saw an interview on Flog It with a Brit who won't let HIS Enigma machine out of his sight :-))
But there were thousands of them in use. This guy said that every little group of people in that war had to use them, so there were certainly quite a few left.
OK form an orderly queue behind me...... eldest first:))
Oh come on Kay - you know I have a big club and aren't afraid to use it :) :) :) :) :)
Ooooh we're playing dirty now are we?:)):)
If offered something like this in real life - yep I'd play dirty :) :)
Wired Magazine did an article on this guy last month, kind of like a centerfold shot for geeks. I was drooling all over the pages. So many individual items in his library were so unique or very rare. THe thought of having so many rare things together was mind-blowing.
Tracy is correct.
Here's the whole article here:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all
And this is also some related drool material ....
http://thenonist.com/index.php/thenonist/permalink/hot_library_smut
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