So what floats your geek boat?

**Doggy Styles** · 26 March 2013, 16:24

Originally posted by zeitghost

This has kept me amused for the last hour or so:

Yelverton Tunnel

I suppose that almost reaches rivet counting, all in all.

I played cricket against Yelverton. Our skiddy quick called Ceri Davies took a Michelle.

**Sysman** · 26 March 2013, 16:42

Originally posted by norrahe View Post

I don't, I ask for the menu to be signed by the chef and often as well as giving me the nice booklet, I get to meet the chef too.

I've seen people ask for menus and being given them, but not seen them ask for the chef's signature. A good idea.

**Sysman** · 26 March 2013, 16:48

Originally posted by zeitghost

Oh.

I forgot my collection of obsolete hifi & video.

Of which there is lots & which cost about half a house when it was new.

I must have been

Fortunately I stopped before I got that far.

I am really glad that I didn't build or get those large speakers I once coveted, because they would have ruled out some of the smaller places I lived in.

**Sysman** · 26 March 2013, 16:52

Originally posted by Ignis Fatuus View Post

Ah yes. Old phone chargers, 2Mp cameras, empty cardboard boxes, diskette labels, cables and adapters, the tool for removing the radio from the car I sold 6 years ago, instruction books for all the kettles I've ever owned, and so on.

Instruction books for every bit of electrical kit I currently own, and probably stuff that has long since been recycled.

Old computers and peripherals. I had my last clear out about 9 years ago and I think it's time for another.

**Sysman** · 26 March 2013, 16:55

Originally posted by Ignis Fatuus View Post

When I was young I liked short-wave radio, and making chemicals explode. Enthusiasms that I shared with Richard Feynman among others, not that I achieved the same intellectual level (well, I'm here now, right?). I do wonder how tomorrow's scientists will have their spark lit, now that SW is dead and explosions are not PC (not to say arrestable). Somehow I can't see the net and gaming doing it, but that's probably just an old fogey speaking.

Yes, I wonder about that. As a nipper I got much inspiration from such things.

Looking back, IT got in the way of those interests.

**garethevans1986** · 26 March 2013, 16:58

I'm involved with preserving a diesel loco.

GE

**Sysman** · 26 March 2013, 17:05

Originally posted by garethevans1986 View Post

I'm involved with preserving a diesel loco.

GE

The last time I had a ride on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway I bumped into a former colleague who was a guard on the train.

I could certainly see the appeal of renovating old machinery.

As Ian Fleming put in it one of the Bond books (The Man with the Golden Gun?), one of the points of being really rich is that you can afford a full size train set.