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'just finished reading a bit about Buckminster Fuller and some of his stuff would fit right in, so I propose a New Category:
"Honourary Half-Bakers"...
Postings in this category would include Name as post title, quick summary as blurb, and an explanation as to why the person should be considered
an honourary halfbaker. Links if appropriate.
Klunk, from the Vulture Squadron
http://tinyurl.com/klunk-the-halfbaker
"Klunk. You'll invent a thing-a-me-bob, that'll catch that pigeon or I'll lose my job!" [Jinbish, Sep 18 2008]
Make Dr Seuss an honorary halfbaker
Make_20Dr_2e_20Seus...onorary_20halfbaker
I second that emotion! [DrBob, Sep 18 2008]
Percy Hobart
http://en.wikipedia...g/wiki/Percy_Hobart
A man undeterred by the scorn of his superior officers. [DrBob, Sep 18 2008]
Prof. Kevin Warwick
http://www.wired.co.../news/2000/09/38467
Cyborg [coprocephalous, Sep 18 2008]
Geoffrey Pyke
http://en.wikipedia...Military_inventions
A truly halfbaked life [BunsenHoneydew, Sep 18 2008]
David E. H. Jones
http://www.amazon.c...sible/dp/0198504691
About as half-baked as they come [csea, Sep 22 2008]
[link]
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Verges on a list, but Leonardo da Vinci? |
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Einstein, Nils Bohr (definitely), Stephenson, Rasputin, Edison, Tesla... |
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Psst, sp. honorary, even in English. |
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[grayure] said Leonardo da Vinci just the other day. He'd be particularly apt as the materials necessary for his flying machines weren't available at the time. |
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Surely Rube Goldberg and Heath Robinson? What about Douglas Adams? |
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Tim Hunkin, Kool Keith, Denzil (and Gwynedd). |
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Oops, forgot Emmett Lathrop Brown. And
halfbaking prodigy Richard 'Data' Wang. |
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Sorry. All of the above are way too competent. Maybe Goldberg and Robinson are allowed because their competence is counterbalanced by unnecessary complexity. |
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Klunk. Now *there* is a halfbaker. He was responsible for all of the excellently flawed aerial creations to try and "Stop the pigeon"! |
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<echo that>
Wile E. Coyote. Supra-Genius. |
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Mentions also to Foghorn Leghorn and the Dog for a series of Goldberg/Robinson contraptions. |
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//The numerous Last of the Summer
Wine trios.// |
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I hardly think strapping some wheels to
an old bath and riding it down a hill
every week necessarily warrants
halfbaker status. |
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That, coupled with the fact that they
have not made me laugh once during
their 35-year BBC-coffer-sucking
existence makes your comment leave a
corked taste in my mouth. That's tax
payers money they throw down that
bath-scarred hill! And for once you
can't even look to readers of the Daily
Mail to back you up. |
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Not sure that fictional characters should be allowed. Real life 'mad' inventors & boffins should be what we are aiming for. I nominate Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart KBE CB DSO MC. |
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You're probably right, [DrBob]. It really should be non-fictional individuals. |
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Besides, nowhere in the text of [Flyingtoaster]'s idea does it have to say that the honorary member has to be any good. Or funny. Just like actual halfbakers... |
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I think a user name proposal
would also be interesting. |
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// Stephenson //
Neal or Robert? |
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the retreating ANZAC forces at Gallipoli |
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Jules Verne for Captain Nemo;
"Victor Appleton" (collective house name) for Tom Swift;
Frank Reade Jr. (and his daughter, Kate Reade) for his amazing air ships, cloud clippers and mechanical men. |
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Barnes Wallis; Seymour Cray; NASA Mission Control during the Apollo 13 crisis. |
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Charles Babbage! A life spent half baking while the baking went cold. |
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Professor Branestawm if we're allowed fictional characters, otherwise Norman Hunter vicariously for him. |
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How about frictional
characters? Are they allowed? |
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Here at the 'bakery, frictional characters are more often overlooked that not allowed. |
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If fictional characters are allowed, I nominate Commander Caractacus Pott of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang fame. The guy from the book by Ian Fleming, not, most emphatically not, the movie version with Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts. That guy was truly a most frictional character. |
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Ian Fleming wrote the book, if that's how we are deciding qualifications. Frederick Roland Emett was the kinetic sculptor who made the machines for the film, which still sucked. |
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//Frederick Roland Emett// sp. "Rowland" |
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[UB] appears to be a Canadianism, perhaps a "not USA'ian" spelling backlash. |
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Frederick Rowland Emett is sometimes known variously as Roland/Emmett. I used the spelling that Wikipedia's page used in its URL. I have no investment in any spelling, and really never heard of him before. Maybe Roland can be his moniker. |
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[BunsenHoneydew], I second the nomination of Francis Bacon. |
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There can only be one: Richard De Selby |
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Gerry Anderson, creator of Thunderbirds. |
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I'll second the nomination for Tim Hunkin, and add Rex Garrod. |
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*Verges* on a list? Ya think? |
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These are all interesting people, but I don't think lumping them in with a website they have nothing to do with is particularly appropriate. Especially the ones who are alive and quite capable of signing up if they wanted to.
It's as if Amazon.com were to publish a list of important writers and then call them "honorary amazon.com affiliates". Something about the scale is wrong here. The "honor" would be going towards us, not away from us. |
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That said, if you wanted to curate a list of interestingly inventive people and refer others to it, that's cool, I'd link to it from the "links", and I'm curious to look there. I just don't think it should be a halfbakery thing - we're not that big. |
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So limit it to dead people. |
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//Especially the ones who are alive and quite capable of signing up if they wanted to.// |
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I've often wondered if folks with celebrity status and a fondness for imagination and wordplay wouldn't be drawn to this site, where their anonymity would allow for honest feedback without all the ass kissing.
Who knows, we all may be interacting with, oh, say Stephen Hawking on an almost daily basis and have no clue.
<raises toast in Mr. Hawkings general direction> |
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Wait a minute. You mean to say I can get honest feedback here WITHOUT asskissing? I've been doing it wrong all along! |
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Here, kiss my arse and find out. |
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You'll have to buy me at least a couple of drinks first. |
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hmmph... I don't remember saying "list", my original idea is to make an entire post dedicated to [whoever] within the category. |
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Canadian folk hero, Red Green. [jutta], maybe we could apply to have HB'ers indicted as honorary members of Possum Lodge? |
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bun, for the Red Green anno. |
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+ I added a bun because I think what [FlyingToaster] means is that there have been many famous halfbaking thinkers and doers, but they hadn't known about the halfbakery itself.(or it didn't exist then) [jutta] states "we're not that big", but the ideas and concepts may be. |
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Charles Babbage for his difference engine. He was working on a bigger, better model that would also have incorporated a capacity for memory. |
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It would all have been powered by steam, and the whole idea behind it was to eliminate navigational error for ships at sea. |
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I nominate David E. H. Jones, "Daedalus," prolific and imaginative halfbaker since 1964. [link] |
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