Someone Else Decides to Coin the Term "Gonzo Engineering"
Shortly after the death of Hunter S. Thomson my circle of engineer friends tried, and I will admit, failed to define Gonzo engineering. As a response to Hunter's "Gonzo Journalism", Gonzo Engineering would have the same flair and reckless abandon as Hunter, but with an eye toward making things. I suppose we should probably involved guns and drugs somehow, but being complacent, risk adverse engineers, we'll probably just top off at hard liquor.
Perhaps it was a similar mode of thinking that led this guy to coin the term. As someone who has made it a goal to be well rounded when I started thinking on Gonzo Engineering, I wanted to avoid playing into the geek/engineer/ ham radio stereo types . If it's Gonzo, people should look on in awe. You can read and decide for yourself whether his definition is deserving of "Gonzo"
I certainly respect the guy's approach, but Microship's Gonzo is what most people call "hermit engineering." Of course, he anticipates this claiming that Gonzo engineers end up broke, alone and crabby..or words to that effect.
Maybe I was just hoping the there was a place in Gonzo engineering for fortune and glory, for a raging kegger now and then, for just blowing things up, you know just for the heck of it.
Perhaps it was a similar mode of thinking that led this guy to coin the term. As someone who has made it a goal to be well rounded when I started thinking on Gonzo Engineering, I wanted to avoid playing into the geek/engineer/ ham radio stereo types . If it's Gonzo, people should look on in awe. You can read and decide for yourself whether his definition is deserving of "Gonzo"
I certainly respect the guy's approach, but Microship's Gonzo is what most people call "hermit engineering." Of course, he anticipates this claiming that Gonzo engineers end up broke, alone and crabby..or words to that effect.
Maybe I was just hoping the there was a place in Gonzo engineering for fortune and glory, for a raging kegger now and then, for just blowing things up, you know just for the heck of it.
posted by Oberon at 1:34 PM
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"Gonzo engineers end up broke, alone and crabby"
As opposed to regular engineers, who end up broke, alone, and crabby.
I'm detecting a certain lack of Gonzo in this man's project, primarily because it has too much purpose. It seems to me that Gonzo engineering should be based on a certain lack of purpose; engineering for the sake of engineering, if you will. If nothing else, it should be completely and totally over the top, and while the Microship is indeed a complex piece of home engineering, it's lacking in something - torque, and/or recoil, for starters.
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