Where do your geek genes come from?
Posted by Daniel Swan in About me, Gallery, Technology, tags: electronics, family, geek, lab, TechnologyI don’t think there’s much debate over this in our family. I have inherited many useful traits from my mother that is for sure, but when it comes to geeking out, well those genes are all from my dad.
As if any evidence ever needed to be provided for this, here is a picture of his small, but immaculately clean and ordered electronics ‘den’.
I’d like to say I had his organisational and filing skills to boot, but I don’t. Neither do I have his flair for electronics. But I think we’re largely driven by the same desires to take things apart to see how they work, and then try and stick them back together again. Although I tend not to care if they no longer work at this point, my dad is almost certainly not only going to have them working, but working better than before…
More equipment and general geekery can be found on Flickr

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