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Godber Real Name: Chris
Age: Forty-ten
Resides: Stamford, England
Occupation: Pilot
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Favorite website(s):
versiontracker.com, macnn.com
Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
The Sopranos, The Simpsons, books: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams),
Fate Is The Hunter (Ernest Gann).
Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
Filemaker Pro.
What are you playing and working on right now:
Editing family videos and photographs onto DVD, creating a pilots' logbook db in FM Pro 7.
What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
Mac OS X background with "DON'T PANIC" photoshopped on in large friendly letters.
What's so special about your computer (room):
Dunno. Probably no geekier than others.
How many computers do you have:
4.5. Apple Dual 2.0 GHz PowerMac5 (6GB RAM!), Powerbook G4/1.67, PowerMac G4 Digital
Audio (photo/music/web server), Cube (and PC, but don't tell
anyone). What was your first computer:
Commodore 64
Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
No, but first wrote a Hangman game then a ballistics program (!)
Geekiest moment of your life:
Getting broadband on my Palm via Bluetooth to G5...
When did you first realize you were a geek:
When I found the book "30 Hour Basic" compelling reading (1982)
Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
"Just go into the Terminal and fix it there"
What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
Trialling on-board internet access on a prototype Airbus A340-600 in 2002, six months before it entered service and years before on-board internet access became commercially available.
What is your favourite quote:
"Don't panic" --Douglas Adams
If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
The best open source flight planning and navigation software 'cos the commercial programs are expensive and proprietary.
What do you do when you are (heaven forbid) not at your computer(s):
Fly aeroplanes (Airbus A340, Cessna 120, Pitts S-2A Special).
You have a time machine that can only be used once. If you use it you will not come back. What date would you set it to, and what ONE thing would you take with you (not a computer):
1950 - all those great piston engine and early jet fighters to fly (I'd take a modern parachute!)
(*creative liberties may have been taken for the benefit of the reading audience)
Chris, who has never admitted if he is part of the 1.6 kilometre-high club, would kindly direct you to this "plane-spotterish" website. Chris claims to have a little knowledge of everything (Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, PhotoShop, FileMaker Pro), but to be an expert in nothing.
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