Another Interesting Person

Lest you think that I am solely interested in autistic semi-geniuses who live in caves while naked, let me introduce you to another really interesting person-- someone with more panache and talent than someone should legally be allowed to have. This person has built, among other things:

• A furby that breathes fire;
• A 52-inch HD Etch-a-Sketch;
• And a race car chassis from discarded tube steel.

But that's not nearly all. Most impressive of all (so impressive that I haven't got the technical know-how to even know how difficult this must have been) is that she reverse-engineered a Commodore 64, audio and visual systems both, by looking at a picture of the relevant silicon, and then recreating it on a field-programmable gate array. Imagine looking at a picture of the Notre Dame cathedral, memorizing it, and then building an exact scale-model replica out of matchsticks.

And there's more! Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Jeri Ellsworth:

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