Here&#x27;s my Wes Clark story...<p>About 6 years ago I went to his Brooklyn apartment for his birthday.  I had never heard of him, but he&#x27;s distant cousins with my wife&#x27;s step father and we lived nearby.  We get to his apartment and I start looking at the book collection... a lot of interesting math and computer science.<p>I started talking with him 1 on 1 and at some point he drops that he created the first personal computer.  I&#x27;m ashamed to admit it, but in the back of my mind I was thinking &quot;oh boy, this guy&#x27;s not all there.&quot;  But then he took me to his office and there&#x27;s a poster of him with the LINC and I&#x27;m realizing that I&#x27;ve hit the motherlode of awesome computing history from a primary source.<p>He then showed me his current project: a working model Broadway stage for his granddaughter.  It had to-scale working versions of everything, including the lights and actual mechanisms for drawing the curtains.  Then he fired up his Mac with a 30&quot; monitor and showed me that every piece had been laser cut from schematics that he had designed.  In raw postscript.  The entire thing was programmatically generated from a massive postscript program that was fully parameterized so he could change the dimensions of anything single component and the whole stage would be regenerated.<p>That programmatic modeling project was a big motivation for the work I&#x27;ve been doing to make parameterized 3d models for ergonomic keyboards (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adereth&#x2F;dactyl-keyboard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;adereth&#x2F;dactyl-keyboard</a>).<p>I definitely experienced some cognitive dissonance watching an 82 year old flying around vim editing postscript.  It was a trip and it was really inspiring to see someone his age still hacking.