I've spent the evening listening to a Susie Asado, on vinyl, as I'm a snob that prefers vinyl to CDs, which I purchased directly from her at a gig last week, and also a Jeffery Lewis album which I purchased from his drummer, who noted that the Moldy Peaches T shirt I was wearing included him in the picture. I'm sure at this point, if not at least a sentence or two earlier, you're wondering what this has to do with electronics and I do confess that you have a point, so I'll attempt to steer my verbiage to something more useful.
Whilst listening to this music I was also checking that my Father's Christmas present is in perfect working order. Ah, at last, he's getting towards electronics you think, but, Ha! you'd be wrong, I've still some way to go. I bought my Father the latest Bill Bryson, which involves our esteemed author discoursing in his amusing rambling style about various bits of Britain that most folk don't know about. A paragraph or two on a Victorian folly put me in mind of George Green, a man who only had one year of education as a child and yet set the mathematical foundations for Maxwell et al
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Green_(mathematician)