User:Nimrodbl

Early years
It all started in the sixties, when Vietnam was a war more then a place and the Beatles invented the rooftop concert as a new way to avoid the crowds that marked the end of their regime. Nimrod was born to the harsh reality of Israel in a privately held Tel-Aviv hospital, a first-born child to Moshe Daniel (Bully) (1935 - 2002) and Miriam (1939 - 2008) Blumkine.

The early years were spent in solitary while baby Nimrod was pampered to the extreme by grandparents, neighbors and all toddlers’ around. It is worth mentioning, that the three years old Nimrod was introduced to the leather-binded Encyclopedia Britannica, by a neighbor. And while reviewing the pictures of various bird species, he developed a fetish to the smell of high quality paper that is present to this day.

Brother Yariv was born (1969) and the small family moved to a cottage in suburbia.

Middle childhood was uneventful except for a solitary fistfight during second grade and the keen interest Nimrod had developed with books. Given that no computer games or TV were present at that time, Nimrod became, sort off, the caveman version of a geek.

A baby sister was born (1975) and since pre-labor gender prediction was unknown at that time, she was quickly named Maya after neglecting all the male gender names that were planed for a newborn baby boy.

One day during junior high school Nimrod picked up his head from the book (no, not the holly one) and found out that he liked the rowing class. The following years were spent painfully, moving backwards and looking frantically over the shoulder as is customary with Academic Rowing. Some Medals are still kept in drawers yet the body remembers.

Less then Formal Education
The Blumkine family has a predisposition for Engineering degrees. Bully Blumkine had a B.sc in Mechanical Engineering, his father Abraham Blumkine (Abrasha) had two Engineering degrees from the Politechnic of Paris, so no wonder small Nimrod and later baby brother Yariv had to learn that Industrial aged decipline. Engineering is not a science but more like the art of scientific compromise, and as such it teaches modesty for those who seek grandeur and creats grandeur for those who are modest. Nimrod turned humble very quickly and started his MBA soon after, majoring in Operations Research due to his exotic nature, but taking on most of the courses in the faculty because of the abundance of time and curiosity.