Are you in?

Some of our fondest memories of Duncan are centered around the espresso machine in the small kitchen at CleveMed. Several times throughout the day Duncan would drop by my office wagging his demitasse asking "Are you in?" An answer of "No" or, "I'm loaded", or "5 is enough for one morning" would be answered with the classic "disapproving scowl", or he would click his tongue and say "...you're missing out" Whether we were "in" or not, we would go and hang out and just chat about whatever.

Duncan always had something interesting to say--he was constantly tuned into all kinds of news on just about every subject--its like his brain had an RSS feed. Every morning he would ask us, "so did you hear about ...." Most of the time the answer was no, but we would leave the kitchen well informed.

When Duncan found me in the hospital...

I will never forget the time I wound up in the cardiac ward and spent about 3-days and tried to pretty much keep it a secret where I was, and through what he called "social engineering", he was able to figure out what section of the hospital I was in, and what room, and all of a sudden he waltzes in his typical t-shirt and jeans with the Lethargic Records bag slung over his shoulder "hey hey!". I was in a state, three-days without caffeine and one to many nitro-patches--exhausted after having passed out the night before.

He brought me Kris's gameboy and suggested that Tetris and pac-man were very therapeutic, we talked shop a bit and he scolded me a bit on my stress level, which is what probably landed me in the state I was in.

I didn't use the gameboy, but his visit was really special

Unintended Use

I had originally created this blog to post my thoughts on software development, with specific emphasis on my tool of choice - Borland's (now CodeGear's) C++ Builder. I will instead, for the time being use this as a place to post my thoughts and memories of my friend Duncan, who recently passed away.