Re: [44net] One year from WB6CYT Brian departure

On 11/21/20 17:37, Rosy Wolfe via 44Net wrote: Well, let's not canonize him TOO much. Brian could also be quite the curmudgeon. While he was more than happy to help anyone at any knowledge level to fix a problem or to learn, he was *very* impatient with laziness or closed-minded stupidity and could rant about it at length. Being gay, he had absolutely no room for bigots -- who are not exactly unheard of among hams. He struggled with depression for much of his life, though he'd gotten that mostly under control. He'd retired from UCSD only a year or two earlier and his social life had really begun to take off when he suddenly passed. I went to his UCSD retirement party. The title slide for Monty Python's "LIFE OF BRIAN" was on a screen, which was perfect. We gave him a gift certificate to Ham Radio Outlet. He seemed genuinely moved by the whole thing, an emotion I didn't see often. I kept thinking how he would have been utterly embarrassed by his memorial service. After all, Valerie and I had implicitly compared him to Alan Turing and Roger Revelle. I'd seriously annoy him by interrupting him, a bad habit I picked up from my own largish family (you should hear our Zoom sessions).  But Brian was one of my closest friends, and I still occasionally think about calling him up for dinner when I remember. Phil