He died when I was 10 or 11 and lived across the country so I didn't have as much time with him as I would have liked. The times when he came home to see the family were always pleasant. He and my father were an entertaining pair. We visited him once or twice in California after he was diagnosed with cancer. He definitely passed his interest in computers and astronomy on to me along with his taste for electronic and industrial music. The first computer I had to myself was passed down from him. I still have a framed panorama of the milky way galaxy he gave me.