The ranks of playful geeks are sadly diminished
Lester was a gem. He was one of those geeks who understood that science and technology aren't dull edifices full of dusty tomes of inscrutable facts. For him it was all about learning and playing around with things and having fun. I shared the PARIS project with scores of people who were amazed that Just Regular Folks could send a paper plane to space and recover it intact. You can see what an inspiration he was by the many teams who tried to break the PARIS record and finally did.
I'll miss that playful nature, his biting wit... oh you know it all already.
Just damn. Never met Lester, but I'll miss him terribly.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
