I met him years ago at a public radio producers workshop -- just as Hitchhiker's was being put on NPR. He was nuts. I've not often seen a mind that worked so fast and could make me laugh so hard with just a facial expression or an intonation -- a truly gifted man. Friendly, open in a very non-British way, and easy to talk to despite his celebrity -- which he thought was total rubbish. He wrote for the fun of it and his mind was not easily stilled.

So long, ....