Yeah, that might have made it sound as if he's always like that. To his credit, he was one of those that had to be involved when things got desperate, e.g. the insane and massive data recovery to prevent the index from growing stale during a PCR that wasn't properly planned for (if you were around, you know what I'm talking about).
Yea, nice guy and solid engineer. He was actually my TA for a systems engineering class back in school. He was actually very helpful in solving other people's problems, but a bit blunt in encouraging people to reach their full potential.
