It was late on Father’s Day, around 11:55 p.m., when I finally got around to writing my editorial for this issue, which was due the next day. I had some ideas of what I wanted to write about and was busy gathering information. One piece of information I needed was in an e-mail I had received a couple of weeks ago, so I launched Microsoft Outlook.
我没有直接去我需要的电子邮件，而是开始浏览周末收到的电子邮件。我遇到的第一个通知是，我的侄女祝我在Facebook帖子中度过快乐的父亲节。我单击了链接，在Facebook上获得了答复。然后我回到Outlook，继续浏览电子邮件。一条主题使我冷漠。它说：“鲍勃·皮斯（Bob Pease）在车祸中丧生。”我以惊人的难以置信读了它。我看着发件人：保罗·拉科（Paul Rako），来自EDN. It must be true, I thought. Horrible news, but true.
In part, Paul said that Bob was killed when his car left the road as he drove from Jim Williams’ memorial service yesterday. It’s doubly unfortunate that two of the greatest analog minds in the business passed in the same week. As it was earlier on the West Coast, Don Tuite was online and sending e-mails to our staff. He sent a link to aSan Jose Mercury Newsarticle: “Driver, 70, Dies in Saratoga Crash.”
The short article stated all the facts: A 70-year-old San Francisco man was killed after his car hit a tree in Saratoga on Saturday evening, according to the California Highway Patrol. The man was traveling eastbound on Pierce Road at an unknown speed when he failed to negotiate a curve to the left at about 5:45 p.m. The driver’s 1969 Volkswagen Beetle veered to the right off of the roadway and crashed into a large tree on the right shoulder. The man was not wearing his seatbelt and it appears he was killed instantly.
每个阅读Pease Porridge的人都知道鲍勃开了1969年的甲虫。多年来，鲍勃（Bob）将其提出了很多次，最近在一个流行的专栏中，讲述了意想不到的加速。每个人都知道这一点，因为鲍勃在这个行业中是无与伦比的专栏作家。尽管他当然是一个模拟大师，他可以写一个非常困难的主题领域的细微差别，但他也谈到了每天（而不是每天）的生活状况。
Bob told me many times that his column was about thinking. Whenever he tackled a topic, he essentially welcomed readers into a dialogue about how to properly think about that topic, at least from Bob’s point of view. But, if you wrote to him, he would always consider your point of view as well and tell you what he thought.
Bob was greatly saddened by the death of Jim Williams. As you may know, Jim died recently after a massive stroke. During the following days, Bob corresponded with me about Jim. In one e-mail, which I think says a lot about the way Bob thought and lived, he said: “Jim did write more huge SYMPHONIES of big Apps. Systems. I wrote more small ones. We always had very similar ideas on helping Users with Analog problems: We never turned down a request for Analog help. We agreed on that.” Then, Bob said: “I am very SCRUPULOUS about taking my 5 or 7.5 mg of Coumadin every day. I don’t know if Jim was on Coumadin. Coumadin = Warfarin = Rat Poison, good for preventing Strokes.”
Bob also asked me to reprint part of a column on doctoring that he had written years ago about how to tell if someone was having a stroke. This particular column, “无论如何，所有这些floobydust是什么？（第14部分），”包含一个称为医生的部分，第4C部分 - 笔触诊断。
在鲍勃（Bob）对吉姆（Jim）的悲伤中，他的第一个想法是让这本杂志的读者知道如何分辨某人是否正在中风。他从本专栏的部分开始写道：“许多人知道，在心脏病发作或中风的情况下，在不到一个小时的时间内迅速使受害者获得医疗服务非常重要。但是，我们对诊断如此不快乐的人有什么了解？”他继续从那里传授他对这个话题的知识，并希望有一天能帮助某人挽救生命。
不幸的是，我们现在不得不向鲍勃和他如此慷慨地分享的所有智慧说再见Electronic Design. He was a tremendous talent and we will miss him greatly. You can findhis latest columnin our July 7 issue.
You won’t be surprised to learn that he had the drafts for number of future columns in the works in addition to his popular “鲍勃的邮箱” collection of correspondence. We will work with his family on bringing those columns to you in the future. We think he would have wanted you to read them. And finally, wherever he may be right now, I’m sure he’s thinking about writing, “What’s All This Car Crash Stuff, Anyhow?”
