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Feb. 6th, 2004
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Feb. 6th, 2004 11:26 amI found out today that one of my first bosses is dying of cancer. The chemo and radiation therapy isn't stopping the spread of his cancer.
His name is Frank LaMonica and his first career was a rock-guitar player. He then went back to school and got an E.E. degree in his 30s, and he was one of four partners at Vibrant Graphics (a company eventually bought out by Autodesk), my first full-time job out of college doing video drivers for AutoCAD® back in the Protected-Mode DOS days (1992-1995).
I worked at VG for three years, and is where I got to know![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hdan as more than just some guy from the 11th floor, and met Tim Little who helped instigate the three of us along with hdan's wife Christy into forming our own game company, Charybdis Enterprises. It was also the job that supported appleang and I during the first few years we lived together. It was a crazy time, and a lot happened in those years, and I'm grateful to Dan Thompson (another 11th floor contact and another of the partners in VG) for the job lead.
Frank taught himself classical guitar as a hobby, and is excellent at it. He played atappleang and I's wedding. He used to bring his guitar with him on road trips and sharing a room with him on business trips was always entertaining. He has an album out, and if you like classical Spanish guitar, I can tell you he is awesome.
His coding style leaves something to be desired :> I remember with some fondness his writing code by loading up dozens of source files into
VG, like most small companies, became family: often dysfunctional, full of its dirty little secrets, sometimes infuriating, but at the time it was where I knew I should be and immensely rewarding in the end.
Best wishes, Frank, and Blessed Be.
His name is Frank LaMonica and his first career was a rock-guitar player. He then went back to school and got an E.E. degree in his 30s, and he was one of four partners at Vibrant Graphics (a company eventually bought out by Autodesk), my first full-time job out of college doing video drivers for AutoCAD® back in the Protected-Mode DOS days (1992-1995).
I worked at VG for three years, and is where I got to know
hdan as more than just some guy from the 11th floor, and met Tim Little who helped instigate the three of us along with hdan's wife Christy into forming our own game company, Charybdis Enterprises. It was also the job that supported appleang and I during the first few years we lived together. It was a crazy time, and a lot happened in those years, and I'm grateful to Dan Thompson (another 11th floor contact and another of the partners in VG) for the job lead.Frank taught himself classical guitar as a hobby, and is excellent at it. He played at
appleang and I's wedding. He used to bring his guitar with him on road trips and sharing a room with him on business trips was always entertaining. He has an album out, and if you like classical Spanish guitar, I can tell you he is awesome.His coding style leaves something to be desired :> I remember with some fondness his writing code by loading up dozens of source files into
M, and whenever he needed a variable name (no matter how short), he would hunt through all the buffers and cut-and-paste it in, never once cleaning up the resulting tabbing or spacing. Given he was responsible for one of our five primary supported chipsets, it drove the rest of us batty.VG, like most small companies, became family: often dysfunctional, full of its dirty little secrets, sometimes infuriating, but at the time it was where I knew I should be and immensely rewarding in the end.
Best wishes, Frank, and Blessed Be.
