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csea
A brilliant, talented, and kind man with an impressive singing voice. | |
I thought someone else might post this at some
point, but I haven't seen it.
Posting this for those who remember halfbaker
[csea].
Obituary
https://www.legacy.....aspx?pid=185971908
[half, Mar 08 2020]
A little bit about the man
http://www.napavall.../Pages/Welcome.aspx
"I am semi-retired after 17 years with Dolby Laboratories where I led the engineering team that created the Dolby Digital motion picture sound format." [half, Mar 08 2020]
One of his musical ventures
https://www.singers...ithout-Instruments/
I once got one of his CD's through a trade with him. Enjoyed every minute of it. [half, Mar 08 2020]
The SF meet-up.
https://www.flickr....180/in/photostream/
csea is pictured, in the brilliant sunlight of that day. [blissmiss, Mar 09 2020]
I do worry about what the equivalent Halfbakery graph looks like
https://what-if.xkcd.com/69/
[hippo, Mar 09 2020]
csea on the hb
https://www.halfbakery.com/user/csea
[half, Mar 10 2020]
[link]
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I can't remember the details now, but I remember once
getting a chuckle out of another halfbaker treating [csea] as
though he were bereft of audio engineering knowledge. |
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After conversing about it for some time, he sent me
one
of
his inventions once to try out. It was a pretty cool
system
(called "LASSIE")
for visualizing audio nodes in a physical space to
help
optimize
speaker placement. Not sure if it ever was a
commercial
success, but I thought it could/would/should be. |
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I believe it was intended for home theater
designers/installers, but it always brings Charles and
LASSIE to mind now when I
see
the episode of "Big Bang Theory" where Sheldon is
trying
to find the "sweet spot" in the theater. |
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I remember him saying he was a sailor, and I believe
from a
line of nautical types. The coincidence of his
surname, Seagrave, had not escaped him. Apparently,
I
wasn't the first to make the observation. :) |
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Oh crap. He was one of the attendees of the San Francisco
piss-up at my former residence in Danville. He was a very
pleasant man, and he did talk about boating and music quite
a bit. I believe I still have a photo somewhere. Or it might be
on that idea...A bakers day in SF. What a shame. |
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Wow, an incredible man. Rest in peace brother. |
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Thanks for posting this, half! |
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I really do hope this is my last post in this category. |
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Well done for posting this, half.
If life were a movie then I would say that it is generally entertaining, though annoying & frustrating in parts, but the scriptwriters really need to work harder on the ending. Which is crap.
RIP csea. |
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At least Heaven can get a decent sound system
now. |
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He was always the one to keep me honest in my audio-based
ideations. |
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His annos were like "Woah, something intelligent. That doesn't belong here." |
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Jesus Christ we had the co-inventor of the Dolby
system here. The guy went on to sing in an acapella
group and sail big cabin cruisers around the bay. |
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Proving that life properly approached can be
glorious. |
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I still can't believe I sat and had homemade croissants with
him, provided by jutta. I couldn't believe it then and now it's
even harder to wrap my head around. |
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I was hoping to get to meet the man again at another half-con. |
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My wife and I bought a place just north of the Seattle border with a 30 room motel and 48 site rv park.
I would like to host an annual or semi annual half-con if there is any interest in such a thing. |
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I like to think that maybe Charles wouldn't have minded meeting me again either.
<heavy sigh> |
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//My wife and I bought a place just north of the
Seattle border with a 30 room motel and 48 site rv park.
I would like to host an annual or semi annual half-con if
there is any interest in such a thing.// |
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That's crazy, my wife had wanted to do a sightseeing trip
up to Seattle. We usually go south on our impromptu
trips, she thought going north might be interesting.
Postponing this one because we're all going to die of the
plague evidently. |
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Are you open to putting up a link? |
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Sure... but, the entire place was abandoned more than two years ago and I can only link to what it was before it became the zombie-apocalypse movie set that we bought and I'm doing triage on. |
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I feel weird talking about it on this thread. Feels inappropriate. I only mentioned it here because he popped into my head the other day. I debated whether to send a personal invite and decided against it as jumping the gun and now wonder if... well, I just wonder. |
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I will put a link on its own posting. It will be called... |
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...I've never met a halfbaker I didn't like.
Yes. That'll do. |
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