{"id":74,"date":"2005-03-01T11:33:40","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T16:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/wordpress\/?p=74"},"modified":"2005-03-01T11:33:40","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T16:33:40","slug":"sam-visser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Sam Visser"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, yesterday sucked.
\nAs many of my friends know, I’m a member of the Emo Walleye Classic<\/a> organizing committee, which, with the schedule I’m working and schooling right now, is about all the volunteer time I have. Yesterday, Sam Visser, who was the co-chair of the committee, and a good friend, died after battling pancreatic cancer for the last six months. He was 55.
\nSam and I didn’t really get to know each other very well until he joined the committee in 2003, but we had chatted on quite a few occasions. And, they were always about technology.
\nSam owned part of Visser Automotive, an auto parts supply store in Emo. The place is like every other parts shop — shelves stuffed with boxes and junk, and stacks of parts everywhere else. But Sam was a big technology junkie. We’d be chatting, and it would go something like this:
\nLincoln: So, I was looking at those 17″ LCDs from Samsung. The image is pretty sharp on them.
\nSam: Yeah, I’ve got one in the store right now.
\nLincoln: Did you hear about that high-speed satellite connection? Sounds like it’s got potential for some of the camp owners around here.
\nSam: Yeah, it works pretty well — I put one in at the shop.
\nYou get the point.
\nAnd Sam was never bragging — he just saw something he thought was neat, and added it to his setup.
\nAnd he was a good guy. He loved his grandkids tons, and he loved his community almost as much. Gareth and Rachel are in the same class at school, and played T-ball together last spring, and Sam was over there several times to watch Rachel.
\nIf you want to see a little more about Sam, his web site is at www.svisser.com<\/a>.
\nGoodbye, Sam. Clear skies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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