Last time I exchanged messages with him he certainly looked like 13.

The other day we were talking about the need for social skills in large projects mostly because of CK's message exchange on LKML about BFS. Theo is a very clever guy and does some truly outstanding work, but I would not like to work with him on anything important. I love what I do and I have no need to get burned.

He might have been. He was definitely - if it was him - a teenager. Also, according to the newspaper article that cost him the $ from the US Army, his age was such that he would have been 15 in 1981.

The thing I remember the most was he had long spider-like fingers and could touch type.

I was at a company called Rainbow Software in Calgary.