Douglas Earl Eastwood (1924-2009)

Douglas Eastwood, my father, passed away about 10:30 PM on Friday, April 17, 2009. He was 84 years old, and had been suffering from dementia. I wanted to set up an online memorial for people to visit, and with my own recent interest in blogging setting this up as a blog seemed like the best approach. This also has the benefit of allowing visitors to respond and add their own comments. Dad was always interested in the latest trends in computers and technology, so I think he would have appreciated this too.

This photo is from Dad's 1969 passport . He would have been 45 years old when this was taken, almost exactly the same age as I am today.

Thought I intend to create a number of posts here myself, my intention was that this might be a group project, so family and friends are invited to submit posts here too. If you have a story or picture you would like to share, please contact me so it can be included here.

---Dan
[Written 4/21/2009, occasionally updated]

In Memory

Bryce has contributed something really special; a musical tribute to his Grandfather.


In Memory - Link to MP3


In Memory - Link to M4A (RealPlayer)


Bryce Eastwood - Alto Saxophone and Piano
Recorded May 2009



More music from Bryce can be found at Current Impulse 7.

Monty Python

In another forum I wrote ...

Among the many things I inherited from my father was his sense of humor, and when I was a teenager we delighted in watching Monty Python's Flying Circus together. He also shared with me his deep interest in science and learning. During science classes in school while I was growing up I always did very well, and didn't understand why some people found it difficult. Only much later did it occur to me that I did well because my dad had already taught me so much. It's handy when your dad is a professor of computer science and a PhD physicist, you learn a lot of cool stuff just being around that sort of thing.

... which is the intro to a post I wrote about my dad on another forum where I participate; a group dedicated to distributed computing and Monty Python-esque humor. Especially the humor. There is a different sort of memorial there you could visit. Fair warning, you might discover my alter-ego.



On second thought, don't follow that link, it is a silly place. ;-)