Chief Engineer Scotty, Beaming Up

It's a sad day. Our favorite chief engineer passed away today. James Doohan (Star Trek's Scotty) died early this morning.

Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. (1330 GMT) at his Redmond, Washington, home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease, he said.

Scotty was always one of my favorite Star Trek characters. I think I modeled some of my project and task estimation ability from that character -- it'll take 3 days to fix that bug, but for you it will be done in an hour...

I'm sorry to see you go...

[via BoingBoing]