Colya

I just learned from Face­book, of all places, that on Tues­day morn­ing, Colya Kaminiarz, a fel­low that I had met through ApplesBC, the local Apple User Group, was found dead in his apart­ment. He died in his sleep but the exact cause of death is not known yet. He was a Res­pi­ra­tory Ther­a­pist, and I would fre­quently read of his trav­els, some­times via heli­copter, sav­ing someone’s life here or in Toronto. He was a charm­ing and easy­go­ing guy, and one of the first friends I made after mov­ing here. Recently we traded IMs and emails, mean­ing to get together for cof­fee. I regret we didn’t get to spend much more time together, and will miss his face and name on my Buddy lists. Face­book will have some infor­ma­tion about a ser­vice to cel­e­brate his life, and I’ll try and post here as well.