Dude would write a DSL over a weekend to generate and validate Bind configs. Could invent whole new categories of solutions to problems - if he felt like waking

Dude would write a DSL over a weekend to generate and validate Bind configs. Could invent whole new categories of solutions to problems - if he felt like waking up after 2PM. Never showered. Hard to get him in the office or on the phone. Absolutely no work/project commitments, just what he felt like working on. The rest of us did all the real work and his magic dev rock star pixie dust would occasionally grace us with something really useful but not generating any business value. Glad I saw that early in my career.