Things were going along swimmingly, or so he thought, when Joe up and died.
He gave a digressive answer about contracts and how he once had a lifetime contract in Japan, or so he thought.
Or so he thought, until his kid brother rather ruthlessly decided he fancied the job and made the most of his big moment, whatever his elder brother made of the idea.
He thought he had another 20 years or so of useful life, and was working on the 21st Aubrey novel.
So, he thought, what about damaging or confusing those sensors?
"It was a little bit strange because a guy who comes to talk to you in a Tube station is always asking for something, so I thought he was looking for money or something like that, " he said.
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He thought world demand for computers would number only a dozen or so per year, yet IBM sold thousands of 360s.
"At no time was I arrested or accused of anything, so I thought that was the end of it, " he said.
No, I was never impressed, he was too spidery, too weak in his conversation, and badly composed in his dress, careless of his appearance, but for all that I thought quite civilized in having so little gift to dissemble or pretend what he did not feel.
With so many big men out or hurting, Woodson opted for a smaller lineup, one he thought would boost the tempo and offset Utah's front-court advantage.
We do the sport through love, so the thought that he wasn't doing it because he loved it - or when he went off to play rugby league - upset some of us.
"I thought I was going to be a rock musician until I was 25 or so, " he says.
He built so much suburban tract housing in Springfield that he is thought to be responsible for naming 80 or more streets.
In short, Sir Patrick dedicated his life to talking about astronomy at any opportunity - not out of a desire to make a name for himself or to further an agenda, but because he thought the world would be a better place if he did so.
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