"Have you ever had a friend, or a colleague at work, that you could listen to all day long? One who sees life as an anecdote, who finds a story in everything, who speaks with such unbridled passion, and sometimes crazy enthusiasm, that you don't want to miss a single syllable of their stream of consciousness? "That's what it was like to work with or around Jim. We had a front seat on a most enjoyable class act, but we may not have taken the time to...