Wednesday, March 9, 2022
To Tom's Family,
I am so sorry for your loss and happy for you having had Tom in your lives. I'm copying this here from a post I made, minutes ago, on Facebook.
From the moment he joined us in Newsroom Technology at The New York Times, Tom had an outsized impact on me.
I learned so much from him.
We shared a number of things (like our love of spirits, DooWop and Dad Jokes).
We had many memorable moments over the years but the one I come back to most often was our outing, just the two of us, on the first night of the blackout of 2003, during which we found our way to a Midtown bar and drank a lot of their warm, on-the-house, tap beer by candlelight; returning to 229W after a while to sleep on and under the furniture in the News Tech area.
We referred to ourselves as Tom #1 and Tom #2 and never agreed on who was who . . . Tom was #1.
