Rodney Shaver Livingston died the day after Christmas, with angles, degrees and megahertz on his mind. He was born May 23, 1944, in a part of California that only exists in history books. As a boy he dreamt of being an explorer, a dream which he pursued to its fullest extent: his mind overflowed with topics such as architecture, biology, metaphysics, aesthetics, optics and consciousness. His heart overflowed with love: for his first wife, Bonnie Douglass, & their son, Joshua Douglass, his second wife, Jan Brady, with whom he had two sons, Evan Livingston and Miles Livingston, and a woman he loved too much to marry, Beth Hillenmeyer, and her daughters, Zoe Hillenmeyer and Sara Hillenmeyer (Casey Marks). He is also survived by a brother, Randolph (Nancy) Livingston, of Omaha, Nebraska. He leaves behind him innumerable inventions, writings, paintings, patents and projects- many of which will be finished by his children and those who loved him. His legacy includes work that encompassed building boats and houses, fiddling with the first US particle accelerator, serving the US military as a nuclear bomb technician, and patrolling ski slopes for vacationing officers. He stocked the shelves of his grandfather's grocery, ran an arcade, participated in classified laser projects, and invented optical drives and the first waterless, odorless, portable toilet. He enjoyed passing time playing his 700 pound Steinway upright piano, crafting a perfect espresso, making scrumptious pizza and pork tacos, building beautiful and functional things out of wood, and adventuring across the globe which led him to stand atop mountains in Germany and India, and conspiring with his father to protect a twelve year old child from a gunfight in Mexico. On Wednesday ��" New Year's Day ��" there will be a party celebrating his life and critiquing his art from the hours of 3-5PM at 3143 Forest Drive in Richmond.