1. Only once.
2. He can't operate because he's dead? Don't know how to answer a riddle with no question.
The following 3 I made a while back. Aaron may know the answers to some of them.
1.
"In nature it's found in everything
from the fingers on you hand to the feathers of a wing
in the mollusks shell it's secrets hold
the pattern of a leaf it's meaning told
though essenceless it can be seen
in truth be told the golden mean."
2.
I'm but a face and nothing more,
with two long hairs around my core,
No matter what I'm always glad,
unlike my brother who's always sad.
3.
Size and shape it does not lack
but does top, bottom, front, and back
a bending light around a bare tree
shining bright for all to see.