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One mystery of the universe is who will get the last post?

On the green sight there perpetually seemed to be a rush of people trying to get the first post. That has been blessedly absent here.

Who will get Last Post before this place collapses into a singularity leaving only a static page warning passers by not to venture beyond the event horizon? Who? How would we know who once it is gone?

SN will go out with flair. Or with a flare.

It's been fun. I've really enjoyed this place. And the conversations. I've looked forward to it daily for years. And THANKS to the people who made it possible.

I don't do any social media and don't intend to. (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and whatever else the kids are using.) I like forums like this that are somewhat in the style of usenet or a bbs. I may find some other forum I like. I'm set in my ways. There are many more days past than lie ahead. I've been at my same job for over forty years. I've seen technologies come and go, and adapted to them.

You may see me somewhere, but I probably will not use any personally identifying information. It is obvious now that even in a small friendly forum there can be dangerous people who would seek others out over differing opinions. Like an online form of road rage. I remember the years of trolls during the SCO vs IBM and related cases. How I miss Groklaw. I never thought that one would end either. I may even live to see the end of the green sight.

Alas, I had so many future Sig lines for SN that will never see the lite of day. At least not here. No point now in submitting any future poll ideas.

My observation is that you never realize that one day it will be gone. The only constant in the universe is change.

I am reminded of the words of ambassador Kosh Naranek on the observation dome in the first episode of Babylon 5.

Kosh looks around and says...

"I will miss this... when it is gone."

Giribaldi mutters to Ivanova... "I really hate it when he does that."