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Mike Crawford Is Dead, Contributed to Mac System 7.5.X and Activist
Some of you might know him on the west coast. He worked for Apple fixing/debugging System 7.5.X and attended Cal Tech. He was an activist for the mentally ill and homeless. He was openly bisexual and open about his schizoaffective disorder. His Facebook page.
I had helped him with his project Soggy Jobs which is unfinished. It was his project he needed a business model for.
He was on CNN about the taking away of tax credit from software engineers.
He was a member here at Hacker News.
He had serious physical illnesses that made him suffer and he took his own life.
I was an online friend of his, and I too suffer from schizoaffective disorder.
His wish was not to be forgotten to be remembered through his works. To at least have a Wikipedia article written on him or some other Wiki. Wikipedia named him non-notable about ten years ago. But if you met him, he'd always show you respect and even if he disagreed with you he was nice about it.
takyon: Here is MDC's last post on Warp Life, and Last Will And Testament. User page. Twitter.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday March 26 2019, @07:41AM (11 children)
if the cited will is real/legal, who has to deal with this?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 26 2019, @07:53AM (10 children)
Can we (S/N) arrange for his sites to stay up? Warplife.com at the very least?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday March 26 2019, @08:07AM (2 children)
Strangely, that domain isn't in his will
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday March 26 2019, @08:40AM
http://93.174.104.65 [93.174.104.65] goes to warplife.com. The copyright for the content is thus assigned to Stefan Pietrzcak Youngs.
However, the ownership of domain name itself doesn't seem to be assigned to anyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:10AM
https://web.archive.org/web/20190124222828/http://www.warplife.com/ [archive.org]
https://web.archive.org/web/20190124222828/http://www.warplife.com/mdc/essays/ [archive.org] (seemed to me that the essays weren't linked to the root of the site)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190124222828/http://www.warplife.com/tips/ [archive.org]
https://web.archive.org/web/20190124222828/http://www.warplife.com/mdc/legacy/ [archive.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday March 26 2019, @08:09AM
Smart idea. Another of Michael's very special sights -- and one of my top favorites of the entire www -- is hydrogenbomb.org.
(Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:16AM (3 children)
Another alternative, looking at the "that's practical" rather than "that's would be nice" side, is to have them mirrored somehow (merged into just one), and to then sell off the (other) domains to raise money for either settling his estate, or an appropriate charity if there's excess.
These all seem to be his:
http://www.warplife.com/
http://soggymike.com/
http://soggywizards.com/
http://soggy.jobs/
http://hydrogenbomb.org/
This seems to imply that geometricvisions.com was at least once his too: https://www.jamendo.com/artist/7794/michael-david-crawford , but it seems he may have sold that or let it lapse.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:39AM (2 children)
He didn't seem to care much about crawlers, even some of the site directories are "naked" (no index page, no directory listing protection)
some warplife links on wayback machne. I hope it captures most of it [soylentnews.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 26 2019, @10:03AM (1 child)
I give, devise and bequeath to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso the Title and Ownership of the Internet Domain Names “soggy.jobs”, “uae.org.in”, “hydrogenbomb.org”, “globalemployerindex.com”, “globalemployerindex.jobs” as well as the Trademarks and Logos of each of “Soggy Jobs”, “Global Computer Industry Index” and “Global Employer Index”.
(other domains mentioned in other paragraphs)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 28 2019, @06:06AM
HEY - a thought - we as SN are in his will and His Holiness might not know what to do with the domains. Perhaps an offer of "please don't let his domains lapse; if you don't know what to do, he entrusted us with his software, we'd give it our best with his domains, but we expect he had good reasons for choosing you insomuch as you're willing to be responsible" ?
(Score: 2, Informative) by tvleavitt on Friday April 05 2019, @06:32AM (1 child)
I'm mentioned in the will. I dug through my email, and found that he'd offered me the items in question last year. :/
I'm interested in keeping his sites up, and I have the capacity to do so through a web hosting reseller account that my wife has, among many other options. Mike wrote the paragraphs below in an email last year (my inbox is full of them), classic grandiosity with a grain of truth:
***
After some careful thought as to how my writing could still be widely
read a thousand years hence, I mailed my whole family to tell them
that the only thing I asked of them were I to die or to become
incapacitated was that I wanted them to ensure my writing stayed
online - forever.
That's why I renewed soggywizards.com for nine years, and shall soon
do the same for _all_ my domains.
***
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @06:55AM
Are you able to check if he indeed get to actually do it?
(I'm on transit now)