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posted by martyb on Monday April 01 2019, @09:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-a-joke dept.

As mentioned here on March 26, Michael David Crawford has passed away. One person in the SoylentNews community was concerned that MDC might, instead, be incapacitated and in a hospital somewhere. He spent a few hours calling around and reported back to me:

Just got off the phone with the Clark County medical examiner
"I can confirm that a Michael Crawford died on March 24th"

Further, we received news that there is an obituary page up for him.

Separately, takyon suggested in a comment to that story:

Maybe we can put a quote or two of his in the quotations thing.

"You say that like it's a bad thing."
"I Am Eternally In Your Debt."
"The Mind Simply Reels."
"Thank You For Your Submission. Our customer service personnel will respond to your request in the order it was received."
etc.

Both TheMightyBuzzard and I ran with the idea and independently posted journal stories asking to gather up MDC sayings.

I am happy to inform the community that, as of 2019-03-31 04:20:00 UTC this morning, SoylentNews now has 31 fortunes attributed to MDC in our fortune rotation. Note: fortunes are chosen at random from all of the fortunes we have, so this represents a very small fraction of those available. Point being that it could be quite a while before you actually see one pop up.

Now that I know how to create and update fortune files, it should be simple to add any additional quotes people suggest. Continue to post any sayings of his to either of those journal articles (with a link to the source for verification, please!) In another week or so, I'll take another look through and update the fortune file as needed.

[Updated 2019-04-02 18:29:28 UTC. MDC quotations can be provided us posting a comment to my journal entry or to TMB's Journal entry. Please provide a link to the source so we can validate it is genuine. Thanks. --martyb]


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by kazzie on Monday April 01 2019, @09:43AM (2 children)

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 01 2019, @09:43AM (#823004)

    Yet, on the other hand, this news that he's now immortalised in the Soylent fortune file is rather pleasing.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +3  
       Insightful=3, Total=3
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   5  
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 02 2019, @01:55AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 02 2019, @01:55AM (#823367)

    up. you don't know mdc.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by kazzie on Tuesday April 02 2019, @02:51AM

      by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 02 2019, @02:51AM (#823395)

      Not personally, no. But his comments often stood out to me (unsurprisingly) and I found myself trying to picture myself in his shoes / thought processes. That's something that hasn't happened with other outspoken members (such as Ethanol Fueled).

      Read into that what you will.