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: 5, Interesting) by takyon on Tuesday March 26 2019, @12:19PM (6 children)
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.
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday March 26 2019, @04:00PM
That would be fitting and those are pretty good quotes.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Tuesday March 26 2019, @10:07PM
Second.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by dx3bydt3 on Wednesday March 27 2019, @12:38AM
Brilliant idea. I know I'll miss his comments, and having a quotation tribute pop up now and again would be cool.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:05AM (2 children)
Extremely easily done. Those are added to the list. Anyone else wants to contribute, post them here [soylentnews.org].
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:36AM (1 child)
Check martyb's journal.
https://soylentnews.org/~martyb/journal/4104 [soylentnews.org]
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:42AM
Yep. Noticed that after I'd already posted and linked mine. I'll collate in the morning.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.