A friend of mine died yesterday.

[Gert van Santen]

ibi sum schreef:
> Oneup, Florian Hufsky, a guy I knew at Metalab and worked with on a
> few small things here and there, took his life yesterday.  He was 23
> years old, and one of the most brilliant hacker guys I knew ..
> 72dpiarmy.com, geeq.at, oneup.soup.io.
> 
> I am hurting right now, because the last time I saw him I knew he was
> down, and he said he was not well and really needed to talk, but I
> didn't take the time for him because I was "at the lab, and wanted to
> do something creative".  I had other things to do, even though I saw
> something in him that I've seen before, a look in his eye I've known
> from someone else also not so fortunate, elsewhere, and my alarms were
> ringing.  There is nothing I can do now, I don't even know why I'm
> sharing this with you, music-bar, but I am very sad for his loss and
> the decision he made to end it all.  Maybe I hope music-bar will
> understand, music-bar is (usually) always there for me when I feel
> like spouting off about something.
> 
> Joost you might remember him, we had a conversation with him a couple
> of times about various things, he was pretty keen on the GP2X hacking
> we were doing, and GPH Wiz and Pandora were projects we were going to
> work some more on together this year.  He is the guy who I did the ORF
> TV show appearances with at the Museums Quartier in 2007 as part of
> the 8-bit gaming DIY discussions being held by the guys at Shop
> Subotron/Electric Avenue.. But now its over, a life is no more, and
> all we have to remind ourselves of this bright, talented guy, is his
> code sitting somewhere on a server, the games people are still
> playing, the blog posts I've read 10 times today to just try to say
> goodbye, and a never-ending loop of "What IF .. " going on in my head.
> 
> Take care of each other, folks.  Life can be good.  OneUp, you master
> pixel-pusher, rest in peace.

I'm sorry to hear of this loss, Jay. Be strong.
Your in memoriam was beautiful.

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