A friend of mine died yesterday.

[komatos]

I couldn't have said it any better. My sympathies Jay.

--komatos/wasted

On Dec 17, 2009, at 8:34 AM, Tony Hardie-Bick wrote:

> Hey Jay,
>
> Now you know that look, even better, for yourself or for others, you  
> will be
> even better. It was his decision. Your knowledge of this person, how  
> he lived,
> has enriched you, and you will pass it on to others, like you do  
> with this post.
>
> Cheers for this,
>
> BTW, my favourite folks are those like this, who are brilliant and  
> fragile, or,
> who at least have the guts to live, or die, in a way that makes  
> others question
> themselves, what they are doing.
>
> Tony (HB)
>
> ibi sum wrote:
>> 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.
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