A writer friend just passed, and mailing lists and social media are full of folks saying how kind and generous they were. Which they were!
I'm old enough that my first thought was: one day those messages will be about me.
Do say nice things to people while they're still alive. (Other people, that is, not me.)
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Doofus Canadensis
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silverwizard
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wait, not supposed to say that publicly
avoid people
Michael Lucas
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cynicalsecurity
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josh g.
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dude! You're gonna trash my rep.
V, The Dragon Witch 🌙
in reply to Michael Lucas • • •this is a good excuse to remind you that you are great and I feel very fortunate to get to share this weird corner of the internet with you
and I apologise that I'm sure sincere compliments are torture for you but it needed to be said!
Michael Lucas
in reply to V, The Dragon Witch 🌙 • • •@vicorva
blasted artists and their absolute inability to follow instructions,
Thomas A. Frederiksen
in reply to Michael Lucas • • •If nothing else, you write exactly the books that fall neatly into two categories.
Books that need to be written and books that nobody should ever be subjected to writing.
Michael Lucas
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I only met him once, but we had a great talk. And his work was 🔥 .
Toby
in reply to Michael Lucas • • •You can be really pig-headed sometimes.
So, y'know. Thanks for that.
Michael Lucas
in reply to Toby • • •Arnim Sommer 🇪🇺
in reply to Michael Lucas • • •"Say something nice."
"Asshole!"
Marcion
in reply to Michael Lucas • • •My nice thing to say about Mike Lucas while he’s still alive is that his book Absolute OpenBSD made me want to learn how to use OpenBSD as a daily driver.
Whether or not his having done this to me continues to be regarded as a nice thing remains to be seen.