Did you ever come across Mike Ford, “memorialised”:http://nielsenhayden.com/110.html at “Making Light”:http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008033.html these “last few”:http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008034.html#008034 days? He wrote the lovely “sonnet”:http://www.cafepress.com/speceng/1026245 in our living room.
But go and read the linked posts anyway. They make a fence now, between us and him, that cannot be recrossed.