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Yes very sad. ...... I sent him an email on around the 7th; opening line, Happy New Year and hope your well.
The reply from his wife he had passed away on the 15th of December means I'll never use that opening line again.
His 993 has already sold, I thought it was up a little cheaply, but then again it sold within the week. 28K for a still original two owner NB manual 993 with FSH and sports seats. You'd never get a 964 for that kind of money anymore.
Really seemed a nice guy and I think his illness caught him quickly. Sad sad news indeed.
The reply from his wife he had passed away on the 15th of December means I'll never use that opening line again.
His 993 has already sold, I thought it was up a little cheaply, but then again it sold within the week. 28K for a still original two owner NB manual 993 with FSH and sports seats. You'd never get a 964 for that kind of money anymore.
Really seemed a nice guy and I think his illness caught him quickly. Sad sad news indeed.
Orangecurry said:
Fab pic. RIP xxThat is sad news. I didn't know the fella but the reason for the post is that its interesting how the world we live in allows for someone to "live on" in the ether with their posts, comments, stories, thoughts, opinions and emotions digitally baked into the internet, fascinating modern phenomenon really.
I was browsing through my uncles WW2 logbook last week, he was a rear gunner in a Lancaster at 18 years old and flew 32 missions, survived the war and went on to a glorious career knocking Ford Escorts together on the production line at Dagenham. He is remebered by his family and a few interesting documents that say chiling things like "caught in the lights over Arnhem" with little else. Unless he had written copious letters or diary, which he didnt, there is no way of knowing the man very well posthumously..
The contemporary world will leave so much more digital "stuff" behind us as archive to be poured over by the historians. In this era the downside of less face to face communication and more 'virtual' relationships is upside in that we will all write stuff down a lot more, we will take a million more photographs than the previous genertions and will video record and blog our lives to a level that is so much more expressive than previous generations had the opportunity to do. Will my relatives be browsing through my 2TB back up hard drive when i eventually pop my clogs? The content on there, photo's, video's, documents means more to me as a record of a life in this world? Many times i wish this technology was with me 30 years ago....maybe not, some things are better left in the imagination :-) I wonder what happens to all your tweets and facebook stuff when you are no longer here ....
Sorry to be a bit morbid but this thread got me thinking about it...
I was browsing through my uncles WW2 logbook last week, he was a rear gunner in a Lancaster at 18 years old and flew 32 missions, survived the war and went on to a glorious career knocking Ford Escorts together on the production line at Dagenham. He is remebered by his family and a few interesting documents that say chiling things like "caught in the lights over Arnhem" with little else. Unless he had written copious letters or diary, which he didnt, there is no way of knowing the man very well posthumously..
The contemporary world will leave so much more digital "stuff" behind us as archive to be poured over by the historians. In this era the downside of less face to face communication and more 'virtual' relationships is upside in that we will all write stuff down a lot more, we will take a million more photographs than the previous genertions and will video record and blog our lives to a level that is so much more expressive than previous generations had the opportunity to do. Will my relatives be browsing through my 2TB back up hard drive when i eventually pop my clogs? The content on there, photo's, video's, documents means more to me as a record of a life in this world? Many times i wish this technology was with me 30 years ago....maybe not, some things are better left in the imagination :-) I wonder what happens to all your tweets and facebook stuff when you are no longer here ....
Sorry to be a bit morbid but this thread got me thinking about it...
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