I just found out I lost another friend. Brian Charles Folse. I met him in 2000-something when I worked at Franklin Press.<\/p>\n
He was the guy that got me started with Linux. I probably wouldn’t ever have gotten off the ground with my first Debian install without him. It was way before the net installs, it was a kernel compiling nightmare and he was totally patient and supportive and I’d have given up without his help.\u00a0He was a brilliant programmer and a good guy and he was too young for this.<\/p>\n
I don’t have a lot to say right now- I’m still pretty upset that he died and that I found out so late.<\/p>\n
I’m a very shitty friend and I don’t have that many of them. I never keep in touch with people.\u00a0I’m just so fucking wrapped up in my own head that I can only be friends with people that are very independent so I don’t worry about them. Because of that I’m pretty distant even from those few people I consider friends. I’m very sorry for that. Anyone who would tolerate me as a friend deserves much better than me as a friend. Fortunately people like Brian have lots of friends besides me.<\/p>\n
Sorry Brian. I’m glad I knew you and I called you a friend. I wish we could have worked on building robots or something. I thought it would be great if someday I could start a company with or hire Brian as an engineer and work on something like that. I actually thought that might happen someday.<\/p>\n
Thanks for everything Brian. I’ll keep the Folding@Home trilarian team account working for you. Hope that’s something. Goodbye and I hope it’s better where you are.<\/p>\n
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