santeewelding?

I'm so sorry to hear, Jen. Please convery my deepest sympathies and condolences to the family. He will be missed around here.

DAMN!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBabMxnFQsQ seems appropriate...

we will miss you dearly

Oh My, that hurts.

Maybe two 12 yo will do.

That's sad to hear, I'm glad I got to meet him in person a few years ago.

J.Ja

just to put it out there, you might want to revisit this:
https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tr-out-loud/tr-member-spotlight-with-santeewelding/336

of cream sherry. He turned me on to that stuff. Daggone it. ;)

I will dearly miss your verbal artwork. I would search TR for your comments. You made me practice my thinking.

I hope those who new you better are consoled.

Cut a hole and pull me through!

This is a poor way to get me back on TR.

My condolences to everyone who'll miss him - that includes me.

Crap & Dam another one bites the dust.

Col

Glimpses of the cleft are seen; sounds of the depths grow less faint.

You were memorably unique, Teasel; I shall miss sparring with you.

Wish Absolutely were here to see you off.

How you are goes for all things.
May you be with you, as you kick ass and take names in all eternity.
Thanks.

And, if you find yourself on that branch; get your ass back here, young man!

So glad I got to meet him.

Memories of the Fox and Hounds, discussing the history of Newcastle Brown Ale, combined with a lesson on the Geordie pronounciation......

"NeeyouCASSul"

and he got it right on the third go.

Richard my dear, you are sorely and sadly missed.

No-one ever leaves the Gatherings again while I'm there without leaving me a double hug. New rule. Ok?

GG

"Vita, non memoria abitus"

Rest well, my friend

Dammit, web communities aren't supposed to last long enough for us to become this close to people, especially those we rarely or never meet. Now who will linguistically abuse the new fish?

I don't suppose this will be true any longer:
http://santeewelding.com/suddenly.jpg

I'm going to miss him.
http://santeewelding.com/p7070004.jpg

Don't anyone forget his advice:
http://santeewelding.com/blue_light_p6270009.jpg

Your banter will be sorely missed around here Santee...

some just leave more of an impression on others during our stay.

Santee, you will be missed. Say hi to Mycroft and Scummy for me.

Old Mycroft and The Scummy One right now.

And yes, there are.... (to be continued)

with this dictionary now that I no longer need to translate his words? I think he enjoyed confusing me.... no, I KNOW he did! :D

Did I mention how CUTE he is? And I say "is" because the memory I have of him will forever remain.

Santeewelding was one of the most interesting, deep thinking and challenging members of the Tech Republic community - and without a doubt one of the most responsible for defining the culture and tone of our message forums.

Santee was frequently misinterpreted and misunderstood, generally by those who found his complex writing unfathomable. There is no doubt that Santee's writing style was frequently riddle-like and difficult to decipher. Many dismissed this as a sign that he was hiding a lack of valid content in unnecessary complex prose, or that he was simply incoherent or pretentiously difficult just for the sake of difficulty.

While on the surface it was easy to read Santee's responses and assume these things, a careful analysis over time made it readily apparent that Santee was almost always saying very important things. I'd say that it was more frequent that I did not understand Santee than that I did, but in each case where I did puzzle out his meaning, not only was he absolutely correct, but the way he had expressed it was as complex and elegant as a complex mathematical formula. Santee brought the science of math to the written word. His writing was rule based, well defined, and consistently repeatable. On the other side of this realization, I had the strong sense that when I didn't understand a post Santee made, it was not his fault, but mine. It took genuine thought and effort to get Santee's point. You couldn't just read it like it was background noise. I saw many people go up against Santee and walk away thinking they had won the encounter when in fact they had taken the most severe of thrashings without even realizing it. I admired and respected that ability in Santee, and always handled his responses with due caution when he engaged me directly.

I will miss his presence here greatly. He is one of the first names that became recognizable to me in the Tech Republic forums, and along with Palmetto, his posts were always my favorite to read.

I'll miss his corrections of my deplorable butchery of the English language,
along with his insights into technology.
Rest in peace...
Wiz

He sent me his dictionaries. :x

But I shall still miss trying to figure him out.
RIP

I realize that there is an age at which you lose people at alarming rates. I always thought that I would be so much older when that began...

I'm so tired of losing people...

Requiescat in pace, my friend.

I had no idea he was so sick. RIP, Santee.

AV

It's been well over a month, maybe closer to two, when I last logged into TR. The reasons for my absence are many, one of which (albeit a small one) is Santee. No explanation is necessary for those who understand; no explanation is possible for those who don't. I'm sure Santee would see both the humor and the irony in this - that it's because of him that I now log in.

I've often posted links to some song as a response to something or other, and I once posted one to which Santee replied in a most rare, plain-spoken manner. He really liked the song, he simply told me as much, and thanked me for posting it; I think he called it a gem.

It's one of my favorite songs; it has a great - and, perhaps, a most appropriate - message; and Santee really liked it.

So, I raise a glass of scotch, and I play it again for Santee - and for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EI2of1PTW4

(I hope I got all that punctuation right!)

Cant believe he's gone, he always managed to make me smile, and on occasions bloody well confuse the hell outta me haha

The Complete is 20 volumes! :0

Thanks for telling me what I was trying to say, as well; I'm going to miss your ascerbic wit around here....

the Whole Sick Crew.

(Okay; so I stole that from Pynchon's [i]V[/i]. Sue me.)

Seems oddly appropriate, in light of Time's review of the time.

[quote]In this sort of book, there is no total to arrive at. Nothing makes any waking sense. But it makes a powerful, deeply disturbing dream sense. Nothing in the book seems to have been thrown in arbitrarily, merely to confuse, as is the case when inept authors work at illusion. Pynchon appears to be indulging in the fine, pre-Freudian luxury of dreams dreamt for the dreaming. The book sails with majesty through caverns measureless to man. What does it mean? Who, finally, is V.? Few books haunt the waking or the sleeping mind, but this is one. Who, indeed?[/quote]

PS: Hope you remembered to take along your towel.

I want the one with each half of a split keyboard mounted on the arms; ASDF on the left, JKL; on the right.

Sandy, the masthead for Mad Magazine includes the phrase, "Contributing artists and writers - the usual gang of idiots"

is to be in the nursing home with my geeky peeps. We'll set up a raid, where some of us will distract the nurses, some will hack the medication dispensing machine, and the ones who can walk will remove the "good stuff" and share it out with the team.

Sort of a geriatric mission impossible.

Of course if TR dissapears, most of us are on Facebook....except Palmy, not sure about Max. And some of the dissapeared are there as well.

to family and friends. A wordsmith and philosopher has departed our midst.

Santee will be missed.

I'm a rookie here at TR. Santee was one of the first members I noticed in the discussion boards. I lurked for a long time, trying to learn the tone and "rules" of the DBs. Santee was definitely one of my favorite TR people and he probably didn't even know it. We talked a few times here on TR. Direct and indirect conversations with him had me checking the meaning of words, learning new ones and then using those words in written and oral conversation with others.

He will be missed by many.

I'll remember him at the billiards table in Louisville.

But his cryptic apothegms provided a closer contact than most physical presences. I'll miss him.

... recalling what the h*ll we're discussing at any given time.

too bad i never got to discuss anythign with him :-( he obviously was a great person.
Will miss his posts.

I knew you would get it.

:-)

Former TR peers:

I'm ever so sorry to hear that yet another TR member has passed, especially when considering the circumstances.

Santee and I butted heads like a pair of mountain goats on "the brown acid" [i](watch Woodstock for reference)[/i], whether due to misunderstanding or simply due to a difference of opinion, the former being most common. A linguist he certainly was, even if 1000 or more years past his time.

Being English myself, I always have issues with those who can't speak English...to my personal liking at least, however, Santee was always an exception to that rule. Instead of irritating me with his poor use of grammar, I often found myself frustrated by his superior abilities as a true wordsmith.

For the longest time, I thought he wasn't making any sense at all, seemingly speaking in tongues. The few times I actually understood the meaning of his jumbled, cryptic fashion[i] (at least I thought I got the general gist of it)[/i], I began to appreciate his comments, having finally understood them, and would ever so enjoy his banter.

While I have been away from "the trenches", so to speak, due to actions of TR staff, I have grown to respect many of those who often riled me to the point of being blinded to their true meaning, Santee being one of them; perhaps a better way to be, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Rest in peace, Santee, I know you will be sorely missed by so many and remembered so fondly by the same.

I wish everyone on the TR Forums all the best in their futures in these, ever so gradually recovering, economic times. It's been a long, tough road for so many and I'm sure it will continue to be so for some time yet. It's nice to hear that you have all stuck together and helped keep each other's spirits up as so very few digital communities do.

OzMedia

"...banging my head on some mad buggers wall"

- END POST -

I can't comment on the reasons Oz had for asking me to post this for him.

... he's gone. Will miss his "interjections".

An era is over.