The End

[Secret Chief]

I'm training a neural network on my posts so that I never die as far as RF is concerned. Infact I might already be dead as far as you know.

Well you were coughing up blood last night.

 

[Secret Chief]

In 'real life', I have one friend. Otherwise, everyone else is online somewhere(most of them here).

We were talking yesterday of what we'd give to who if we died. Most of our things aren't very valuable, moneywise, but a few things might have mild meaning to this or that person. I mentioned I wanted a particular book saved for an RF friend. And then it hit me... how would my online friends even know I'd kicked the bucket? I asked her if, in the event I croaked, she'd create an RF account and let folks know, in some manner. She agreed to that.

How would you manage such affairs? Would you be alright fading away into cyberspace, or would you prefer that your online friends be aware of your passing?

Well there is no link between my 'real' life and this unreal (?) one and never likely to be, so the reason for my disappearance from RF would presumably never be known...unless it was something I knew in advance and decided to communicate online in some form. But hey I think we can all cope with the demise of one more transient bald ape.

 

[mangalavara]

How would you manage such affairs? Would you be alright fading away into cyberspace, or would you prefer that your online friends be aware of your passing?

I would prefer that my online friends are aware of my passing. This is because I wouldn’t want them to be worried about my disappearance nor afraid that I have stopped interacting with them due to some perceived affront. I guess I would have a friend or loved one log into my RF account and post the news.

Then, RF members could post replies like these:

‘Poor mangalavara… we barely knew him.’

‘I never took the opportunity to meet him offline.’

‘How the heck do you pronounce his name?’

 

[SalixIncendium]

‘How the heck do you pronounce his name?’

Pronouncing it is easy. It's remembering the spelling that's a challenge. I've resorted to associative memory.

Japanese comics...molten rock...Egyptian sun god

 

[JustGeorge]

Pronouncing it is easy. It's remembering the spelling that's a challenge. I've resorted to associative memory.

Japanese comics...molten rock...Egyptian sun god

The spelling seems reasonable to me.

 

[SalixIncendium]

The spelling seems reasonable to me.

Before I actually sorted the pronunciation, I would confuse the order of the letters and found myself having to look at his name to spell it correctly. I would mix up the 'n' and 'g' or omit one of the 'a's. Hence the word association.

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

I don't have plans for my family to notify the forum if I die unexpectedly. I feel like I'm just a little fish in an ocean filled with bigger fish. However, if I knew of my impending death, then I'd let @Trailblazer know in private because we've developed a good friendship and I'm sure she'd like to know. So with that in mind, I should ask my husband or one of my older children to login to my account and let her know. I don't want her to worry about me.

 

[anna.]

Pronouncing it is easy. It's remembering the spelling that's a challenge. I've resorted to associative memory.

It's easy if you remember that a is the only vowel.

 

[anna.]

In 'real life', I have one friend. Otherwise, everyone else is online somewhere(most of them here).

We were talking yesterday of what we'd give to who if we died. Most of our things aren't very valuable, moneywise, but a few things might have mild meaning to this or that person. I mentioned I wanted a particular book saved for an RF friend. And then it hit me... how would my online friends even know I'd kicked the bucket? I asked her if, in the event I croaked, she'd create an RF account and let folks know, in some manner. She agreed to that.

How would you manage such affairs? Would you be alright fading away into cyberspace, or would you prefer that your online friends be aware of your passing?

Irish goodbye.

 

[Secret Chief]

Irish goodbye.

That was educational.

 

[SalixIncendium]

It's easy if you remember that a is the only vowel.

Not if you don't remember how many.

 

[JustGeorge]

That was educational.

It was.

And now when I do that at gatherings(because that's usually what I do) and inevitably get complained at for it, I can simply explain it in this way.

 

[anna.]

Not if you don't remember how many.

Hah! I'll give you that.

 

[anna.]

It was.

And now when I do that at gatherings(because that's usually what I do) and inevitably get complained at for it, I can simply explain it in this way.

Excellent!

 

[RestlessSoul]

If I should die, think only this of me;
There is some corner of the worldwide web that is forever Norf Lundun

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Nobody that knows me in person knows about the RF side of me. On the off chance a loved one went through my laptop and see my activities, I'd be honored if they let the forums know I was gone.

 

[Secret Chief]

It was.

And now when I do that at gatherings(because that's usually what I do) and inevitably get complained at for it, I can simply explain it in this way.

If that fails, give em a Glasgow kiss.

 

[JustGeorge]

If that fails, give em a Glasgow kiss.

More education...

Most of them are too old to handle that... I'll have to settle with flying them the bird.