nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq0q2wkcw49x5vpxsp4y8usuz0jx64tv2rvnfxpy54wrqcsvkuywcq9s0ajr oh man, Kevin passed?? 😔
When I lived in Vegas I would hit das bunker on occasion.
Yeah, Kevin passed back in 2017. ;(
Here's an article on the accident:
https://patch.com/california/redwoodcity-woodside/redwood-city-driver-head-hwy-1-crash-succumbs-injuries
His widow, Anne, held a memorial service and there were some legal proceedings after Kevin's passing as well since the other driver survived; but I don't think much came of that from what I recall Anne conveying to me?
Kevin was an amazingly kind and generous individual and I am grateful to have known him as a friend. His taste in avant-garde electronic music and ethics always seemed way ahead of the curve. I always felt as if I learned a lot from our interactions.
I think he and I originally communicated via IRC? He mailed me mix tapes back before we ever met in person (first time I ever heard Covenant, before they received domestic distribution in the USA on 21st Circuitry! First time I heard Paracont too! Albeit, Paracont were never quite as well known in the states, though "d-ranged" was apparently popular enough in Europe that Plastic Noise Experience covered that tune) in this day and age where so many interactions online seem to fall prey to parasitic parasocial paradigms; I am grateful to have memories of earlier eras where friendships were fostered from afar online via BBSes and earlier pre "social" media modalities. Not to say some of those interactions weren't fraught with peril; but these days?
It's very different.
I'm grateful I saw https://mastodon.cloud/@mc_frontalot perform at https://infosec.exchange/@recon and more recently at Bottom of the Hill in SF (where he kindly signed some vinyl for me that he didn't lug to Montreal in June) but his lyrics to "Internet Sucks" really seem to capture that sense of how online interactions used to be pretty neat, and increasingly, aren't. When I met Kevin? It was still the early 1990s and definitely when online interactions hadn't yet devolved into spam, surveillance capitalism and worse.
Here's an article on the accident:
https://patch.com/california/redwoodcity-woodside/redwood-city-driver-head-hwy-1-crash-succumbs-injuries
His widow, Anne, held a memorial service and there were some legal proceedings after Kevin's passing as well since the other driver survived; but I don't think much came of that from what I recall Anne conveying to me?
Kevin was an amazingly kind and generous individual and I am grateful to have known him as a friend. His taste in avant-garde electronic music and ethics always seemed way ahead of the curve. I always felt as if I learned a lot from our interactions.
I think he and I originally communicated via IRC? He mailed me mix tapes back before we ever met in person (first time I ever heard Covenant, before they received domestic distribution in the USA on 21st Circuitry! First time I heard Paracont too! Albeit, Paracont were never quite as well known in the states, though "d-ranged" was apparently popular enough in Europe that Plastic Noise Experience covered that tune) in this day and age where so many interactions online seem to fall prey to parasitic parasocial paradigms; I am grateful to have memories of earlier eras where friendships were fostered from afar online via BBSes and earlier pre "social" media modalities. Not to say some of those interactions weren't fraught with peril; but these days?
It's very different.
I'm grateful I saw https://mastodon.cloud/@mc_frontalot perform at https://infosec.exchange/@recon and more recently at Bottom of the Hill in SF (where he kindly signed some vinyl for me that he didn't lug to Montreal in June) but his lyrics to "Internet Sucks" really seem to capture that sense of how online interactions used to be pretty neat, and increasingly, aren't. When I met Kevin? It was still the early 1990s and definitely when online interactions hadn't yet devolved into spam, surveillance capitalism and worse.
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