Farewell to the (Robotech_)Master

Looking in an atypical direction online, I ran into a sad announcement Chris Meadows had died from an electric bike accident, seeing it in a context connected to my first encountering him online when the nascent Internet Service Providers in my home town got their email access working and I signed up for the Robotech Mailing List. It’s been a while since then, long enough to bring intimations of mortality into play even as I remind myself of the problem of the difference between tragedy and statistics. At the same time, perhaps it’s because whatever connections did happen were minor ones helps me confront this a little more squarely. So far as the Mailing List and the arguments on it went, Chris was one of the more pleasant subscribers, and in facing the different things he’d got involved with more recently I could see he still seemed that way.