What happened to P5 ?

[mubs]

Saddened to hear about Mark. As has been said, 57 is an early death.

Thanks to Merc for reaching out to me to inform me about Mark.

 

[LunarMist]

Crap. This is real now. ale:
Does anyone know what happened? Was it the cancer?

 

[Bozo]

Is Mark's passing the first one for either Storage Forum or Storage Review that we know of??
It's a first for me. (A forum member passing)

Thanks for the news Merc.

 

[Mercutio]

I thought perhaps that we could write a message to P5's family. I have a mailing address for his brother.

 

[Handruin]

I think that would be nice to share some memories of how we knew him and the things he's done to help each of us in our own ways and the community as a whole. If at the very least, his brother and whatever other family Mark may have had might appriciate knowing some of these thoughts and also may be interested in seeing 14+ years of a journal of sorts from his posts here on SF (among other forums he was a part of).

 

[LunarMist]

Is Mark's passing the first one for either Storage Forum or Storage Review that we know of??
It's a first for me. (A forum member passing)

Thanks for the news Merc.

I don't know about the post-Eugene era, but it may the first time for SR and at all here.
With all the members that disappear over the years I would expect some have died.
At the other forums I frequent, people die every once in a while.

 

[sedrosken]

I can't really participate in the whole 'sharing memories' thing mostly because I don't have a lot of them to share. I came in here in the very last few months of Mark's being around, and I only ever really ran into him in the Folding forum, where he was always willing to help. That's all I can say, really -- I never knew him all that well.

 

[time]

As Handruin will attest, I simply didn't believe it. The crunch was when Mercutio reported, "he was known as an entrepreneurial person but also a free spirit". I guess that sealed it for most of us.

Yes, I would like to offer condolences, although his brother may well have been estranged for all we know.

 

[Handruin]

A shred of me still hopes we got a ton of info wrong and he shows up here laughing at the mistake...but I doubt that'll happen. It reminds of the one of his threads from long back where the title was "P5-133XL has suffered a stroke and is not expected to live" and gave us all a shock then. That was almost 13 years ago.

 

[Bozo]

A shred of me still hopes we got a ton of info wrong and he shows up here laughing at the mistake...but I doubt that'll happen. It reminds of the one of his threads from long back where the title was "P5-133XL has suffered a stroke and is not expected to live" and gave us all a shock then. That was almost 13 years ago.

The thread you linked to contains a lot of members we haven't heard from in a long time.

 

[Mercutio]

If anyone would like to contribute some words, I'm probably going to mail something to P5's brother next week. I think it might be easier to print off comments.

 

[Bartender]

Wow. Rest in peace Mr. Turner.

 

[Mercutio]

I sent a letter to the address I was given for Mark's brother on Monday expressing our collective condolences.

 

[Handruin]

Thanks for sending the letter. Did you point him to the forums?

 

[Mercutio]

Just to the general Storageforum.net site. I said that we as a community held him in highest regard, particularly for his contributions to support and technical topics and for his work with the Folding At Home project. I mostly thought it was important to say that we all lost something.

 

[LunarMist]

Thanks, Merc.

 

[Bozo]

Thanks.

 

[Tannin]

This is very sad. Mark was one of the good guys, a class act all the way. He is missed.

Merc, thanks from all of us for following through on this.

 

[Buck]

Mercutio, thanks, we really did lose something.