{"id":25739,"date":"2016-10-26T22:20:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T03:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=25739"},"modified":"2016-10-27T07:11:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T12:11:13","slug":"steven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/steven\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Steven<\/a>
Steven Den Beste, by Beckoning Chasm<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I discovered Chizumatic 1.0<\/a> when I looked for commentary on Serial Experiments Lain<\/a><\/b><\/i>. What Steven Den Beste wrote<\/a> made more sense than anything else I’d read, so I made Chizumatic<\/a> a regular stop on my internet rounds. When he praised Haibane Renmei<\/a><\/b><\/i>, I watched it and was impressed, and duly mentioned him on my weblog. To my surprise, he linked back to me, complaining that I had misspelled his name. Thereafter we occasionally posted links to each other’s sites, and during the past ten years he left many, many comments at my various websites, far more than anyone else. He wrote his last comment here the day before his last post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It may be presumptuous of me to think so, but I came to regard him as a friend, albeit one whom I was unlikely ever to meet. I was glad whenever I could do him a favor, such as download an unlicensed series he was interested in. Through him I found such eccentric characters as Ubu<\/a>, the Brickmuppet<\/a>, Wonderduck<\/a>, J Greely<\/a>, Aziz<\/a>, Pete<\/a>, and many others. Steven was notoriously prickly and seemingly unsociable, but I think he enjoyed being part of an online community, as demonstrated by his enthusiastic particpation in our comment boxes. <\/p>\n

I knew Steven was in failing health and near the end of his life, but losing him hurts. Still, I’m grateful for ten years of engineer’s disease, perceptive discussions of anime, music, history, technology and whatever was on his mind, accounts of beaver engineering and waterfowl behavior, and everything else, all expressed in clear, logical, readable prose.<\/p>\n

Various tributes to and memories of Steven can be found aggregated here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I discovered Chizumatic 1.0 when I looked for commentary on Serial Experiments Lain. What Steven Den Beste wrote made more sense than anything else I’d read, so I made Chizumatic a regular stop on my internet rounds. When he praised Haibane Renmei, I watched it and was impressed, and duly mentioned him on my weblog. … Continue reading “Steven”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-friends-and-acquaintances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4xam3-steven","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25739"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25771,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25739\/revisions\/25771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}