Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Pray for Edwarda. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (829)	6/19/2000 2:36:00 PM
From: The Other Analyst	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1576

I feel awful. She was such a rare person. I have been stunned by the postings here, the number and the intensity. I never knew so many other people felt the same way about her. She has touched many lives. More than I probably knew, more than her family probably knew. Maybe more than any one person knew. An incredible mind. A lust for life. She was generous to a fault. She worried about other people's problems when she should have been attending to her own. She genuinely loved and cared about other people. I introduced her to SI in 1998. Little did I know that she would spend so much time posting here, and even less did I realize, until the last 16 hours or so, how enormous her impact has been on people she had never even met face to face. She must have averaged over 20 posts a day just on the public messages. I have no idea how many private messages she sent, but probably lots more than her public posts. I called myself "The Other Analyst" because I thought of her as "The Analyst". She was easy to underestimate. She liked it that way. She would not let people know how insightful she was at first. It would come out gradually. And what a sense of humor she had! I am still in a state of shock. It is very hard to use the past tense. I know of many situations where she did something very kind for someone, but I only found out inadvertently. She did not do it to get "credit", as some kind people do. She seemed to do it just because she was genuinely kind. Very, very rare. A real inspiration to those she leaves behind who must now be feeling deeply saddened, and just now beginning to realize how big this loss is.