local folk: a recent death

Dan sent this email to me late last night...

"Mike Shiminsky, a/k/a Metrobear, MnMike, Mikey... Mike the Busdriver and other designations, passed away unexpectedly in his home sometime in the past few days. He was found saturday by friends who hadn't heard from him.

No funeral service is planned but there will likely be a get together of his friends next saturday as a soon as a location is identified."

Just so you know.

p.s. Ah, it looks like another LJer has mentioned it too. (A locked post, sorry.) Apparently a suicide.

who broke the internet?

I've noticed this morning that some locations respond quickly, but other sites are wholly unreachable.

So I started to google network outages, and I figured I'd check out the reporting form at the Federal Communications Commission to see if there were any telecomm problems reported there. https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/oet/ntd/outage/NORS.cfm No good. The site responds, at least, but it's an "Object not found" error.

Gmail works.  Earthlink doesn't.  YouTube videos load, but XTube videos do not.  DDO connects for updates, but EQ2 and Age Of Conan do not.

What gives?  I didn't change anything on my pc since last night.