Originally Posted by
magoo
Ron had an amazing learning curve.
It was a non-stop uphill endeavor for him to keep abreast of technology and the required effort to keep this web site running smoothly, twenty four-seven. It was fascinating to read his accounts of DoS attacks, software buggery, hardware burnout, etc, etc, etc.....
And he'd always come up with solutions, many of them exceptionally creative. And fast. And calm. And the website carried on with it's public availability.....with hardly ever a hiccup. If you'd blink, you'd miss it. That's how switched on he was.
Calmly ahead of the curve, always, and regardless of anything else. What focus.
Beyond that, Ickie was also a remarkably patient man.
Back around the year 2001, we started a written brawl in this forum. It began as a rebuttal of a bully who was having a public beat-up on a virtual airplane modeler (these pages), and quickly went dynamite into the social-political off-topic. It was essentially a bar room style brawl that carried on non-stop for about five years.
Certainly Ickie had something to say about all the furniture we were busting up, but in fact, he demonstrated an extraordinary amount of restraint, an amazingly light touch. The litany of enraged complaints he received on a daily basis must have been deafening.
Whatever personal opinions he harboured, and may have even confided to close associates, in fact he showed no sign of bias online, save the quiet desire to preserve some reasonable protocol, and perhaps that we bust fewer tables and chairs so that others might actually come here to share their enjoyment of flight simulation.
After the dust finally settled, the man quietly wrote some changes to prevent any furtherance of such conflict, and allowed a close association with an independant and heavily padded discussion room that can be found at the bottom of the forum list here.
Effective, on the ball, non-partisan and fair beyond expectation. Vastly intelligent, vastly talented, and as patient as Buddha.
It has been, is now, and shall forever be, a certainty.
WE will all miss you, Ron Larson.
You had a powerful effect, Sir, in your disarmingly quite manner.
Thank you, Ickie.
Thank you.
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