{"id":320,"date":"2006-09-11T19:39:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T23:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/11\/steve-barkey\/"},"modified":"2006-09-11T19:39:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T23:39:55","slug":"steve-barkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2006\/09\/11\/steve-barkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Barkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Barkey died last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Steve<\/a>He was a great guy. As clich\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a9d as that sounds, as much as it seems like an understatement, or the praise that could be attached to any name – Steve made himself great.<\/p>\n

He was the kind of guy who was always up for a good laugh and really wanted to make you laugh. Steve and a smile were never far apart. He wouldn’t miss a chance to share a compliment, an answer or a hand and always had an insightful point. I certainly felt like I was an important part of his life, outside of my family, he’s made the most comments on my blog. ( So you know about FireFox\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6.<\/a>, Goodbye Gentoo – putting the Fedora on<\/a>, TechTV Meetup<\/a>, Laptop Rearview Mirror<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The life that was cut short had all the indications of being one we could all look back on with pride, instead we’re left reflecting on a impressive overture followed by an abruptly ended first act.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of things I’ll never be able to think of without thinking of Steve [and so much the better]: Pontiac 6000, Acura CL, creative ways to operate a car horn, Comm. Tech. @ MDHS, The Pumpkin’s Adore album, Sax-a-ma-phone, Win Amp and joy sticks, DELL’s offices, TechTV meet-ups, and many more things I’m sure to discover.<\/p>\n

Lastly, to conclude my thoughts on a less serious tone; perhaps the most shocking thing about this is I never thought I’d refer to Steve Barkey and short in the same sentence.<\/p>\n

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Steve Barkey died last week. He was a great guy. As clich\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a9d as that sounds, as much as it seems like an understatement, or the praise that could be attached to any name – Steve made himself great. He was the kind of guy who was always up for a good laugh and really wanted… Continue Reading Steve Barkey<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}