I had a beer with him at the WorldCon in 2005, and he would have shown up at the DFS dinner if his wife hadn't had passport troubles that needed taking care of. I didn't get those vibes at all.
I'm going off of two sets of bitterness here: 1) Reading him calling LiveJournal a cult on his web page, and 2) his disappearance from the forums without really even a goodbye, or chatting with people who knew him. Not as bad as Flavio Carillo, but close!
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Got awfully busy in mid / late 2001, and then when I popped my head back in, it was all noise.