RTFA: http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/09/1…

Roland Piquepaille – Mod Him Way Up, IMHO (Score:5, Interesting)
by mfh (56) on Friday January 09, @02:09PM (#26390225)

I liked his whit, and charming methods of describing things to the readers of this website. He truly embodied what can best be described one of the pioneers of the Slashdot effect. Some people trolled him pretty hard, but he was and will always be remembered as interesting, insightful, funny and underrated.

Roland, may the god(s) of whatever religion you believed in, forever mod you up.

RIP, bro.

The comment above (directly linked here) is one of the most oddly touching, niche, appropriate, and strangely moving Slashdot obituaries I have ever read.

If you haven’t had an account on Slashdot for the last decade, then it’s probably not worth it for me to unpack the nuance… but I will point out that mfh is user #56, Roland Piquepaille was a notoriously prolific contributor, and I have never seen such existential “moderating” … ever.

And if I may quote Slashdot’s younger, ADD-inflicted, emo step-sibling (4chan): bump

RTFA: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1912485…

Albert Hofmann was born at Baden, Switzerland, on January 11 1906, the elder of two children. Having graduated from Zürich University with a degree in chemistry in 1929 he took a doctorate on the gastro-intestinal juice of the vineyard snail.

After leaving university, he went to work for Sandoz Pharmaceuticals where he researched the medicinal properties of the Mediterranean squill (Scilla maritima), before moving on to the study of Claviceps purpurea (ergot).

Albert Hofmann RIP