Here are 1825 messages from Dan Hoey, posted to 182 newsgroups, 12
mailing lists, Wikipedia, ErfWiki, Making Light, Explain xkcd, File
770, the WSFA Journal, mathforum.org, and various other places, over
32 years. Enjoy.
Here are 1825 messages from Dan Hoey, posted to 182 newsgroups, 12
mailing lists, Wikipedia, ErfWiki, Making Light, Explain xkcd, File
770, the WSFA Journal, mathforum.org, and various other places, over
32 years. Enjoy.
Here's an index of his messages, by venue (newsgroup, mailing list, blog, fanzine, etc).
Here's a link to entries in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences he created or modified.
Here's an index of his messages by the name of the person he was responding to.
Here's an index of his messages by subject.
Dan was active in The Washington Science Fiction Association in the 1980s and 1990s. He first attended in 1985, and last attended in 2004. He held staff positions at their annual Disclave science fiction convention starting in 1987, and he chaired the convention in 1995. He was one of the three club trustees from 1990 to 1992, and from 1993 to 1994.
He volunteered to be in charge of at-con information at their first Capclave, in 2001, but had to withdraw because he was hospitalized for a ruptured spleen from a bicycle accident. He briefly attended anyway.
He was vice president of the Potomac River Science Fiction Society, and hosted club meetings once each year in his apartment in Washington, DC. The last such meeting was on the evening of Friday, July 8, 2011.
He was listed as an attending member of at least the 1989, 1991-99, 2001, 2003-04, and 2007 Worldcons, usually with a low membership number, showing that he registered years in advance. These include Worldcons in Britain, Australia, and Japan. At the 1998 Worldcon in Baltimore he was on the Special Projects Team. (He was not listed as an attending member of the 2000 or 2002 Worldcons. I have no information about other Worldcons. Nor do I know whether he actually attended all the conventions he had attending memberships for.)
He was active on Wikipedia from 2005 through August 2011. He made 409 edits. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dan_Hoey.
He quit smoking in 1987.
He was heavily into recreational math, as am I. He was often seen at science fiction conventions carrying odd variants of Rubik's Cube.
He died at age 59 on August 31, 2011.
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