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Gordon Mah Ung from PCWorld passed away

Any old timers will recall gordon worked with andrew sanchez who passed away at the height of the gpu wars starting in 1998. Boot Magazine, then Maximum PC etc. Both gone too soon.
 
RIP Gordon. Died too soon at 58.
I think the last issue of Maximum PC I read, was when the X1900XTX dropped.
 
Seriously one of the best sources of complex tech information for newbies. He had such a great sense of what questions to ask and how to explain things. God be with his family during this grieving period.
 
Loved him with Maximum PC. I had a really long commute in the mid to late 2000s and I listened to him on their podcasts during the drive. He was one of a kind.
 
Damn, RIP. Enjoyed his coverage on PC hardware, could always tell he was really passionate about the space.
 
This is one the saddest news articles that I have ever read in my life. I absolutely loved his work. He was an astute tech enthusiast that wrote in such a way that a housewife could understand what to buy her kid for Christmas. And still appeal to the geekiest of geeks in the same article. One of the best of the best.

R.I.P. He will be missed and never forgotten.
 
We've lost a tireless ally in this hobby we love. And just a wonderful person whose excellent reporting and tremendous humor have been a refuge, an escape, amidst the great personal losses many of us have suffered these last few years. I adored him and this is absolutely devastating. RIP Gordon Mah Ung.
 
philb2 said:
Pancreatic cancer. Same thing that killed Steve Jobs. Almost 100% fatal, because there is no "early detection."
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Indeed. It is very vile cancer because by the time it shows any signs that something is wrong then it is too late and has spread all over the body. My aunts husband died from it.
 
Rest in piece, Gordon. I remember him from the Maximum PC days as well. My grandfather died from (liver and) pancreatic cancer back in 1994. Insidious shit as others have said. This is genuinely saddening news...
 
ShuttleLuv said:
Any old timers will recall gordon worked with andrew sanchez who passed away at the height of the gpu wars starting in 1998. Boot Magazine, then Maximum PC etc. Both gone too soon.
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When Gordon assumed the Maximum PC front page editorial that touching tribute he wrote to Andrew there.
 
Maximum PC is how I learned all the parts, as how to pick and buy the right pieces to build my own stuff, almost the same as seeing a whole era pass away with Gordon!
 
Was looking at how to prevent Pancreatic cancer since someone at work just got it. Low survivability unless your young.....Tumeric and Fish Oil also heard Almonds x3 a day and Vitamin D but i take a Multi once a week. I tried every supplement at Walmart some are bad some are good some are intolerable and go straight in the garbage. Magnesium is my current favorite can't go wrong with that. What I don't like are guys like Dr. Berg who think they know preventive medicine but if you took the amount of Vit. D he recommends your going to look like him.
 
I don't know after hearing how lead gasoline was so rough on all the generations that used it if you want to start looking for the bad guys to pay your hospital bills.
 
Comixbooks said:
Was looking at how to prevent Pancreatic cancer since someone at work just got it. Low survivability unless your young.....Tumeric and Fish Oil also heard Almonds x3 a day and Vitamin D but i take a Multi once a week. I tried every supplement at Walmart some are bad some are good some are intolerable and go straight in the garbage. Magnesium is my current favorite can't go wrong with that. What I don't like are guys like Dr. Berg who think they know preventive medicine but if you took the amount of Vit. D he recommends your going to look like him.
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There is no real prevention for cancer other than living a generally balanced and healthy life style, from excercise to what you eat or decide not to eat but even then it is not guaranteed. Cancer may still just happen, something in your cell replication goes wrong and instead of a new cell it becomes a tumorous growth and starts eating other cells around it. Being around carcinogenic chemicals or eating excessively unhealthy foods will increase the chance of cancer occuring but even if you religiously avoid all that still the chance is never zero, it may still happen if you are unlucky.

Cancer sucks.
 
This guy in late night Radio said Cancer thrives with Sugar which is in basically everything we eat I'm surrounded by lots of dust and plastic on my job so I'm worried about it.
 
Comixbooks said:
This guy in late night Radio said Cancer thrives with Sugar which is in basically everything we eat I'm surrounded by lots of dust and plastic on my job so I'm worried about it.
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In general it is a good idea to
  1. Avoid cooked/processed carbs & replace with saturated fat/whole carbs
  2. Avoid omega-6 fats (most vegetable oils) & cooking in oil
  3. Eat only when hungry. Stop when satiated. Include nutritious foods so that you don't become hungry soon
 
Yeah that the kicker Omega 3 is good but Omega 6 but so are oils in general like soy bean oil. I have a book by Barry Sears who swears by fish oil but I took a dose he recommeded felt terrible so I only take 3 a day curves my appetite but Fish Oil has gone up in price I also take Flaxseed when I remember.
 
He seemed like a really good dude, this is one of those cases that come out of left field and you're like "wtf, he was too young". I'm also in the reptile hobby and Brian Barczyk was another one we lost this year, just full of life and it's taken too soon. Fuck cancer.

RIP Gordon.
 
I never read Maximum PC, it was after my magazine years, but I loved watching Gordon on videos. He had a healthy cynicism about the tech industry and it's bizarre fandoms. I can see an awful lot of colleagues thought the world of him, at the end of the day the only thing that's really left of us is how we influenced the the people we shared our lives with.
 
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