# Who's missing that you really want to see on the Board? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 2, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010 "2020-07-02T01:49:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 48
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/942 "2024-05-20T16:09:07Z")
@begbert2 in about a year now too. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/943 "2024-05-20T17:33:52Z")
Oh, not terrible, you know. Good, bad, in between, so-so. I’m not sure if that’s sufficiently vague. I spend most of my ‘social’ time on Blue Sky, Instagram, or Imgur nowadays. Mostly in a passive capacity! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/944 "2024-05-20T18:10:31Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > @Quasimodem popped into my mind today. I looked at his blog on [blogger.com](http://blogger.com), and he posted two days ago. Unfortunately, comments and email on that website have never worked for me. I’m sure I’m getting two similarly named posters confused. Was he the one that had some form of dementia? I thought he had passed away, but I’m probably thinking of someone else. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/945 "2024-05-20T18:22:56Z")
Yeah, he and @Quasimodal (last visit Jan 21, 2018) always got mixed up back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/946 "2024-05-20T18:23:07Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I’m sure I’m getting two similarly named posters confused. Was he the one that had some form of dementia? I thought he had passed away, but I’m probably thinking of someone else. Quasimodem is the poster with dementia who had a blog about his health situation he sometimes linked to. I had quite a few interactions with him, as IIRC, he was born in Germany (I think army brat) and was always interested in German matters. I can’t remember how long it’s been, but I guess it’s been at least 8 years since I saw him posting here. And I dimly remember that there also was a poster with the name of Quasimodal. ETA: ninja’d. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/947 "2024-05-20T18:33:26Z")
OK, so I was half right. Quasimodem _was_ the poster with dementia, but is still alive and blogging. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/948 "2024-05-20T20:27:46Z")
And whatever dementia he has, last I saw on his blog, he’s still pretty dog-gone articulate for someone who’s been dealing with it for 15+ years. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/949 "2024-05-24T02:13:10Z")
I remember seeing him on That Other Website. I’m wondering if he had a stroke that left him permanently disabled, and it just looked like dementia at first. (Something like this happened to my BFF’s now-deceased mother.) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/950 "2024-06-19T14:16:52Z")
I have had the vague sense of not seeing Reimann around lately. This morning I noticed a post of his in an old thread and checked: [last posted Feburary 24th, last seen Feburary 24th](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/riemann/summary). ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/951 "2024-06-20T04:00:15Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I have had the vague sense of not seeing Reimann around lately. This morning I noticed a post of his in an old thread and checked: [last posted Feburary 24th, last seen Feburary 24th](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/riemann/summary) Let’s @Riemann him. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/952 "2024-06-20T15:57:38Z")
I think he was diagnosed with depression, which gave some of the symptoms. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/953 "2024-06-25T15:44:00Z")
Haven’t heard from @cochrane in a while. Hidden profile. Maybe they’re lurking. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/954 "2024-08-09T05:24:03Z")
I like Quasi, I remember he had some weird itchy thing that he was sure was bugs living under his skin. And used diatomaceous earth to treat it. And was getting no relief. That is so indicative of mental illness. I hope he got some kind of help. He was nice. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/955 "2024-08-09T05:33:22Z")
He had early onset Alzheimer’s ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/956 "2024-08-09T05:36:53Z")
Aw, Man. Poor fella. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/957 "2024-08-09T05:44:35Z")
Oh hell, I didn’t know that either. Alzheimers scares me more than cancer. Cancer is a loss of health, the other is a loss of mind. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/958 "2024-08-09T05:48:33Z")
Here is a link to the profile: [https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane/summary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane/summary) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/959 "2024-08-09T14:26:00Z")
Well, Quasimodem _claimed_ to have Alzheimers. We don’t know what his doctors have said. Maybe he does and maybe he doesn’t, but these hardly seem like the writing of someone who’s been suffering from it for 15+ years. [Quasi’s blog](https://wheretobud.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-peachtree-road-race-2024-didnt.html) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/960 "2024-08-09T14:33:09Z")
My neighbor’s wife has full blown dementia of some flavor, yet she can seem totally with it for short periods of time. Then she will wander off from the house in her bathrobe, no shoes, in frigid weather. Her husband has installed locks on all the doors and wears the keys on a necklace. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010/961 "2024-08-09T17:58:25Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > My neighbor’s wife has full blown dementia of some flavor, yet she can seem totally with it for short periods of time. Then she will wander off from the house in her bathrobe, no shoes, in frigid weather. Her husband has installed locks on all the doors and wears the keys on a necklace. Dementia does not equal Alzheimer’s. We were hoping my mother-in-law had some other type of dementia but we got the bad news. AD patients average 3 to 11 years life expectancy after diagnosis. Some live longer but it is a progressive disease. Someone with Alzheimer’s may live longer than the average patient but that doesn’t mean they are able to have a normal quality of life for any length of time. Early onset Alzheimer’s is more aggressive and has a worse life expectancy. Someone with early onset Alzheimer’s is extremely unlikely to be able to communicate effectively 15 years later. Mostly because of death but other stuff too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010.md?page=47) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-missing-that-you-really-want-to-see-on-the-board/914010.md?page=49)