Bryan Byun passed away recently. His cause of death was an aggressive cancer. His birthday was today, December 31. I think he would have been about 55 or 56. I had first met Bryan online in the early ‘00s — and not via a chat room or social media, which didn’t exist back then. I met him via weblog posts and comments on those blog posts. I would not meet him in person until the late ‘00s. Here in…