Rodent was an absolutely fantastic person, and I'm glad I was able to know him for as long as I did, and now wish I had appreciated him a little longer while he was with us.
@"Omicega" is right about Rodent's contributions to this community - I was lucky enough to share [LN] with him before he left Discovery - and it's really a damn shame that he's no longer here. He's what we needed in this world, someone who would always be willing to help you out, to sit down and constructively work on something, or just to bend an ear when you needed it.
I'm still at a bit of a loss for words, so I'm sorry if this doesn't flow together well or doesn't make sense. I had a comparatively short experience with Rod compared to some of the others posted in this thread, but I will always remember it. We lost one of our best today.