Super sad. He is and was one hell of an icon.
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Oh no one note that SYD MEAD, famous scifi artist/designer who worked on Blade Runner amongst many others, died end of last year?
Super sad. He is and was one hell of an icon.
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This dude was a frighteningly effective pass rusher:
http://www.startribune.com/former-vi...-58/567382652/
Others claimed to be, but he was Spartacus:
https://people.com/movies/kirk-douglas-dead/
Actor Orson Bean hit and killed by car in L.A.
We might have to put Jordan Peterson on deck:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/jorda...ssia-1.5456939
Damn, this year's off to a big start
Tony Fernandez, HoF baseball player, 57, stroke related to kidney disease:
https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/ml...s-away-age-57/
Not so much a celebrity, but he is the creator of something taken for granted today:
Larry Tesler invented the copy-paste function for personal computers
He may be rolling over in his grave based on how Facebook uses it now, though.
'This world may be another planet's hell.'{Aldous Huxley}
'After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.'{Aldous Huxley}
Some posts I saw make him sound like he was a great guy, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22370180
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Speaking of people associated with some form of copy and paste, Sy Sperling has gone to the great weave in the sky:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/20/us/sy...ies/index.html
Katherine Johnson, 101, NASA mathematician and subject of the film "Hidden Figures":
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51619848
I now have the urge to play a game of Contra and cheat my way through:
https://www.polygon.com/2020/2/26/21...ra-gradius-nes
Maybe Heaven is a just a big Dyson sphere with God at the center
https://www.businessinsider.com/lege...ath-age-2020-2
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Trader Joe's founder, Joe coloumbe
https://abc7.com/society/joe-coulomb...3jWZnQBLYv-Mi8
James Lipton (Inside the Actor's Studio), 93, bladder cancer.