RIP Notable Figures

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Mar 04, 2022 4:01 pm

As with a lot of active military too, and college students that's about the age mental healthy issues start. My son was lucky and survived his SBC attempt, although has some physical issues being shot, and constantly dealing with mental health issues. But has a job and a long time girlfriend.

Fifty percent of mental illness begins by age 14, and three-quarters begins by age 24.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Mon Mar 14, 2022 6:26 pm

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Mar 18, 2022 6:55 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:05 pm

I have mentioned previously that my family knows his second wife Anne (now widow). She and her first husband were our neighbors in an apartment complex when we moved to Phoenix in 1970 and her family and our family have remained in touch all these years. Relationships were strained during the Trump/COVID years however as they were anti-masker/anti-vaxxers originally, but then they got COVID. He did push back on Trump once or twice.

Saw one news report that he died in an airport enroute. My son at Mark Kelly's office said they were told he died on the plane.
His wife was actually a flight nurse at one time.

She told my mom once that he wanted to die while still in office, thinking he'd get some kind of state funeral/honors. Mission accomplished I guess.

EDIT: Changed tweet. That's Anne behind him. My mom just talked to her. He passed away in his sleep on the flight from LAX to Seattle (on their way back to Alaska)

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 11:36 am

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 11:40 am

She spoke at my UA graduation. I’ll never forget how genuinely funny she was, as well as insightful, intelligent, warm, and genuine.

RIP Madame Secretary

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 2:55 pm

And it's pronounced JIF.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 3:08 pm

Merkin wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 2:55 pm And it's pronounced JIF.

No, it’s not. But I’m glad he invented it because it’s how I do about 30% of my communication.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 3:32 pm

It stands for Graphics Interchange Format. It's a hard G, Chi is correct.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 3:47 pm

You don't think the creator knows how to say it?

“It's pronounced JIF, not GIF.” Just like the peanut butter. “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations,” Wilhite told The New York Times. “They are wrong. It is a soft 'G,' pronounced 'jif'.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 3:49 pm

He didn't invent acronyms. He doesn't get to decide how to pronounce the acronym that stands for his invention.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 3:55 pm

I was working in IT when the internet was created just for universities and the DOD based out of Bitnet. My original Bitnet email was da012@calpoly.

Since day 1, it has been pronounced JIF even though we know what it stood for.

Now get off my lawn. I have some ASCII messages I need to combine using VI then convert to binary. Took about 5 minutes just to download and convert one Pr0n image off usenet.

And we thought it was fantastic.

Took about a minute just to render a JPG image to view it since JPGs are compressed but much easier to download.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 4:03 pm

Never said Jif in my life unless I was referring to peanut butter, not a download over a 2400 baud modem. That's the way it was back in my day, and we liked it!

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 5:10 pm

FWIW I long ago depended on the quote Merkin provided for the definitive pronunciation.

Now jet off my lawn and jo fuck yourselves you unjrateful kids!

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 5:16 pm

Dove knows!

UAEebs86 wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 4:03 pm Never said Jif in my life unless I was referring to peanut butter, not a download over a 2400 baud modem. That's the way it was back in my day, and we liked it!

2400 was blazing fast! When I was a student at the UA it was 300 bps using an acoustic coupler, but at the time as a very poor college student could not afford the $50 a month to rent a dumb terminal with modem

This is true life, the actual computer room at the UA.

And this was major progress when we had to punch our own Hollerith cards.

And you always drew a diagonal line across the top in case you dropped the box.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 5:25 pm

Been in that computer room many times Merk, usually late at night waiting for a grad student to rip my output off the line printer. I took Fortran 77 on that VAX system around the time RotN's was being filmed.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 5:36 pm

UAEebs86 wrote: Wed Mar 23, 2022 5:25 pm Been in that computer room many times Merk, usually late at night waiting for a grad student to rip my output off the line printer. I took Fortran 77 on that VAX system around the time RotN's was being filmed.

FORTRAN was my first language! Really liked how you didn't have to declare variables like you did in COBOL.

But then again, it made it hard for debugging.

Pascal was probably my favorite language, and the only one I know of that wasn't an acronym.

COmon Business Orientated Language. Thank you Grace Hopper!

FORmula TRANslation.

C was just coming out, and only available to grad students.

I finally took at C class when I was working, but then C++ came out and made it obsolete.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Mar 23, 2022 5:54 pm

Someone should make a coffee table book, “Computer Labs Across The Ages”.

RichardCranium · Post by **RichardCranium** » Thu Mar 31, 2022 7:44 pm

So, a billion people (maybe) watched Shane Warne's memorial.

Did you?

Did 1 billion people really tune in to watch Shane Warne’s memorial?

FYI: [urlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Warne]Wikipedia: Shane Warne [/url]

Shane Keith Warne (13 September 1969 – 4 March 2022) was an Australian cricketer. A right-arm leg spinner, he is widely considered as one of the greatest bowlers in cricket history, and in 2000 he was selected by a panel of cricket experts as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, the only specialist bowler and the only one still playing at the time.

In 1993, Warne was selected for Australia's Ashes tour of England. He was the leading wicket taker for the six-Test series, with 34. His first ball of the series was written into the history books as the "Ball of the Century", bowling the experienced English batsman Mike Gatting with a ball that turned from well outside leg stump to clip the off bail.

International tributes in addition to the Cricketing world:

Various celebrities, including Russell Crowe, Sir Mick Jagger, Sir Elton John, Ed Sheeran and Magda Szubanski, also paid their respects. Warne's former fiancée Elizabeth Hurley paid tribute, saying: "I feel like the sun has gone behind a cloud forever. RIP my beloved lionheart". Throughout his life, sporting figures such as Michael Jordan and Mike Tyson professed their admiration for Warne.

Some personal life tidbits:

...
Warne was born with complete heterochromia, giving him a blue right eye and a green left eye.

Warne was married to Simone Callahan from 1995 to 2005 with whom he had three children: Summer, Jackson and Brooke.
...
In 2000, Warne lost the Australian vice-captaincy after it was discovered that he was sending sexual text messages to a British nurse while still married to Callahan.
...
Following his split from Callahan, Warne dated English actress Elizabeth Hurley. Although the relationship at first seemed short-lived following the disclosure of Warne texting sexual messages to a married Melbourne businesswoman, the couple created a media frenzy when Hurley later moved into Warne's mansion in Brighton, Victoria. They announced that they were engaged in late 2011, but had called off the engagement by December 2013.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Mar 31, 2022 7:52 pm

That article says maybe 2 million watched.

And no, I didn’t tune in at 3am to see a memorial service to a guy I’ve never heard of who played a sport I could not care less about.

RichardCranium · Post by **RichardCranium** » Thu Mar 31, 2022 8:25 pm

That's why I posted the article link. The hyperbole has been extremely overbearing here for the last week.

And Warne was absolutely one of the all time greatest Cricketers, definitely THE greatest spin bowler if not the greatest of all bowlers, and REALLY popular in India as well as Australia, but he wasn't Mahatma Gandhi for crying out loud.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Thu Mar 31, 2022 8:28 pm

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:43 pm

But he banged Liz Hurley, so c'mon ....

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon Apr 04, 2022 10:13 am

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Mon Apr 04, 2022 2:46 pm

One of the great Dodgers of the '60's.

That '63 team with Davis, Roseboro, Frank Howard, Maury Wills plus Koufax and Drysdale swept the Yankees in the WS.

Loved the Koufax line for that year - 25 wins, 1.88 ERA, 20 CG's, 11 Shutouts, 311 IP's and 306 SO's.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Apr 04, 2022 3:05 pm

EastCoastCat wrote: Mon Apr 04, 2022 2:46 pm Loved the Koufax line for that year - 25 wins, 1.88 ERA, 20 CG's, 11 Shutouts, 311 IP's and 306 SO's.

No one has had more than 3 complete games since 2018 in MLB.

Who knows, probably would have extended Koufax' career in today's game.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 12:00 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 12:12 pm

I read Eric’s newsletter religiously and quoted his tweets here practically daily. He was a champion of holding the press and politicians to account for their lies and falseness and he will be sorely missed.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 12:14 pm

Wtf, that's horrible. Dude was a stand up guy. RIP

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 1:07 pm

I just got one of his mass emails sent out the day before yesterday. A bike accident? I'm getting more and more nervous about the dangers drivers are putting us all in. What a loss.

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Wed Apr 06, 2022 1:21 pm

Longhorned wrote: Wed Apr 06, 2022 1:07 pm I just got one of his mass emails sent out the day before yesterday. A bike accident? I'm getting more and more nervous about the dangers drivers are putting us all in. What a loss.

Apparently hit by a train!!! Wife said he liked riding in the evening and liked speed...

So young, and in his prime!!! Shocking!!!

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 8:57 am

Dwayne Haskins died. He was 24.

Not even sure how to put into words how stunning that news is.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 9:02 am

Damn. Hit by a car I think

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 9:34 am

scumdevils86 wrote: Sat Apr 09, 2022 9:02 am Damn. Hit by a car I think

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 9:42 am

That is tremendously sad.

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 10:42 am

Schefter original tweet mentioned how Haskins has struggled in the NFL

He was completely roasted until he deleted it

So sad

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 12:45 pm

Alieberman wrote: Sat Apr 09, 2022 10:42 am Schefter original tweet mentioned how Haskins has struggled in the NFL

He was completely roasted until he deleted it

So sad

Glad Cardale Jones posted this.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 7:22 am

I hated the Islanders back then (mostly due to obnoxious New Yorkers in my dorm) - started rooting for Edmonton because of them.

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Fri Apr 15, 2022 7:50 am

They had a great team. So great that Ranger fans to this day still chant "Potvin sucks".

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Apr 20, 2022 5:46 am

For those of us who grew up in Phoenix. Saw him with one of his kids at the Apollo HS pool one time, guess he lived near me as his son Joe went to Apollo but must have been a few years behind me.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Apr 20, 2022 1:56 pm

UAEebs86 wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 5:46 am For those of us who grew up in Phoenix. Saw him with one of his kids at the Apollo HS pool one time, guess he lived near me as his son Joe went to Apollo but must have been a few years behind me.

He's my uncle's cousin.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 3:33 pm

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 5:35 pm

RIP Mad Bomber.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 6:48 pm

I miss the golden days of NFL football. No gloves on receivers back then since they QBs didn't have bullet arms, and Billy Kilmer couldn't even throw a perfect spiral. Kind of lost interest in the sport when Steve Young took over for Joe Montana.

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Thu Apr 21, 2022 9:27 pm

Daryle Lamonica, George Blanda, Joe Kapp, Lance Alworth and a hundred others, those were the days, brutal head-banger days.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 3:42 pm

EastCoastCat · Post by **EastCoastCat** » Sat Apr 23, 2022 10:21 am

The Flower was amazing to watch when he had the puck.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat Apr 23, 2022 5:56 pm

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Mon May 09, 2022 7:57 am

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed May 11, 2022 5:04 am

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