RIP - Page 47

Chris Card · 2016-01-26, 12:29

Marvin Minsky
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35409119

kladner · 2016-01-26, 15:47

"The last of Jaguar Land Rover's classic Defenders will roll off the production line this week, ending 68 years of production - does this mean the carmaker's best off-road days are behind it?"

I first heard of this vehicle in the "Born Free" books by Joy Adamson.

ewmayer · 2016-01-27, 03:42

From 22 Jan: Bill Johnson, U.S. Olympic Downhill Skiing Champion, Dies at 55 | NYT

xilman · 2016-02-04, 20:54

Bugs Bunny
Ok, so it's not the first time BB has hit the obit columns.

Batalov · 2016-02-06, 10:17

Edgar Mitchell

chappy · 2016-02-07, 17:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Batalov

Edgar Mitchell

This could go in so many threads here:

chappy · 2016-02-13, 22:21

http://nypost.com/2016/02/13/supreme...ia-dead-at-79/

http://news.yahoo.com/u-supreme-cour...220951983.html

ewmayer · 2016-02-15, 01:14

[Right after splitting the Scalia-related posts off into the Soap Box I added a note to the effect of keeping the RIP thread apolitical and suitably solemn, i.e. with posts of a flavor found in the approximate triumvirate "X shall be missed", "I shall not see Y's like again" and "I spit on Z's grave". Alas an overzealous thread cleaner-upper has been at work in the interim, as I now see just as I was preparing to post this followup to the above thought:]

...Or in a similar vein, recalling Byron’s epithet/faux-epitaph for the 19th century (late) British Lord Castlereagh:

Posterity will ne’er survey
a Nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop, traveller, and piss!

(I would dub this quip Yeatsian by way of Yeats's own "horseman, pass by" self-epitaph, but Byron predated Yeats by the better part of a century.)

Nick · 2016-02-18, 17:31

Christopher Zeeman
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/science/zeeman
http://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/news/pr...eman-1925-2016

ewmayer · 2016-02-20, 05:32

Harper Lee Has Died at 89 | Mother Jones

Quote:

In 2015, more than five decades after To Kill a Mockingbird was published, her second novel, titled Go Set a Watchman, was released, after a 304-page manuscript following up on the classic was discovered.

That's some hiatus between her two and only novels!

xilman · 2016-02-20, 09:47

Umberto Eco

2016-01-26, 15:47	#508
kladner "Kieren" Jul 2011 In My Own Galaxy! 2×3×1,693 Posts	The Classic Land Rover "The last of Jaguar Land Rover's classic Defenders will roll off the production line this week, ending 68 years of production - does this mean the carmaker's best off-road days are behind it?" I first heard of this vehicle in the "Born Free" books by Joy Adamson.

2016-02-13, 22:21	#513
chappy "Jeff" Feb 2012 St. Louis, Missouri, USA 10010000101₂ Posts	Justice Scalia http://nypost.com/2016/02/13/supreme...ia-dead-at-79/ http://news.yahoo.com/u-supreme-cour...220951983.html

2016-01-26, 12:29	#507
Chris Card Aug 2004 130₁₀ Posts	Marvin Minsky http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35409119

2016-01-27, 03:42	#509
ewmayer ∂²ω=0 Sep 2002 República de California 103·113 Posts	From 22 Jan: Bill Johnson, U.S. Olympic Downhill Skiing Champion, Dies at 55 \| NYT

2016-02-04, 20:54	#510
xilman Bamboozled! "𒉺𒌌𒇷𒆷𒀭" May 2003 Down not across 10,753 Posts	Bugs Bunny Ok, so it's not the first time BB has hit the obit columns.

2016-02-06, 10:17	#511
Batalov "Serge" Mar 2008 Phi(4,2^7658614+1)/2 3⁶×13 Posts	Edgar Mitchell

2016-02-15, 01:14	#514
ewmayer ∂²ω=0 Sep 2002 República de California 103×113 Posts	[Right after splitting the Scalia-related posts off into the Soap Box I added a note to the effect of keeping the RIP thread apolitical and suitably solemn, i.e. with posts of a flavor found in the approximate triumvirate "X shall be missed", "I shall not see Y's like again" and "I spit on Z's grave". Alas an overzealous thread cleaner-upper has been at work in the interim, as I now see just as I was preparing to post this followup to the above thought:] ...Or in a similar vein, recalling Byron’s epithet/faux-epitaph for the 19th century (late) British Lord Castlereagh: Posterity will ne’er survey a Nobler grave than this: Here lie the bones of Castlereagh: Stop, traveller, and piss! (I would dub this quip Yeatsian by way of Yeats's own "horseman, pass by" self-epitaph, but Byron predated Yeats by the better part of a century.)

2016-02-18, 17:31	#515
Nick Dec 2012 The Netherlands 2×23×37 Posts	Christopher Zeeman http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/science/zeeman http://www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/news/pr...eman-1925-2016

2016-02-20, 09:47	#517
xilman Bamboozled! "𒉺𒌌𒇷𒆷𒀭" May 2003 Down not across 10,753 Posts	Umberto Eco