Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

Delmer Berg, last known survivor of the antifascist Lincoln Brigade dies at 100

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/2/headlines/last_surviving_veteran_of_abraham_lincoln_brigade_dies_at_100

Gayle McCormick, singer of Tarentino faves Smith (My parents saw ZZ Top open for them in 1970)

http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/columns/joe-holleman/gayle-mccormick-lead-singer-of-smith-dies-of-cancer/article_2e05d308-f9ca-584f-9637-68dbbf3bc40f.html

John Thomas of Budgie

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-budgie-guitarist-john-thomas-dies/

novelist Pat Conroy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/pat-conroy-best-selling-author-of-great-santini-and-prince-of-tides-dies-at-70/2016/03/04/9390e9a4-e288-11e5-8d98-4b3d9215ade1_story.html

Gayle McCormick, singer of Tarentino faves Smith (My parents saw ZZ Top open for them in 1970)

the ones who did the cover of "the weight" on the easy rider soundtrack? sad.

Nancy Reagan.

Farewell, uptight cold lady in Galliano gowns for whom we owe some debt for turning Ronnie into a peacenik.

Famous People You Forgot Were Still Alive.

Good riddance

First Angie Bowie's husband now this

my mom just asked me yesterday if nancy was still alive

Don Regan cackling in hell

callous Hollywood trollop

Yes, but remember when she ended America's drug problem with that Very Special episode of Diff'rent Strokes?

An attempt at balance.

One of those somebody-must-have-invented it guys:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/ray-tomlinson-email-inventor-and-selector-of-symbol-dies-aged-74

^^^ I worked with him for 3 years and was just about to post his obit; he was a fantastic guy and someone I regretted falling out of touch with

That's amazing.

Concur re: that's amazing

I am really saddened by every early Internet person who passes because even though my field isn't really Fundamentals Of Internet I do feel like a lot of the people who invented what I do are getting closer all the time and nobody, as far as I know, is trying to do even a cursory oral history of how this business started and who did what, like handling "the posse" in the early 90s or any of the series of other similarly nasty internet worms that followed Morris

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/6/11168718/ray-tomlinson-dead-inventor-of-email-obituary

as he liked to say, "It's the only preposition on the keyboard."

I read this a few years ago and learned lots:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Qk3dIqeNL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Will take a look to see if Tomlinson's in there.

So why was the @-sign on keyboards before email? What was it used for?

price

as in "i bought 3 slices of pizza @ $2.00 each"

Okay, thanks for the info!

Don't know if this is true, but I was told it stood for 'each at', so is a combination of an e and an a.

bbc commentator tony gubba:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/21740038

doh, that's from 3 years ago

well rip anyway old tones. until next time!

We could do with a "people you forgot were dead" thread to sit alongside the "people you forgot were still alive (except half them are now dead)" one.

everything would be so much simpler if people just stopped dying tbh

People who died twice.

It's a blessing to live so long everyone thinks you're already dead.

Reported on FB: Music Writer John Morthland

Saw that. RIP

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local/john-morthland-renowned-music-journalist-and-longt/nqgXx/

http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2016/03/08/17739955/andrew-loomis-drummer-for-dead-moon-has-died

George Martin

Nana Vasconcelos :(
http://musica.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2016/03/09/morre-o-musico-nana-vasconcelos-aos-71-anos.htm

Oh no!

Sad, loved his work on Pat Metheny's Offramp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZF17VwrOYQ

george martin and nana vasconcelos are kind of connected through their work with collin walcott

shit, at this point can we just say "everybody"? fucking bowie even had to beat everybody to dying.

Was tempted this morning to start a thread titled "they're ALL going to be bad years from here on out" this morning, to explore the idea of what is turning into constant cycle of mournful tributes supplied by a now neverending supply of elderly celebrities of whom we are fond.

Based on

jesus, 2016 has been a bad year. RIP.

― Bee OK, Wednesday, March 9, 2016 12:27 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from the George Martin thread. No offense to Bee OK. It just got me thinking that this bad streak isn't going to stop now, its going to keep on going.

Seriously, given the ages it's going to be bam bam bam bam, one after another, as it's playing out.

the bad streak has been going since they invented death I think

yes it's just that the lords of what the young-turk academics call boomer hegemony are reaching deathy ages.

One day we'll be dignified and ... oh wait

It just got me thinking that this bad streak isn't going to stop now, its going to keep on going.

― how's life, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 23:38 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I too predict that this trend of notable people not being immortal will continue

I am really saddened by every early Internet person who passes because even though my field isn't really Fundamentals Of Internet I do feel like a lot of the people who invented what I do are getting closer all the time and nobody, as far as I know, is trying to do even a cursory oral history of how this business started and who did what, like handling "the posse" in the early 90s or any of the series of other similarly nasty internet worms that followed Morris

http://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/0684832674

my coworkers and I all got a free copy of this when it was published