"He's dead, Jim" - The 20XX Death Thread

[happyone]

No more Dilbert

Scott Adams was 68. The man knew the culture of tech!!

I had a Dilbert daily calender on my desk for most of the last 15 yrs of my working life

[chrisrenrut]

I didn’t realize the actor who played Ziggy Sobatka passed away this month too. Tragically by suicide.
I’m not going to post what he is most remembered for on The Wire.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...-six-four.html

[Jeff Lebowski]

Facts

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[dabrockster]

I saw his photo and that was the instant word I word. Loved him in The Wire.

So sad to see him pass .

[Jeff Lebowski]

Ha. I loved that character.

[chrisrenrut]

Sheeeeeeit!

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[Green Monstah]

When I was a full believer, JRH filled my soul.

The father of my brothers best mission friend was called to be a mission president. A couple of months before entering the MTC, he went into the guest room of their large bountiful home and blew his brains out. The family was distraught. Quickly, they became aware of a long-term mistress. JRH spoke to the family after the funeral and told them that the Lord understood why he did what he did and assured them there was a path to redemption. It provided a ton of much-needed comfort to the family.

I had an institute teacher tell me about a time when JRH was the visiting authority at stake conference in NC. Every ward in the state was struggling with attendance and filing callings, etc. at the time, they also had an abysmal HT%. He started off the talk asking for root causes for the stake’s struggles. He’s wrote the answers down on the chalk board. After a bit he wrote 12% on the chalk board. Looked at the brethren and said this is why and punched the 12% (their ht %) and put a big crack in the chalkboard. In retrospect, I find this a little unhinged, but when I heard the story, I loved his fire.

[Moliere]

I saw that this morning and it feels like a big loss. He’s one of the great orators of the church. He’s got at least a dozen or so talks that I’d call very influential on me. RIP.

[Green Monstah]

RIP.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Jeffrey R. Holland

[Joe Public]

Initial reports of Rob Reiner and his wife being stabbed to death in their Brentwood home by their son. Terrible.

[Northwestcoug]

James Watson, one of the discoverers of the shape of DNA, dead at 97. His and Crick's one page paper in Nature has one of the all-time low key flexes:

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

I read his biography a long time ago. It was a decent read, though from what I remember it short-changed essential work from other researchers. At the very least Franklin should have been a coauthor. He also faded from the spotlight after some openly racist statements.

[Pelado]

Richard Stallings. Political science teacher at Ricks. Then ran for us house. Best George Hansen after he got in trouble over not disclosing campaign finances and filing income tax returns.

One a few more terms. Led republican farmers voted for him because he supported them. Lost to Dirk Kempthorne in Senate race then a few times to Mike Simpson in house race.

He wrote to me when I wrote to him for merit badge requirement. In homecoming parade at Ricks I told him. May have remembered. Said he stool up for farmers.

I'm sure the farmers appreciated his fecal contribution for their fertilizers.

[grapevine]

Richard Stallings. Political science teacher at Ricks. Then ran for us house. Best George Hansen after he got in trouble over not disclosing campaign finances and filing income tax returns.

One a few more terms. Led republican farmers voted for him because he supported them. Lost to Dirk Kempthorne in Senate race then a few times to Mike Simpson in house race.

He wrote to me when I wrote to him for merit badge requirement. In homecoming parade at Ricks I told him. May have remembered. Said he stool up for farmers.

[MartyFunkhouser]

This one hits hard for me.

https://pitchfork.com/news/dangelo-groundbreaking-randb-artist-dies-at-51/

D'Angelo is one of the all time greats. Seriously, incredible artist. I was hoping that we would get that 4th album. I guess need to listen to all his albums today.