i’m surprised more isn’t being made of the fact that he died on not only Pi Day, but also Einstein’s birthday. talk about piling on the geeky significance of today…!
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First thing I thought of actually.
“Not the apple story again!”
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Yeah got about another 300 pages to go. Only taken about 2 years on and off.
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Just found this. Brian Cox does a pretty impressive pratfall.
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One thing about that scene has always bothered me — if Hawking needs a special device to hold his cards, how does he get the cards in there in the first place?! 
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“Computer. Pause program. Determine Dr. Hawking’s hand for this round and place them in the robotic card holder. Resume program.”
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One that had escaped my notice. Younger than I. <sigh>
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There is a quote that’s often attributed to Mark Twain: “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/17/adrian-lamo-hacker-who-turned-in-chelsea-manning-to-fbi-found-dead.html
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I’m sure this will be held up as an example of the liberal conspiracy against law and order. In fact, how soon before this death is added to Hilary’s list of victims?
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In the comments for that article, it already has.
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I had a feeling. I didn’t go to that specifically for that reason.
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Montrealers of a certain age will mourn this chap:
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Most people don’t know this, but gospel is strongly associated with Chicago, with Tommy Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson being two of the most widely known names. We’ve just lost not one but TWO of their ilk:
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This has not been a good month for Chicago gospel singers.
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Not being reported in the MSM, of course!
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