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RIP to our Great Pyrenees Penny (aged ± 13 years). The Wife and I had to have her euthanised last week. She got an MRSA (meth-resistant staph) infection that was  very aggro and undeterred by the 1.5 grams of an industrial-strength antibiotic we gave her (or tried to—she hated the nasty tasting meds because of course she did).

Only after she was dead and out of pain were we able to discover just how bad off she really was. The bacteria had eaten a large part of her flesh underneath her front left leg.

We'd only had her for about five years (we kept her when a family we'd heard tell of was moving and couldn't take her with them), but she's now left a big void in our little bungalow. She took up a lot of space, usually where people needed to walk.

Bye-bye, Penny. We miss you (but we don't exactly miss the daily hoovering up of all your fur).

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Introvertigo said:
died at the age of 34 after being in a coma for 8 years after being hit by a train.
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Does this still count as a self-sacrifice to the Jaggannath?

On topic, the following people probably died:

Sportsball dude who was quite the guy in the 1962-1963 season
Indonesian former mayor who embezzled a measly 120M rupiah during his tenure
Voice actor of a cancelled slovenian saturday morning cartoon
Ghanian woman poet whose work explores the intersection between being both black and ghanaian

Needless to say, I'm gutted
 
Introvertigo said:

Tatiana Schlossberg, journalist and author as well as the granddaughter of JFK, died at the age of 35.
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Man, the Kennedys have to be the most blursed family in American history. On one hand you have them reaching the heights of political, cultural and financial institutions, on the other, they all seem to have unnecessary tragedies and/or die early.

It really makes you wonder which ancestor of the Kennedy family wished upon the monkeys paw that set this whole thing into motion.
 
GettrGriftr said:
RIP to our Great Pyrenees Penny (aged ± 13 years). The Wife and I had to have her euthanised last week. She got an MRSA (meth-resistant staph) infection that was  very aggro and undeterred by the 1.5 grams of an industrial-strength antibiotic we gave her (or tried to—she hated the nasty tasting meds because of course she did).

Only after she was dead and out of pain were we able to discover just how bad off she really was. The bacteria had eaten a large part of her flesh underneath her front left leg.

We'd only had her for about five years (we kept her when a family we'd heard tell of was moving and couldn't take her with them), but she's now left a big void in our little bungalow. She took up a lot of space, usually where people needed to walk.

Bye-bye, Penny. We miss you (but we don't exactly miss the daily hoovering up of all your fur).

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I'm so sorry. 💔
 
Smar Mijou said:
Man, the Kennedys have to be the most blursed family in American history. On one hand you have them reaching the heights of political, cultural and financial institutions, on the other, they all seem to have unnecessary tragedies and/or die early.

It really makes you wonder which ancestor of the Kennedy family wished upon the monkeys paw that set this whole thing into motion.
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Fuck her
 
Introvertigo said:
Jim Moylan, inventor of the gas tank indicator for cars, died at the age of 80.
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To be accurate, the little arrow that shows you what side of the car the filler's on.

One of those guys who needed a non-ironic Real Men of Genius commercial.
 
Introvertigo said:
Stewart Cheifet
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Interesting guy with a complicated career. He was running my local PBS station WITF while doing all that stuff in California - which is why it was all a co-production. Have to see if he talked about that , there's a couple good interviews out there.

And the special he did dedicated to Gary Kildall when he died was super classy too.
 
Introvertigo said:

Stewart Cheifet, Creator of the TV show The Computer Chronicles, died at the age of 87 on the 28th of this month.
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Computer Chronicles was a brilliant TV series. Stewart was one the earliest supporters of the Internet Archive, and Computer Chronicles was one of the first full TV series archived.

Mikoyan said:
Interesting guy with a complicated career. He was running my local PBS station WITF while doing all that stuff in California - which is why it was all a co-production. Have to see if he talked about that , there's a couple good interviews out there.
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There are a few interviews floating around out there. The first one that comes to mind is his appearance on The Retro Hour podcast.

Mikoyan said:
And the special he did dedicated to Gary Kildall when he died was super classy too.
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I'm not sure if it's in the Retro Hour interview or a different one, but Stewart was still upset about Gary's passing years later, and never forgave Bill Gates for gazumping Gary with the whole IBM PC operating system thing.

Stewart also deboonked the story about Gary blowing off IBM execs by going on a joy flight on a whim; it was a birthday treat for his wife, she'd been feeling a bit left out as CP/M was taking up all of Gary's time, and her birthday fell on the same day that the IBM meeting was due to take place. Apparently IBM wouldn't reschedule, and the rest is (somewhat misreported) history.

The fact Gary chose his wife over the chance to make "fuck you" money says a lot about his character imo.
 
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