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[Ed Oscuro]

Ex-NASCAR driver dead at 71

The immortal Dick Trickle. (Well, immortal in our memories.)

[Jonathan Ingram]

Videla finally kicks the bucket. Party time?




Argentinian dictator infamous for torture, murder and the abduction of children of his opponents.

[KAI]

yep, Party Time.
Good bye motherfucker, hope you get raped in hell.

[RGC]

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[Hagane]

I also wish Videla a warm stay in hell.

[Ed Oscuro]

I would like to see the interests aiding and protecting the outrages, not only in Argentina (i.e. this lovely bunch) but throughout South America, also called to account. Best thing I can say about Videla is that he was unimaginative enough to not try and escape his confinement. Too bad many of the baby thieves are not going to ever be called to account.

[z0mbie90]

Ray Manzarek passed away May 20, 2013.
He was co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973.

Rest in peace

[BulletMagnet]

Not a name I knew much before now, but artist Hiro Isono, best known to most for his work on the Seiken Densetsu/Mana series, died of heart failure recently.

[GaijinPunch]

Steve Gandolfini

That sucks. 51.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/1 ... 68861.html

[BIL]

I clicked the link hoping it wasn't actually James Gandolfini. Always thought he'd let his weight go too far by the end of The Sopranos.

[GaijinPunch]

I clicked the link hoping it wasn't actually James Gandolfini. Always thought he'd let his weight go too far by the end of The Sopranos.

Agreed... don't want to feed any flames, but he was not the pinnacle of health. These days, w/ our knowledge of how the heart really works, there's no excuse. I kicked my health into overdrive in my very late 20's, and harder in my early 30's. I think that was the threshold of getting back into shape before biology deemed it too hard. (I also come from a long line of 40-year old heart attacks). Couldn't imagine trying to get healthy from scratch at 38.

Back on topic -- very sad. Sopranos changed TV as a format I think, and he was a big part of that. I tip my hat.

[Moniker]

I heard about this from a friend. Tis a sad day indeed. Gandolfini was one of the finest contemporary actors out there. I really wanted to see him in more non-Soprano film roles. Even in so-so movies, he shined.

At least he died in the motherland. Riposa in pace.

[BIL]

RIP Jim "Williams" Kelly. ;_;7 Along with John "Roper" Saxon and Bolo "Bolo" Yeung, a member of the illustrious Double Dragon Enemies Namesake Trio from Enter The Dragon.

[Ed Oscuro]

aw fuck, I just got ahold of The Big Boss, guess I'll have to hurry up

Also, HOLY SHIT, he was the Black Samurai! I put off watching the film because I was ever so hopeful I could find a copy of the original book texts online. Get 'em before the price skyrockets! (I don't know any direct connection back to Kelly; he just was playing the character from the books.)

Also I think he is very clearly the inspiration for the big guy from Trio The Punch: Never Forget Me. ;___;


Not sure why they chopped the 'fro, though.

[drauch]

Damn shame about Jim Kelly. I'm going to order Three the Hard Way soon in remembrance. He's awesome in Take a Hard Ride as well. I actually worked with a dude who met him while staying in Florida. The dude's wife is a traveling nurse, and I guess she was stationed out in a small little spot on the beach. My coworker made friends with a dude who "looked familiar," and didn't put the pieces together until Jim said he "used to act." Frickin' cool. Sounded like a nice guy who just wanted to enjoy his life after all the fame.

[Skykid]

Aw man, Jim Kelly. That's sad. ;_;

[Specineff]

Douglas Engelbart, father of the computer mouse, has ceased to process any further cycles today.

[Ed Oscuro]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs

[Ceph]

Just a few weeks before Engelbart released his demo in 1968, a mouse was released that had already been developed and published by the German company Telefunken. Unlike Engelbart's mouse, the Telefunken model had a ball, as seen in most later models up to the present.

Telefunken's commercial mouse from 1968


Engelbart's mouse prototype from 1968


Conclusion: Engelbart was not the father of the mouse.

[Ed Oscuro]

Wikipedia users have, once again, apparently cribbed the text wholesale from another site, which hosts this image. Note the lacking button. The pictures you show are of a later unit. There is apparently some confusion about this, which I didn't know of. Telefunken certainly was ahead of things, although they might have been inspired by Engelbart to add the button. Hard to say at this time. Their design looks very simple and nice.

[DEL]

GaijinPunch wrote;

(I also come from a long line of 40-year old heart attacks).

Speaking of which, I had better put my friend Landlord/Richard Mascarenhas into this thread.
He died from a heart attack at home a couple of weeks ago. Still in his 30s.

A member of this forum, with high scores still listed here.
A great guy who will be missed.
He was the 'landlord' of Casino arcade. So named because he was always there. In a weird twist of fate he died shortly after the arcade closed.

[Ceph]

Wikipedia users have, once again, apparently cribbed the text wholesale from another site, which hosts this image. Note the lacking button. The pictures you show are of a later unit. There is apparently some confusion about this, which I didn't know of. Telefunken certainly was ahead of things, although they might have been inspired by Engelbart to add the button. Hard to say at this time. Their design looks very simple and nice.

Here is the link. http://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/misc/telefunken.shtml
And that hand-drawn illustration doesn't really tell us anything about the button, it could well be that the artist didn't know any better (I assume he had no idea what he was drawing).


Doesn't really matter, as the fact remains that Telefunken started selling their Rollkugel mouse before Engelbart even demonstrated his. Engelbart is not the inventor of THE mouse, he invented A mouse.

[Ed Oscuro]

You're pretty selective about how you want to use original sources, Ceph!

The SIG-100 illustration in the October 1968 of the Telefunken company magazine with the Rollkugel "mouse" attached. Apparently the button was added later.

I will trust that their own illustration of the device is more reliable than your attempt to interpret this in the way that is least flattering to Engelbart.

Do you know how old computer terminals worked? There is already an Enter key on the keyboard, and that is probably the function that would be duplicated by the mouse button. The mouse would just move the cursor position (meaning the flashing character-width space) on the screen. There is no GUI and no familiar "pointer cursor." It is perfectly reasonable that their original incarnation of their pointing device would not have an integrated mouse button.

By the way, Engelbart invented his mouse in 1964, four years before the 1968 demo. The look of the device only shows that they didn't have the production and production design resources of Telefunken.

@ DEL:

Sorry to hear about that, that's way too young to pass on

[DEL]

Ed wrote;

@ DEL:

Sorry to hear about that, that's way too young to pass on

Cheers Ed, yes its way too young.
Its the third young death I've heard about from friends & aquaintances in the last two months. A friend told me that his cousin had a massive heart attack and died aged 42 (apparently he was quite high up in IBM), then I turn up to a new job to find that an Indian woman there age 43 got a liver infection which went to her brain and she was dead within two weeks

[MadScientist]

Ryan Davis of Giant Bomb;

http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/ryan- ... 1100-4685/

[dcharlieJP]

Woke up to the Ryan news today - ugh. Met him a number of times and can honestly say there aren't many funnier and warmer people in the industry.

Terrible stuff

[GaijinPunch]

Speaking of which, I had better put my friend Landlord/Richard Mascarenhas into this thread.

That sucks.

[DEL]

Cheers GaijinPunch. Yes it was a real shock.

[dcharlieJP]

The guy who played Finn on Glee (Cory Monteith) - dead at 31.

[DEL]

^Quote from Perez Hilton site: "It has been confirmed that this afternoon, Glee star Cory Monteith was found dead at the Pacific Rim Hotel in Vancover."
I also see that he starred in Final Destination 3.
Another Hollywood star dies young.