Aspromonte is all I’ve got.
Larry Dierker is still alive, isn’t he?
Bob Lillis, age 95.
Al Spangler, 92.
Sonny Jackson, 81. That’s all I can come up with but I’m sure there are others.
Found this on baseball reference
Dilbert creator, Scott Adams. He was a weird dude, but man, Dilbert was great. Fuck cancer.
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Oh, man. 68 years old. I was fortunate enough to have seen Adams speak as the keynote speaker at a conference of newspaper publishers and executives 15 or so years ago. He kept us in stitches the whole time. Very dry sense of humor as you may imagine.
Of course. Don’t know how I missed him. My dad bought him a post-game beer when the club was still the Colt .45s. There was a motel on So. Main across from the ball park, The Surrey House, that had a small bar in it where Dierk showed up with a couple of buddies post-game that he had started. He was not of legal age at that time which was still 21 of course. It was not his first beer of the evening.
Over the course of my career I had several running, good-natured “feuds” with UI designers (I contended, mostly in jest, that bash was the ultimate UI). Anyway, there was a Dilbert cartoon that I would pull out at appropriate moments: Dilbert is talking to some unkempt UI designer who is showing him feedback sounds like the sound of a bird hitting a window, or someone scratching a chalkboard. Finally, in the last frame, the designer says “But, wait. What if the user does something wrong?” and Dilbert starts to faint. Truly hilarious.
One of my other favorites involved Wally. At the time, paying bounties for discovering software bugs was all the rage. The pointy-haired boss shows up to announce their version of such a program and his confidence that it will drive up quality, and in the final frame Wally walks away saying “I’m gonna write me a minivan.”
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I’m in the process of replacing Windows with Arch Linux on my home computers (because fuck you Microsoft) and am reminded of a former coworker at IBM whose office nameplate said “Real Men Use the Command Line”.
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It’s frustrating to know that there’s all kinds of stuff that could be automated if only the bumper guards weren’t in the way.
His cartoons could be very funny. Unfortunately, he turned out to be a MAGA racist and conspiracy theory guy. He eschewed normal prostate cancer treatment and did “his own research”. He likely died because of the wacky treatments he got. He went back to regular medicine, but too late.
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Dierker only started that one game as a Colt .45, on his 18th birthday.
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On top of being a mega MAGA racist he was also just an absolute fucking moron.
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I find there’s often a correlation.
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Ok. My memory was a little hazy on that. It was then an Astro game in the dome. The rest I know to be true because I was there. I think.
Catherine O’Hara, 71
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That sucks. She was so funny.
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She just recently had Covid. I wonder if that was the culprit. Her publicist said “after a brief illness”.
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