Anton Yelchin - I was hoping it was a hoax or false news.
Pat Summit and Buddy Ryan.
Somebody put Bobby Bowden on lockdown, please.
(Would have posted links, but Iâm not smart enough to do it on my phoneâŚ)
I heard about Pat Summit this morning (didnât her family say this weekend that she was ânot doing wellâ? seems awfully quick). Had not heard about Buddy Ryan.
As I said elsewhere on the interwebs, I have mixed feelings about Buddy Ryan because Iâm a Giants fan, but itâs impossible to deny the impact on the game that his 46 Defense Chicago had. If youâve seen the '85 Bears 30 for 30, the love and reverence his players hold for him to this day is unreal. AFAIK, heâs the only non-head coach to ever be carried off a Super Bowl field on the shoulders of his players.
ETA: Buddy Ryan
Two legends.
I just picked up a book yesterday called âTestimony: The Legacy of Schindlerâs List and the USC Shoah Foundation â A Twentieth Anniversary Commemorationâ. It doesnât look like heâs included in the book from whatâs in the Table of Contents, but weâll see if he is.
Item 1: BlackBerry phones with a physical keyboard. The company just announced it. I still miss the one we had many years ago. I could type on that so much faster than I can with the touchscreen on this Samsung phone, mostly because I could touch-type and tell when I was pressing on just one key. Now I have to watch as I type because if I happen to accidentally move my finger a little bit as I touch a âkeyâ, it may decide that I actually want the one next to it.
Item 2: I posted the first part of this in the âRandom Musingsâ thread back in October, but for all intents and purposes, the Haggen grocery stores.
Recap: Albertsons wants to buy Safeway. The federal antitrust review of the merger required Albertsons and Safeway to sell a bunch of their grocery stores and pharmacies.Haggen decides theyâll buy them and spends a lot of money changing the signs, then finds out what they bought didnât match what they were told. Haggen starts closing stores, then files for bankruptcy. In March, Albertsons buys the last surviving 29 stores and 15 of them get to keep the Haggen name.
Funny how it worked out that trusting a competitor resulted in a company being acquired by that competitor.
Where did you see this? From what Iâve read, theyâre only discontinuing the Classic, which is the last one with the keyboard dominating the face, but the Priv is still available. Even that report doesnât make sense, because the Passport is still available, too, unless theyâre just saying that on the Classic the keyboard takes up more space than the screen??? I dunno.
Also, I found an article published three hours ago (it is 10 central now) that says theyâre still developing physical keyboard phonesâŚ
the company has clarified on Twitter that it will certainly not stop the development of smartphones with a physical keyboard
Ahh, now I see⌠âinterpreted by many mediaâ
Haggen crashed and burned here in SoCal. They lasted maybe six months. A lot of them have become Smart & Final Extra. A few went back to being Vons (Safeway). A couple in the more hoity-toity areas of town became Gelsonâs (similar to Whole Foods). It was a huge Charlie Foxtrot. The problem as I saw it was that Haggen was trying to be like an amalgam of Vons and Whole foods. However the quality was closer to Vons and the prices were closer to Whole Foods so It didnât work out so well for them. Also the whole inventory thing probably didnât help. Dick move by Albertsonâs there.
Okay, so only one BB will be discontinued.
My work phone is a Torch, with the slider keyboard. Iâve been bucking for a Priv, but theyâre a little too pricey yet.
Former Vikings and Cardinals head coach Dennis Green, 67
âThey are who we thought they were! And we let 'em off the hook.â
Miss Cleo, TV psychic, 53
This was the first line on the sheet of Dennis Green quotes handed out at his funeral.
If they do this when Jim Mora, Sr. passes, the top one will have to be âPlayoffs? Donât talk about playoffs!â
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I bet she didnât see that coming.
(actually, given she died of cancer, she probably did)
Ah, nuts. I was hoping when I went to Wikipedia and saw the name in the Recent deaths section, it wouldnât be him. It was.
Jerry Doyle. Declared dead after being found unresponsive at home. No word yet on how and he was only 60. Co-star Peter Jurasik from Babylon 5 once said that any time he needed to get back into character, all he had to do was say âMIS-ter Garibaldi!â and the accent and mannerisms for Londo Mollari came instantly back.
B5 Creator J. Michael Straczynski has some good words to say about Jerry. The âCNN Documents Babylon 5â set that comes with the commentary by him and Claudia Christian that I bought earlier this month is probably his last recorded interview.
Chris Amon.
Apparently he wasnât very well known in New Zealand when he was actually driving for Ferrari, but by the time I was growing up he had become a bit of a legend.
It makes me sad that many of the patriarchs of racing (all forms) will be slowly leaving us. They still have soich to teach us all before goingâŚ
Many of the patriarchs of everything are passing. That first wave of baby boomers got into everything and created a lot of new fields to lead.
It feels like they arenât being replaced, but I think itâs more that the talent is more diffused now than it was before. Where 50 years ago you did X or Y if you were into something now you can do X,Y, Z, A, B, C, 2, 5, and Blue.
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Speaking of patriarchs passingâŚ
John Saunders, ESPN host, play-by-play announcer and V Foundation board member, 61
From the tweet Adam Schefter has put out, it sounds like it was unexpected.
Beep, bloop, blorp, beep, diddle, whistle, beep.*
*RIP Kenny Baker, dammit, he was one of the droids I was looking for⌠