I am of the same age as her.
RIP
My mom died of leukemia at 51. Itâs strange to think that Iâve outlived both of my parents at this point.
Amazonâs Media On Demand service is shutting down in June. Previously run under their CreateSpace service where self-published books, CDs and DVDs are printed or created when ordered, the latter two were moved to Media On Demand three years ago.
I just saw that they announced theyâre shutting it down. Media On Demand wonât accept any new titles as of March 31st and theyâll stop selling everything on June 4th. On June 5th, all MOD products will be removed from Amazon.com.
Why this is important is if you see any CDs or DVDs on Amazon that are listed as being manufactured on recordable media, theyâre going away. For example, when I bought the Dick Van Dyke movie Fitzwilly a few years ago, the page specifically identified it as being manufacture on demand product using a recordable DVD. Same with Cold Turkey. Now both pages only show âDVD-Râ as the edition (release) but no indication that they may not be available any longer in a few months.
The FAQ cites the preference for streaming services over physical media why theyâre shutting it. If you want a physical disc, youâre need to order it quick. Some products say the shipping time is 4-5 weeks. Not sure why itâs that long since it should take less than a half hour to burn the disc and print the label on the upper surface.
Depending on if a company decides to switch over to Amazon Prime Video for future sales/rentals, something youâre interested in buying may not be available any more except on Ebay or the secondhand market. Better order it before itâs not.
@Nabiki My dad turned 74 last month and lamented that he had now outlived my grandfather (59), my uncle (60), and my grandmother (73).
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And this is why some (if not all of us) prefer to go visit the Ship of the High Seas for some non-DRM content.
Well, nuts. We just lost George Segal at 87 due to complications from bypass surgery and singer B.J. Thomas announced he has stage 4 lung cancer. Heâs going to keep recording and performing songs and making appearances.
I saw that this morning. Time to watch King Rat (1965) again.
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Beverly Cleary, author, at 104.
Childrenâs author Beverly Cleary died Thursday in Carmel, Calif., her publisher HarperCollins said. She was 104 years old. Cleary was the creator of some of the most authentic characters in childrenâs literature â Henry Huggins, Ralph S. Mouse and the irascible Ramona Quimby.
Generations of readers tore around the playground, learned to write in cursive, rebelled against tuna fish sandwiches and acquired all the glorious scrapes and bruises of childhood right along with Ramona.
Clearyâs simple idea â to write about the kids in her own neighborhood â ensured that her books have never gone out of print.
âI think children want to read about normal, everyday kids. Thatâs what I wanted to read about when I was growing up,â Cleary told NPRâs Linda Wertheimer in 1999. âI wanted to read about the sort of boys and girls that I knew in my neighborhood and in my school. And in my childhood, many years ago, childrenâs books seemed to be about English children, or pioneer children. And that wasnât what I wanted to read. And I think children like to find themselves in books.â
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I loved her books as a kid.
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Awww. It was getting close to his 100th birthday.
What the crap!? Three friends have each lost a parent in the past week. One to Alzheimerâs, one âafter a period of declining healthâ, and one wasnât specified.
Ouch. I hope theyâre doing okay dealing with it all.
One I missed adding earlier: G. Gordon Liddy at the end of March at age 90. I caught a couple of his radio shows back in the 1990s. They were pretty interesting to listen to.
This morning was Bernie Madoff. Was serving a 150-year prison sentence for the largest financial fraud scheme in history.
Liddyâs early radio career was interesting. His home station in DC was programed so he was sandwiched between two âshock jockâ programs, one of which was Howard Stern in the morning. (The afternoon was a local pair that was the perennial 2nd in popularity to Stern but got moved to afternoons when their station was bought out.) It was a very âstern and seriousâ guy sandwiched between two shows that were trying to do humor. (Stern wasnât local as he broadcast from NYC.)
At some point Liddy fell into a âblame the other guyâ rut and from what Iâve heard was never really able to escape that.
Felix Silla - Cousin It from the Addams family, Twiki from Buck Rogers
Yesterday, it was Helen McCrory at age 52 from cancer. She had a wide variety of roles, but the only one Iâve seen so far is that of Narcissa Malfoy, the woman who placed the value of her sonâs life over that of serving Voldemort. She had her priorities straight.