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James Doohan Not In A Coma and Likely To Survive
ThreeHamsWillKillHim writes "Apparently, it's rumored that actor James Doohan, from Star Trek fame, is in a coma." The article notes that he's not likely to come out of it. James Doohan is 82 and is known best for his role as Engineer Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek. CD: Update, he's home undergoing rehab for his bout of pneunomia.
He's dead, Jim.
The goatse guy for president. Win one for the gaper!
Scotty: Beam me up god
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
He cannot take much more of this captain!
"He's dead, Jim."
or perhaps:
"Captan, I donna think she'll take much more!"
Good luck Scottie.
Finding God in a Dog
Isn't there some better way to learn about cool people like this guy before they're likely to die? I thought of this when the author of ping died, too.
Maybe Slashdot could do a montly/(bi)weekly thing on "Lifetime Geek Achievement Awards."
I'm sure that 99.99% of these people use the Web, so it would be really cool to thank these people for all they've done for technology.
Any thoughts?
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Wheres a transporter suspended animation plot device when you need one! Seriously, Jimmy Doohan is a real nice guy. Having never met him, but read his autobiography and some interviews he would've been really interesting. I hope that guy doesn't get your blood now Jimmy!
-AndrewJNR, NSO, The Don College
...any more power. I'm sorry Captain, I gave it all I got.
The engines! They canna take it much longer!
That would explain the coma. That happened to me last time I tried to sit thru an entire episode.
Michael Loves Me!
Doohan is a given ... I say Shatner is the next to go
Is it such a slow news day that the Slashdot editors see fit to post *rumors* on the front page? They even state that it is a rumor. If it's a fact, then fine, post it since many Slashdot members think its important. But there is no need to engage in baseless rumor mongering.
-> Capt Cosmic <-
I truly hope he gets better because losing him would be a loss to all geeks.
No need to get nasty, dude. He's on his deathbed. Have some compassion.
I love things like this...
:)
It must be true I read it on the internet
If it is true, which is probably isn't, then good luck Scotty!
If it isn't, well... weeee. one more hoax to the list.
He was always one of my favorite actors from the original star trek. He added a unique sense of humor to it - especially the movies. I still remember the scene in the movie (I forget the number of it, it was the one with the whales :P), where he reprogrammed a black-and-white macintosh to support voice activation. :) The various 'cameo' episodes in other ST series where he showed up, were excellent as well - I remember the ST:TNG episode where they found him, that was excellent.
He'll be missed.
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If you're an old phart like me, it's kinofa bummer when actors that you knew and loved growing up start to die. We can remember the "young" versions of these actors and to even think of them being 82 is mind blowing.
Heck, next thing you know companies like DEC and Pan-Am won't exist anymo... Damn, I'm really feeling old now.
P.S. If this is true, and he doesn't pull through, condolences to his family.
always under-promise and over-deliver!!
"that dude's jefferies tubes must be so filled with grisle..."
Here is some biographical info on the beloved "Scotty" of Star Trek.
Where's your precious 23rd century technology *NOW*?!?! Hmm?!? Hmm?!?
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Two rights don't make a wrong, but three rights make a left. -Me
Wasn't his daughter just born a year or two ago?
I hope to have that kind of stamina when I get to that age. Course, I also hope to have enough money not to have to work at that age too. All the more reason not to have kids.....
The link on the page that this story is on states that (in an update) he is just recovering from pneumonia. Here, look for yourself.
Buying a Dell computer is equivalent to dropping the soap in a prison shower.
He's not best known as Lt. Commander Doo... Scott. He's best known as "Scotty" on Star Trek.
Best wishes.
As my father lik@(munch munch)...
...put him inside a transporter buffer untill we find a cure
kirk didn't get revived. He got 'lost' and then 'found' again.
Apparently you're not the only one:
"ThreeHamsWillKillHim writes..."
The goatse guy for president. Win one for the gaper!
...not a techie. When he messed with the stuff on Star Trek, he was PRETENDING. Yep, that's right, it was all an act. He really didn't know how to calibrate a plasma relay, etc.
Tommorow I'll let you know about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny (warning: bad news).
That's one hell of an idea. I love it, and something like it should have been done a while ago. Small-time award things like that have been done before, but /. should really have something like it.
I'm givin' her all shes got Jim!!!.. she can't take no'moore..
anime+manga together at last.. in real time.
See the update here: http://www.syfyportal.com/article/?id=703
He has been released and is recovering at home; he's not comatose
sudo eat my shorts
The rumor says that his latest round of convention apperances was to raise money for his daughter, but then does not say why. What is the problem? Maybe we can all band together to help her out as our way of saying thanks for a job well done to him after he has passed.
Papa Legba come and open the gate
Major suckage.
No, they will put him in transporter suspension for a while and reanimate him when he is obsolete.
I just heard the sad news on talk radio. Actor James Doohan from Star Trek fame was found dead in his home this morning. I am sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his role as Engineer Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, there's no denyying his contribution to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Jesus, can't you guys do a little research before you pass on the rumors. He's not dead or dying yet folks... check it out.
If only the same could be said for Stephen King.
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
Fascinating. The Milwaukee School of Engineering awarded Mr. Doohan an honorary degree in Engineering after a poll of student body revealed that half of them were inspired to study engineering by Scotty in Star Trek.
I have to wonder why most people are just kind of cracking Star Trek jokes and such when this may be a serious situation. Couldn't you use Star Trek phrases for anything? If it actually involves Star Trek, than it's not exactly as witty, and since this is pretty serious, maybe this would not be a good time to be doing that sort of thing. How about something like Mark Hammil's carreer-shortening "Nooooo! That's impossible!"? That's much better.
I saw him at the Tulsa sci-fi con last year. I'll bet he signed 400 autographs. I asked one of his helpers why he bothers to come to these cons at his age, he said "you can't keep him from coming, because he wants to."
Thank you Mr Doohan.
I'm betting that the story submitter is the original "I heard some sad news on the radio today. $CELEBRITY is dead" troll.
"You get what you pay for after all." --
Would you be willing to be worked on by someone with an honarary degree in Surgery? Yeah, didn't think so.
The title says "James Doohan not in a coma and likely to survive" and the story goes on to talk about how Scotty is in a coma and probably wont make it. What's going on here?
They did a pretty good job of hiding this in the series, but if you're looking for it you can catch a glimpse every now and then.
Apparently she can take more of it Cap'n!
Somebody at Slashdot slept through their logic class when DeMorgan came up.
Is he in a coma or not? Likely to survive or not?
At least, that's what he did in the Star Trek TNG episode "Relics." It was only "50 percent brilliant," though.
Pretty fucking cold I'd say.
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
Cause it'll be a sad day when there's no more "Beat me up, Scotty"...
*Argh!*
Beam me up, Scotty...
(sorry - scary, warped t-shirts...)
---- I've fallen, and I can't get up.
Yes, this has rumor status. No, it's not out of the question. James is a really fantastic individual and as anyone who has met him as he made his rounds on the con circuit, is always kind and well mannered. He can also tell a mean story or two.. and it's even better when you can get him talking about William Shatner.. Bwahahaha!
He wanted to make sure his daughter and wife are taken care of when he is gone. That's what the money is for, no big mystery there.
Run. I like water. Push My rutabaga.
If that's not a damned role model, I don't know what is. He fought in damned World War 2, and he also inspired a lot of people. If that's not worth recognizing, what is? Actors serve as much a role in society as others, they just have to remember it. They're role models to children and teenagers, and they also help to express ideas and to bring awareness to a generally ignorant public.
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Is it a slow enough news day that you'd oversimplify a situation just so you could get modded up for griping? Never mind that you'd prefer we say 'goodbye' tomorrow than say 'get well' today.
"Derp de derp."
I guess that's why you're going to be moderated -1, Troll and he's moderated +4, Interesting. Because he's a loser with a brain who wants to actually accomplish something in life, and you're a troll who wastes his time trolling slashdot and laughing when people die. :)
I think the headline should have an "update" thing, cause when I read "James Doohan Not In A Coma and Likely To Survive", I thought, "Yah me too, so what??"
And my first nomination: Jon Katz!
:)
:)
Okay, I am SOOOO just kidding
A couple ideas for candidates I can think of off the top of my head:
-Stephen Hawking
-Bruce Sterling
-Woz
Sick idea: have one nominee every month for the year, then have the award be determined via a slashdot poll?
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"James Doohan Not In A Coma and Likely To Survive" Not in a coma and likely to survive? you sure about this?
"He's dead, Jim."
"You idiot, I'm not dead. I'm not even in a bloody coma!"
"Oh...sorry..."
"Honest to Pete...and will you please tell Hemos and Commander whatever-his-name-is to change the bloody headline? Thank you!"
Finding God in a Dog
to not flip the Jerries off.
Maybe this explains why Scotty was left out of the latest Futurama "where no fan has gone before"...
Hilarious episode BTW, especially if watched in the middle of a TOS marathon.
My Uncle was in the same unit as James Doohan and James Doohan's brother in WW2. As I understand it, they were forward artillery obsevers, whose job it was to crawl up in front of the lines and direct fire on enemy positions. I also understand that they flew small planes over the battlefield to direct fire. Apparently Mr. Doohan's brother died after his plane was obliterated by a field artillery shell.
I believe they fought in the Italian campaign, particularly at Monte Cassino, as well at Normandy.
My Uncle is, as I'm sure Mr. Doohan and other veterans are, very reluctant to talk about his experiences. They live through horrible things and went on to live good lives and achieve many things. I think it's important to remember that people of this era that are now dieing did incredible things and made the way we live possible. But their experiences are being forgotten. I hope that, when we do lose James Doohan, we remember him as a hero as well as a man who got past that part of his life and ended up entertaining us all.
Kind of a shame they didn't see fit to work that into the history of his character. In addition to ST being a landmark television show with respect to gender and race, they had the opportunity to deal with physical disabilities as well. Might have brought something more to the character as well, a freak engineering accident or something.
Are we up to over 323,000 users already? Wow.
-- Imagine how much more advanced our technology would be if we had eight fingers per hand.
LaForge: "Yeah, well I told the captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour."
Scott: "How long would it really take?"
LaForge: "An hour!"
Scott: "Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would *really* take, did you?"
LaForge: "Well of course I did."
Scott: "Oh, laddie, you've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker!"
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I just got off the phone with Someone Who Knows(tm).
He phoned Jimmy's wife, and asked her how he was, and she laughed out loud. He was in the hospital because of pneumonia, but he is home now.
She put Jimmy on the phone (he told my friend to say hi to me =]) and he said that he's glad to be home from the hospital because he missed his daughter and "the food is much better."
Please let everyone know that rumors of his death are greatly exaggerated.
Does anyone know if his illness was the reason he wasn't included in the Futurama season finale with the remainder of the living crew of the Enterprise(more accurately, the surviving cast of Star Trek), or did he not want to participate in the project?
You're only as smart as your brain.
Here is the first column.
Here is the follow-up that he promised not ot do.
Editors, get your priorities straight. We expect more from you. Stories about someone going to the hospital don't count.
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Lasers Controlled Games!
This article reminds me of the headline from the Times newspaper (London, not New York) that is said to have won a most boring headline competition: "Small Earthquake in Chile. Not many dead".
I can see tomorrow's Slashdot headlines now:
CmdrTaco not dead.
JohnKatz (sadly) not dead.
Dick Cheney: is he dead yet?
etc.
Sailing over the event horizon
I'm dead, Jim.
Perhaps I was just young, and old was just old, but if James Doohan is 82, that means the youngest Scotty we ever saw was 45, by the time he did his first movie, he was almost 60, and by the time he did his last Star Trek movie, he was 71. Can this be right? Granted it probably takes 2-3 years from film to air date, but still, I always figured Scotty was about 35. Perhaps it's what they put in the water out in Hollywood.
I wish you the best of luck and a speedy recovery.
ok
...if I could...is for getting him to the nearest Klingon bird of prey and send him on a heliocircumnavigation voyage. His role on Star Trek has captivated a lot of us.
To-do List: Receive telemarketing call during a tornado warning. Check.
He may only be an actor, but he knows the only technical principle you need to know on a starship: if something doesn't work right, reverse the polarity.
That'll only get you through until you hit the 24th century... Then you'll have to master the art of "redirecting auxillary power to the main deflector dish to create an inverted tachyon pulse". This method is found to be much more efficient in fixing all problems.
(Was auxillary power EVER used only for backup purposes?? I don't ever remember seeing all the power go out and then little circular lights near the ceiling come on... and somebody say "Well, thank god for the battery backups...)
The "Flight Engineer" series can't be any worse -- and thanks to SM Stirling, I'd say it's a lot better -- than Shatner's "Tek" series. Come on! :-)
-_Quinn
Reality Maintenance Group, Silver City Construction Co., Ltd.
Go to hell, monkey boy. He says he's an engineer but he couldn't engine is way out of a paper bag.
That Mac was supposed to be an Amiga.
I was not directly involved with the debacle, but was closely connected with Commodore personnel who were in a position to know. Paramount originally wanted to use an Amiga in that scene in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. To that end, they contacted Commodore to obtain an Amiga 1000 for use.
The dweezil at the other end informed them that Commodore had no procedures in place for distribution of promotional machines (marketing? What's that?). However, they would be willing to sell them a machine at cut-rate developer pricing. Surprisingly, Paramount agreed, cut a check, and sent it off.
Fast forward a couple weeks: No machine. Another call to Commodore. It turns out that the amount of the check failed to include some trivial fee (shipping, tax, whatever), and the machine wasn't going to be shipped. Paramount was invited to send another check for the corrected amount.
Paramount understandably got fed up and made it's next call to Cupertino, CA. Apple not only gave Paramount a machine, they assigned them a programmer to do whatever they needed to make the machine dance for the camera.
Just another page in the ponderous tome of Commodore's incompetent management.
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
I was thinking, for some reason, that Leonard Nimoy is dead. But, I checked the Dead People Server, and apparently he is still alive.
Dead People Server
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
The Zap2it report comes following a source report that the 82-year-old was in worse shape than previously reported [syfyportal.com]. SyFy Portal, which is a news and rumors site, had been working on confirming the report which stated that doctors did not anticipate a recovery. The We did note in our initial report that details were still in the rumor stage.
Well what are they waiting for?? He's close enough already... stick him in the transporter pattern buffer on diagnostic cycle already and preserve him for later generations!
He kept doing this for a while, meeting her at conventions and asking her to be at the next one...that's a pretty common suicide-prevention tactic, to get a promise from someone that you'll see them sometime in the future. That way they can't kill themselves.
He lost touch with her for a few years, and thought the worst, until he got a letter from her stating that she'd gone to grad school (Engineering, I think), and that his intervention saved her life. When he was telling the story, he was fighting back tears.
So yeah, he had a chance to do the Right Thing, and he did it. Celebrity may be a fickle thing, but he used his influence well.
That's why I admire him.
"Hardly used" will not fetch you a better price for your brain.
For what it's worth...His rehab stint will probably last a month or two, provided that he can afford it (which I think is safe to presume) and that those in charge make sure he gets it.
No, I'm not a doctor. But I have been working in a Veteran's Affairs medical center for the past seven months, and this is based just on how long it generally takes patients to be discharged. The VA, unlike most places, actually makes sure that those patients who really need extensive rehab get it. Most people will only get a few weeks of therapy (and just go 2-3 times a week, an hour or two a session), in the unit I work in, patients stay anywhere from a week to three or four months, going to therapy atleast five days a week, 1-3 hours a day.
-Jenn
Actually, the highest UID assigned, as I write this is 578138, which belongs to slcgreek.
Welcome aboard, slcgreek!
My fans dinna think
I could take much more
But I'm still alive
At two and four score
So get me some Burma Shave
Right from the store!
Finding God in a Dog
First, they tell us TLGAD before the show airs on the west coast, and then they tell us Scotty is comatose and not likely to recover, while the man is still conscious!
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
Just look at Sean Connery. Those Scottish people live for ages.
That would explain why he was talking into a mouse in "Star Trek IV".
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
They can always replace him with Welshy!
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http://www.gotfuturama.com/cgi-bin/EpisodeRevie
Slashdot: come for the pedantry, stay for the condescension.
This parrot's dead, Jim.
I hate to break it to you, but he is going to die, and probably soon. And if not soon, he will be walking around drooling all over him self, just so you and your geek friends can say "See this incontinent, daft, drooling old man, the doctors kept him alive, just so I can point to him and say 'This is one cool guy, he played a character on a TV show once, and we won't let him die with any dignity.'"
A few people here need a good bitch slap!
He's Scottie! He's a hero.
Isn't it time for another SonicBlue article?
I don't usually troll, but this story just begs for it.
Ceci n'est pas une sig
Good thing that he didn't become a cab driver, that middle figer is very important.
Now my favorite Scotty Quote:
Captain, whatta we doo !!!
"Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it" Richard Feynman
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Scotty is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Scotty community when IDC confirmed that Scotty market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers> Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Scotty has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Scotty is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict Scotty's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Scotty faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Scotty because Scotty is dying. Things are looking very bad for Scotty. As many of us are already aware, Scotty continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeScotty is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenScotty leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenScotty. How many users of NetScotty are there? Let's see. The number of OpenScotty versus NetScotty posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetScotty users. Scotty/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetScotty posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Scotty/OS. A recent article put FreeScotty at about 80 percent of the Scotty market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeScotty users. This is consistent with the number of FreeScotty Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeScotty went out of business and was taken over by ScottyI who sell another troubled OS. Now Scotty is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Scotty has steadily declined in market share. Scotty is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Scotty is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Scotty continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Scotty is dead.
I really actually haven't had sex since 1989. In fact George Micheal has had sex with a woman more recently than me.
But guess what? My goal is not to have sex. My goal is to live in Shinjuku.
graspee
Now that we've seen this, I think it's time the ACs actually submit the following "rumor" as a story and see if it makes the front page:
"Stephen King, author, dead at 64"
Maybe then at least it won't get posted quite so often...
Thanks for the laughs Trolls. I don't know what I would do without you.
Novelist Steven King, 55, was found dead in his Maine home today. Even if you aren't familiar with his work...
Oh wait... just kidding... he's not quite dead yet, either. (insert appropriate Princess Bride or Monty Python quote here)
As a world class engineer, Scotty has the best solution to The Kobayashi Maru. It is worth reading. Really funny.
Hey dipshits! I'm not in a coma either!
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Who cares?
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How the fuck is that a Troll? Get off the freakin' crack pipe, moderators!
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Thank god John Cleese is not on the Slashdot staff,
Slashdot(represented by Mr. Cleese): Here is another for you.
Mortician: That will be 5 Pence.
Doohan: I'm not dead.
Mortician: He says he is not dead.
Mr. Cleese: He will stone dead any moment.
Doohan: I am alive, I was just a little under the weather!
Mr. Cleese: But we already posted your demise up on the internet!
Mortician: I can't take him if he is not dead.
Mr. Cleese: If is not dead, we have to print a retraction, not to mention all the Trolls we would have to deal with... Can't we work out something?
Doohan: I here there is another convention coming up soon and uuummfffhhh!
Mr. Cleese: Thanks appreciate that! See you next Monday! We will be printing a story about Alan Greenspan if you get my drift!
Mortician See you Monday!
Hereis their website. They're flying around a bunch of old Boeing 727s. Not nearly what they were many years ago, but they're still clinging on for dear life. ;)
My 74 year old Scottish father recently spent 6 weeks in hospital (including 10 days in a 'coma') with the dreaded 'big P'. It's what a lot of old people die of.
:-)
Dads home now, and expected to make a full recovery, hopefully the other "Scotty" will be just as lucky. Maybe it'll give him the few years more work he'd need to get the scots accent right
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds important)
Tachyon? Tachyon?! Fibre Channel? That's so, so 21st century
To Copy from One is Plagiarism; To Copy from Many is Research.
I never said I wouldn't want people to be able to say get well. I've been around the 'Net long enough to know that rumors are a dime a dozen. How many times did the "Alex Guiness is dead" story circulate?
My point was that if Slashdot wants to post notices about such things, I would feel far more comfortable with them posting stories based on *fact*, not rumor.
-> Capt Cosmic <-
Not hardly. Been around Slashdot for over a year. I just don't post unless I have something meaningful to add.
-> Capt Cosmic <-
"Just" Wil? Say rather, are any of the others as cool as Wil. Sounds more diplomatic...
I'd be inclined to guess that most actors, even sci-fi-happy actors, aren't too much more interested in news-for-nerds than the average American (not even all self-proclaimed geeks read slashdot, after all). On the other hand, you never know who might be lurking. But on the gripping hand, people who lurk are people who don't want to attract attention (sort of by definition).
"The Crystal Wind is the Storm, and the Storm is Data, and the Data is Life"
He's Scotty, best engineer Starfleet's ever had, not a dog.
I hate star fuck.
Better setup that transporter so we can beam in into it, and preserve his life until LaForge finds him later.
Attention all planets of the Solar Federation! We have assumed control! - Neil Peart
He's (not) dead, Jim.
Game: Player 'Donald J Trump' now has AI skill level 'experimental'.
Maybe you mean that other site, K5. I have looked for it on /. and I can't find it either. Search shows nothing recent. This is strange since he could put up a column on how he was going to make his own ultra-wide band who knows what with his very own supercomputer and it would show up here as news. I never did mind, since I would rather discuss what he says than Katz, but you would think of anything that he ever wrote, this is the most worthy of a /.ing.
Lasers Controlled Games!
Except today.
"Burns was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
He was then transferred to a better hospital where his condition was upgraded to 'alive.'"
-Kent Brockman
I prefer modulating the shield harmonics on a triaxillating frequency.
Wouldn't it be cool if scads of folks slashdotted him with get well notes (in the US mail)? The dude is not feeling too well, and is practically the patron saint of geeks. I don't know his address, but I assume that some /.er knows how to find it, and could follow up here.
He's Canadian. For god sakes, read the story man!
Cap'n! Mah brrrain canna take the strrain much longarr!
Four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still. -C. Coolidge
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&th= c2901a7351fb8d57&rnum=14
Note this post from long, long ago (1993).
It's well-known that he's been several people.
I remember to photo on his Infoworld column
from then was so bad, it was obviously fake.
SIDs is terrible, but it's cheap to use a
ficticious person and a fake story to
tug at people's heart strings.
It may be a case of shabby tactics in service of
a noble cause, but still...
I know how you feel, #33356. I was slow to sign up when they started logins, yet got a pretty low number. I was impressed when the numbers raced through 5 digits.
-Paul Komarek, #794.
He's pining for the lochs.
I have met him three times now in the past six years, twice at cons (I only intended to go to one here in NY, the other was incidental in LV while on a porn vacation) and once at a book signing in LA. I actually got to speak to him for about 1/2 in LV... great guy. I have always been a fan of ST:TOS and he was my fav character for all the quips and last second saves. I wish him and his family well and hope he has a speedy recovery.
He is a beloved family man, veteran, and well known actor and it would be a loss to many...
Go read his books (the scifi stuff and his bio), they are very interesting and solid reads.
wow, I guess that does explain the acting then. Even more kudos to chekov and sulu, who both managed to appear more wooden than the set. I reckon chekov must take the prize - the sliding door at the back usually managed to convey more emotion - but its a tough call.
"The energizer's bypassed like a Christmas tree. She cannot take too many bumps."
"Aye, lad. You're going to need something to wash that down with."
"That ties it. That poppinjay Fox just beamed down with the landing party."
Wansu, th' chinese sailor
It also said he fathered a child at 80, with his current 40-something wife.
I can just hear the moment of conception now... : "I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain!"
I'd have a personalized plate on my car, but "toxic bachelor" won't fit into 7 letters.
Nope. Ewhac (Hi, Leo!) is a well-known Amiga pioneer, and he knows what he's talking about. I'm the former editor of .info magazine, which covered the Amiga, and we reported this story at the time. It was, unfortunately, representative of Commodore's "Let's Shoot Ourselves in the Foot Again" marketing philosophy of the time.
Serving your airship needs since 1995.
Did you really have to reopen those old wounds? What Commodore did to Amiga makes my stomach hurt.
If you play the Star Trek theme song backwards you can distincly hear "Scotty is dead" being spoken by Paul McCartney.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Man: Here's one-
Cart-master: Nine bars of latinum.
Old Man: (feebly) I'm not dead!
Cart-master: (suprised) What?
Man: Nothing! Here's your latinum....
Old Man: I'm not dead!
Cart-master: 'Ere! 'E says 'e's not dead!
Man: Yes he is.
Old Man: I'm not!
Cart-master: 'E isn't?
Man: Well... he will be soon-- he's very ill...
Old Man: I'm getting better!
Man: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Cart-master: I can't take 'im like that! It's against Starfleet regulations!
Old Man: I don't want to go on the cart....
Man: Oh, don't be such a baby.
Cart-master: I can't take 'im....
Old Man: I feel fine!
Man: Well, do us a favor...
Cart-master: I can't!
Man: Can you hang around a couple of minutes? He won't be long...
Cart-master: No, gotta get to the station in the Regulus Nebula, they lost nine today.
Man: Well, when's your next round?
Cart-master: Thursday.
Old Man: I think I'll go for a walk....
Man: You're not fooling anyone, you know-- (to Cart-master) Look, isn't there something you can do...?
(they both look around)
Old Man: I feel happy! I feel happy!
(the Cart-master deals the old man a swift blow to the head with his wooden spoon. The old man goes limp.)
Man: (throwing the old man onto the cart) Ah. thanks very much.
Cart-master: Not at all. See you on Thursday!
Man: Right! All right....
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Boy, if this is true, it shows just one aspect of the downfall of Commodore. I first learned Basic and Pascal on a C64. The first computer I purchased was a C128.
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I guess it was a market inevitability that we would be reduced to, basically, 3 or 4 basic computer architectures. It would have been nice to see machines like the Amiga make it. I guess it is still used in some TV stations - for what, I do not know.
Get well soon, Scotty. You are a living legend.
-- Those of you who think you know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.
Wow, one of the rumoured 3 digiters ;)
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CYA STUX =`B^) 'da Captain,
Jedi & Last *-fytr