Slashdot Mirror
Battlestar Galactica Actor Richard Hatch Dies At 71 (tmz.com)
New submitter computerman413 writes: TMZ reports that Richard Hatch has passed away at 71 from pancreatic cancer. Hatch played Apollo on the original Battlestar Galactica, and had a recurring role as terrorist Tom Zarek on the reimagined Battlestar Galactica.
I've always thought that Battlestar Galactica could have been an excellent series had it been rebooted in a slightly less radical way, as it's got a simple but compelling formula. Update the tech, eliminate some of the cheese, but keep the basic premise and characters largely intact. While I'm sure many people enjoyed the 2004 series, it sort of lost me when it decided on "cylons are identical to humans" (which might have been fine in limited doses, but I was a fan of actual robotic cylons), and then veered into bizarre quasi-religious territory. I finally quit watching when I realized that I disliked all the humans enough that I was subconsciously rooting for the Cylons to just kill them all and be done with it.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Guys, start working out and take it very fucking seriously and not skip days off - even just for 5k walks in the park. You don't have to become "Arnold" muscula or anything drastic, but you have to have physical activity to clear the mind and strengthen your body. My dad is 72 and he looks fit as a fiddle. Bald as a cueball and looks pretty old too but he chops down trees with a chainsaw, mows the lawns on a tractor, snowblows when the snow is deep...
His only secret is doing things at his pace. Not someone elses. Go glow but go steady. It's one of the only weapons you have to combat aging. Get good sleep and improve your diet if possible too. At the very least...just go for steady, long enjoyable walks and get outside...do something!