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Daniel Kahneman
Nobel Laureate; some here might have read: "Thinking. Fast and lsow"
I did learn a few things from him (via the book).
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To put an end to this thread, I'm waiting to post the notable death of Death itself, and hopefully before I die.
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@pettytalk said
To put an end to this thread, I'm waiting to post the notable death of Death itself, and hopefully before I die.
Are you looking for it to happen in the Donne way, or in the Alhazred way?
Isle of Misfit Toys
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@pettytalk said
To put an end to this thread, I'm waiting to post the notable death of Death itself, and hopefully before I die.
By the time that happens, you won't need to post about it here.
wildly content...
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Louis Gossett Jr, the first black man to win an Oscar for best supporting actor, dies at 87
https://news.sky.com/story/louis-gossett-jr-the-first-black-man-to-win-an-oscar-for-best-supporting-actor-dies-at-87-13101956
Linkenheim
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Igor Rausis, former Grandmaster who achieved notoriety for cheating using a smartphone on the toilet.
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@ponderable said
Igor Rausis, former Grandmaster who achieved notoriety for cheating using a smartphone on the toilet.
I read the newspaper on the toilet.🤔👍
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@great-big-stees said
I read the newspaper on the toilet.🤔👍
To be accurate he wasn't actually 'on' the toilet, he was hiding in the toilet.
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@the-gravedigger said
To be accurate he wasn't actually 'on' the toilet, he was hiding in the toilet.
Even worse.😲
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Juan Vicente Pérez 113 years old.
Oldest living man for some time before his death. He hailed from Venezuela.
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Joe Flaherty of SCTV “fame”.
Behind the scenes
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@ponderable said
Daniel Kahneman
Nobel Laureate; some here might have read: "Thinking. Fast and lsow"
I did learn a few things from him (via the book).
OMG...Just started reading that book yesterday. It's NOT light reading. Daniel and his partner Amos Tversky were brilliant.
Isle of Misfit Toys
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@rookie54 said
Louis Gossett Jr, the first black man to win an Oscar for best supporting actor, dies at 87
https://news.sky.com/story/louis-gossett-jr-the-first-black-man-to-win-an-oscar-for-best-supporting-actor-dies-at-87-13101956
Noooooooo!
I hadn't heard.
Isle of Misfit Toys
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@ponderable said
Juan Vicente Pérez 113 years old.
Oldest living man for some time before his death. He hailed from Venezuela.
He was 114, very nearly 115.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oldest-man-guiness-world-records-juan-vicente-perez-dies-venezuela-before-115th-birthday/
Linkenheim
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Joe Viera
founder of the Internationale Jazzwoche Burghausen (and a notable saxophon player apart from that)
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