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Tag Archives: obituaries
Fatalism
This chart showing all the ways Canadians died last year is pretty neat. I’m just trying not to think about the fact that, at some point, I will be added to one of these dots. Syphilis and Lawnmower look pretty underrepresented. Maybe I can aim to boost those numbers? http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/11/05/graphic-so-many-ways-to-die/
Canada Eliminates Penny
Canada’s eliminating the penny, a coin which I happen to like. (Seriously, why not get rid of the nickel instead?) Even worse, this is their reasoning: “Pennies take up too much space on our dressers at home,” Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said in the text of his budget speech in Ottawa. “They take up far [...]
A Certain Kind of Death
At the death of a year in which far too many of my loved and admired ones passed away, I stumbled across this documentary about the procedures of death – specifically, those who die without next of kin. The YouTube description is “unblinking and unsettling”, and there are scenes of dead bodies in various states [...]
Steve’s Sister
It’s been almost 2 months since Steve Jobs died, and I’m still not ready to watch the memorial service. I read this eulogy – written by his sister Mona – at the time, and was in bits. Rereading it now, I’m heartbroken again. We lost someone very special. Always thinking, sketching, inventing, and tweaking. What [...]
The Voice
I’m catching up on links I meant to Stumble for months, but an extended absence from Firefox (and now, an eternal avoidance of StumbleUpon) left them lingering in my to-do list. A few months ago, a “celebrity” unknown outside Toronto died. Within Toronto, though, everyone knew and loved Mark Dailey: A giant with a deep [...]
The End of the Band as We Know It
I was a huge REM fan back in the day – loving even that album (1998′s Up) that everyone else thought was terrible. Since then, though, their output has felt less and less relevant. Some great tunes, to be sure, but nothing that spoke to me the way they did through Automatic for the People [...]
Apple – Remembering Steve Jobs
http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/I hate that this page exists, and I’m in tears right now as I write this.\ \ Steve was my CEO for 8 of the most turbulent and most formative years of my life. I started with Apple pre-iPod, when the company was floundering and not expected to survive. The cadre of believers I worked [...]
and then it all started happening
http://everydaygenius.tumblr.com/post/9335007700The Leader of the Opposition, Jack Layton, died this week, just a few months after leading his party to the best results they’ve ever seen. I wasn’t a huge fan of the man – he never met a photo opportunity he didn’t take – but there’s no denying that his heart was in the right [...]
Hit-and-run victim was quiet and dependable, co-workers say – St. Petersburg Times
http://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/hit-and-run-victim-was-quiet-and-dependable-co-workers-say/1124721Shortly after the St. Petersburg Times announced Mr. Smith’s death on its website, a reader posted a comment stating the following: A man who is working as a dishwasher at the Crab Shack at the age of 48 is surely better off dead. Web editors removed the comment, deeming it an offensive and insensitive insult [...]
RIP Adam Yauch