In billy.pilgrim's honor, a spot at the top.

[bannination]

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[GoCubsGo]

I was always struck by the irony of a southern progressive, a good old boy that adored Jimmy Carter.

He will be missed.

[Boatrocker]

What happened to billy?

[GoCubsGo]

What happened to billy?

He was apparently in poorer health than we knew.

He passed last April. We didn't find out until later.

Sort of glad he didn't have to experience yesterday, he would've been mortified.

[neoplacebo]

What happened to billy?

He was apparently in poorer health than we knew.

He passed last April. We didn't find out until later.

Sort of glad he didn't have to experience yesterday, he would've been mortified.

Yeah, I thought the same thing....meant to post here yesterday that he's probably glad he didn't have to see the way this turned out.

[Boatrocker]

What happened to billy?

He was apparently in poorer health than we knew.

He passed last April. We didn't find out until later.

Sort of glad he didn't have to experience yesterday, he would've been mortified.

Damn damn damn! I guess I should be glad for him, as well. Funny, I just read Slaughter House Five again, after almost 50 years. I would say, "So it goes." but it doesn't seem right, in this moment.

[.Oomba.]

He was an OG Withlacoochee River warrior who'd listened to Charles Vann and Bob Lassiter and any good soul or R&B he could get his ears on. I knew him from several online fora, and looked forward to his contributions on every one of them. War Damn Eagle!

[Vrede too]

Maybe billy can share this space with rstrong, Winnipeg techie Roger Strong irl. O Really and I became convinced that he must have died when he suddenly and without explanation disappeared from this and a science forum years ago. Obituary and other searches proved fruitless. RIP.
https://www.techdirt.com/user/rogerstrong/

I did not save the full context, but this had to do with rstrong being considered a dangerous hacker and not able to travel to the US, a restriction he thought might have ended but he hadn't tested it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... of_experts

http://nowthis.com/log/1999/08/05.html

The winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (in which you try to come up with a really awful opening sentence to an imaginary novel) have been chosen. Most are hilarious; I'll try to restrain myself from quoting too many:

1999 Winners
(Science Fiction winner:) The remaining astronauts strung out on the long tether could only wonder at a universe full of eerie contrasts - brilliant stars against the velvety blackness of space, the hot flare of their comrade's meteoric plunge into the atmosphere against the cool-blue ocean below, the man's frenzied screams on the radio as he was roasted by the heat of re-entry against the icy calm voice of mission control as they grilled the astronaut on the far end of the tether, and how hilarious it had all seemed when he first yelled "Crack the whip!"
-- Roger Strong, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

"I use it to annoy my sister with the technically true claim that I'm an international award-winning author."


We were in the presence of greatness.