Craig Sawyers
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And this is the story of Abraham Wald and survivorship bias https://medium.com/@penguinpress/an-excerpt-from-how-not-to-be-wrong-by-jordan-ellenberg-664e708cfc3d
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Or maybe she is just getting old. If Mercury had lived, he would now be 77!
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The woman friend that Freddy Mercury left his Kensington home and all contents to in his will, is selling everything at auction. She said in an interview on R4: "it is time to put my affairs in order" which kind of implies that she has some serious health condition. She wants to sell things now rather than someone else (probably an executor) sell everything later.
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RIP Harry Belafonte. What a legend! But not too shabby an innings at 96.
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My software expertise terminated with BASIC, FORTRAN77 and ALGOL68. When software became object oriented my remaining brain cell went into overload. Java, Javascript, Python blah blah - just words to me.
An old friend became an expert in APL, because it was used where he worked. Cryptic, powerful, with statements resembling transmission line noise
Life ← {⊃1 ⍵ ∨.∧ 3 4 = +/ +⌿ ¯1 0 1 ∘.⊖ ¯1 0 1 ⌽¨ ⊂⍵}
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That vise mechanism is a thing of extreme beauty.
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Were the jaws on a separate order to the vice? If it was on a credit card, you can just cancel the order and get the money back from your credit card company.
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Provided you aren't peeping through the knotholes...
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Mad even got across the pond. I'm astonished that the responsible cartoonist was still alive and drawing at 99! 102 is not a bad age.
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Wow. A speed icon passes. RIP Mr Breedlove.
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Freddy Starr in his heyday
And how he ended his life, broke, on the Costa del Sol, with a quadruple bypass and eventually died aged 76
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Can't believe anything you read in the Sun. Tabloid rag, with "Shock! Horror! Probe!" journalism.
Some classic Sun headlines. Topping it "Freddy Starr ate my hamster" Starr was a stand up comedian.
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Back in the day, I went on business to Israel for a week one January. It was anomalously warm, short sleeve shirt warm.
I then travelled to Finland with a change of planes at Frankfurt, where it was snowing. Landed at Helsinki and it was -40C (the only temperature that it the same in C and F). I saw locals at the airport taking fearsome looking thermal clothing out of lockers and though Oho I'm in trouble here. It is nose freezing up inside when you breath cold. My clothing was inadequate for the ridiculously cold temperature.
Eventually got to the hotel in a taxi with thick ice inside the windows, and our local marketer took me to the sauna there.
So in a single day, I'd gone from +22C to -40C then to +100C.
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Good grief - that is totally scary.
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Back to cycling stories. Apart from Casartelli crashing out and dying in 1995, the only Tour death in modern times was British cycling legend Tom Simpson. He died on the upper slopes of Mont Ventou in the 1967 Tour. It is a ball breaker of a hill, the temperature was high, and Simpson had been taking amphetamine, and his water bottle contained brandy - both diuretic. So dehydration and high temperatures is what did for him
Apart from Casartelli and Simpson, there has only been two other deaths on the tour - and those are from the really early days.
There are however fearsome crashes. Who could forget Johnny Hoogerland being propelled at speed into a barbed wire fence after being side swiped by France TV car in Stage 9 in 2011. Even so, with blood running down his legs, he managed to finish the stage inside the cutoff time, and spent the night in hospital getting 33 stitches to the wounds on his legs. He still got on his bike the next morning, and went on to finish the 2011 tour. Tough fellas, pro cyclists.
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Same thing kind of happened to a mate of mine. Lifelong skier, really skilled. Skiing in Austria with his adult daughter, he was descending at speed off-piste, a ski hit a rock and pitched him downslope into a tree. He was wearing a helmet, but clobbering a tree with your head at 30mph is not going to end well. Helicoptered off the hill, he ended up in the neurology ward for quite a long time.
He's kind of recovered five or six years on, but still has some problems in concentrating. Which is tough for a serial entrepreneur. He was CEO of his latest company before the accident.
Nothing like as bad as Michael Schumacher's skiing accident which reduced him to being a pale shadow of his former self, wheelchair bound and with difficulty in communicating. He apparently manages to watch F1 on the television and understand what he's seeing.
Or Fabio Casertelli in the 1995 Tour de France, who lost control while descending the col de Portet d'Aspet at speed (usually 50mph plus), and his head hit a concrete bollard at the side of the road. Dead at the scene. Not wearing a helmet, which was not necessary on mountain stages at that time.
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I had no idea who Gary Busey was and had to look it up on Wikipedia. OTOH even if I knew who he was I'd have had trouble recognizing him from the photo with the gun.
Happy Birthday Kevin!
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Happy birthday Kevin - have a truly spectacular one!