Friday, February 27, 2015

He Was Not Herbert

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  1. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. Fuck.

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  2. 1) the comments at the nytimes obit include many personal statements about what star trek meant to people

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html

    2)missus charley had not been able to make the vulcan greeting hand gesture - i taught her to do so last night by the method of successive approximation - first moving only the little finger away from the rest of the hand, then keeping the ring finger with it

    at the nytimes they have a video of nimoy explaining that he had seen the gesture in a ceremony in the synagogue - which he had peeked at although he had been told not to look

    3)he died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - without it he might have made it to 93, not just 83 - he had been a smoker for a couple of decades, and although he gave it up in midlife the harmful effects stayed with him

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