Sad news today

[Elaevia]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31858156

 

 

:(

 

Those tweets actually made me tear up a bit, as they wer just so 'right'.

[Ithillian Turambar]

:devastated:

[Basel Gill]

THE WORLD HAS LOST A GREAT AND FUNNY MAN. GIVE BINKY A PET FOR US, SIR TERRY.

[Ryrin]

Yes, today is a sad day.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

[Wayward_fool]

NO! BASEL! *sad again* I was so ok this morning, then your Binky reference...

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

the books he wrote after he knew were so full of fear and anger. what a terrible disease.

[Ithillian Turambar]

Sir Terry will live on in the clacks forever.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31907768

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

GMU

[Ithillian Turambar]

GNU

 

 

Verb said if I asked him he'd ask Jason if DM could join the clacks, but I dunno. I was so sad when I heard that I almost burst into tears at work. It was Sir Terry's book Mort that first made me laugh out loud when reading, and also helped me realised there were other people out there who liked to read what I read. Made me feel kind of normal - pre Potter lol.

 

But I dunno. This is an RJ Forum, so it might be weird to ask.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

RJ was friends with terry.

[Ithillian Turambar]

That is cool. I didn't know that

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

ya and he was a fan, too. :)

[Ithillian Turambar]

Well that's also good to know :)

 

clever people doing clever things for nice reasons. I'm still thinking it's awesome that someone thought this up.

[Ithillian Turambar]

His name is in the code, in the wind in the rigging and the shutters. Haven't you ever heard the saying A man's not dead while his name is still spoken?

[Wayward_fool]

Isn't it GNU? Not GMU? Or am I confused?

[Ithillian Turambar]

It is GNU

 

I'm so silly

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

ya the smoking gnu. I had a derp.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

Isn't it GNU? Not GMU? Or am I confused?

you

may still

be confused tho.

[Elaevia]

I read this today:

 

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

and it reminded me of this

 

"I see, so you're using boots as a metaphor for the onus of responsibility and decision placed on the aristocracy as they assume leadership of complex political and social positions"

"Metaphor for..." Mat scowled "Bloody ashes woman. This isn't a metaphor for anything! It's just boots"

 

 

And when I thought of them both together I went    and now I think I need cake.

[Basel Gill]

I began Moving Pictures last night. I'd read the first eight or nine Discworld books, and this seemed like a good time to jump back into the series.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

I love that boots synchronicity via :)

[Elgee]

I am so very very sad. May the last embrace of the Mother welcome him home. And Binky.

[dawnflower8]

I have quite a few of his books that I haven't read yet. I should get around to doing that.

[Ithillian Turambar]

I sold all mine for charity when I got an ebook.

 

 

I'm thinking I'll be needing to get them all again once I get my office corner kitted out proper.