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Obituaries for 2023
jmyrlefuller:
Gloria Dea, the first magician to perform on the Las Vegas Strip, dies at age 100.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/gloria-dea-1st-magician-las-vegas-strip-dies-97974614
jmyrlefuller:
Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel most famous for his observation that computer chip capabilities grow exponentially ("Moore's law"), dies at 94.
https://apnews.com/article/intel-founder-gordon-moore-dies-computer-chips-57af0798bf02491a95fce0c97c347dc3
catfish1957:
--- Quote from: jmyrlefuller on March 25, 2023, 02:09:37 pm ---Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel most famous for his observation that computer chip capabilities grow exponentially ("Moore's law"), dies at 94.
https://apnews.com/article/intel-founder-gordon-moore-dies-computer-chips-57af0798bf02491a95fce0c97c347dc3
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Built a great company that has since fell into the hands of idiots. Recently INTC was at 10 year low on market cap, and right now it's only a speculative chip play in case the Chicoms invade Taiwan. Right now it is worth about 40% of its all time highs.
Pretty amazing he made it to 93, losing that much capital and market share.
Gefn:
Mark Russell, political satirist with a star-spangled piano, dies at 90
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Mark Russell, Washington’s social-political satirist and stand-up comic who spoofed, teased and laughed at celebrities, politicians, politics and popular culture for more than 50 years from behind his star-spangled piano, died March 30 at his home in the District. He was 90.
The cause was complications from prostate cancer, said his wife, Alison Russell.
From the waning years of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration through the presidencies of 10 succeeding chief executives, Mr. Russell poked fun at the foibles and flaws of the well-known, the pompous and the powerful in monologues replete with pithy one-liners and musical ditties. He called himself “a political cartoonist for the blind.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/03/30/mark-russell-satirist-pianist-dead/
sneakypete:
--- Quote from: Gefn on March 30, 2023, 11:47:37 pm ---Mark Russell, political satirist with a star-spangled piano, dies at 90
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/03/30/mark-russell-satirist-pianist-dead/
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@Gefn
I always enjoyed his tv appearances.
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