O Waily Waily

[tealin]

http://www.paulkidby.com/news/index.html

[stares at the wall]

EDIT 9:03 PM
On the other hand, there is Stanford's Folding Project which uses your computer kind of like SETI does, only for protein research. In the words of noodledaddy, 'Danm global warming, keep your computers on 24/7 for Terry!'

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[eveforward.livejournal.com]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!

[zfiledh.livejournal.com]

I'm shocked, though I haven't checked any of his works up close. :/

[teshara.livejournal.com]

I don't want to believe it.
It's like the world has lost a bit of it's color.

[dried-frog-pill.livejournal.com]

[brendanm720.livejournal.com]

Well, crap.

Hopefully, he'll get onto the new meds (if he isn't already) and only be a little absent-minded for a long time.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Hear hear.

[kairii1989.livejournal.com]

T_T

...and I only just started reading his books...:(

[fishbulb33.livejournal.com]

Man, this made me so sad today. Why's it always the cool people?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well, there's plenty of uncool people too, we just don't hear about them. :1

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

Nice new icon

[fani.livejournal.com]

On one hand:

I'm very grateful with al the stuff he has on the other:

NUUUUUU

[tony-cliff.livejournal.com]

I've been running F@H for quite a while now (it's running as I type this), and have even installed it on some machines at work (hey, they get left on all the time any way). Your comparison to SETI lacks one point, though: F@H is useful.

As to your first topic, though - that is pretty crap news.

[infiniteviking]

That's... egad, no. *headdesk*

[bakurakrazie.livejournal.com]

Ho shi-

In class we've been learning about Alzheimer's. Thank goodness they caught it early. There are meds that have been shown to help it, and there's lots of physical/mental therapy to help him.

But on the other hand I've also seen what happens when it's far-in, and it's so fucking scary for them and the people that know them.

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

Is it Terry who's ill? I thought it was Paul Kidby. It's sad anyway. Strange how all these famous people get ill these days. In the old days celebrities were immortal... until Elvis died anyway.

And it is nonsense that our poor little computers cause global warming. It is just something they say so that industry will look more innocent. So if they can't get the big boys to cut the CO2, and the world drowns, they can point their fingers at us and say "This is because YOU used computers, and hairdryers, and didn't close you fridge doors fast enough!"

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

Well, the thing about this too is that CO2 has always been a lagging indicator of warming, that ,is historically on the earth there has been the warming first, then the rise in CO2, as the warming causes the CO2, not the other way around. But wait, you mean there have been warming and cooling periods on the earth before? YES! And there has been warming and cooling on other planets too. The temperature on Mars for example is up almost as much (within .2 degrees C) as the Earth's and there is a distinct lack of SUVs, factories, and Al Gores on Mars.

Lest we forget, in the early 70s the scientific consensus was that we were quickly heading for the next ice age.

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

Actually, geologic theories seem to indicate we are in a period of ice ages and happen to be in a warmer period. In the long term, according to scientists I saw on a recent History Channel show, the Earth will enter another ice age inevitably. And the really, really long term, if you believe in tectonic plate drift theories (whether we humans are around or not), the energy moving current tectonic plate drifts will come to a halt with formation of a supercontinent like the ancient Gondwana and, if it settles in the far south of the planet, life will halt, making the Earth as barren as Mars supposedly is (that is if the sun does not burn us up first if it goes Red Giant or whatever. So much to look forward to!

[(Anonymous)]

Wait... You mean that this could be NATURAL? You mean that nature does things like this on it's own? You mean that humans don't control everything in the entire universe? *is shocked*

[beckychan.livejournal.com]

God I know... :deep sigh:

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

Well, at least they've caught it early.

Still, though. Alzheimer's has to be one of the worst things a writer can catch.

Where's the pineapple when you need it?

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is so sad! Time marches on whether we like it or not.

First Robert Heinlein and now Terry! We learn to treasure what they give us in their books because life is so finite....

I hope it turns out there will be many more books and letters from Terry yet. I will treasure them as the gifts to us that they are.

[raisegrate.livejournal.com]

ARG! NO!

Well, here's hoping they discover some fantastical new cure in the next 5 minutes...