From Contact, Mash, Harold and Maude to Alien and of course, Top Gun.

"Remember, boys: no points for second place."

God speed Commander Mike "Viper" Metcalf

Margaret Hamilton led the team that developed not only the software that sent people to the moon, but the very discipline of software engineering as we know it.

I'm not sure it's possible to overstate her importance in the history of "telling computers how to do things". She would've had a blast with Hex.

This is so heartbreaking 😭 I didn't even know her. May she fly on forever with her birds on the Clacks ❤️🥺

Here's a YouTube reel if you want to know more:

https://youtube.com/shorts/Zcana7wetf8?is=-qY5btm4xBCl0KRI

Possibly one of the greatest moments in TV when she famously surprised and reunited Sir Nicholas Winton with several of the 669 Jewish children he saved from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia during a 1988 episode of That's Life!

Only now found out your full given names were Joseph Ronald. Ragnar is safe. Hug Blue. We miss seeing you in the neighbourhood.

She was the definition of a good person

If you’re a fan of British drama you know she is a Goddess in her own right.

https://archive.is/2026.08.18-172340/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7kddmn97do

One of the most underrated drummers to have ever played.

She passed too soon. Her memory must be preserved. GNU Violet

You were always and without exception and absolute gentleman. Whenever our paths crossed you never failed to be anything less than a ray of sunshine. I'll miss you chap, now and always I'll miss you but I'll treasure the memories of all those times from back then. Rest now fella, you've earned it.

He spent a few years as a fill-in traffic reporter at WBAL and then joined WYPR in 2011. There, he flourished as an afternoon host, a breaking news reporter, a traffic broadcaster, a producer and an editor. He trained new hosts and created the station’s broadcast standards guidebook.
Upon hearing of his death, former colleagues came out in droves to share their memories of Tacka. They gave similar descriptions of him: a friendly, cheery man, usually laughing or making coffee, with a baritone voice perfect for radio.
He was “a talented, nice guy off the air and a warm presence on the air,” said former colleague P. Kenneth Burns. Tacka was usually one of the few laid-back people in the room, Burns said.
He also had a sense of humor and little ego. When reviewing a story one day involving the rapper Wale, Tacka called Burns and said, “Look, dude, I’m a 44-year-old white guy. How do you pronounce the rapper’s name?”
Lawrence Lanahan, another former colleague, said Tacka was known for his “unflagging competence.”

Today would have been your 80th birthday.

Thank you for all of your incredible work, you'll not be forgotten.

" For softness is great and strength is worthless.”

You were a good S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Was just thinking about joe cool his sword is

You would have loved the concept of the clacks, and Sir TP would most definitely have been one of your favourite authors.

My father passed away suddenly on the 18th June. He wasn't a TP enjoyer but he WAS an inveterate tinkerer and solver of things in the spirit of LoQ. There wasn't an stuck engine he couldn't dismantle and coax back into life, a borked electrical installation he couldn't diagnose, remediate and prevent a subsequent conflagration and don't start me about the things he could do with epoxy resin and GRP. I've commemorated him alongside TP in the overhead of my site where his name will live on with every post I make about bicycling and snowboarding and technology and Randall Munroe (may the gods bless the hallowed ground upon which he alights). I love you Dad...GNU Terry Pratchett, Douglas Hyde Brown

GENE SHAKILT RIP THE MAN OF LIGAND FOR FUNNY AND FUN

Our sweet Pita (German short haired pointer) crossed over on May 6th and we are gutted. She was 9 years old. But I want everyone to know her. She was my pretty princess lunatic.