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Two famous Jacks passed away today:
Nebula Grand Master Jack Williamson, who won two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award and one John W. Campbell Best Novel Award, along with many other awards for science fiction literature, passed away today at the age of 98. His first novel, The Alien Intelligence, was published in 1929; his most recent, The Stonehenge Gate, in 2005.
Academy Award winner Jack Palance also passed away today, at 87. I'll never forget the sight of him dropping to the stage at the Oscars to demonstrate his skill at one-armed pushups. I also remember watching him every week as the host of "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!"
In other news, my bowling team continues to do well.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
h8torun had her best night of the season tonight, Ralph (still filling in for Randy) had an extremely good night, and I managed slightly over my average on the night: 159, 155, 179. For the third week in a row, we won all three games, the last one by 100. Mind you, this is the third time we've gotten to use Mario's 232 score from three weeks ago because he had declared those scores for two planned absences. Going into tonight, we were 7th overall in the league standings (out of 28 teams), so I expect we'll move up another spot or two. And we were something like 400 pins out of first place for total team pinfall, somewhere around 5th or 6th place - I expect we'll move up a spot or two there as well, since we averaged around 750 in each game.
I started cleaning out some of my email backlog this afternoon - I had about 40 emails from Workopolis, Jburst, Bestjobs.ca and Devbistro sitting in my Inbox. (Not to mention that I have something like 80 old LJ comments that I'd been wanting to reply to...) Out of all that, I found 9 jobs for which I was actually qualified; one of them listed tomorrow as the application deadline, so I fired off a resume immediately (around 4:45 - cutting it close!). I'll take care of the rest this weekend, if I can find some time in and around all of the meetings I have to attend. (There's actually one job that lists both COBOL and C# among the desired qualifications - interesting!) Not to mention that I have to study for my Scripting Languages midterm, which I think is Monday (it's definitely this week, but the course outline doesn't specify whether it's Monday or Wednesday, and the instructor didn't say anything about it Wednesday night). I don't expect it'll be too difficult, though.
Nebula Grand Master Jack Williamson, who won two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award and one John W. Campbell Best Novel Award, along with many other awards for science fiction literature, passed away today at the age of 98. His first novel, The Alien Intelligence, was published in 1929; his most recent, The Stonehenge Gate, in 2005.
Academy Award winner Jack Palance also passed away today, at 87. I'll never forget the sight of him dropping to the stage at the Oscars to demonstrate his skill at one-armed pushups. I also remember watching him every week as the host of "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!"
In other news, my bowling team continues to do well.
h8torun had her best night of the season tonight, Ralph (still filling in for Randy) had an extremely good night, and I managed slightly over my average on the night: 159, 155, 179. For the third week in a row, we won all three games, the last one by 100. Mind you, this is the third time we've gotten to use Mario's 232 score from three weeks ago because he had declared those scores for two planned absences. Going into tonight, we were 7th overall in the league standings (out of 28 teams), so I expect we'll move up another spot or two. And we were something like 400 pins out of first place for total team pinfall, somewhere around 5th or 6th place - I expect we'll move up a spot or two there as well, since we averaged around 750 in each game.I started cleaning out some of my email backlog this afternoon - I had about 40 emails from Workopolis, Jburst, Bestjobs.ca and Devbistro sitting in my Inbox. (Not to mention that I have something like 80 old LJ comments that I'd been wanting to reply to...) Out of all that, I found 9 jobs for which I was actually qualified; one of them listed tomorrow as the application deadline, so I fired off a resume immediately (around 4:45 - cutting it close!). I'll take care of the rest this weekend, if I can find some time in and around all of the meetings I have to attend. (There's actually one job that lists both COBOL and C# among the desired qualifications - interesting!) Not to mention that I have to study for my Scripting Languages midterm, which I think is Monday (it's definitely this week, but the course outline doesn't specify whether it's Monday or Wednesday, and the instructor didn't say anything about it Wednesday night). I don't expect it'll be too difficult, though.
