Re: Conway and the NYT

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

My response.

 > From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)
 > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 14:05:43 -0700
 >
 >  > From: Brian <http://www.cs..edu/~b>
 >  > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 23:05:32 -0700
 >  >
 >  > So, Wednesday the NYT finally got around to running an obit for Conway.  
 >  > This was after I sent them a complaining email, they sent me an anodyne 
 >  > reply, and I complained again, but I don't think that had anything to do 
 >  > with it; when the cause of death was confirmed as covid-19, that's when 
 >  > they deemed it an interesting death.
 > 
 > Wow.  I didn't hear about this and cannot believe public radio's Science
 > Friday didn't cover this.  This is very sad.
 > 
 >  > So I'm thinking I might as well 
 >  > go to the grocery store.  Of course they have lines to get in... long 
 >  > lines, because everyone has to be six feet apart... I can't deal with this.
 > 
 > We went food shopping today.  While waiting in the socially distant line,
 > there was a disheveled guy (think Big Lebowski) who, after looking at the
 > line, was scoffing very loudly.  I thought he was going to stomp out of
 > the store in disgust, but he kept shopping.  I think he was expecting that
 > the line would get better when it was his turn.