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QuartzGooner wrote:R.I.P Ray Dolby.
For my generation, his tape noise reduction system was very useful, and his company has gone on to be a benchmark of sound quality.
"Dolby" always reminds me of the scene in Spinal Tap where the bimbo girlfriend of the singer gets "involved";
Jeanine: You don't, you don't do heavy metal in dobly, you know, I Mean...it's
Nigel: In what??? In what???
Jeanine: In dobly...
Nigel: In doubly!?! What's that?
David: She means Dolby, alright? She means Dolby. You know perfectly well what she means.
QuartzGooner wrote:R.I.P Ray Dolby.
For my generation, his tape noise reduction system was very useful, and his company has gone on to be a benchmark of sound quality.
"Dolby" always reminds me of the scene in Spinal Tap where the bimbo girlfriend of the singer gets "involved";
Jeanine: You don't, you don't do heavy metal in dobly, you know, I Mean...it's
Nigel: In what??? In what???
Jeanine: In dobly...
Nigel: In doubly!?! What's that?
David: She means Dolby, alright? She means Dolby. You know perfectly well what she means.
Somebody that was in my year at school went into hospital complaining of a numb arm - found he was bleeding from his brain and had brain cancer that killed him within a few days. Wasn't a close friend by any means but he was such a harmless bloke with an infectious grin that nobody had a bad word to say about, if ever there was someone who didn't deserve to die at 22 it was this guy.
Also a university friend of my girlfriend committed suicide a few weeks back. One of those seemingly inexplicable cases where she was a bubbly, outgoing personality who was phenomenally well-liked, attractive and extremely intelligent. Her university housemates found her hanging and although there is obviously a selfish element to it I just cannot begin to try and get into the mind of a person like that who felt they had no other option. I barely knew her but it really shook me up for a few days so can't imagine what her family and close friends must be going through.
Agreed Quartz,I have read loads of his books,they are always a "page turning" yarn,almost films in print,I also love the way that in some of them he would have 3 or 4 different "strands" of a plot going,and gradually bring them all together.I also loved the development,and continuation of his characters like Ryan,(obviously),Clark,and Chavez,
R.I.P. Tom Clancy
Found out a couple of days ago my mate of 20 years Adam Heath passed away from an asthma related heart attack at the terribly young age of 34, far too young.
