Obituary

An obituary column.

I was singing my own obituary.

But when I wrote that obituary exercise,

Obituary column? You'll find one of those people.

What you do is you read the obituary column.

Just look in the obituary column of today's L.A. PostRecord.

Look at this cartoon by Roz Chast, the guy reading the obituary.

And I remember looking at these two versions of my obituary and thinking, Oh boy,

It wasn't until he died and it was in his obituary that the average American found out that he was the author.

And so I printed out and sent a PDF of her blog to her family, and they passed it out at her memorial service, and even in her obituary, they mentioned her blog, because it was such a big part of her life.

I sat down one day and wrote two versions of my own obituary, the one that I wanted, a life of adventure, and the one that I was actually heading for which was a nice, normal, pleasant life, but it wasn't where I wanted to be by the end of my life.

Von Neumann saw how you could build the machines that now, last count, four million of these Von Neumann machines is built every 24 hours and Julian Bigelow, who died 10 days ago this is John Markoff's obituary for him he was the important missing link, the engineer who came in and knew how to put those vacuum tubes together and make it work.