Lloyd Loar died 68 years ago today?

[pmadison]

Lloyd Loar died 68 years ago today?

[45ACP-GDLF5]

Loar died on Sept. 14, 1943

[pmadison]

Thanx. I just gained a day, thought it was Wednesday.

[journeybear]

Whew! :whistling: Dodged a bullet there. Loar dying on Monroe's birthday would have been too much coincidence.

[MikeEdgerton]

Here's (http://www.siminoff.net/pages/loar_background.html) Lloyd Loar's bio off Roger Siminoff's site for anyone that hasn't seen it.

[fatt-dad]

how did "newsfetcher" miss this one?!?

f-d

[journeybear]

NF is pretty good about birthdays. In general, they tend to get noticed more, and celebrated more, and of course more often, than dying days. At least, that's been my experience.

[Scott Tichenor]

Lloyd's death (http://www.mandolincafe.com/cgi-bin/thisday/search?month=September&day=14) was already part of This Day in History on original launch back in April 2008. He's mentioned frequently (http://www.mandolincafe.com/cgi-bin/thisday/browse?search=lloyd+loar) within that resource. The posting on the forum some of you see is simply a random selection of that day's events. NewsFetcher is a computer task tied to a forum acount, not a person, although if you talk disparagingly of it I've seen it become depressed.

[MikeEdgerton]

Will NewsFetcher start substituting 1's for 0's if we make it angry?

[ColdBeerGoCubs]

Try the Zoloft shell for Debian and Fedora C3.

[journeybear]

It would not be a good thing if anything computer-related were to begin to exhibit signs of being depressed or angry. Think of the drubbing Watson gave the human Jeopardy! experts - and that was just a game. (Tune in tonight for the rerun of the final.) If a computer gets depressed and just goes to 0's, where would we be? :confused: At least NewsFetcher hasn't figured out -1 yet. That could be real trouble! :disbelief:

[Pete Summers]

Here's (http://www.siminoff.net/pages/loar_background.html) Lloyd Loar's bio off Roger Siminoff's site for anyone that hasn't seen it.

Hmmmm. Suggesting Lloyd Loar was "a cut above" Antonio Stradivari?? Now that's radical. Nice article, though.

[45ACP-GDLF5]

I've always wondered if Loar ever got to see or hear Bill Monroe? Bill was already on the Grand Ol Opry before Loar passed, so it's possible.

[tindrum]

Those of us that follow Chris Thile's tweets were treated to a picture of the reunion of consecutive Loars.

Please note that you will have to be logged in to twitter to view the photo.

http://twitter.com/#!/christhile/status/113876726790111232/photo/1

For what it's worth, I think Chris is worth following.