For most people, dying at your desk would be the last thing you would want or expect for yourself 
or anyone.
I have a feeling you would not expect anything but that for someone like Russert. He loved his job. He was good at it and was one of the most balanced of the political press.
He understood both the media and the medium and lived for getting that question answered.
I think he would grin a little that it ended at his desk, but most would have wished it would have been at 108 and not 58.
"He was just a young man who was very, very good to his mother."
LONDON (Reuters) -
Actor John Inman, best known for his
role as camp shop assistant Mr Humphries in the long-running
BBC comedy "Are You Being Served?" died aged 71 on Thursday.
Are You Being Served? ran for ten series until it finished in 1985. Inman's portrayal of Mr Humphries won him the BBC TV Personality of the Year in 1976 and he was voted the funniest man on television by TV Times readers.
I always got a kick out of Mrs. Slocombe.
'Grandpa' Al Lewis died last night. He was 95. [or 82 - depending on which bio you want to go with...]
Unlike some television stars, Lewis never complained about getting typecast and made appearances in character for decades.
"Why would I mind?" he asked in a 1997 interview. "It pays my mortgage."
That's an attitude way too few actors seem to have. Al seemed to embrace the character, and the millions of fans who continued to greet him as 'Grandpa' decades after the show ended. Not that he got stuck in that - all the write ups today go on to mention the numerous business and political ventures he was involved with.
Lewis rarely slowed down, opening his restaurant and hosting his WBAI radio program. At one point during the '90s, he was a frequent guest on the Howard Stern radio show, once sending the shock jock diving for the delay button by leading an undeniably obscene chant against the Federal Communications Commission.
James Doohan - Scotty from Star Trek.
Died this morning.
He was 85.
This from the BBC -
Doohan, whose role was immortalised in the line "Beam me up, Scotty", [a line I believe was never used in the original series...WD] had been suffering from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease, his agent said.
At the outbreak of World War II, aged 19, he joined the Royal Canadian Artillery, and was eventually commissioned as a lieutenant. His first combat assignment was the invasion of Normandy at Juno Beach on D-Day. Shooting two snipers along the way, Doohan's unit made its way to higher ground and took defensive positions. At 11:30 that night, he was machine-gunned, taking six hits: four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his middle right finger. The chest bullet was stopped by his silver cigarette case; he would later generally hide the amputated finger on screen. Despite his wounds, Doohan remained in the military, trained as a pilot for the Royal Canadian Air Force, and flew an artillery observation plane, though he was once labeled the "craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Forces".
James joins DeForest and Gene now. Part of a crew that is probably responsible for inspiring more kids to become engineers, scientists and astronauts than any other reason, especially after the Apollo program was defunded in the early '70's.
Unlike the majority of those kids, he will actually get to go to space - for real.
If you think some of those little snippets are weird, you just aren't paying attention to real life. One Scott Akin however, was paying attention.
It started out as an innocent trip to Vegas. (ok - as innocent as a trip to Vegas can get...) You will notice here that the fence to the yard is w a y back there...
Of course, the first transgression is supposed to be the hardest, so it was nothing to go back for more detailed pictures.
As of his last post tonight, they are much closer to tracking down the owners to try and salvage the thing to refurb.
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If you're not familiar with Firefly, here's a few links. I missed the original run on Fox but caught the entire thing from downloads. The series DVD was released last December, and a feature film is due September 30.
The SciFi Channel will re-air the series starting this Friday, the 22nd. In a brilliant marketing move, SciFi is apparently going to run the episodes IN ORDER. Something Fox failed to do on the original run. Oh, and I guess SciFi will also air ALL the episodes that were shot. Something else I guess Fox didn't seem to want to bother with - to the tune of 3 or 4 shows.
