Douglas Rain, HAL 9000's voice in '2001: A Space Odyssey,' has died. He was 90

I’ve been reading Dog Man books with my kids, and at least some of them (perhaps all?) in the preview of the next book say, “Dog Man is go!” (Someone will then point out that doesn’t mean anything, but someone will make the counterpoint that Dog Man is go)

The font on the main page makes 9’s hang below the line and 0’s rather small. So when I read the sentence, “He was 90” I read it as “He was go”.

And yeah, the voice of HAL really was go. It’s too bad we haven’t achieved the vision of the singularity-ists. No one more deserved to have their mind uploaded into a computer.

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