Jim Thompson

Why? Chemotherapy is brutal, even if it works.

I think it's probably safe to say by now that he is no longer around. I hope I may yet be proved wrong but I have to say I very much doubt it. There was another regular here about the same age as Jim, John Fields, another independent designer who operated out of Austin TX. He was another erudite fellow who was very helpful to a lot of people here (including me!) and I've not seen any post from him here lately either. I can't do the G***** groups search because everything G related here is quarantined, but perhaps someone else here knows if he's still around or not.

Your google-fu is weak:

Strange.

Fake news.

1. Jim is almost 80.
2. His middle name is Elbert.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

unk is suggesting that he graduated MIT at 5.

I thought his sig used to say Earl.

I thought he was a little older than 61!

No obit means he's still around. Just hope he recovers. If I were in his position I'd consider the PIPILS treatment.

NT

Cursitor Doom is prone to making unwarranted assumptions.

One hopes that NT knows what PIPILS means - Google doesn't.

Granting NT's posting history, it would a treatment that was expensive, not medically recognised and didn't actually work.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the nasty ones, mostly because it tends to be s ilent until much too late for effective treatment. Jim was "lucky" in that his cancer blocked his bile duct relatively early, which meant that the des perate measures could be started unusually early, but chemotherapy balances the risk of killing the patient against the risk of not killing the cancer , and it pays to come quite close to killing the patient.

I thought he was a little older than King Tut! (Jim would probably laugh at that.)

Let's hope for the best. My father went through many rounds of Chemo. It tires you out like you wouldn't believe.

Yes, and he was at MIT in the early sixties, which would make him the most outstanding child prodigy ever. :)

-- This message may be freely reproduced without limit or charge only via the Usenet protocol. Reproduction in whole or part through other protocols, whether for profit or not, is conditional upon a charge of GBP10.00 per reproduction. Publication in this manner via non-Usenet protocols constitutes acceptance of this condition.

Well, it's got to be better than the ill-named "liverpool care pathway".

-- This message may be freely reproduced without limit or charge only via the Usenet protocol. Reproduction in whole or part through other protocols, whether for profit or not, is conditional upon a charge of GBP10.00 per reproduction. Publication in this manner via non-Usenet protocols constitutes acceptance of this condition.

om:

?Strange.

and afair born February 29

MIT is a university, it may be different elsewhere but most US students who go on to post-secondary education at a college or university do so immediately after high school around age 17 or 18, MIT included. nothing terribly unusual about that intrinsically it was that way in the early

At my high school a couple classmates went to MIT the common theme was they were both excellent students who likely received perfect SAT scores, you likely wouldn't bother applying to that school without a near straight-As and a perfect SAT score, which wouldn't itself be good enough to guarantee admission but simply to put you in the running.

So's yours.

Page 23 has a few clues. Did Jim really get his BS at age 5? And also change his middle name?

Hopefully Jim will return with the Mark Twain quote, "The report of my death was an exaggeration"

Mikek

He noted remembering being a kid during WWII.

?Strange.

It is not fake news, it is simply the not our Jim. It is not like James Thompson is a rare name. Could have been a relative of Jim's for all we know, who lived in the same area.

John

?Strange.

Thanks for the Elbert. I only knew E. thoughts and prayers as always. (thread bend) I had an epiphany the other day, (mostly due to Bret Weinstein) God is a meta-truth: a meta-truth is something, that regardless if it's 'really' true or not, it's a better life, if you live as if it 'is' true. So I live as if there is a God, even though I'm unsure. (you get to pick/ find your own God.) This hasn't changed my life, just an excuse to keep on the same way as always. :^)

George H.

It's pretty risky but there are no non-risky options when you're in that position. Peak Instantaneous Power If Lightning Strikes.

Chemo certainly doesn't have a good record.

NT