Sigh. I go offline for a week and come back to discover one of my greatest heroes has died.
You've had a long and prosperous life, Mr. Spock, and I'll miss you dearly.
It was the same way when Michael Jackson went – I was on an isolated island (in the Aegean) – and I came back to civilization to discover he was gone. A few weeks ago I was on a bus in Malaysia and the driver decided to play – very loudly – the album Thriller in its entirety, and that brought back some memories.
Actually, a week before that, I watched the Star Trek "Trilogy" (films 2, 3 and 4) and watched Leonard Nimoy die then, and now it's really happened.
I'm heartbroken.
LLAP