Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: It's of interest to me how much you seem to know about that world.

Shepherd Book: I wasn't born a shepherd, Mal.

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: You have to tell me about that sometime.

Shepherd Book: [pause] No, I don't.

I'll always remember Ron from Barney Miller. Truly a classic.

Best police show ever.

"Why when I talk about belief, why do you always assume I'm talking about God?"

Mike Neumann only just published his look back at Serentity:

https://youtu.be/mHo78pqvgFs

WTF, 2016. Just fucking end.

Seriously, the year that won't fucking end.

We need to wrap Willie Nelson and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in bubble wrap. (Uh, leaving holes in the plastic so they can breathe.)

That was as Reddit a comment as they get, but a good one.

I worry about Tom Waits daily.

It didn't occur to me that Tim Waits is old

"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage."

You too??

Carol Brady died this week too.

RIP America's Mom. I loved her performance in Shakes the Clown, the Citizen Kane of Alcoholic Clown movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rX5hindBRU

I'm wondering if more celebrities and otherwise famous people really dying at a higher rate this year than any other, or is it just that this year some of the deaths were really famous people?

I haven't done the maths, but I strongly suspect the number of celebraties dying would have to be absurd before it became statistically significant. They've all gotta die some time.

I think it's specifically who died in the early part of the year, along with the unexpectedness of it, that helped further this idea that 2016 has been exceptional. Similarly, when Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie died within a week of one another in 2011, it wasn't necessarily statistically improbable, but it was still quite a double whammy.

Someone made this same comment last year, or the year before. The short answer is no.

Humans stuck in their loops, frittering away their lives on the Internet.

He's finally put the hair away and the world is a little less shiny for it. Rest in peace.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13046582 and marked it off-topic.

Someone please tell 2017 it's not a competition.

Please can 2016 end now. I can't take much more.