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Jorge Liderman, 50, music theory and composition professor at UC Berkeley, died on Sunday after being hit by a BART car at El Cerrito Plaza. At around 9:30 a.m., it seems, the BART train operator claims that as the car was about four or five feet from the station, Liderman hurled himself in front of it, killing him instantly. And although the word "suicide" is being tossed about, his cause of death is still under investigation.

Why? Because a body has been found under one of the BART trains. How the body ended up there or its current condition is unknown at this time. But a medical examiner has been called onto the scene, so...sounds like a not-alive body to us. Sadly.

Checking out Laughing Squid, we came across yucksters SFShenanigans' Christmas-In-August calendar item. (Similar to last month's reverse trick-or-treat, which we hear was spooktacular.)

As we wait and wait and wait for our posts on the blog to go live, we find ourselves idly wondering if BART and MUNI blogs are busy bitching about our delays.

BART riders, we're talking DeLays, and not just the former House majority leader either. (look at that megawatt grin over there, though -- say cheese!)

Man, whose job do we not want this week? BART spokesman Linton Johnson's. Poor Linton had to do yet another round of ritual apologies after a massive computer failure crashed BART for about two hours in the middle of the evening commute yesterday. It's been a pretty hellish month for BART, as you can see by perusing our Your Commute archives. (We're only posting on this because we assume SFist Jon has spent the night somewhere between Millbrae and San Bruno, hoppin' mad.) BART just installed a new computer system to run the trains, and three completely-separate incidents have crashed the system every day this week so far. Because BART themselves didn't know how long it would take to reboot, they weren't able to give accurate time estimates -- and adding insult to injury, the first time they thought they got the system up, it crashed like five minutes later. Big ups to Johnson, though, who really has this apology thing down. And as we got on BART this morning, we picked up a marigold-colored apology bulletin from BART Media & Public Affairs, apologizing profusely for the problems, explaining the situation with the computer, and saying they're working hard to fix the situation. It made for good reading as we were stuck between 16th and Civic Center, waiting for the smoking brakes from a train ahead of us to cool down. Picture of the beleaguered Johnson by the Chron.