Whoa

Holy shit--I'm just now home from dinner, ice cream, and two movies, and I'm checking my email when I see this: Steve Irwin dead from a stingray barb to the heart.

ETA: CNN seems to be confirming it.

I never watched his show(s?) or anything; I only knew about him in a very vague pop-culture way. I guess what makes it so sad is that it's so painfully, logically inevitable, but at the same time, he was obviously a guy who had a lot of love and joy and enthusiasm for what he did.