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Post by zryson on Sept 10, 2014 22:09:49 GMT -5
I find myself still struggling when it comes to getting used to the new layout of the Classic Comics board. In some ways it lacks the intimacy of the previous layout.
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Post by Pharozonk on Sept 10, 2014 22:50:28 GMT -5
I feel terribly sick right now and I have a paper due tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 22:58:23 GMT -5
I feel terribly sick right now and I have a paper due tomorrow. And how lang have you known about the paper being due young man? Hove you been sick the entire time since it was assigned? Then illness is no excuse for not getting it done! (having flashback to my days teaching at university....) -M
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 23:42:29 GMT -5
R.I.P Richard Kiel, most famous for his role as the Bond villain Jaws, he was a staple of a lot of B movies and tv shows.
-M
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Post by zryson on Sept 10, 2014 23:46:12 GMT -5
Every year I take some time to remember those who died on 9/11. Here is my post this year to mark the occasion.
9/11/2001: I was watching the news when video from New York City began broadcasting. There was a huge ugly crater in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The media were reporting a small plane had hit the tower. The crater seemed awfully large for a small plane. It didn’t make sense, same with the weather. There were blue skies; visibility was good for miles around. How could a plane just fly into Tower 1 of the WTC?
The media were showing images of first responders racing to the World Trade Center. Some people standing on streets were taking photographs. Others talking to friends on their cell phones smiling and laughing. Helicopters flew around the burning tower, training their cameras on zoom as they filmed the burning crater, which had created an ugly gash across several floors, causing black smoke to rise upwards.
Another plane entered the picture. It was large and flying awfully fast. It slammed into the side of Tower 2 of the World Trade Center causing a massive fireball. As my mind struggled to cope with the horrific scene I realized this wasn’t an accident. Somebody just declared war on America.
My fingers were busy working the telephone at that moment. I rang several friends. Asking them if they were watching the news? No, they said. Why? Switch on the TV, I told them. It will be on all channels.
Emotions were high. I vaguely remember shaking with fear watching the images being broadcast. Seeing people, sometimes in pairs jumping to their deaths. Other people clung to the outside of the buildings, trying to lower themselves to another floor, away from the smoke and fire. Away from the horror. Then they fell.
Then the South Tower collapsed. The noise was indescribable. Thousands of people were running on the streets now. Then came a black cloud. At first you could only hear things falling. Nobody was screaming, nobody was talking. When you did hear them they were coughing.
An alert went out for first responders to evacuate the North Tower. Some were able to get out just in time, before it too collapsed. Clouds of gray ash billowed out from the collapsing building. Covering everything in its path, much in the same way a pyroclastic flow from a volcano does.
There were other hijacked planes that day. One flew into the Pentagon. One woman working at the Pentagon was sitting at her desk when she felt the building shudder and saw a fireball. She pounded on a window trying to escape, leaving bloody palm prints, but she's pretty sure it wasn’t her blood. She looked up and saw blood pouring down from the ceiling. There was also another plane. The passengers knew about the terror attacks in New York. They decided to fight back. The hijackers slammed the plane into the ground killing everybody on board.
Incredibly before one of the Towers fell a broadcasting system told everybody to stay in the building. The building was secure. Some hesitant about leaving marched upwards back to their offices and to their deaths. Other people hesitated on the stairwells figuring it was safer to walk upwards to the roof. They didn’t know that the door was locked. And even if they had managed to get out onto the roof, the window of opportunity for any helicopter to land had long passed due to the heat and billowing black smoke.
Many trapped on the floors above the impact craters were busy working phones begging for help. Melissa Doi, who was on the 83rd floor of one of the towers talked to an operator. "There's no one here yet and the floor is completely engulfed. We're on the floor and we can't breathe. And it's very, very, very hot. I'm going to die. I know I am."
Grandfather C Lee Hanson told how son Peter, daughter-in-law Soo-kim, and two-and-half-year-old granddaughter Christine Lee Hanson, were on a plane en route for Disneyland. "I think they are going to try to crash this plane into a building," Hanson, quoted his son as telling him in a mobile phone call from the hijacked plane. "He said: 'Don't worry Dad. If it happens, it will be quick'." "As we were talking, all of a sudden he stopped and said very softly: 'Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God'."
On that day 2,977 people died and today is the anniversary.
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Post by Pharozonk on Sept 11, 2014 0:21:58 GMT -5
I feel terribly sick right now and I have a paper due tomorrow. And how lang have you known about the paper being due young man? Hove you been sick the entire time since it was assigned? Then illness is no excuse for not getting it done! (having flashback to my days teaching at university....) -M But the teacher only assigned two days ago!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2014 0:55:23 GMT -5
And how lang have you known about the paper being due young man? Hove you been sick the entire time since it was assigned? Then illness is no excuse for not getting it done! (having flashback to my days teaching at university....) -M But the teacher only assigned two days ago! Then it can't be a very long paper now can it? Anything less than 20 pages is not a paper, it's a warm up. And besides, what are you doing here if you have a wannabe paper due! -M
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2014 1:35:19 GMT -5
Why is the word abbreviation so damn long and is there a shorter version? What's etc? Etcetera
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 11, 2014 2:14:33 GMT -5
Watched a 9/11 special on NatGeo tonight interviewing President Bush. Interesting how much he emphasized the image to project to the citizens and enemies and his concern with America's psychological being.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2014 2:15:27 GMT -5
My inner editor is getting the best of me...it's two words... et cetera. et (Latin for "and") cetera (Latin for something along the lines of "the rest") and is a borrowing form the Latin phrase meaning and the rest (of the things like the ones we mentioned). -M
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Post by shaxper on Sept 11, 2014 4:49:25 GMT -5
I wish there was a simple greeting, akin to "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Halloween" that you could say in passing, letting someone know you're hurting on September 11th but don't really want to discuss it at length.
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Post by zryson on Sept 11, 2014 5:23:27 GMT -5
I was watching a documentary about 9/11 tonight and one of the things many people asked in the aftermath of the terror attacks was 'How could people jump from the Towers?' Without doubt "the jumpers" as society has named them is the most controversial aspect of 9/11.
Based on other terror attacks/disasters, what the scenes were like inside the Towers for those trapped above the impact craters would have been horrific. There would have been a lot of smoke. It would have been thick and it would have been black and the radiant heat would have been intense enough to cause things nearby to burst into flame.
On the impact floors, there would be absolute carnage. Ceilings collapsed, office equipment strewn about and parts of the planes themselves and people. On the floors above the impact craters, people would have seen people dead or dying around them.
Most people would have realized that escape was impossible or overheard it from another person who told them the paths below were blocked. But for those still alive, and mobile, they needed to breathe. So windows were smashed and some people clung to the outside of the buildings, sometimes in clusters. People waved to the circling helicopters, desperate for rescue but the path to the roofs were locked and for a time, one helicopter concentrated on the roof of Tower 1 (North Tower) of the World Trade Center hoping somebody might be there for rescue but nobody was.
In desperation some chose to end their lives by jumping while others clinging to the outside of the buildings either lost their footing and fell, or were pushed from the windows by others desperate for air behind them. It’s why I get angry when people condemn those who jumped. The way I see it, they weren’t there. They weren’t trapped.
Another thing I think about is the effects of shock and the time-distortion effect which often occurs when people are placed in life-threatening situations. Time-distortion can cause something that may in effect be only seconds or minutes to feel like hours; everything can feel like it is occurring in slow motion. Much in the same way, those who were trapped in the Towers reminds me of the people still alive and trapped on the Titanic. They were placed in a horrific and impossible situation.
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 11, 2014 7:38:03 GMT -5
So Monday I went to the clinic so they could assess my progress against the infection I've been fighting for what feels like a year now. They ended prescribing a diuretic on top of the antibiotics (I just love having to pee every ninety minutes or so) and ordered me to spend 4 to 5 hours a day with my feet elevated. To add insult to injury, I now have a rash all over my head, neck and chest, an allergic reaction to direct sunlight caused by the antibiotics, so now I'm taking Benedryl on top of all the other crap. All of this is going down, naturally, when I'm busting my ass to finish the article for Alter Ego. It's kind of amazing to me that I'm actually three paragraphs shy of being done.
On other topics, I wore hooded sweatshirts (I, too, abominate the cretinous "hoodie") all through college, as it was more practical to do that than ask others to help me with my coat before and after each class. Haven't owned one in years but it's at the top of my list of things to buy with my paycheck from TwoMorrows. I've never been a hat guy, though I wore peaked cloth caps for a time in the '80s. And my sister was a tomboy (still is, to a certain extent) and was labeled as such growing up.
Cei-U! I summon relief from this awful, AWFUL itch!
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Post by Pharozonk on Sept 11, 2014 7:54:07 GMT -5
But the teacher only assigned two days ago! Then it can't be a very long paper now can it? Anything less than 20 pages is not a paper, it's a warm up. And besides, what are you doing here if you have a wannabe paper due! -M You folks on the CCF > writing a paper
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Post by zryson on Sept 11, 2014 8:20:08 GMT -5
So Monday I went to the clinic so they could assess my progress against the infection I've been fighting for what feels like a year now. They ended prescribing a diuretic on top of the antibiotics (I just love having to pee every ninety minutes or so) and ordered me to spend 4 to 5 hours a day with my feet elevated. To add insult to injury, I now have a rash all over my head, neck and chest, an allergic reaction to direct sunlight caused by the antibiotics, so now I'm taking Benedryl on top of all the other crap. All of this is going down, naturally, when I'm busting my ass to finish the article for Alter Ego. It's kind of amazing to me that I'm actually three paragraphs shy of being done. On other topics, I wore hooded sweatshirts (I, too, abominate the cretinous "hoodie") all through college, as it was more practical to do that than ask others to help me with my coat before and after each class. Haven't owned one in years but it's at the top of my list of things to buy with my paycheck from TwoMorrows. I've never been a hat guy, though I wore peaked cloth caps for a time in the '80s. And my sister was a tomboy (still is, to a certain extent) and was labeled as such growing up. Cei-U! I summon relief from this awful, AWFUL itch! Sorry to hear you are having such a rough time Cei-U! Getting sick can be such a drag but peeing every 90 minutes isnt so bad. Think of it this way, least you're regular! The rash sounds painful but again, as I always say to friends things could be a lot worse than a rash. So I hope you get better soon.
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