Outside of the UK not many know that Ashley was a fellow student, and she still shows her school spirite, found over at original location. And for the Canadians readers that is a hockey jersey she is sporting. The pic was a fund raiser for the club team.
Update: because arcterex wasn’t clear on this the Ashley mentioned above is Ashley Judd, you can kinda make out her name on the back of the jersey.
Outside of the UK not many know that Ashley was a fellow student, and she still shows her school spirite, found over at original location. And for the Canadians readers that is a hockey jersey she is sporting. The pic was a fund raiser for the club team.
Update: because arcterex wasn’t clear on this the Ashley mentioned above is Ashley Judd, you can kinda make out her name on the back of the jersey.
# 1 Yamcha Hibiki
You want to be famous cartoonist and probably have the abilities to do it to, but you’re to damn scared to try. That’s not entirely bad, cause people seem to like you and while some of you work does seemed to always get understood the way you would want it too, you still maintain a pretty decent popularity, and that’s all that matters, right? Of course, but becareful, you are always going overboard with your art cause it’s your favorite past time. In fact you do Fusion D, Sub-Culture, and Comicollage, as well as you used to do Shinkutokimekisempukaku. Man, you’re one busy guy…
# 1 Yamcha Hibiki
You want to be famous cartoonist and probably have the abilities to do it to, but you’re to damn scared to try. That’s not entirely bad, cause people seem to like you and while some of you work does seemed to always get understood the way you would want it too, you still maintain a pretty decent popularity, and that’s all that matters, right? Of course, but becareful, you are always going overboard with your art cause it’s your favorite past time. In fact you do Fusion D, Sub-Culture, and Comicollage, as well as you used to do Shinkutokimekisempukaku. Man, you’re one busy guy…
WTC emotions…
Like many out there I have been trying to come to grips with 9/11, after all it was soposed to be just engel’s birthday. I actually work up early, which is strange as folks that know me can attest, and just read some email til engel called. I was expecting it was him just making sure I didn’t over sleep like that day before. “Is the TV on, trun it on”, or something like that. Something is wrong from the sound of his voice. “Which channel?” I ask, “any…” And I end up on one of the Canadian networks to the sight of the World Trade Center towers on fire. Engel says to get a shower and watch from Iambe and his place. When I get out of the shower the first tower starts to drop.
Til mid afternoon I watch the TV coverage with engel and ocassionally check the net news with iambe. Through it out I’m not feeling really anything. Iambe periodicly comes into the TV room with news form IRC in tears but still I’m not really having any emotions. I have been leary to talk or even write about how little was going on inside, that felt strange. Then Friday morning get into work and check email to something from muckhead, on of the Java coders and local. He has uploaded a desktop wallpaper from Digital Blasphemy of the U.S. flag. Shortly afterwards the “old guy from support :)” one of the most Canadians of the company comes over to the developer room. He has the Canadian memorial service on in the nest. It seemed like everyone in the company is in there.
Then it hits me. All the emotions that I have been unable to feel come poreing out. I think it was the feeling of support from the Canadians. I knew, know, that I will be here for a while. That it will be a while til I cross the border back into the U.S. Partly because the border is now much harder to cross, even though it is so close. Partly because this is becoming my home. But feeling support of the Canadians helped to give me the security I guess I needed to finally deal with what I had been feeling.
So thank you to all the Canadians who have helped at least this American through some of the pain and fear he is dealing with. Thank you…
WTC emotions…
Like many out there I have been trying to come to grips with 9/11, after all it was soposed to be just engel’s birthday. I actually work up early, which is strange as folks that know me can attest, and just read some email til engel called. I was expecting it was him just making sure I didn’t over sleep like that day before. “Is the TV on, trun it on”, or something like that. Something is wrong from the sound of his voice. “Which channel?” I ask, “any…” And I end up on one of the Canadian networks to the sight of the World Trade Center towers on fire. Engel says to get a shower and watch from Iambe and his place. When I get out of the shower the first tower starts to drop.
Til mid afternoon I watch the TV coverage with engel and ocassionally check the net news with iambe. Through it out I’m not feeling really anything. Iambe periodicly comes into the TV room with news form IRC in tears but still I’m not really having any emotions. I have been leary to talk or even write about how little was going on inside, that felt strange. Then Friday morning get into work and check email to something from muckhead, on of the Java coders and local. He has uploaded a desktop wallpaper from Digital Blasphemy of the U.S. flag. Shortly afterwards the “old guy from support :)” one of the most Canadians of the company comes over to the developer room. He has the Canadian memorial service on in the nest. It seemed like everyone in the company is in there.
Then it hits me. All the emotions that I have been unable to feel come poreing out. I think it was the feeling of support from the Canadians. I knew, know, that I will be here for a while. That it will be a while til I cross the border back into the U.S. Partly because the border is now much harder to cross, even though it is so close. Partly because this is becoming my home. But feeling support of the Canadians helped to give me the security I guess I needed to finally deal with what I had been feeling.
So thank you to all the Canadians who have helped at least this American through some of the pain and fear he is dealing with. Thank you…
[13:15:09] <***@jabber> just this afternoon, I’m making a presentation of Visio capabilities here at work.
[13:15:46] <***@jabber> I’m talking to a group that includes the VP of Engineering (my boss), the CFO, CTO, Director of State Operations, and about 12 other people.
[13:16:18] <***@jabber> I need to open up a web browser to illustrate some functionality of some documents that I have published on the company’s intranet site….
[13:16:57] <***@jabber> so when I open up my browser, it starts to load my home page, which is www.fozbaca.org. I try to stop it by hitting the stop button, but only succeed in stopping it AFTER it loads the background
[13:17:21] <***@jabber> so your FUCKING UGLY web cam shot gets blasted up on a 5×6 screen in front of the whole group.
[13:17:44] <***@jabber> my comment…..”pay no attention to the geek up on the screen”
[13:18:51] <***@jabber> so do you think you can get rid of it now?
Done.
[13:18:44]
and the comments from the peanut gallery?
[13:19:30] <***@jabber> they all just sat there dumbfounded (and probably a little nausiated) with the exception of the engineers, who laughed
[13:19:53]damm i would have loved to be a fly on the wall
[13:15:09] <***@jabber> just this afternoon, I’m making a presentation of Visio capabilities here at work.
[13:15:46] <***@jabber> I’m talking to a group that includes the VP of Engineering (my boss), the CFO, CTO, Director of State Operations, and about 12 other people.
[13:16:18] <***@jabber> I need to open up a web browser to illustrate some functionality of some documents that I have published on the company’s intranet site….
[13:16:57] <***@jabber> so when I open up my browser, it starts to load my home page, which is www.fozbaca.org. I try to stop it by hitting the stop button, but only succeed in stopping it AFTER it loads the background
[13:17:21] <***@jabber> so your FUCKING UGLY web cam shot gets blasted up on a 5×6 screen in front of the whole group.
[13:17:44] <***@jabber> my comment…..”pay no attention to the geek up on the screen”
[13:18:51] <***@jabber> so do you think you can get rid of it now?
Done.
[13:18:44]
and the comments from the peanut gallery?
[13:19:30] <***@jabber> they all just sat there dumbfounded (and probably a little nausiated) with the exception of the engineers, who laughed
[13:19:53]damm i would have loved to be a fly on the wall
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