It’s amazing that “new” footage of the World Trade Center disaster should emerge five years later but some has. A couple who lived 500 yards from Ground Zero shot home video that day and has now released their footage on the Internet. It runs about fifteen minutes and is very chilling because…well, because you hear a family watching the tragedy, wondering what’s happening and commenting as they see it unfold before their eyes, practically in their back yard.
Break out the cigars: Scott and Jenn are parents to a newborn again.
Josh Wagner arrived today at 8:42 a.m. EDT via Cesarean.
Scott tells me that everybody is doing very well.
“Jenn’s in recovery now,” he said during a phone call minutes ago. “She’s already feeling a hundred times better than when [Josh's brother] Kyle was born.”
Josh’s arrival came several hours earlier than Scott and Jenn had anticipated.
Late last night the hospital called and moved the time of Jenn’s surgery up by several hours, Scott said. That meant they had to head out in the 5 a.m. hour.
Please join me in offering congratulations to Scott and Jenn!
This is not a good time for my extracurricular events.
I was offered a chance to make it into Club 33 this weekend (thanks, Sara!), but had to decline ’cause it would’ve cost a bundle to jam down to Anaheim.
That’s okay, as it happens, because I got violently ill late Thursday night. Whatever it was, it kicked my ass six ways to Sunday; I only started to feel somewhat human yesterday.
Comic-Con starts Thursday. For the first time in seven years, I’m not going.
For those of you going to SDCC, or for those who are merely curious about the impact of the con on downtown San Diego, here’s an article on locals’ reactions to the invasion of “Nerd Prom.”
“It’s huge business for us,” said Dan Flores, marketing manager for the Gaslamp Quarter Association.
He hesitated, then broached the sensitive part: “The attendees are … ”
(If I’ve just written a bunch of words that you can read but which appear to be just this side of gibberish, see the Wikipedia entries for towels and, particularly, for Towel Day.)
Got an email from my good friend Lindsey a few minutes ago that the Sally Ride Science Fair is still looking for female presenters for an event at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field on May 21.
Since I’m entirely the wrong gender to present (Curse you, Y chromosome; you win again!), I asked if I could repost this far and wide. Lindsey checked with the contact she’d named in the email, who gave us a thumbs up.