theducks.livejournal.com, swearing infrequently since 2001.

[theducks]

I refer you to my vapid comments of the Australian morning of September 11 2001, followed by the startled comments of the evening, at http://theducks.livejournal.com/2001/09/11/

I remember going into the lounge room to interrupt my mother watching The Bill and saying "Mum, you really have to see this!" "Can it wait" *changed channel* "Ohhhh..". Mum and I having visited there in 1999.

So young readers of my interblags, what were you doing back then? I know at least one of you was in primary school, which scares me somewhat.

Duck out.

And for the record, I did buy another Intel PRO/100, but threw it out (well, gave it to lathiat) the next year, when I got ADSL.

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[distantcam.livejournal.com]

It was a Tuesday night when it happened because I had just come home from choir rehearsal. I usually make it home by 10pm which is when a show I watched started, but being a SF show its start time was fluid. So I turned on the TV around 9:40pm and didn't turn it off until sometime around 4am.

[distantcam.livejournal.com]

I forgot to mention, a couple of days later, on the ABC there was an amazing documentary. Someone had collected all the footage of documentary makers, arts students, camera people, anyone with a camera, who lived in New York and had filmed the days afterwards. It was like a video stream of consciousness that jumped from people in a park arguing about who did it and why, to foreign cab drivers talking about the absolute fear they had of retribution, to people who had finally gone back to their apartments only to find them covered in dust that they couldn't clean because there were remains in the dust and they couldn't bring themselves to move it.

If anyone knows the documentary I'm talking about I would really appreciate it if you could tell me the name of it as I would like to see it again.