[Ipg-smz] 9/11
Sharon Fisher
slfisher at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 04:44:15 UTC 2018
I believe that Mark Bingham, the guy on flight 93 who helped bring it down,
was known to some of us; he was a silicon valley pr guy who headed the
Bingham Group. I want to say they represented 3com but I could be mistaken.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 2:15 PM Bob Reselman <bob at cogarttech.com> wrote:
> My two cents on FB:
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2430921936925901&set=a.102338463117605&type=3
>
> > On Sep 11, 2018, at 12:41 PM, Evan Schuman <eschuman at thecontentfirm.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I remember getting my mail wearing rubber gloves because
> contaminated mail had been distributed not that far away.
> >
> > _______
> > Evan Schuman
> > eschuman at thecontentfirm.com
> > 973-993-8098 (voice)
> > Computerworld weekly columnist (Column archive:
> http://www.thecontentfirm.com/weekly-column-on-computerworld)
> > Moderator for MIT Sloan Management Review events
> > Google Search: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Evan+Schuman#
> > https://twitter.com/eschuman
> > www.linkedin.com/in/schumanevan/
> > Member, Internet Press Guild: http://netpress.org/
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Christine Hall
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 2:25 PM
> > To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
> > Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] 9/11
> >
> > It doesn't help to remember that 9/11 was immediately followed by the
> anthrax scare, which at the time seemed to be related to the 9/11 attack.
> >
> > Christine Hall
> > Publisher & Editor
> > FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
> > http://fossforce.com
> >
> > On 09/11/2018 01:59 PM, wrash at mindspring.com wrote:
> >> For some reason, 9/11 sets off my PTSD and I start looking over my
> shoulder for that missile that was intended to kill me. Usually I focus on
> writing until it goes away. But despite my best efforts, I can't ignore it.
> >>
> >> WR
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Christine
> >> Hall
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 12:23 PM
> >> To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] 9/11
> >>
> >> Today is my late father's and my brother's birthday.
> >>
> >> Since 2001, I try my best to ignore this day when it comes around. When
> the towers came down, I had no doubt that we would learn the wrong lesson
> from this, which we of course have. All I can think of today is that I'm
> much too old to continue the fight, and the millennials have no clue of
> what has to be done and undone. As Evan pointed out, all they know is the
> post 9/11 world.
> >>
> >> I grieve for what we have lost and will never know again.
> >>
> >> Christine Hall
> >> Publisher & Editor
> >> FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
> >> http://fossforce.com
> >>
> >> On 09/11/2018 12:01 PM, Lynn Greiner wrote:
> >>> Since I was in a plane flying past the WTC seconds after the first
> >>> plane hit, that sight, and that day, are indelibly burned into my
> >>> memory. We were on the way to company meetings. One of the most
> >>> painful moments was when we got to the conference centre in New
> >>> Jersey (thank goodness our driver had the wit to get off the island
> >>> before the bridges were closed), standing in the lobby watching on TV
> >>> with the staff, many of whom had friends working at the restaurant on
> >>> top of the tower. Yet they still managed to do their jobs – not that
> >>> any of us were demanding much, since everyone was in shock.
> >>>
> >>> That day cemented my affection for BlackBerry; when cell circuits and
> >>> land lines were slammed, and the Internet close to useless, my BB, on
> >>> the clunky old Ardis network, was the only way we could let the
> >>> company and our families know we were all OK. I’d email my husband,
> >>> who passed messages to the office (company email was essentially down
> >>> because HQ, and the server, were in NYC).
> >>>
> >>> *From:*Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org] *On Behalf Of
> >>> *Dana Blankenhorn
> >>> *Sent:* September-11-18 11:27 AM
> >>> *To:* ipg-smz at netpress.org
> >>> *Subject:* Re: [Ipg-smz] 9/11
> >>>
> >>> Gee, the worst thing that happened to me was having Daniel Dern stay
> >>> at our house for 3 days. <g> We were both covering Supercomm when the
> >>> towers were hit. Met there, and he told me about his problems getting
> >>> back north. So I had him over.
> >>>
> >>> Back then the kids were 10 and 13, and he had to sleep on a futon in
> >>> the front room. The futon is now a coach, the kids are now grown, and
> >>> we added a master suite in 2009 so if it happens again, Dan, you can
> >>> have your choice of 3 bedrooms!
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 11:24 AM Evan Schuman
> >>> <eschuman at thecontentfirm.com <mailto:eschuman at thecontentfirm.com>>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Of the many horrifying changes that happened that day, the most sad
> >>> for me is how it changed my daughter’s reality.
> >>>
> >>> We lived in North Jersey at the time (still do) and she was four
> >>> years old at the time. She noticed the attack from our backroom
> >>> windows (the skyline looked different, the smoke and the empty
> skies
> >>> other than military aircraft).
> >>>
> >>> Some of her friends’ parents were killed in the attack, as this is
> a
> >>> commuting to NYC neighborhood.
> >>>
> >>> She’s known terrorism her whole life. She became an avid runner and
> >>> was hit hard by the Boston Marathon attacks, in the city where she
> >>> would eventually go to college.
> >>>
> >>> Once in college, her roommate was from Bangledesh. And when her
> >>> friend returned home for the summer, several of her close friends
> >>> were killed in a Dhaka terror attack
> >>> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2016_Dhaka_attack).
> >>>
> >>> She’ll never know a life without terrorism and the fears and
> >>> uncertainty that comes with that. Not the reality I would have
> >>> wanted her to have.
> >>>
> >>> _______
> >>>
> >>> Evan Schuman
> >>>
> >>> eschuman at thecontentfirm.com <mailto:eschuman at thecontentfirm.com>
> >>>
> >>> 973-993-8098 <tel:973-993-8098> (voice)
> >>>
> >>> Computerworld weekly columnist (Column archive:
> >>> http://www.thecontentfirm.com/weekly-column-on-computerworld)
> >>>
> >>> Moderator for MIT Sloan Management Review events
> >>>
> >>> Google Search: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Evan+Schuman#
> >>> <http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Evan+Schuman>
> >>>
> >>> https://twitter.com/eschuman
> >>>
> >>> www.linkedin.com/in/schumanevan/
> >>> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/schumanevan/>
> >>>
> >>> /Member, Internet Press Guild: http://netpress.org//
> >>>
> >>> *From:*Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org
> >>> <mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org>> *On Behalf Of *Phil Shapiro
> >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 11, 2018 11:10 AM
> >>> *To:* ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org>>
> >>> *Subject:* Re: [Ipg-smz] 9/11
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for those thoughts, Tom. From where I sit, yours are some of
> >>> the wisest remarks to cross the IPG transom.
> >>>
> >>> Thinking about actions each one of us can take -- one small way I'm
> >>> involved in rebuilding community is via the Timebanking movement.
> >>> In case you might not be familiar - Timebanks are a method for
> >>> community members to work for each other -- to pull for each other.
> >>>
> >>> Further info is at https://timebanks.org/ I'm proud to say I'm
> >>> friends with the founder of this movement, Edgar Cahn,
> >>>
> >>> former speechwriter for Robert Kennedy, among other things.
> >>>
> >>> https://twitter.com/edgarcahn
> >>>
> >>> And the past few days I've also been refurbishing a lovely HP
> >>> laptop for one of the custodians in the building where I work.
> >>>
> >>> He has two daughters, 9 and 16. His former Windows XP laptop is
> >>> being reborn as a Linux Mint laptop -- and ought to serve this
> >>>
> >>> family for several years. His daughters might not have a MacBook
> Air
> >>> to use -- but they're going to have a very fine laptop in their
> >>>
> >>> hands quite soon. It's not me providing them with this gift -- it's
> >>> the worldwide open source community, of which I play one small
> part.
> >>>
> >>> I was living and working in Arlington, Virginia, on
> >>> 9/11. I remember the acrid odor of smoke from the Pentagon, two
> >>> miles from where
> >>>
> >>> I was living. A better world is within reach, but each one of us
> >>> must resolve to do their part.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> -
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> *From: *"thenderson" <thenderson at extremelabs.com
> >>> <mailto:thenderson at extremelabs.com>>
> >>> *To: *"ipg-smz" <ipg-smz at netpress.org <mailto:ipg-smz at netpress.org
> >>
> >>> *Sent: *Tuesday, September 11, 2018 10:52:14 AM
> >>> *Subject: *[Ipg-smz] 9/11
> >>>
> >>> Fellow Guilders,
> >>>
> >>> It's a solemn day for many of us, as we remember the beginning of
> the
> >>> madness we face even to this day.
> >>>
> >>> We've probably told and retold the stories of where we were, and
> the
> >>> crazinesses that followed. The colleagues gone. Travel disrupted.
> Lives
> >>> disrupted. The buried across both the US, but especially the
> >>> hundreds of
> >>> thousands now buried across the Middle East.
> >>>
> >>> My NYC friends bore the worst of the brunt, but not exclusively,
> and
> >>> not
> >>> for long.
> >>>
> >>> Today, worldwide public transportation is forever changed, personal
> >>> privacy, dignity, and scrutiny have been nearly washed away.
> >>>
> >>> Ally now fights ally, entrenched in insane military spending,
> >>> bombarding
> >>> each other with tariffs, sanctions, and deeply divisive morass.
> >>>
> >>> At home in the US, deep divisions in public opinion reveal
> concerted
> >>> efforts to continue an internal gulf, rarely bridged, and full of
> >>> vituperative epithet.
> >>>
> >>> It's my hope that we'll learn the 9/11 lesson one day, when we
> look at
> >>> the healed scar tissue.
> >>>
> >>> Peace,
> >>>
> >>> Tom
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Tom Henderson
> >>> ExtremeLabs, Inc.
> >>> +1 317 250 4646 <tel:+1%20317-250-4646>
> >>> Twitter: @extremelabs
> >>> Skype: extremelabsinc
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Phil Shapiro, pshapiro at his.com <mailto:pshapiro at his.com>
> >>> http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html
> >>> http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro
> >>> http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html
> >>>
> >>> "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates
> >>> "Learning happens thru gentleness."
> >>>
> >>> "We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose
> >>> from real options." David Suzuki
> >>>
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> >>>
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> >>>
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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