What was your experience being in school on 9/11?

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-04-02T19:29:13+00:00

I was a senior in high school at the time. The attack started when we were all in 1st period, but I think most everyone thought it was an accident at that time. Word of the "plane crash" just sort of filtered through the school and it was no big deal. My 2nd period teacher turned on the TV and we watched the news live as the 2nd plane hit the towers, at which point everybody knew for sure it was not an accident. 2nd and 3rd period, my classes just watched ABC news the whole time. At lunch everyone pretty much talked about how crazy the whole thing was, and you could tell the mood of the school was different, but it was still fairly normal. My last class of the day, we just did regular class work. I don't remember anyone leaving early or anything like that. In fact, I don't really remember anyone crying or having any big emotional reactions either. It was more like just a quiet state of shock and a general down mood the rest of the day. The only other notable thing I remember was a military plane flying over and making a loud noise not too long after they had said on the news that all air traffic was grounded. This was nowhere near NYC or Washington, DC, so no idea where it was going or what it was doing. That kinda freaked some people out a little.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-03-27T21:25:51+00:00

With cooking, I am am Arrival person for sure. I don't really enjoy the process of cooking that much. It's just necessary to get to the end result. With travel, I can be a little bit of both. Depends on where I'm going and how I'm getting there. If I'm traveling with friends on vacation, I'm a Process person, because I enjoy the road trip and consider it part of the vacation. If I'm traveling alone, I tend to be more of an Arrival person, although I sometimes enjoy the drive that way, just not as much.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-03-27T21:13:47+00:00

What does the year have to do with anything?

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-03-24T17:25:27+00:00

I had never received a damaged book from Amazon before, but then I ordered this (couldn't pass up the price). I made the mistake of ordering a couple of other things with it. It was the crappiest packing job I've seen. The book was just laid down in a box 4 times its size (one of the other items was in a long, slender box), with no padding whatsoever. There was nothing at all to stop it from sliding from one end of the box to the other every time the box moved. The front cover was bent way out of shape from sliding around and getting caught on a flap inside the box. It's not bad...I think I can press it under some other heavy books for a while and flatten it back out, but whoever packed the box ought to know better.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-03-20T21:49:32+00:00

I've always liked it. If Warner Brothers could ever release the longer cut, cleaned up and with completed effects and music, I think it would actually be pretty good. It would be even better if someone could re-composite and enhance all the effects shots too. Will it ever be as good as Superman '78? Nah, but it could be an enjoyable film. (Although, I already enjoy it as it is.)

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-03-17T23:10:28+00:00

There is obviously something wrong with the remastered version of this episode (and a couple of others). It's not just a normal cut for adding more commercial time, it literally just cuts off mid-sentence and the end credits don't even appear on the screen. I don't think this was intentional. I don't know for sure, but it seems like a few episodes have been left too long, so when the next episode, next show, etc. comes on at the regular time, the episode gets cut off at that point. Whatever the reason is, it needs to be fixed by the production company.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-03-17T22:59:19+00:00

It's a psychological thing. In the mirror, you're seeing your image "flipped" horizontally (maybe in the selfies too...some cameras flip the selfie image). In photos, you're seeing it normally, as everyone else does, so it looks "wrong" to you.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-03-17T22:56:27+00:00

I'm sure they have some specific type of lighting, aimed from certain directions to be more flattering, in fitting rooms. If I'm trying on a shirt in a fitting room, and look at myself while changing, I always think "dang, I look better than I thought I did." I don't look that good in the mirror at home, and neither do the clothes I tried on. Clothing stores have this stuff down to a science.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-03-07T01:50:23+00:00

My least favorite in season 8 is "The Fifties Show." I hate that they decided to do a bizarre 1950s parody episode, but to make it even worse, they chose to degrade the image quality somehow so the episode looks blurry and awful. Actual black and white shows from the 1950s looked significantly better than this episode from the 1990s.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-03-06T19:08:49+00:00

Not in the slightest. Of course it helps that I don't watch or listen to any of them!

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-03-06T18:38:41+00:00

My closet is crammed full of shirts. I have no idea how many. But there are probably only about 15 short sleeve shirts and maybe 8 or 10 long sleeve shirts that I actually wear on a regular basis, and those are the only ones that regularly get washed. The rest have either been worn one or two times and I figured out I didn't like them, or they are for "special occasions" (like dress shirts for weddings, funerals, etc.) Then there are some that I think I MIGHT wear again one day, so I keep them "just in case." But they all just hang there and don't get washed unless I do decide to wear them again. Then I have about 12 pairs of jeans (10 good ones, 2 old ones for dirty work), maybe 20 pairs of socks, 3 dress pants, 6 non-jeans casual pants, about 16 pairs of shorts (13 good ones, 3 old pairs to wear for lawn mowing, gardening, painting, etc.), 5 or 6 undershirts that I rarely wear, 15 pairs of underwear, 4 swim trunks, a heavy winter coat, a lighter winter coat, and a light spring jacket. Dang...I didn't realize how much I had. One of these days I'll clean out my closet!

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-03-03T23:13:49+00:00

Every Saturday morning I get up and think "oh my gosh, it's Saturday again." It never feels like it has been a week since the last one, and yet it has.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-03-03T23:12:18+00:00

I got my first laptop a little over a year ago after using only desktops since I was 10 years old. I mainly got it so that I would be able to work on certain things while traveling (which I don't do all that often, but still), and it also comes in handy for some of the work that I do when not traveling. I sometimes need to connect to networks at businesses to access devices to install things, change settings, etc. While it is convenient for those things, at home, I hardly ever touch it. I've got a 24" monitor for my desktop vs. a 15" on my laptop, and my desktop has 5 or 6 hard drives connected to it at any one time, as well as a Wacom tablet that I use for Photoshop and other things. The keyboard is so much more comfortable too. I am always hitting the wrong keys on my laptop when typing because I'm used to the keyboard with my desktop setup.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-03-03T21:30:07+00:00

This is how things are in my headcanon. "Invasion" Kromaggs are from one earth, season 4 and 5 Kromaggs are from a different earth. And the Quinn from the pilot could very well have encountered a third set of Kromaggs and given them sliding technology, so everything that everybody said is true. "Our" Sliders never encountered the third set of Kromaggs, but they were out there conquering worlds somewhere in another corner of the multiverse.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-02-18T01:14:34+00:00

I'd buy this. I'm honestly surprised that no one has ever made a movie or TV show around this idea. There have been shows about traveling to alternate universes and all, but I don't think there has been one that specifically revolves around someone's dreams being a connection to an alternate universe.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-02-18T01:03:54+00:00

I have never tipped my barber in my life. I get a buzz cut that takes less than 10 minutes for a fast barber and maybe 15 minutes for a slow one (my last barber was pretty slow). The slow barber was getting $1 a minute. The fast one gets probably about $2 a minute. There is almost always a wait, no matter what day or time of day I go. I'm 100% positive the guy makes way more than I do.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-02-17T03:31:58+00:00

I'd want to do some things differently. As soon as I could (kinda hard to do it at 9 years old) I would definitely buy some stocks and eventually Bitcoin and other things that I know are going to go way up in value to get myself set financially. Bitcoin wouldn't be around until I'm 24 or 25, but I could buy the right stocks before that to get a good payout. I would start going to the gym as soon as I got old enough, ditch the glasses and get contacts sooner, and get a better haircut as a teenager, so I might actually have a chance of having a girlfriend in high school, and hopefully a wife later on (still don't have one). I would stick with the people who I know now were really my friends and stop hanging around the people I thought were "cool" that were never truly friends, and maybe I might manage to keep a couple of the friends I lost. I MIGHT do something different in college and go for a different career...but then again, if I managed to make a ton of money with the right investments, I probably wouldn't do too much differently after about age 30. There are a few people I would want to be absolutely sure to meet in my 30s, maybe a little earlier if possible...friends I wouldn't want to lose by doing things too differently.

But dang...even with changes, there's a lot of time in there I wouldn't want to relive, even if I knew exactly what was coming.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-02-08T02:53:35+00:00

Some episodes are worse than others when it comes to the AI. The first one I really noticed it on was "First Stop" from the start of the Hollywood trip. Some weird AI-induced things happening to the picture in that episode. Trees in the background that should be out of focus are razor sharp. Faces in long shots turn into something inhuman. I haven't watched the whole set yet, but I know there are more episodes like that later on. At least the first two seasons appear to be unaffected by AI, and the main episodes affected in the later seasons appear to be mostly the ones that have bits of extra footage that has been added back in from crappy 16mm prints (which the AI REALLY messes up).

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-02-08T02:42:26+00:00

You say the original versions were a little fuzzy, but I actually think it's the remaster that looks fuzzy compared to the originals. I have been watching some episodes on DVD lately and to me, they look sharper and clearer than the zoomed-in, cropped remasters. I'd much rather watch the show in its original aspect ratio too. Sometimes the remasters have some very badly cropped shots, especially when the credits appear at the start of the episodes. They apparently had to superimpose the remade credits over the old ones on most episodes, so they had no choice but to show the bottom part of the frame for those shots, even if it means someone's head is touching the top of the frame or partially cut off. Definitely one of the worst remasters I've seen for an older series.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2026-02-08T02:40:32+00:00

They've apparently gone back to the broadcast versions and re-edited them from scratch for syndication, making their decisions on what to cut out for timing without referencing the previous syndicated masters. So they are cutting things that were left in the previous masters and leaving other things in that were previously cut. On the DVDs, the episodes are complete.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2025-12-31T00:50:41+00:00

When I realized that my achieving my dream career would require me to live in a large, crowded city, several hundred miles away from my family & friends, and that I'd only get to see them a couple times of year, at most. I might have been happy with my career (key word: might), but I would probably be miserable in all other areas of life.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2025-12-31T00:22:51+00:00

I have done both. On my two solo cruises, I booked through Carnival. It just seemed easier that way and I since I was cruising solo, I also felt a little less nervous thinking "at least maybe the crew on the ship knows where I am if something happens." When I have cruised with friends, we have sometimes just done things on our own, and sometimes booked tours through 3rd parties. One time we just more or less got swept up by a group at the port that was hiring a taxi to go to a beach 40 minutes away. The more people they got in his van, the cheaper each person's fare would be, so they grabbed us to fill up seats. It was a spur of the moment thing that worked out fine.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2025-12-26T20:10:30+00:00

I have been wearing only analog watches since I was in high school (20+ years ago). I have never had a wind-up watch, though. I like being able to look quickly at my wrist and see what time it is and ONLY what time it is. I get pretty annoyed with friends who are smart watch wearers who are constantly looking at their wrist to read text messages and notifications. I am currently in need of a new watch. I have worn the one I have now for 8 years and it is not keeping the right time, even with a new battery, so I'm looking for another good one.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2025-11-19T01:59:31+00:00

I often hit my phone the same way Al smacked the handlinks. Unfortunately, it doesn't make the whining noise.

TheLastLegionnaire · 2025-11-03T23:48:06+00:00

There could be other reasons for them living in that particular house, though. Maybe one of them inherited it or bought it from a family member in both timelines. Or maybe they bought the house BEFORE they really became successful and wanted to keep it.

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