Comments | porphyre: every generation creates its own traditions

porphyre

every generation creates its own traditions

Apr 16, 2007 16:36

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school shootings

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anonymous April 16 2007, 23:56:36 UTC

http://wanusmaximus.livejournal.com/

anonymous April 17 2007, 01:03:00 UTC

Well, there is indeed a Wayne Chiang of Chantilly at V Tech (B.Sc comp sci). He was honoured at the Spring Commencement, May 12 2006.

Resume is at http://cs4604.cs.vt.edu/~wchiang/resumeWayne.pdf

That'd be

Wayne G. Chiang
3506 Meadowbrook
Blacksburg, Virginia
703.655.1914

Can't say if this is "the guy" though.

porphyre April 17 2007, 17:19:30 UTC

It's not.

anonymous April 17 2007, 20:54:18 UTC

I know. :-)
But he's famous now. Odd that he got death threats though if people thought he was the guy, since he would have been already dead.

same old same old anonymous April 17 2007, 00:24:11 UTC

Yeah, that's been the news since I woke up. Another big gunman rampage.
And oddly enough I'm not having much of an emotional reaction to this one. Sad to say that I think I'm getting "shooting rampage" fatigue. I sort of worry about that, because I should be just as outraged as I used to be, but I just can't seem to work up the indignation.

Or maybe my indignation is being spent elsewhere like on the shabby news media who love this stuff and will use the dead just as they used Anna Nicole Smith or the latest celebrity breakup or whatever, with the news industry not placing any more value in a massacre than it does a drug overdose or a rescued kitten. It's just another story for the distraction machine to keep us from looking at the man behind the curtain.

In fact, bet this shooting will get LESS column inches / on air minutes than the Anna Nichol Smith thing did.

Crap, I'm cynical and bitter today!

Remembering the right names: eva00 April 17 2007, 03:09:21 UTC

I wasn't able to find them all ( ... )

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Re: Remembering the right names: eva00 April 17 2007, 21:02:26 UTC

You're welcome. To often we forget that the victims are the ones we should remember.

porphyre April 17 2007, 17:16:53 UTC

I wonder if there will ever be a memorial for all of them, not just seperate blocks of stone in far flung places, but one central thing.

meoka2368 April 17 2007, 10:12:14 UTC

What would have happened if in the first shooting, people ran towards the gunman, instead of away?
Would he have been taken down (alive or not), and not had the chance to kill again?

porphyre April 17 2007, 17:19:56 UTC

In the first shooting, no one knew what was up quite as yet.

lafinjack April 17 2007, 11:01:31 UTC

And they said the olden days were better.

Also, 120 people die a day in U.S. auto accidents, yet the need for people to not be shithead drivers never gets any press.