Capsule (Full commentary found immediately below Lead Picture):
Thursday, September 12, 2019
A true story being told using social media constraints, in this case, the Video Script for an Instagram video, limited to less than a minute.
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Lead Picture (Thumbnail Story below in Thumbnail section)
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Collapse of the World Trade Center
U.S. Navy Photo by Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres
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Commentary
Thursday, September 12, 2019
A true story being told using social media constraints, in this case, the Video Script for an Instagram video, limited to less than a minute.
Title: And the Dog said Woof (in 103 words)
Kat in her stroller, we were walking in the Public Garden, at this moment stopped,
When the friendly, twenty-pound dog strolled over and said, “Woof!”
Baby Kat’s eyes, enlarged with excitement, nine months old those eyes and the same height as the dog’s.
She twisted her neck, her expression asking, “What just happened?”
She not quite speaking yet.
I walked to the front of the stroller and one-knee knelt to recount the event.
“Daddy and baby Kat were walking and the dog came over.
“And the dog said, “Woof!”
She smiled.
She understood.
Her first story from a boundless trove of treasured stories.
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News re: existentialautotrip
Thursday, September 12, 2019
I was able to produce this 1-minute Instagram video by myself in less than an hour.
Hope next week to learn to edit the beginning and the end of the video and lose the ragged quality.
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A “Hey, Dom!” video.
Blog Publication: Thursday, September 12, 2019
Name: And the dog said ‘woof’
Length: 59 seconds
Description: A dad walks his nine-month-old and an encounter with a dog leads to a milestone in communication
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019
From Vivi, my 8-year-old friend.
Is you refrigerator running?
You’d better run after it and catch it.
Web Meister responds: Hahaha! Hahaha! Hahaha!
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Chuckle of the day:
Thursday, September 12, 2019
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. - Edward Abbey
Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it. - Unknown
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain
Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane. - Smiley Blanton
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Today’s Thumbnail
Thursday, September 12, 2019
The collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City occurred as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, after the buildings were struck by two hijacked commercial airliners.
The North Tower was hit at 8:46 am and collapsed at 10:28 am.
The South Tower was hit at 9:03 am and collapsed at 9:59 am.
The resulting debris severely damaged or destroyed more than a dozen other adjacent and nearby structures, ultimately leading to the collapse of Seven World Trade Center at 5:21 pm.
Our lead picture, taken four days after the collapse, shows a New York City fireman calling for ten more rescue workers to make their way into the rubble of the World Trade Center.
A montage of eight images depicting, from top to bottom,
the World Trade Center towers burning,
the collapsed section of the Pentagon,
the impact explosion in the South Tower,
a rescue worker standing in front of rubble of the collapsed towers,
an excavator unearthing a smashed jet engine,
three frames of video depicting American Airlines Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon
UpstateNYer - Own work; derivative work of the following: WTC smoking on 9-11.jpeg by Michael Foran on Flickr DN-SD-03-11451.JPEG by the United States Navy UA Flight 175 hits WTC south tower 9-11 edit.jpeg by TheMachineStops on Flickr WTC-Fireman requests 10 more colleagesa.jpg by the US Government Flight93Engine.jpg by the US Government Video2 flight77 pentagon.png by the United States Department of Defense
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
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Acknowledgements
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Thanks and prayers for ourselves as a nation and the victims of and responders to the tragic events of 9/11.
Thanks to Vivi for her cute joke that, in the telling, made me laugh out loud.
And to the Jokes Warehouse for providing today’s chuckle.
Thanks to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
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Good Morning on this Thursday, September 12, 2019
Copies of prayers I say for the general torment we suffered as a nation and
the specific horrors suffered and bravery displayed by the victims of and responders to the tragedy.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your Taeyeon