UC Santa Cruz *CVB Dorm Fire memories: My sister asked a few pertinent questions, I post the answers here-
On Nov 17, 2005, at 7:58 PM, Amy wrote:
"Woah. what a flashback. Where were you when the place burned? Where did you keep Chuck after that? What did you see when you returned?"
While it burned, we were in the quad, watching, Chuck was on my shoulder. That night, two girls volunteered to keep Chuckles 'cause I was going to be out of town, skiing in Tahoe with Mom and Denny, so we built chuck a cardboard box home with cardboard perches and ladders and got him some birdfood. We were able to go into the rooms with supervision just to grab a few things, I guess that was some time the next day, when there was no smoke left. My room was mostly covered with soot from 4 feet high to the ceiling, and all the plastic things up there were melted and covered in soot. Such as, remember those coat-hooks shaped like human fingers? I had one of those on the inside of the dorm door, with my polyester windbreaker hanging on it, and it looked like the windbreaker was melted onto the fingerhook, and THEN the fingerhook melted to the floor.
And my Mom filled in a few blanks-
"Your school was giving counseling to those of you in that dorm. They sent the pyro home or else he escaped on an airplane before anyone could get the name of his parents' homeowners insurance information.
When we got up to Santa Cruz, all the kids in your dorm were jammed into a lounge room, nose to toes sleeping quarters. Mess.
We took you and Kenny out for Chinese food and brought back some extra food in those white carry out boxes. We put them down for just a second on the floor of the lounge-dorm and when we picked up the cartons to give the extra food to your friends, there were ants all over the box. Ugh."
That explains my aversion to leaving an open package of food on the floor for even a second! Mom continues-
"We had to take all your clothes to a cleaner that stayed open for us. But your computer was gray with smoke damage and you lost shirts that were hanging on plastic hangers. The shirts and hangers melted together across the shoulders. What a nightmare!"
*CVB stands for College V B-dorm as well as Camper Van Beethoven. Porter College had been College V until the year before I got there.
On Nov 17, 2005, at 7:58 PM, Amy wrote:
"Woah. what a flashback. Where were you when the place burned? Where did you keep Chuck after that? What did you see when you returned?"
While it burned, we were in the quad, watching, Chuck was on my shoulder. That night, two girls volunteered to keep Chuckles 'cause I was going to be out of town, skiing in Tahoe with Mom and Denny, so we built chuck a cardboard box home with cardboard perches and ladders and got him some birdfood. We were able to go into the rooms with supervision just to grab a few things, I guess that was some time the next day, when there was no smoke left. My room was mostly covered with soot from 4 feet high to the ceiling, and all the plastic things up there were melted and covered in soot. Such as, remember those coat-hooks shaped like human fingers? I had one of those on the inside of the dorm door, with my polyester windbreaker hanging on it, and it looked like the windbreaker was melted onto the fingerhook, and THEN the fingerhook melted to the floor.
And my Mom filled in a few blanks-
"Your school was giving counseling to those of you in that dorm. They sent the pyro home or else he escaped on an airplane before anyone could get the name of his parents' homeowners insurance information.
When we got up to Santa Cruz, all the kids in your dorm were jammed into a lounge room, nose to toes sleeping quarters. Mess.
We took you and Kenny out for Chinese food and brought back some extra food in those white carry out boxes. We put them down for just a second on the floor of the lounge-dorm and when we picked up the cartons to give the extra food to your friends, there were ants all over the box. Ugh."
That explains my aversion to leaving an open package of food on the floor for even a second! Mom continues-
"We had to take all your clothes to a cleaner that stayed open for us. But your computer was gray with smoke damage and you lost shirts that were hanging on plastic hangers. The shirts and hangers melted together across the shoulders. What a nightmare!"
*CVB stands for College V B-dorm as well as Camper Van Beethoven. Porter College had been College V until the year before I got there.
posted by morst at 11/21/2005 02:46:00 PM -
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WHY I AM NOT A PYRO ANYMORE
21 years ago today, Buffalo John (Weiksnar?) and Jason Graziano's room on 4-South in Porter College's B-dorm was destroyed by fire! Weird eh? It was the Saturday afternoon before thanksgiving if I do recall.
To preface the story of how it happened, (short story, accidental arson) you need to know that Jason was hanging out with Kim from across the hall. Jason "pennied" her into her room by wedging coins inbetween the door and the frame so she could not get out. When she finally did, she took a boxfull of shredded paper which had padded her typewriter on its way to school that year, and she dumped the paper all over Jason, his record collection, and his bed.
So after lunch on saturday, my buddy Kenny Blumenfeld (get in touch KB!) hollers down the hall to me from Jason's room "HEY TOM- YOU GOTTA COME AND SEE THIS! THESE GUYS ARE CRAZY!" When I walked into the room, there was shredded paper everywhere, and the middle of it was on fire. I said "You guys are gonna set off the smoke. . ." and as I said the word "alarm" the klaxon sounded loudly 4 times and did not stop its repeating pattern (1,2,3,4,rest,rest) until much later.
Evidently, Jason (and Joel?) had thought it uproariously funny to light some of the paper on fire, and stomp it out, but then the flames got out of control and well. . .
Their room burned up so completely, that the only things left were two melted bedframes and Buffalo John's bicycle frame, for which he had just gone to go buy an innertube or something and came home to a smoldering wreck of all his personal possessions. I went to my room and got Chuck, my pet parakeet, who was totally finger-trained at this point, even though I had only had him for a little over a month. I left Chuck's cage and took off to Kenny's room to chill out before we had to leave the building. Unfortunately, as I left my room, I failed to close the door or window, so almost all the smoke from the burning room came down the hall and our room was effectively used as the chimney, destroying everything above 4' high where the heat line was.
As a result of this, I am no longer a pyro. That was pretty much the last straw. . . I don't really even use candles at home now.
In other news I recently got in touch with Dave Chako, Kevin Whalen and Andrew Thurber, some of my old UCSC pals. HI GUYS!
21 years ago today, Buffalo John (Weiksnar?) and Jason Graziano's room on 4-South in Porter College's B-dorm was destroyed by fire! Weird eh? It was the Saturday afternoon before thanksgiving if I do recall.
To preface the story of how it happened, (short story, accidental arson) you need to know that Jason was hanging out with Kim from across the hall. Jason "pennied" her into her room by wedging coins inbetween the door and the frame so she could not get out. When she finally did, she took a boxfull of shredded paper which had padded her typewriter on its way to school that year, and she dumped the paper all over Jason, his record collection, and his bed.
So after lunch on saturday, my buddy Kenny Blumenfeld (get in touch KB!) hollers down the hall to me from Jason's room "HEY TOM- YOU GOTTA COME AND SEE THIS! THESE GUYS ARE CRAZY!" When I walked into the room, there was shredded paper everywhere, and the middle of it was on fire. I said "You guys are gonna set off the smoke. . ." and as I said the word "alarm" the klaxon sounded loudly 4 times and did not stop its repeating pattern (1,2,3,4,rest,rest) until much later.
Evidently, Jason (and Joel?) had thought it uproariously funny to light some of the paper on fire, and stomp it out, but then the flames got out of control and well. . .
Their room burned up so completely, that the only things left were two melted bedframes and Buffalo John's bicycle frame, for which he had just gone to go buy an innertube or something and came home to a smoldering wreck of all his personal possessions. I went to my room and got Chuck, my pet parakeet, who was totally finger-trained at this point, even though I had only had him for a little over a month. I left Chuck's cage and took off to Kenny's room to chill out before we had to leave the building. Unfortunately, as I left my room, I failed to close the door or window, so almost all the smoke from the burning room came down the hall and our room was effectively used as the chimney, destroying everything above 4' high where the heat line was.
As a result of this, I am no longer a pyro. That was pretty much the last straw. . . I don't really even use candles at home now.
In other news I recently got in touch with Dave Chako, Kevin Whalen and Andrew Thurber, some of my old UCSC pals. HI GUYS!
posted by morst at 11/17/2005 05:06:00 PM -
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Good news everyone!
"On 11/8/05, jonathan segel wrote:
i would like to extend the permission that we granted to archive our
shows as Camper Van Beethoven to include shows by the individual
members:
Jonathan Segel
Victor Krummenacher
Greg Lisher
David Lowery
as well this will include any shows by our individual bands:
Monks of Doom
Hieronymus Firebrain
Jack and Jill
Chaos Butterfly
thanks.."
thank YOU Jon! (and VK GL DL etc!)
These all exist now:
jsegel
victork
glisher
dlowery
hfirebrain
jackjill
chaosb
Also in the news- Sony's DRM/rootkit scheme is backfiring bigtime, a lower bound on the number of infected machines is well over a half-million (based on dns's having the connect.sony.com address in their caches). Microsoft has now released an update to patch infected machines, but you have to be totally up-to-date on their other updates to use it, as I understand it. Meanwhile any file named $sys$* on these machines becomes invisible, so look out. . .
"On 11/8/05, jonathan segel wrote:
i would like to extend the permission that we granted to archive our
shows as Camper Van Beethoven to include shows by the individual
members:
Jonathan Segel
Victor Krummenacher
Greg Lisher
David Lowery
as well this will include any shows by our individual bands:
Monks of Doom
Hieronymus Firebrain
Jack and Jill
Chaos Butterfly
thanks.."
thank YOU Jon! (and VK GL DL etc!)
These all exist now:
jsegel
victork
glisher
dlowery
hfirebrain
jackjill
chaosb
Also in the news- Sony's DRM/rootkit scheme is backfiring bigtime, a lower bound on the number of infected machines is well over a half-million (based on dns's having the connect.sony.com address in their caches). Microsoft has now released an update to patch infected machines, but you have to be totally up-to-date on their other updates to use it, as I understand it. Meanwhile any file named $sys$* on these machines becomes invisible, so look out. . .
posted by morst at 11/16/2005 04:26:00 PM -
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PUMPKIN POWER POTENTIAL!
As we peruse through the pumpkin season, particular note should be perpetuated towards the pre-festivities of the Pumpkins for the People political passage. The movement has been perpetuated predictably through the presence of a certain particular.
Every Halloween passive-aggressive anti-pinkos have let thousands of pounds of perfectly palatable pumpkin rot on their porches. Pumpkin is good food! Why we could placate the planet's pandering for a more perfect place with pumpkin alone! That's why we here at Pumpkins for the People have started a patented method for permitting pumpkin to be perceived in a new and more perfect way.
Instead of letting perfectly palatable pumpkin perish we show the power of pumpkin in all it's pious prestige. The party begins on Halloween when most people are performing rituals of pumpkin poaching by piercing their precious pumpkin with pointy pocketknives, we praise our pumpkins power by placing them in our pantries where they are not paraded until months later when at our New Year's parties they make their presence again, steaming on a plate with their pungent perfume.
You see, there is a plethora of potential for pumpkin because this perfect pabulum can be stored without refrigeration for, potentially, a period of months on end. If everyone partook of pumpkin we could pacify the world's hunger predicament. It's in these times we periodically need to be prompted about the poverty of the populace. Eating plain pumpkin at our normally prosperous parties points that others are pitifully poor.
So pass out pamphlets in the parks and protests to push in the proliferation of the Pumpkins for the People proposition. Plant a pumpkin for peace! All power to the Pumpkin!
http://www.1-2-free-forums.com/mf/tpnflr-post-134.html
Perfectly put. . . thanks Frogdance!
As we peruse through the pumpkin season, particular note should be perpetuated towards the pre-festivities of the Pumpkins for the People political passage. The movement has been perpetuated predictably through the presence of a certain particular.
Every Halloween passive-aggressive anti-pinkos have let thousands of pounds of perfectly palatable pumpkin rot on their porches. Pumpkin is good food! Why we could placate the planet's pandering for a more perfect place with pumpkin alone! That's why we here at Pumpkins for the People have started a patented method for permitting pumpkin to be perceived in a new and more perfect way.
Instead of letting perfectly palatable pumpkin perish we show the power of pumpkin in all it's pious prestige. The party begins on Halloween when most people are performing rituals of pumpkin poaching by piercing their precious pumpkin with pointy pocketknives, we praise our pumpkins power by placing them in our pantries where they are not paraded until months later when at our New Year's parties they make their presence again, steaming on a plate with their pungent perfume.
You see, there is a plethora of potential for pumpkin because this perfect pabulum can be stored without refrigeration for, potentially, a period of months on end. If everyone partook of pumpkin we could pacify the world's hunger predicament. It's in these times we periodically need to be prompted about the poverty of the populace. Eating plain pumpkin at our normally prosperous parties points that others are pitifully poor.
So pass out pamphlets in the parks and protests to push in the proliferation of the Pumpkins for the People proposition. Plant a pumpkin for peace! All power to the Pumpkin!
http://www.1-2-free-forums.com/mf/tpnflr-post-134.html
Perfectly put. . . thanks Frogdance!
posted by morst at 11/15/2005 06:07:00 PM -
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Links of the day:
The RIAA must be stopped
They Rule 2004
have you seen Frappr? It allows you to create maps using Google's mapping technology, but you can add pins at locations and track groups of people, each person or pin can have a photo and a shoutout. It's a nice nod to Frank Zappa's "Conceptual Continuity" where he envisioned the universe as being made up of sound/objects. These "objects" are arranged like pins on a map except the map is 1:1 and the universe is made of them.
. . .so I created some frappr maps for some of my groups. ..
BlueDixie- Blue Dixie Fans! Where are you?
Crackersouls- like on the green board. . .
CVB- are you 51-7?
Dixiebase- Where has Blue Dixie played shows?
Expressobeans- EB members
This one was already in existance by the time I was told about frappr. . .it's got more members than my other groups, and draws from a potential pool of over 3400 users. . .
Phishposters.com Discussion Group
The RIAA must be stopped
They Rule 2004
have you seen Frappr? It allows you to create maps using Google's mapping technology, but you can add pins at locations and track groups of people, each person or pin can have a photo and a shoutout. It's a nice nod to Frank Zappa's "Conceptual Continuity" where he envisioned the universe as being made up of sound/objects. These "objects" are arranged like pins on a map except the map is 1:1 and the universe is made of them.
. . .so I created some frappr maps for some of my groups. ..
BlueDixie- Blue Dixie Fans! Where are you?
Crackersouls- like on the green board. . .
CVB- are you 51-7?
Dixiebase- Where has Blue Dixie played shows?
Expressobeans- EB members
This one was already in existance by the time I was told about frappr. . .it's got more members than my other groups, and draws from a potential pool of over 3400 users. . .
Phishposters.com Discussion Group
posted by morst at 11/02/2005 01:26:00 PM -
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