Just moving the chairs around a bit. Let me know if it offends.
Just moving the chairs around a bit. Let me know if it offends.
Heroes are chosen for many different reasons. Too few of us pick people who truly show heroism, instead plumping for people we admire for their sporting prowess, intellect or artistry. There’s nothing wrong with that, but if you truly want heroism, someone not just being brave because they have to be, or as a side-effect of their own fight for life, or even through the love of a parent for a child, then you should look to Marian and Barbie Fisher:
One of the girls who died in Pennsylvania’s Amish schoolhouse massacre asked the killer to shoot her first in an apparent bid to save the younger girls, a woman who spoke to the victim’s family said Friday.
Rita Rhoads, a nurse-midwife who delivered 13-year-old Marian Fisher as well as another victim, said Fisher appealed to Charles Carl Roberts IV to shoot her first because she thought it might allow younger girls to survive.
Rhoads said she did not know whether Fisher in fact was shot first. Roberts shot 10 girls ages 6 to 13, killing five of them and then himself in Monday’s rampage. (Watch “shocked and sad” Amish express forgiveness — 2:46)
Fisher’s 11-year-old sister, Barbie, appealed to Roberts to shoot her next, Rhoads said. Barbie survived and was in Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia recovering from shoulder, hand and leg injuries.
I hate to think what I would have to have done to be inspired to cycle like this
This week has been a bit heavy, so here’s something lighter – a behind the scenes look at how the digital effects for that hi-tech blockbuster Brokeback Mountain were done. Sadly they don’t explain the bit where the Cylons use their tractor beams to kidnap the sheep and do tests on them. Other features include The Aviator, if you prefer your sheep less worried.
(HT: Daring Fireball)
OK, that’s a bit of a happy letdown for my campaign to extract recompense from Apple – the Macbook is ready for collection, and all is well. Even the repair guy was surprised at the speed of the turnaround (and here’s to iSupport of Portsmouth and Southampton for doing their bit so quickly – the part arrived this morning, and by 2pm it was running).