Andy Wabiszewski

You're goddamn right it is!
Gamertag: Wabalicious

[Andy Wabiszewski @AndyWaba]

@TCIIIESQ21 We all remember Kobe famously stating, "Why would I show up to the gym at 4 am? No one else is there that early"

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Twenty five years ago today, a 62 year old man with cancer in his bones walked 2,687 people out of the South Tower, and then he went back inside.

Rick Rescorla was born in Hayle, Cornwall in 1939. British Parachute Regiment in Cyprus at 18. Colonial police in Northern Rhodesia. Then he came to America, enlisted in the US Army in 1963, and in November 1965 he went into the Ia Drang Valley as a platoon leader with the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry.

Hal Moore called him the best platoon leader he ever saw. His men called him Hard Core. He sang to them in the dark, Wild Colonial Boy in an Australian accent, because he had worked out that men who are singing are not men who are panicking. That is Rescorla on the cover of We Were Soldiers Once and Young, bayonet fixed.

Thirty five years later he was head of security for Dean Witter, later Morgan Stanley, in the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

In 1990 he brought in his old friend Dan Hill and the two of them walked the basement. He warned the Port Authority that the parking garage was wide open, that somebody could drive in a truck full of explosives, walk out and light it off. Nothing was done. Three years later the 1993 bomb went off about thirty feet from the spot he had flagged.

After that he told Morgan Stanley the towers were still a target and the next attack would come out of the sky. He wanted the firm to leave Manhattan. The lease ran to 2006, so they stayed. Twenty two floors of the South Tower, roughly 2,700 people.

So he drilled them. Every three months, everyone, no exceptions, down the stairwells two abreast while he stood there with a stopwatch. Traders pulling seven figures resented being marched down concrete stairs by a Cornishman with a clipboard. He kept doing it anyway.

8:46 a.m. The North Tower is hit. Port Authority comes over the South Tower loudspeakers and tells everyone the building is secure and to go back to their desks. Rescorla picks up a bullhorn and tells his people to get out.

He phones Dan Hill. "The dumb sons of bitches told me not to evacuate. They said it's just Building One. I told them I'm getting my people out of here."

9:03 a.m. The second plane hits the South Tower, floors 77 through 85. His people are already in the stairwells, moving exactly the way they had been drilled, and Rescorla is on the bullhorn singing to them. Cornish songs. A version of Men of Harlech he had rewritten for Cornwall. Men of Cornwall stop your dreaming, can't you see their spearpoints gleaming.

He called his wife Susan from the stairs. They had been married two and a half years, met jogging in New Jersey. He told her to stop crying, that he had to get these people out safely, and that if something happened to him he wanted her to know he had never been happier, that she made his life.

Someone told him to get out. He said, as soon as I make sure everyone else is out.

2,687 Morgan Stanley employees went home that day. Thirteen did not, and four of those were Rescorla and the men who stayed in the building with him: Wesley Mercer, Jorge Velazquez, Godwin Forde.

He was last seen on the 10th floor, walking up.

The South Tower fell at 9:59. They never found him.

[Andy Wabiszewski @AndyWaba]

@stratospheriae Me too!!!!!!!!!!
Had no idea why I was left such a sweet beat

[ace circlet 8: wings of dante 🎶 @stratospheriae]

just got this spam voice mail with the NASTIEST fuckin bassline what the hell

[gas station dream girl @cheygoulet]

One of the greatest letdowns is when you think you’re about to hear “Werewolves of London” but it’s actually “All Summer Long” by Kid Rock.

[alexSSN @alexSSN]

Hey man, that’s really awesome that you saved some of your 4th of July fireworks so you could set them off at noon on the 13th of July

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump & paid its CEO $96 million.

This year, it’s raising the price of an Xbox by $150 & eliminating 3,200 jobs.

Please don’t tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down.

[TONY @TonyMichaelX]

“I don’t want a digital download code. I want a physical disk.”

[UberFacts @UberFacts]

There’s a psychological difference between playing video games to relax and playing to win

A study of over 13,000 gamers found that competitive, win-focused play is linked to increased anxiety — while playing for fun/to relieve stress was tied to greater emotional well-being

[Stephen Jeung @stephen_jeung]

Cowabunga, Santa Monica! 🐢🍕
The wait is finally over—the official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizzeria is officially open at 1444 3rd Street Promenade!
From the "Cowabunga Cheese" to the "Mutagen Mushroom," the menu is packed with slices worthy of the sewer squad. Whether you're here for the iconic New York-style pizza or the exclusive merch, this is the ultimate spot for every TMNT fan.
Swing by and grab a slice at the brand-new LA location today!
#TMNTPizzeria #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles #SantaMonica #ThirdStreetPromenade #PizzaTime

[Andy Wabiszewski @AndyWaba]

@TCIIIESQ21 I once tried to call in for pizza while picking up the kids. Took WAY to long and AI messed up my simple first name at the end. Didn't check that it was correct either.

Guess who's never called in a pizza again? (Kids thought my wrong name was hilarious though)

[Andy Wabiszewski @AndyWaba]

@TCIIIESQ21 Isn't that why Kobe stayed in 2007?
Next season, team made a splash deadline trade and made the Finals. Still unsure why most people don't use that comparison (and hoping someone in the Bucks org is stating that)

[Andy Wabiszewski @AndyWaba]

I just went 82-0, think you can go 82-0? https://t.co/8XytlL9JDd #NBA #82and0

[Lost Internet @LostMemeArchive]

Excel 95 had a secret Easter egg called the Hall of Tortured Souls.

If you followed a weird set of steps, you could enter a Doom-style 3D maze hidden inside a spreadsheet program.

90s software was genuinely unhinged.

[Andy Wabiszewski @AndyWaba]

@TCIIIESQ21 Huge diff between talking about leaving and then actually staring at $275 mil + money for your bros. Not convinced he says no to that.

Also, Milwaukee can easily say "We kept trying but the OTHER TEAMS kept saying you weren't worth it" and let the motivated/revenge season begin

[Andy Wabiszewski @AndyWaba]

@MichaelRedd_ 100% B

Too many people overlook how winning the whole thing really beats out anything else.

No Cubs fans are fazed about 108 year drought anymore (and the Brewers won 0)

No Packers fan are upset that they won "only" 2 rings (the rest of division won 0)

[Andy Wabiszewski @AndyWaba]

@bluewmist Spending time with the kids

[Andy Wabiszewski @AndyWaba]

@TCIIIESQ21 Kind of want to point out how much better a road team performs for game 7 when it doesn't start mid-afternoon. Not that I'm still mad about 4 years ago or anything

[Andy Wabiszewski @AndyWaba]

@nathanmarzion Was at the game. Just DYING that no one else could make a shot or a stop. Bud refused to play Carter and instead chose Hill's 20 minutes of nothing and Grayson's total no show.

Also looking back, that game should have signaled that Brook was no longer the answer at center

[Andy Wabiszewski @AndyWaba]

@drewberinger @TCIIIESQ21 I don't know man. I don't think a triple zero is all due to coaching