In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Went to see Hamilton on the weekend. Loved the music
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and learnt a bit about US history.
But I doubt that is a thing that happened while watching Hamilton.
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Possibly true - it’s an interpretation. But it did make me do a bit of googling about the War of Independence.
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Yeah. If you look at history books here in the US, and I'm referring to the ones that are taught to kids in public schools, just about every 5 years you'll find the text to be unrecognizable to the books that came 5 years before it.
I believe what people claim is American History just about as much as I believe that The Bible is a record of events from over 2000 years ago. (Which to note, any version of The Bible that has been translated so that I could read it is itself an interpretation of the original work)
Maybe that's where the religious types got it wrong though. Aside from the changes that were made when it was translated, the book doesn't change.
People seem to trust sites like Wikipedia and Snopes though, even though they both are run by people with an obvious bias and the information presented is extremely fluid and easy to change when doing so is convenient.
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Wiki is a reasonable place to start though - especially if you want a bit of basic information- which I didn’t have before. Not sure I’m interested enough to read the biography of Hamilton which is supposedly quite good.
In the end much of history is about the lens in which you look through - the basic facts don’t change but the view of them do- always been that way.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Had a problem a while ago. Couldn't post. Don't know what happened.
If you couldn't reach ANY internet website, it was probably a problem with your internet service provider. We're on cable, and there was a time when our inet went out for a few hours, and while walking the dog I saw our electricity provider replacing some poles while running a (big!) generator to run the telecom and internet services because, of course, they run on electricity too. Or could be a server (DNS) problem with your ISP, especially if you got "file not found"-type error messages wherever you tried to go.
Another problem that can cause global errors is a problem with the modem and router. I don't know how you get inet access ... if you have your own modem and router and pay your own bill, or if your apartment come with jacks in the wall, or wifi provided by the apartment bldg ... but SOMEONE has a modem and router through which you reach the inet, and occasionally it gets confused and needs to be rebooted, or firmware patches need to be downloaded from your ISP.
If it was just this site ... well, this is probably a medium-sized database at this point, and every now and again it needs repacking or backing up or other maintenance.
But if your PC was misbehaving with other software ... say, you tried to save file and it garbled the contents ... then it might have been your PC. SIX would prolly be able to explain troubleshooting better than I can.
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Wiki is a reasonable place to start though - especially if you want a bit of basic information- which I didn’t have before. Not sure I’m interested enough to read the biography of Hamilton which is supposedly quite good.
In the end much of history is about the lens in which you look through - the basic facts don’t change but the view of them do- always been that way.
I find Wiki USUALLY to be a reliable source of technical info.* I used to refer to it all the time when I needed basic technial info like "How do blowout preventers work?" or "what is texanol?" but anything political or historical ... Hoo boy! It doesn't get basic facts wrong ... names, dates, etc ... but it could highly selective about WHICH facts were put in, and it would leave a crap-ton out. If I was following a specific topic I could see the content change from month to month, or even from day to day, depending on how politically active the topic was and what narrative was being pushed that month/week/day.
One of the original founders of wikipedia - Larry Sangers- has disavowed it, even as Jimmy Wales continues hawking for donations.
That is the problem with the inet's historical info: it's too fluid. Our agency was not above changing the language (on the sly) of a negotiated contract just before signing ... fortunately, one of our negotiators was a stubborn cuss who insisted on reading the whole thing word for word before signing... and the intranet version was just as fluid, so it paid to have a signed hardcopy document on-hand that couldn't be changed on a whim bc I found discrepancies between the intranet and hardcopy versions.
* Altho we did just find a technical error just yesterday. We were watching a TV show and the phrase "drift mine" came up, and the wiki definition was at odds with every other definition and every image that duckduck came up with. Clearly, wiki got it wrong on that one.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Had a problem a while ago. Couldn't post. Don't know what happened.
If you couldn't reach ANY internet website, it was probably a problem with your internet service provider. We're on cable, and there was a time when our inet went out for a few hours, and while walking the dog I saw our electricity provider replacing some poles while running a (big!) generator to run the telecom and internet services because, of course, they run on electricity too. Or could be a server (DNS) problem with your ISP, especially if you got "file not found"-type error messages wherever you tried to go.
Another problem that can cause global errors is a problem with the modem and router. I don't know how you get inet access ... if you have your own modem and router and pay your own bill, or if your apartment come with jacks in the wall, or wifi provided by the apartment bldg ... but SOMEONE has a modem and router through which you reach the inet, and occasionally it gets confused and needs to be rebooted, or firmware patches need to be downloaded from your ISP.
If it was just this site ... well, this is probably a medium-sized database at this point, and every now and again it needs repacking or backing up or other maintenance.
But if your PC was misbehaving with other software ... say, you tried to save file and it garbled the contents ... then it might have been your PC. SIX would prolly be able to explain troubleshooting better than I can.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
No, it was just here. Not sure how long it lasted or whatever.
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Just a Sunday.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Had a problem a while ago. Couldn't post. Don't know what happened.
If you couldn't reach ANY internet website, it was probably a problem with your internet service provider. We're on cable, and there was a time when our inet went out for a few hours, and while walking the dog I saw our electricity provider replacing some poles while running a (big!) generator to run the telecom and internet services because, of course, they run on electricity too. Or could be a server (DNS) problem with your ISP, especially if you got "file not found"-type error messages wherever you tried to go.
Another problem that can cause global errors is a problem with the modem and router. I don't know how you get inet access ... if you have your own modem and router and pay your own bill, or if your apartment come with jacks in the wall, or wifi provided by the apartment bldg ... but SOMEONE has a modem and router through which you reach the inet, and occasionally it gets confused and needs to be rebooted, or firmware patches need to be downloaded from your ISP.
If it was just this site ... well, this is probably a medium-sized database at this point, and every now and again it needs repacking or backing up or other maintenance.
But if your PC was misbehaving with other software ... say, you tried to save file and it garbled the contents ... then it might have been your PC. SIX would prolly be able to explain troubleshooting better than I can.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
It wasn't Brenda. It was the site.
I'd thought it kind of strange how little post activity happened last night, until the site hung up on me at one point and I gave up. Later I went back to try to post somewhere and the thread would come up, but when I tried to make a post one of those database errors came up.
This morning it was good though.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Wiki is a reasonable place to start though - especially if you want a bit of basic information- which I didn’t have before. Not sure I’m interested enough to read the biography of Hamilton which is supposedly quite good.
In the end much of history is about the lens in which you look through - the basic facts don’t change but the view of them do- always been that way.
I find Wiki USUALLY to be a reliable source of technical info.* I used to refer to it all the time when I needed basic technial info like "How do blowout preventers work?" or "what is texanol?" but anything political or historical ... Hoo boy! It doesn't get basic facts wrong ... names, dates, etc ... but it could highly selective about WHICH facts were put in, and it would leave a crap-ton out. If I was following a specific topic I could see the content change from month to month, or even from day to day, depending on how politically active the topic was and what narrative was being pushed that month/week/day.
One of the original founders of wikipedia - Larry Sangers- has disavowed it, even as Jimmy Wales continues hawking for donations.
That is the problem with the inet's historical info: it's too fluid. Our agency was not above changing the language (on the sly) of a negotiated contract just before signing ... fortunately, one of our negotiators was a stubborn cuss who insisted on reading the whole thing word for word before signing... and the intranet version was just as fluid, so it paid to have a signed hardcopy document on-hand that couldn't be changed on a whim bc I found discrepancies between the intranet and hardcopy versions.
* Altho we did just find a technical error just yesterday. We were watching a TV show and the phrase "drift mine" came up, and the wiki definition was at odds with every other definition and every image that duckduck came up with. Clearly, wiki got it wrong on that one.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
That's as good an explanation of Wikipedia as I've ever read before.
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Well, today was another somewhat productive day. Aside from the usual dog-walking and KP duties, I gave the dog a bath and hubby helped me trim her nails (she needs to be mummy-wrapped for the nail-clipping part). She hides when she hears me run water in the laundrey tub. Today I had to drag her out from under the kitchen table, and she gives me a look that would melt a heart of stone. Sorry pup ... you itch, your fur is dirty, and you need a bath and nail trim!
And then I cut hubby's hair and trimmed his beard and 'stache. He's quite a handsome guy!
Would you believe I've been "brushing" the dog's teeth most evenings for over a month? I found that a small piece of gauze wrappped around my finger with doggy-toothpaste embedded in it works well and isn't too large for her small mouth. Ever since she has her teeth cleaned and had 7 (!!) teeth extracted I've been trying to keep up with her dental hygiene ... who knew dogs had such needs?? She gives me that pleading look, and the tip of her tail vibrates with the same beseech ... "Please can you NOT brush my teeth???" ... but I think the toothpaste actually tastes pretty good to her and she's getting used to it. Altho I have to dig around in her mouth a bit to find the back molars.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
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