Well I've suceded in screwing up two postings in a row. One was some darn good stuff, but I don't have a clue what happened to it. I'm not going to tell you what it was, because I'm just going to start over, Darn!
The next was one that I started at work and decided to finish at home, but the computer at home won't open the files that I need. So I'll just have to go in early to finish it. The problem is, I wanted to finish one before the other. Oh well.
The next time I get a computer I'm going to get one with everything already on it. That must be the plot... To get me to spend a bazillion bucks on a computer.
I always do everything in my word processor because it is less likely to get lost, but when I came home tonight to finish the story that I had started, there was nothing there... Gone, whoosh... Just like I hadn't even been there...
Please tell me that I am not the only one that looses things on a computer.
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Dedicated to remembering how it was “back then”, and Tales about the Eel River Valley, and the wisdom of the people that live there. With a big emphasis on; “Language has never been about correctness, it has always been about communicating”. We live in one small bubble of place and time that peace is thought of as ideal, we should revel in it! We cant judge what happened in history by who we are now.
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"I'm so tired of people substituting "values" for truth in a wide variety of situations. As a member of the reality-based community, I'd like to see reality used as the litmus test... " Jon Carrol
"The sound "squaw," regardless of its spelling, is OUR word for woman, and it is NOT to be used as an insult! When I hear it spoken by Native peoples, in its proper context, I hear the voices of the ancestors. I am reminded of powerful grandmothers who nurtured our people and fed the strangers, of proud women chiefs who stood up against them, and of mothers and daughters and sisters who still stand here today. In their honor I demand that our language, our women, and our history, be treated with respect.
Thank you for listening."
Wlibomkanni, travel well.
Quotes from Richard Dawkins:
...Anybody who thinks you need religion in order to be good is being good for the wrong reason. I’d rather be good for moral reasons. Morals were here before religion, and morals change rather rapidly in spite of religion. Even people who rely on the Bible use nonbiblical criteria. If your criteria are scriptural, you have no basis for choosing the verse that says turn the other cheek rather than the verse that says stone people to death. So you pick and choose without guidance from the Bible...
...I draw strength from reflecting on what a privilege it is to be alive and what a privilege it is to have a brain that’s capable in its limited way of understanding why I exist and of reveling in the beauty of the world and the beauty of the products of evolution. The magnificence of the universe and the sense of smallness that gives us in space and in geologically deep time is humbling but in a strangely comforting way. It’s nice to feel you’re part of a hugely bigger picture...
Richard Dawkins
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"The sound "squaw," regardless of its spelling, is OUR word for woman, and it is NOT to be used as an insult! When I hear it spoken by Native peoples, in its proper context, I hear the voices of the ancestors. I am reminded of powerful grandmothers who nurtured our people and fed the strangers, of proud women chiefs who stood up against them, and of mothers and daughters and sisters who still stand here today. In their honor I demand that our language, our women, and our history, be treated with respect.
Thank you for listening."
Wlibomkanni, travel well.
Quotes from Richard Dawkins:
...Anybody who thinks you need religion in order to be good is being good for the wrong reason. I’d rather be good for moral reasons. Morals were here before religion, and morals change rather rapidly in spite of religion. Even people who rely on the Bible use nonbiblical criteria. If your criteria are scriptural, you have no basis for choosing the verse that says turn the other cheek rather than the verse that says stone people to death. So you pick and choose without guidance from the Bible...
...I draw strength from reflecting on what a privilege it is to be alive and what a privilege it is to have a brain that’s capable in its limited way of understanding why I exist and of reveling in the beauty of the world and the beauty of the products of evolution. The magnificence of the universe and the sense of smallness that gives us in space and in geologically deep time is humbling but in a strangely comforting way. It’s nice to feel you’re part of a hugely bigger picture...
Richard Dawkins
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- Ernie Branscomb
- Refrigeration contractor. Fifth generation native of the So. Fork of the Eel River.(since 1857) Married to wife Janis Dec. 31 1971. Volunteer fireman since 1973. Rotarian since 1980. E-mail adress ernie@branscombcenter.com
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12 comments:
Maybe your computers have a bug...
a history bug.
I have lost files and loosed invectives.
You're totally not alone!
Ha, ha. Just for that I'm going to leave it "loose".
I have a disclaimer at the top that convers all languge problems.
The bueaty of it is, that I get paid the same weather I catch all of the typo's or not.
ern, you are starting to write like suzy blah-blah...
Yeah, that was fun! Suzy and I are meeting half way.
A klutz's best friend is to remember to hit CONTROL "Z" to undo what was just done. It works enough times to save you from these disasters that you should try it.
Bless you Chris Crawford!
Ps. Sorry you lost some work Ernie...that is a bad feeling and I do sympathize.
It is a betrayal kind of feeling.
Ernie its good to know that you get paid the same weather... it'd be totally inconvenient to expect a sunny day and get paid rain instead.
did you try systems restore?
start / performance and maintenance / systems restore
sorry should have been;
start / control panel / performance and maintenance / systems restore
I'd avoid System Restore unless you absolutely have to use it.
I used it once when I replaced a modem driver (at Microsoft's suggestion- it was a suggested Windows Update) and my modem stopped working. Not knowing how else to get back online I used system restore.
Major hassle ensued with having to update certain programs all over again. Computer didn't seem the same for quite some time.
Fred, I agree. System Restore is a good idea that so far has never worked right for me.
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