Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven
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He He - ya'll just reminded me - when I was in the military during my last few years - I would sit in the back of the briefing room behind the General while my Colonel was briefing the group - anytime he didn't know the answer to the question he would pretend to look it up in his notes - I would write the answer on a legal pad with a sharpie and hold it up behind the people being briefed... LOL The only problem with this system was the General was checking his phone or something one time and saw me holding up the pad in the reflection - I got caught...
Well, he definitely believed in his secret signals. Another time he went into a long spiel about the problems he had overcome. He could have expressed this elsewhere. I got exasperated, and could not contain my nonverbals. They were duly noted.
Who'd you hear it from? (There is no such thing now, so you're more or less saying that FB is not wise for doing something that they haven't done.)I haven't seen it yet, but I heard FB is coming out with or has just implemented a thumbs down for voting down a subject - they are saying it is not to be used as a dislike button - They don't know folks very well do they...
There is now, and has always been, a way for FB users to report objectionable posts to FB. If the post violates FB rules, it gets removed. The problem is that FB has to decide whether the post violates a rule, and it's not always clear whether it does or it doesn't.
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What a labor of love and a wonderful tribute to your dadMy dad in a typical pose (explaining something).
My dad (1917-2005) had big plans for a series of memoirs and outlined them for me. This is where the names listed in Memoirs came from. The ones with real links are the ones that he was satisfied with AND that I had converted to HTML by the time he died. There are many others in less-than-finished condition that I really should get off my duff and edit into publishable shape. After all, I'm 74 and not going to live forever, myself.
The problem is compounded by my father's version of Version Control. Every time he edited a piece he would save it as a new file, but sometimes when he edited he would work from an older file and then save that changed version as a new file. He was also not consistent about the names he gave to the files, and since he continued to name files with the old MS-DOS convention of 8 characters for the name and 3 characters for the extension (8.3), the filenames tend to be fairly cryptic. They were mostly saved on 3.5" floppy disks (but some on Zip-disks of different types) so many of the files actually have the same names but with slightly different content. Also, many of his files were in WordPerfect format, so I have had to find and use a WP-to-Text conversion program to recover them (which FUBARs any embedded filedate information).
I have managed to recover copies of all his files from the 500 or so floppy disks he left behind. To get a "final" version, I need to collect all the files of any given memoir and run a DIFF program on each combination of two files (checking differences line by line or even character by character) to determine how he had changed the files. Eventually I have to guess at what he meant to say and finally convert it to HTML (which I do with a simple text editor (I really dislike the bloated HTML that results from WYSIWYG editors)). Needless to say this tends to get interrupted by the occasional bout of tears even though it's been 12 years since he passed. Memory can be overwhelming at times.
For my mom (1919-1999) there are many fewer files; she tended to edit and save in the same file. Also she just never planned (and started) nearly as many memoirs. A pity, since she had, and told, many family memories. (Some idiot son never thought to get them on tape.) There are a few, and I hope to get them converted to HTML someday as well.
Hmmm, what do you do to the crocs? Just curious because other than 95¢ Walmart flip-flops and one pair of flats for dress-up, all I wear are crocs.
Greeks are known for gesturing while talking. Me being Greek I used to do it all the time too but years ago I forced myself to stop doung it so much because hubs found it distracting. But when I get excited all vets are off!
Dad was from a long line of Scots - not particularly known for using their hands to express themselves. But I never recall him explaining anything without showing the "shape" of it at the same time.What a labor of love and a wonderful tribute to your dad
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Greeks are known for gesturing while talking. Me being Greek I used to do it all the time too but years ago I forced myself to stop doung it so much because hubs found it distracting. But when I get excited all vets are off!
I have two pair, "Lina" and something else similar. Somewhere on their web-site or with the two pair I got, it says that if they a bit too small, stretch them with heat from a hair-dryer.
They are dressy flats, but all rubber.
I heard it on TV, but here is an article about it...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/02/08/facebook-downvote-button/322180002/
I pass--this time!
Good morning All,
You're asking moi?!?!?Do you know how hard it is to hold your hands still when talking???
Thanks for that, Semi, and please accept my apology for being such a noodge about reference sourcing. When someone says that they heard something it's a natural tendency of mine to ask where they heard it. People don't always maintain accuracy when relaying info that they heard.
I'm quite sure that you're right. The problem is the FB algorithms that allow buyers of advertising to target the audience. FB already knows, from 10 years of watching me, that I'm a confirmed flaming liberal. FB provides that fact to people who wish to pay for targeted posts. Therefore, Russian purveyors of fake news are not going to pay to target someone like me, and I don't even see the fake news. I can't report what I don't see. Of course, if Russia decides that they'd be better off with Democrats in office, I'll start getting all kinds of fake anti-Republican news. If and when that happens, I'm a reporter of violations, not a gleeful believer in the fake news.
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I've got friends that span the political spectrum from peace, love, and kum-by-ya liberals to red neck truck drivers. When I get messages or emails from them about some 'topic' my 1st reaction is to 'google' it to find out if it's pure fake, or coming from an utterly biased source before even reading it. If it fits one of those 2 categories, to the trash can it goes w/o reading it.
Well the nerve just shows impingement at the S1 which she already knew and they don't want to operate no neuropathy shes going in for a test on ther arteries. She cut back on her meds and so it is not going well at all.
We thought Spring was here was beeutiful here almost warm sun shining then we got up this morning to this.
Got to say it's right purdy, even though it would be less purdy if I had to personally deal with it!We thought Spring was here was beeutiful here almost warm sun shining then we got up this morning to this.
No sweat. I am very picky about what sources I believe and don't believe. So many of them are saying the truth - even the fake news - if you understand that they have cherry picked the sentences or even parts of sentences that fit what they want to say. This is true in everything now in the world - advertisers, news, etc...
Myself, I usually read or listen to more than one source if the topic interests me and then make my own decision...
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