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Error message "www.thepoachedegg.net redirected you too manytimes."????
On 08/12/2018 16:36, croy wrote:
On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:14:25 -0600, Char Jackson wrote: On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 15:06:24 -0800, pyotr filipivich wrote: Different strokes for different folks. Like the story about the guy who fell down a well, and while in the well "found God", that doesn't make pushing people down a well a valid form of evangelism. B-) Let us not be hasty in ruling it out, though. Damn you!!! I was just taking a sip of coffee when I read that. Now I have clean up the computer room. The Farmer's Donkey: A Fable for Our Time One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out a way to get him out. Finally he decided it was probably impossible and the animal was old and the well was dry anyway, so it just wasn't worth it to try and retrieve the donkey. So the farmer asked his neighbors to come over and help him cover up the well. They all grabbed shovels and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, when the donkey realized what was happening he cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement, he quieted down and let out some happy brays. A few shovel loads later, the farmer looked down the well to see what was happening and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was shaking it off and taking a step up. (Shifting) As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he continued to shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, to everyone's amazement, the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off! Moral: Life is going to shovel dirt on you. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Every adversity can be turned into a stepping stone. The way to get out of the deepest well is by never giving up but by shaking yourself off and taking a step up. What happens to you isn't nearly as important as how you react to it. Author Unknown -- Regards, David B. https://vxer.home.blog/2018/12/08/vxer-a-profile/ |
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Error message "www.thepoachedegg.net redirected you too many times."????
David B." "David B wrote:
On 08/12/2018 16:36, croy wrote: On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:14:25 -0600, Char Jackson wrote: On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 15:06:24 -0800, pyotr filipivich wrote: Different strokes for different folks. Like the story about the guy who fell down a well, and while in the well "found God", that doesn't make pushing people down a well a valid form of evangelism. B-) Let us not be hasty in ruling it out, though. Damn you!!! I was just taking a sip of coffee when I read that. Now I have clean up the computer room. The Farmer's Donkey: A Fable for Our Time One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out a way to get him out. Finally he decided it was probably impossible and the animal was old and the well was dry anyway, so it just wasn't worth it to try and retrieve the donkey. So the farmer asked his neighbors to come over and help him cover up the well. They all grabbed shovels and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, when the donkey realized what was happening he cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement, he quieted down and let out some happy brays. A few shovel loads later, the farmer looked down the well to see what was happening and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was shaking it off and taking a step up. (Shifting) As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he continued to shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, to everyone's amazement, the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off! Moral: Life is going to shovel dirt on you. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Every adversity can be turned into a stepping stone. The way to get out of the deepest well is by never giving up but by shaking yourself off and taking a step up. What happens to you isn't nearly as important as how you react to it. Author Unknown Nice, but some of these platitudes can get to be a bit much. I wouldn't dare tell that platitude to those who suffered in the Concentration Camps, or even worse, never made it out. And yes, I'm aware of the exceptions, like Viktor Frankl. But for most of us, I don't think so. |
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Error message "www.thepoachedegg.net redirected you too manytimes."????
On 08/12/2018 21:38, Bill in Co wrote:
David B." "David B wrote: On 08/12/2018 16:36, croy wrote: On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:14:25 -0600, Char Jackson wrote: On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 15:06:24 -0800, pyotr filipivich wrote: Different strokes for different folks. Like the story about the guy who fell down a well, and while in the well "found God", that doesn't make pushing people down a well a valid form of evangelism. B-) Let us not be hasty in ruling it out, though. Damn you!!! I was just taking a sip of coffee when I read that. Now I have clean up the computer room. The Farmer's Donkey: A Fable for Our Time One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out a way to get him out. Finally he decided it was probably impossible and the animal was old and the well was dry anyway, so it just wasn't worth it to try and retrieve the donkey. So the farmer asked his neighbors to come over and help him cover up the well. They all grabbed shovels and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, when the donkey realized what was happening he cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement, he quieted down and let out some happy brays. A few shovel loads later, the farmer looked down the well to see what was happening and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was shaking it off and taking a step up. (Shifting) As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he continued to shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, to everyone's amazement, the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off! Moral: Life is going to shovel dirt on you. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Every adversity can be turned into a stepping stone. The way to get out of the deepest well is by never giving up but by shaking yourself off and taking a step up. What happens to you isn't nearly as important as how you react to it. Author Unknown Nice, but some of these platitudes can get to be a bit much. I wouldn't dare tell that platitude to those who suffered in the Concentration Camps, or even worse, never made it out. And yes, I'm aware of the exceptions, like Viktor Frankl. But for most of us, I don't think so. I understand. Others reading here might enjoy watching and listening to this item:- https://www.ted.com/talks/viktor_fra...rch_of_meaning -- Regards, David B. https://vxer.home.blog/2018/12/08/vxer-a-profile/ |
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Error message "www.thepoachedegg.net redirected you too many times."????
David B." "David B wrote:
On 08/12/2018 21:38, Bill in Co wrote: David B." "David B wrote: On 08/12/2018 16:36, croy wrote: On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:14:25 -0600, Char Jackson wrote: On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 15:06:24 -0800, pyotr filipivich wrote: Different strokes for different folks. Like the story about the guy who fell down a well, and while in the well "found God", that doesn't make pushing people down a well a valid form of evangelism. B-) Let us not be hasty in ruling it out, though. Damn you!!! I was just taking a sip of coffee when I read that. Now I have clean up the computer room. The Farmer's Donkey: A Fable for Our Time One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out a way to get him out. Finally he decided it was probably impossible and the animal was old and the well was dry anyway, so it just wasn't worth it to try and retrieve the donkey. So the farmer asked his neighbors to come over and help him cover up the well. They all grabbed shovels and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, when the donkey realized what was happening he cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement, he quieted down and let out some happy brays. A few shovel loads later, the farmer looked down the well to see what was happening and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was shaking it off and taking a step up. (Shifting) As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he continued to shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, to everyone's amazement, the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off! Moral: Life is going to shovel dirt on you. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Every adversity can be turned into a stepping stone. The way to get out of the deepest well is by never giving up but by shaking yourself off and taking a step up. What happens to you isn't nearly as important as how you react to it. Author Unknown Nice, but some of these platitudes can get to be a bit much. I wouldn't dare tell that platitude to those who suffered in the Concentration Camps, or even worse, never made it out. And yes, I'm aware of the exceptions, like Viktor Frankl. But for most of us, I don't think so. I understand. Others reading here might enjoy watching and listening to this item:- https://www.ted.com/talks/viktor_fra...rch_of_meaning Very inspirational. I only wish it could reach some, including our glorious leader, who could set an example. Well, I guess we should count our blessings, as we already had one, at least. |
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Almucantar / Astrolabes, Error message "www.thepoachedegg.net redirected you too many times."????
John Jones on Sat, 8 Dec 2018 12:36:23 -0000 typed
in alt.windows7.general the following: On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 07:44:12 -0800, "pyotr filipivich" wrote in article ... John Jones on Fri, 7 Dec 2018 09:39:35 -0000 typed in alt.windows7.general the following: On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 15:06:24 -0800, "pyotr filipivich" wrote in article ... VanguardLH on Thu, 6 Dec 2018 16:34:30 -0600 typed in alt.windows7.general the following: Let me start by saying "thanks" for all the technical support. pyotr told use which web browsers he uses but nothing about which extensions he has installed into each, Most of which I don't know, nor (sorry to say) do I care enough to hunt down. If memory serves, I have the barebones loaded. or what happens when he loads the web browsers in their safe mode to eliminate modification of content by any installed extensions. Anti-virus software that interrogates web traffic can also affect odd behavior in a web page. Ufda. Like I said, article was not interesting enough for me to try to get past whatever is going wonky. Such is life - I'm "too busy" trying to figure out how to map the alumacantor circles for a Astrolabe. (I can figure out how to do it with a compass and rule {aka Geometry Old School} but when I trig out the numbers, they're not making sense. Guess I'm going to have to construct one to scale, measure the drawing, and work back from that.) Somewhat OT but youve piqued my interest: google hasnt heard of an alumacantor so what is it? Ah, there's the problem, I misspelled it. "Almucantar" from the Arabic 'sundial'. You want to look up Astrolabe (the predecessor to the sextant). The Almucantar circles are how circles of latitude are transferred from a sphere (the earth) to a plane by stereographic projection. https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Astrolabe#Construction While still OT all q interesting. That's a very good article but I found https://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/courses/m30901a/montero/math309project.html (word wrap) Fnord - "not found on this server" try wait -okay, it responded tot he Hammer of reason. Thanks, I have found this before. I'm missing something, somewhere along the lines. "Not making sense". And I am tired. Sigh, I channel Winnie the Pooh, and become "a bear of very little brain, and long words [equations] bother me." Slightly easier to read. And it contains a transcript of part of Chaucer's explanation of use. I also found a maple treatise where the author complains he could find no document expounding the calculations so he had to do it all himself. Trouble is you need maple to read the actual diagrams and they want $239 for a personal licence : so that's that. The frustrating part of this is that goggling "constructing an astrolabe" gets all sorts of pre-printed templates, but very little on the mechanics of calculating where the points for the various latitudes are located. I found myself measuring the constructed diagram and seeing if my calculations "worked". Grumble, I had a URL Indeed. Spherical trig: too many cosines herr mozart. JJ -- pyotr filipivich Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing? |
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Error message "www.thepoachedegg.net redirected you too manytimes."????
On 09/12/2018 02:27, Bill in Co wrote:
David B." "David B wrote: On 08/12/2018 21:38, Bill in Co wrote: David B." "David B wrote: On 08/12/2018 16:36, croy wrote: On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:14:25 -0600, Char Jackson wrote: On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 15:06:24 -0800, pyotr filipivich wrote: Different strokes for different folks. Like the story about the guy who fell down a well, and while in the well "found God", that doesn't make pushing people down a well a valid form of evangelism. B-) Let us not be hasty in ruling it out, though. Damn you!!! I was just taking a sip of coffee when I read that. Now I have clean up the computer room. The Farmer's Donkey: A Fable for Our Time One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out a way to get him out. Finally he decided it was probably impossible and the animal was old and the well was dry anyway, so it just wasn't worth it to try and retrieve the donkey. So the farmer asked his neighbors to come over and help him cover up the well. They all grabbed shovels and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, when the donkey realized what was happening he cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement, he quieted down and let out some happy brays. A few shovel loads later, the farmer looked down the well to see what was happening and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was shaking it off and taking a step up. (Shifting) As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he continued to shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, to everyone's amazement, the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off! Moral: Life is going to shovel dirt on you. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Every adversity can be turned into a stepping stone. The way to get out of the deepest well is by never giving up but by shaking yourself off and taking a step up. What happens to you isn't nearly as important as how you react to it. Author Unknown Nice, but some of these platitudes can get to be a bit much. I wouldn't dare tell that platitude to those who suffered in the Concentration Camps, or even worse, never made it out. And yes, I'm aware of the exceptions, like Viktor Frankl. But for most of us, I don't think so. I understand. Others reading here might enjoy watching and listening to this item:- https://www.ted.com/talks/viktor_fra...rch_of_meaning Very inspirational. I only wish it could reach some, including our glorious leader, who could set an example. I'm going to assume you mean the POTUS (I'm in the UK!) However, ALL leaders should watch and understand what Frankl says. Well, I guess we should count our blessings, as we already had one, at least. Sadly, I'm not quite sure what you mean, Bill. Will you please rephrase? (if you have the time). -- Regards, David B. https://vxer.home.blog/2018/12/08/vxer-a-profile/ |
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Error message "www.thepoachedegg.net redirected you too many times."????
pyotr filipivich wrote:
VanguardLH on Thu, 6 Dec 2018 16:34:30 -0600 typed in alt.windows7.general the following: Let me start by saying "thanks" for all the technical support. pyotr told use which web browsers he uses but nothing about which extensions he has installed into each, Most of which I don't know, nor (sorry to say) do I care enough to hunt down. If memory serves, I have the barebones loaded. or what happens when he loads the web browsers in their safe mode to eliminate modification of content by any installed extensions. Anti-virus software that interrogates web traffic can also affect odd behavior in a web page. Ufda. Like I said, article was not interesting enough for me to try to get past whatever is going wonky. Did you see/try the web.archive.org URL of the article, which I posted? Should only take a few seconds to try. Such is life - I'm "too busy" trying to figure out how to map the alumacantor circles for a Astrolabe. (I can figure out how to do it with a compass and rule {aka Geometry Old School} but when I trig out the numbers, they're not making sense. Guess I'm going to have to construct one to scale, measure the drawing, and work back from that.) |
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Error message "www.thepoachedegg.net redirected you too manytimes."????
On 09/12/2018 22:01, Shadow *LIED* - again!
He's only interested in using you. That is totally untrue, as well you know. I'm actually an ER/Family Doctor. Or was, before I retired. Psychiatry is .... boring. You choose their prescriptions from 5 or 6 standard drugs and stitch them up when they cut each other (or themselves). Simple protocol, nothing as exciting as an ER. = One cannot believe one word you post! -- David B. |
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Error message "www.thepoachedegg.net redirected you too many times."????
On Sat, 08 Dec 2018 08:36:55 -0800, croy wrote:
On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:14:25 -0600, Char Jackson wrote: On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 15:06:24 -0800, pyotr filipivich wrote: Different strokes for different folks. Like the story about the guy who fell down a well, and while in the well "found God", that doesn't make pushing people down a well a valid form of evangelism. B-) Let us not be hasty in ruling it out, though. Damn you!!! I was just taking a sip of coffee when I read that. Now I have clean up the computer room. Sorry 'bout that. :-) I owe you a napkin. -- Char Jackson |
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