Evidently Aubie ran into some problems and changed to New Name DougL.
Comments on first story amusing. 'Good first effort but brush up on history'
Yeah.. at 85 yo, do that.
Heh
Evidently Aubie ran into some problems and changed to New Name DougL.
Comments on first story amusing. 'Good first effort but brush up on history'
Yeah.. at 85 yo, do that.
Heh
Truth, and at that point it may not be the things you do not know but the things you 'know' that are not really so.
Truth, and at that point it may not be the things you do not know but the things you 'know' that are not really so.
I just saw a 1946 movie the other day called "Sister Kenny" about Sister Elizabeth Kenny ("sister", not as a nun, but what the Australian army (WWI) called a nurse). She basically invented physical therapy, although the story was about her treatment of polio victims. After she used hot compresses on the limbs (the medical science at the time was to put them in plaster casts), she retaught her patients how to use their muscles.
For 30 years, the orthopedic doctors called her a fraud because what she was doing wasn't in their medical books and she was a nurse, not a doctor. At the end of the movie, she was lecturing doctors on her procedures. The head of the Univ of Minn quoted someone in a speech. I don't remember the exact words, but it was something like:
Ignorance isn't not knowing, it's knowing something that is wrong.
Ignorance isn't not knowing, it's knowing something that is wrong.
My dictionary disagrees with that assertion. It defines ignorance as lack of knowledge, information or education.
My dictionary disagrees with that assertion. It defines ignorance as lack of knowledge,
You're reading the definition literally, out of context. The point was, all the medical books at the time said one thing. The doctors thought they were knowledgeable because they knew what was in the books. But the books were wrong so in fact they were ignorant.
Just because a quote is funny and memorable, that does not necessarily mean that it is accurate or correct.
Yes, we all understand what you meant with the quote, but we don't have to agree with the wording or the sentiment.
I remember that movie. Years later (in the 90s)I mentioned it to my mother, who was an RN. She knew the name of the nurse (which I had forgotten). Apparently she is/was famous among other nurses.
I know for a fact why southern talk so slow. I was taught in 1955 in the fifth grade that they went barefoot and got hook-worm which caused the oroblem. That was in the textbook! So yeah what we oldies know may not be correct.
When we were young we bragged about the drugs we took, as we got older we bitched about the drugs we need.
Well, I guess I should have made it clear. He's been on here since 07, has chalked up 220 stories, and despite having health issues for about 10 years, Still spinning a decent yarn at age 85.
Aubie56 was last sighted at the end of October 2021. There was a blog entry saying he was having problems typing, and that was it. The story he was posting at the time has had no updates since.
I believe it was before this, but at one time he posted that he had lost his beloved IBM mechanical keyboard and was having problems working on the newer ones. I know a bunch of us at the time searched to find him a replacement, and succeeded. I'm not sure but I believe one of us actually purchased one and shipped it to him.
I remember 'losing' my IBM mechanical. The period key went on me. Kinda hard to do much typing without it. But 'current' mechanical switches don't quite match them, though they are 'close'. Not sure if there's a cigar anywhere around these days though.
I've burnt through 2 ~$200 keyboards in the last 26 months, so not happy. At least the second one is still in warranty. The other went 6 months after it lapsed.
I do know that I can type much faster and more accurately on Mech as that's what I learn on, back in the day. Safe to say I don't think you're a serious typist unless you use one.
Hanging for an RA for the newest one to keel over, though I'd love to know what went wrong with it.
The period key went on me.
If you can find someone with good electronics skills (for the soldering) and mechanical skills (to get in to the right place), you may be able to have the 'duff' switch swapped with a good one, leaving you with e.g. a duff ¬ key and a working period. It's also possible that the duff key could be disassembled and fixed; that's something I've done before.