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"How I Want Tech Stuff Explained to Me:"

(with credit and apologies to Martin A. Brooks, as I'm not sure where he is...)

> "This video demonstrates..."
>
> How I want tech stuff explained to me in order of preference:
>
> 1) A well-written technical document.
> 2) A maintained wiki.
> ...
> 998) Spray-painted on the side of a cow.
> 999) A video.

Re: https://mathstodon.xyz/@mjd/114184505865483429

#tech #explanation #video #cow #SprayPaint #SideOfACow #wiki #document #TechStuff #explained

WIST Quotations 3d ago

A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 6 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)

More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/2…

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Doyle, Arthur Conan - Story (1890-02), "The Sign of the Four," ch. 6 [Holmes], Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK) | WIST Quotations

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? The first appearance of the phrase in its most quoted form. However, earlier in the story, chapter 1, Holmes tells Watson: Eliminate all other factors, and the one…

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🌪 MikeMathia 📡Mar 12

#Explanation

Global News Canada Mar 11

Concerns as Wetaskiwin council remains silent on mayor’s ban from city hall
It's been over a month since Wetaskiwin Mayor Joe Branco was banned from city hall and attending council meetings in person and administration has yet to offer an explanation.
#Canada #Wetaskiwincitycouncil
https://globalnews.ca/news/11726451/concerns-as-wetaskiwin-council-stays-silent-on-mayor-ban-from-city-hall/

Global News Mar 11

Concerns as Wetaskiwin council remains silent on mayor’s ban from city hall
It's been over a month since Wetaskiwin Mayor Joe Branco was banned from city hall and attending council meetings in person and administration has yet to offer an explanation.
#Canada #Wetaskiwincitycouncil
https://globalnews.ca/news/11726451/concerns-as-wetaskiwin-council-stays-silent-on-mayor-ban-from-city-hall/

Global News Edmonton Mar 11

Concerns as Wetaskiwin council remains silent on mayor’s ban from city hall
It's been over a month since Wetaskiwin Mayor Joe Branco was banned from city hall and attending council meetings in person and administration has yet to offer an explanation.
#Canada #Wetaskiwincitycouncil
https://globalnews.ca/news/11726451/concerns-as-wetaskiwin-council-stays-silent-on-mayor-ban-from-city-hall/

WIST Quotations Mar 5

A quotation from Ben Franklin

It’s common for Men to give 6 pretended Reasons instead of one real one.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1745 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/82…

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Franklin, Benjamin - Poor Richard (1745 ed.) | WIST Quotations

It’s common for Men to give 6 pretended Reasons instead of one real one.

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WIST Quotations Feb 27

A quotation from Horace

Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
Who courts variety and fain would ring
A thousand changes on the self-same string,
Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
Thus even error, shun’d without address,
Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.

[Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/

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Horace - Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 "Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos]," l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)] | WIST Quotations

Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire! We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire. Would I be brief -- I grow confused and coarse; Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force; In him who soars aloft, bombast is found; Who fears to face the tempest, crawls…

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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈Mar 3

I have said that every word and every deed and every second and every breath of every human that has ever lived disappears like wet toilet paper being flushed when you drop it into #Infinity. This is a problem that people have. They are #afraid #to #die and so they look for some other #explanation.

PWC & SITM Podcasts Mar 2

Real Apology Needed for Racist Slip-Up!  Apologies and explanations: Was the past one about Tourette's and racial slurs truly clear, or just confusing?   Watch Full Episode: https://youtu.be/PryK4w9RYzY   #Tourettes #Apology #Explanation #Controversy #MentalHealthAwareness