Bazza Posted April 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2022 Most wanted! Notorious outlaws of the Old West https://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/smart-living/most-wanted-notorious-outlaws-of-the-old-west/ss-AAWfRbh?li=AAgfYrC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2022 The usual distinction between fiction & non-fiction, doesn't seem to cut it anymore. We need a third category -- those based on the real world, with the verisimilitude of non-fiction but at the same time being unreal. So in a nutshell unreal non-fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2022 Superhero movies we all forgot https://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/smart-living/superhero-movies-we-all-forgot/ss-AAWpF4y?li=AAgfYrC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 21, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2022 Dad left fuming over teacher's 'outrageous' party demand https://www.msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/familyandrelationships/dad-left-fuming-over-teachers-outrageous-party-demand/ar-AAWqD3P?li=AAgfYrC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2022 For me: 4’ 33” by John Cage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2022 Cancer, you edit Wikipedia, correct? If yes I have something that needs attending too, but don't know my way around the politics of Wiki editing. Can you assist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 24, 2022 Report Share Posted April 24, 2022 Maybe. The politics in Wikipedia have got a lot more cutthroat in the last 5-10 years, as the Old Guard struggles with the inherent issues of the principle of "editable by anyone" being trampled upon by people wanting to push their economic/ethnic/political/religious whatever agendas by editing in things they want to be believed as opposed to actually true. Since I stick more or less exclusively to edits in my scientific bailiwick, or some local geographic and historic items around where I live, these have never stepped on me, and I have a real aversion to flamewars on the Internet (an aversion that goes back now almost thirty years). Basically, I am a WikiSloth. As an example, today's featured article in the English wiki is the Armenian Genocide, which large parts of the political and social power structures of Turkey still deny happened, or deny that it occurred as a deliberate policy by the Turkish government at the time. This is a firestorm that has raged since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WW1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2022 Cheers. Under this entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Florensky, this section "1928–1937: exile, imprisonment, death"; and this sentence: "The published agitation materials were the monograph about the theory of relativity.[citation needed][dubious – discuss]". I have a book which has a citation for this claim so can confirm it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 24, 2022 Report Share Posted April 24, 2022 Editing Wikipedia is easy (and easily reversed, and cancelled), though the format for reference citations is ... complex. I keep a link to Citation templates in my own user talk page so I can find it easily. Frankly a good thing to do is make your edits, and at the bottom of the edit box click the "Show preview" to see the effects of what you've done. I generally have 5 to 10 previews before I finally save. I can't find any of my own edits that cite books. (Almost everything I cite is a journal reference or a tech website.) If I had, I'd direct you to a place where I'd done that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 26, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2022 Cheers, will look at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 28, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 29, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2022 Diamonds are a boys best friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bazza Posted April 30, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 Paranormal since the early 90s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 30, 2022 Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 Which century? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 30, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 20th century…BCE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 30, 2022 Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 <the "That's fair" gif that gets posted here from time to time> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 30, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 Where is @Pariah on gif duty when you need him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 30, 2022 Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 Looking for new digs, probably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 30, 2022 Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 A nice Hobbit hole, you mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 30, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 Maybe Pariah took a summer job as a science assistant for an archeologist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 30, 2022 Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 American archaeology is so booooring!, with their three-by-three testpits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 30, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2022 Indy is boring? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted May 1, 2022 Report Share Posted May 1, 2022 Nono -- he just went abroad for his ... "excavations" ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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