Starting from the end and working back (hey, I'm one of those "backward" people), I do know how to knap flint as well - and have the scars to prove it!
The things I do best at are hunting, trapping, working hides (brain tanning and chemical tanning), making center seam moccasins and understanding animals.
We lived in a tent from April till November. Did our cooking on an open fire, got water from a stream. Our house was two rooms, 26 x 26 on the outside, with an indoor hand pump and one propane light. We did have a car or truck for me to use to run traps, make doctor appointments, and go to powwows (Hey, we need some social life).
There's a fundamental experiential difference between an anthropologist doing field work and me living traditional. I have yet to have an anthropologist actually lend a hand to help on the trap line or in the fur shed. They always seemed to know how to show up for meals though. Well, as long as they didn't know they were eating muskrat, coon, possum or some other furry woodland creature.
My new wife says I could go much further but she had to attend a presentation today at the VA on treating PTSD in a culturally appropriate way, so she's wound up:)
No, I don't think an anthropologist's experience is less valid because it's written down. What I do have a problem with is the cultural bias in the anthropologists I've met and read. Some of the best I've read are Frances Densmore's Ojibwe books. Her writing is factually accurate for the most part and totally lacking in perspective. In our culture the why is as important as the how. My mind is going so much faster than my fingers can type. I really enjoy talking to you and don't want to spew trite answers which are worse than no answers at all.
Do you do historical reenactments? Before we moved to the city we used to do several rendezvous, reenactments of the pre 1840's fur trade. Most of them would love to have a flint knapper.
I really appreciate your desire to live simply and would be glad to continue this discussion either here or in a more appropriate forum. I'm sure there's so much we could learn each other. Before moving back to the woods in 94, I cowboyed and rodeoed from 66-88, taking time out for a tour of beautiful SE Asia in 70. Please keep in touch.
My 16 year old daughter thinks you should save those books for fuel for your first winter. Until 2 years ago we lived traditionally (we're nekked red savage injuns)and while we're not degreed anthropologists I think we have a better handle on hunter gatherer societies than they do. Check out my Facebook profile and PLEASE, if you're really interested in our lifestyle contact me. I made our living for 15 of the last 17 years hunting, fishing, trapping, ricing, sugaring, making the 8 cords of wood it takes to get through a winter in Northern Wisconsin, and in another year we'll be moving back to.
So can DNR wardens, whether you you hunt, fish, trap or not game wardens can enter your house, search your refrigerator or freezer, garage or outbuildings to search for violations of game laws. Federal fish and wildlife officers more than occasionally disrupt dancers at powwows and other ceremonies and confiscate feathers, claws and other articles they deem to be in violation of Their federal rules. Even if the items in question are white legal, you'll never see them again or they'll be desecrated beyond use.
As someone who actually keeps bees, this story is hilarious! We've been treating for Nosema for more years than I've been keeping bees (16).
Take a deep breath. Every eight years or so we go through the same series of events, colonies die off for no apparent reason, then recover in a few years.
This "catastrophe" will pass as well and as soon as the non profits and other interested entities have milked it for what it's worth CCD will be replaced by the next environmental "catastrophe".
Meanwhile, eat honey and drink mead.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
I have had the misfortune to fall under the ID bus several times. Once, in the army, a data entry error caused me to be accused of failure to pay a debt. It only took eight months to convince the powers that be that since I wasn't in the state involved I couldn't have possibly run up a debt no matter what their records said. The other time was in the late 70's when the state, in it's wisdom, gave my driver's license to my ex-wife's current husband. It has now been 31 years and the state has yet to admit it's error and rectify the situation.
One point I haven't seen mentioned anywhere is that these documnets are the property of the state, not the person who's identity they represent. When my latest wife died, the first thing the sheriff wanted was her driver's license and social security card because they were the property of the state.
Think of that for a moment. Your identity, as far as the government is concerned, is the property of the state. I'm no philosopher, but if someone other than me owns my identity doesn't that make me a slave (owned person) of another?
Perhaps the apathy is caused by the realization that nothing an individual can do will affect the continuing encroachment of government in our lives?
Voting isn't going to change anything as far as our personal liberties go. Neither Hillary or Barack is going to do away with DHS, or the TSA. Neither will end those laws which permit annonymous denunciations to ruin a persons life. Until at least those minimum standards are met, it's stupid to resist out loud.
It's taken me two hours to write the above because I've had to censor out so much. If anyone wants to discuss this further, see my profile and email me.
A book which might help is "the Hurting Healer" by Steven Apthorp, which details several years of interviews with "Caring Professionials" all of whom turned out to have, or percieved themselves to have, been affected by alcohol, drug or sexual abuse. The scary part is their percieved "right" to use their possitions to "make up" for what they went through. Put these people in a high stress situations and watch the fun. Usually on you tube, sometimes on the six o'clock news.
If at all possible get a real end user involved early on in the design process. My late wife and one of my best client's office manager were my testers. If they could understand it, I rarely had a problem.
Other than that, just keep in mind that the purpose of a GUI is to make life easier for the end user, not test their technical knowledge.
I think what we call voodoo users are simply people who see the computer as a tool and really don't want to know all the inner workings any more than they want to know how their refrigerator works. They want to be able to turn on the computer and use it to do their job, not be a large part of their job.
Having said that, some of their explainations of what is happening are truly priceless:)
Where I have a problem is with the arrogantly ignorant end user who claims he's doing everything right and obviously isn't and isn't amenable to instruction.
Actually, the client who really doesn't know anything and knows they don't know anything is a lot easier to work with than the client who is ignorant and wastes my time by demonstrating their ignorance.
Most people who live in rural areas do not need (or want) broadband access. Many of us live where we do because we choose to live at a slower pace and not be "connected" 24/7/365.
There's a reason people consider government workers dolts - they have to deal with them! Everything from the day long wait to get a driver's license renewed to three week waiting times for an urgent care appointment at the VA to the bundle of brains who paves seven (7)miles of road and then decides to put in culverts is more rhan enough to convince most people that we're dealing with a large collection of village idiots.
If the program has a proper "slop" allowance you shouldn't have any problem. That's a big if and how hung over are you planning to be? Bagels are bad for your teeth anyway so have a doughnut instead.:)
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Starting from the end and working back (hey, I'm one of those "backward" people), I do know how to knap flint as well - and have the scars to prove it! The things I do best at are hunting, trapping, working hides (brain tanning and chemical tanning), making center seam moccasins and understanding animals. We lived in a tent from April till November. Did our cooking on an open fire, got water from a stream. Our house was two rooms, 26 x 26 on the outside, with an indoor hand pump and one propane light. We did have a car or truck for me to use to run traps, make doctor appointments, and go to powwows (Hey, we need some social life). There's a fundamental experiential difference between an anthropologist doing field work and me living traditional. I have yet to have an anthropologist actually lend a hand to help on the trap line or in the fur shed. They always seemed to know how to show up for meals though. Well, as long as they didn't know they were eating muskrat, coon, possum or some other furry woodland creature. My new wife says I could go much further but she had to attend a presentation today at the VA on treating PTSD in a culturally appropriate way, so she's wound up :)
No, I don't think an anthropologist's experience is less valid because it's written down. What I do have a problem with is the cultural bias in the anthropologists I've met and read. Some of the best I've read are Frances Densmore's Ojibwe books. Her writing is factually accurate for the most part and totally lacking in perspective. In our culture the why is as important as the how. My mind is going so much faster than my fingers can type. I really enjoy talking to you and don't want to spew trite answers which are worse than no answers at all.
Do you do historical reenactments? Before we moved to the city we used to do several rendezvous, reenactments of the pre 1840's fur trade. Most of them would love to have a flint knapper.
I really appreciate your desire to live simply and would be glad to continue this discussion either here or in a more appropriate forum. I'm sure there's so much we could learn each other. Before moving back to the woods in 94, I cowboyed and rodeoed from 66-88, taking time out for a tour of beautiful SE Asia in 70. Please keep in touch.
My 16 year old daughter thinks you should save those books for fuel for your first winter. Until 2 years ago we lived traditionally (we're nekked red savage injuns)and while we're not degreed anthropologists I think we have a better handle on hunter gatherer societies than they do. Check out my Facebook profile and PLEASE, if you're really interested in our lifestyle contact me. I made our living for 15 of the last 17 years hunting, fishing, trapping, ricing, sugaring, making the 8 cords of wood it takes to get through a winter in Northern Wisconsin, and in another year we'll be moving back to.
So can DNR wardens, whether you you hunt, fish, trap or not game wardens can enter your house, search your refrigerator or freezer, garage or outbuildings to search for violations of game laws. Federal fish and wildlife officers more than occasionally disrupt dancers at powwows and other ceremonies and confiscate feathers, claws and other articles they deem to be in violation of Their federal rules. Even if the items in question are white legal, you'll never see them again or they'll be desecrated beyond use.
As someone who actually keeps bees, this story is hilarious! We've been treating for Nosema for more years than I've been keeping bees (16). Take a deep breath. Every eight years or so we go through the same series of events, colonies die off for no apparent reason, then recover in a few years. This "catastrophe" will pass as well and as soon as the non profits and other interested entities have milked it for what it's worth CCD will be replaced by the next environmental "catastrophe". Meanwhile, eat honey and drink mead.
Nah, Postal Workers have a union :)
Couldn't have said it better myself. I have had the misfortune to fall under the ID bus several times. Once, in the army, a data entry error caused me to be accused of failure to pay a debt. It only took eight months to convince the powers that be that since I wasn't in the state involved I couldn't have possibly run up a debt no matter what their records said. The other time was in the late 70's when the state, in it's wisdom, gave my driver's license to my ex-wife's current husband. It has now been 31 years and the state has yet to admit it's error and rectify the situation. One point I haven't seen mentioned anywhere is that these documnets are the property of the state, not the person who's identity they represent. When my latest wife died, the first thing the sheriff wanted was her driver's license and social security card because they were the property of the state. Think of that for a moment. Your identity, as far as the government is concerned, is the property of the state. I'm no philosopher, but if someone other than me owns my identity doesn't that make me a slave (owned person) of another?
You forget all those illegal toilets form Canada. You know, the ones which actually accomplish their task in one try.
shipped to the US and then shipped back to Taiwan vis Alaska. So what's new there?
Perhaps the apathy is caused by the realization that nothing an individual can do will affect the continuing encroachment of government in our lives?
Voting isn't going to change anything as far as our personal liberties go. Neither Hillary or Barack is going to do away with DHS, or the TSA. Neither will end those laws which permit annonymous denunciations to ruin a persons life. Until at least those minimum standards are met, it's stupid to resist out loud.
It's taken me two hours to write the above because I've had to censor out so much. If anyone wants to discuss this further, see my profile and email me.
A book which might help is "the Hurting Healer" by Steven Apthorp, which details several years of interviews with "Caring Professionials" all of whom turned out to have, or percieved themselves to have, been affected by alcohol, drug or sexual abuse. The scary part is their percieved "right" to use their possitions to "make up" for what they went through. Put these people in a high stress situations and watch the fun. Usually on you tube, sometimes on the six o'clock news.
If at all possible get a real end user involved early on in the design process. My late wife and one of my best client's office manager were my testers. If they could understand it, I rarely had a problem. Other than that, just keep in mind that the purpose of a GUI is to make life easier for the end user, not test their technical knowledge.
I think what we call voodoo users are simply people who see the computer as a tool and really don't want to know all the inner workings any more than they want to know how their refrigerator works. They want to be able to turn on the computer and use it to do their job, not be a large part of their job. Having said that, some of their explainations of what is happening are truly priceless :)
Where I have a problem is with the arrogantly ignorant end user who claims he's doing everything right and obviously isn't and isn't amenable to instruction.
That's why I charge by the hour!
Actually, the client who really doesn't know anything and knows they don't know anything is a lot easier to work with than the client who is ignorant and wastes my time by demonstrating their ignorance.
Most people who live in rural areas do not need (or want) broadband access. Many of us live where we do because we choose to live at a slower pace and not be "connected" 24/7/365.
There's a reason people consider government workers dolts - they have to deal with them! Everything from the day long wait to get a driver's license renewed to three week waiting times for an urgent care appointment at the VA to the bundle of brains who paves seven (7)miles of road and then decides to put in culverts is more rhan enough to convince most people that we're dealing with a large collection of village idiots.
Back in 1920's during Prohibition one of the mosr notorious gangsters of the day screamed "You'll mever get me G'men"hen cornered by thr FBI.
If the program has a proper "slop" allowance you shouldn't have any problem. That's a big if and how hung over are you planning to be? Bagels are bad for your teeth anyway so have a doughnut instead. :)