November 28, 2015 at 2:14 pm
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Best wishes,
Phil Factor
November 29, 2015 at 8:46 am
Nice sentiment, Phil. I know what you mean...giving back for good fortune seems altruistic, but I too get a lot out of it. Helping others comes with its own reward. I feel like I get much more out of it than I deserve.
November 29, 2015 at 10:19 am
Speaking of Giving Thanks... thanks to all you folks out there in the armed forces and on the streets as policemen. Sometimes you might ask yourself "What the hell am I doing here"? (especially on holidays. Been there and done that myself). The answer is that there are a whole lot of us that remember what you do every day and we thank all of you and your families that are missing you.
On the IT side of things, I love teaching and I've also helped many local small companies pro bono publico that couldn't afford help including some fledgling recruiting companies and companies needing a bit of a leg-up to get to the next level. It's helped keep some people working and others to find new work. As Phil says, I do it just to help but sometimes it's so much fun that I feel guilty. Yeah... I know... I still have to get a life but I had a whole lot of fun when I was younger. I'm just passing it forward now. 🙂
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
November 30, 2015 at 1:28 am
Guy Fawkes a "traitorous heretic" - more of a hero.
November 30, 2015 at 2:46 am
paul s-306273 (11/30/2015)
Guy Fawkes a "traitorous heretic" - more of a hero.
Hmmm...not sure about either really. He wasn't a heretic. But a hero? More of a terrorist perhaps? So perhaps also a freedom fighter from a different perspective?
Of course, we decide to solely blame the foreigner in the long run 😉
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
December 1, 2015 at 5:25 am
You are quite right. I should have checked my facts. He was pronounced guilty of high treason. He initially said that his motives were to 'to blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains' but his real plot was to put a catholic monarch on the throne. He was actually in league with the Spanish who just couldn't give up their quest to stamp out the protestant faith by force. From the protestant perspective he was a heretic, but that wasn't what sent him to the gallows.
Hero? There is certainly quite a lot of ambivalence in the celebration. We tend to let off the firework explosions just to remind the powers that be not to get too complacent. One town actually burns many of the more hated celebrities of the day in effigy, after parading the effigies through the town.
Best wishes,
Phil Factor
December 1, 2015 at 5:44 am
Phil Factor (12/1/2015)
@Paul.You are quite right. I should have checked my facts. He was pronounced guilty of high treason. He initially said that his motives were to 'to blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains' but his real plot was to put a catholic monarch on the throne. He was actually in league with the Spanish who just couldn't give up their quest to stamp out the protestant faith by force. From the protestant perspective he was a heretic, but that wasn't what sent him to the gallows.
Hero? There is certainly quite a lot of ambivalence in the celebration. We tend to let off the firework explosions just to remind the powers that be not to get too complacent. One town actually burns many of the more hated celebrities of the day in effigy, after parading the effigies through the town.
Yes, there's never a shortage of hated celebrities to choose from!
December 1, 2015 at 6:16 am
Phil Factor (12/1/2015)
@Paul.You are quite right. I should have checked my facts. He was pronounced guilty of high treason. He initially said that his motives were to 'to blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains' but his real plot was to put a catholic monarch on the throne. He was actually in league with the Spanish who just couldn't give up their quest to stamp out the protestant faith by force. From the protestant perspective he was a heretic, but that wasn't what sent him to the gallows.
Hero? There is certainly quite a lot of ambivalence in the celebration. We tend to let off the firework explosions just to remind the powers that be not to get too complacent. One town actually burns many of the more hated celebrities of the day in effigy, after parading the effigies through the town.
Good old Sussex by the sea!!!
I am still not sure that protestants thought of Catholics as heretics (although it was absolutely true in reverse) but merely as backward thinking anti-(new)-establishment. Of course I may be wrong. I wasn't there.
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
December 1, 2015 at 7:32 am
The Pilgrim colonists were British, and Britain had a very profitable enterprise in the New World for a couple of centuries, so there is no reason for Thanksgiving not to be a British holiday.
IT has been very, very good to me. I'm pretty sure I would not have been as successful a salesman or plumber. I'm thankful for Microsoft, the internet, and SQLServerCentral, who help provide such opportunity for the masses. Also, like Phil said, I'm also thankful for community leaders and open source developers, who share information and tools for which we rely on every day.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
December 1, 2015 at 8:45 am
Eric M Russell (12/1/2015)
The Pilgrim colonists were British, and Britain had a very profitable enterprise in the New World for a couple of centuries, so there is no reason for Thanksgiving not to be a British holiday...
I, for one, am not going to commence celebrating a day started to celebrate a bumper crop in a foreign land (Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA) by people who left my country (England) because they felt they were being persecuted1.
I wish all people I know in the US well for their celebrations but they are exactly that: their celebrations.
1I think it might be fair to say that they were persecuted but that is all history now and much of history is regrettable but only involved people now long gone.
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
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