What a funny week. We got the Century Farm sign. http://www.oregonfb.org/programs/century_farm_ranch.shtml
It says Van Patten 1885 on the bottom.
Then a Dutch film crew came the next day to do a piece on the wind towers. Kevin asked me who the talent was, a term we heard when the Detroit Public Television came out to film “Beyond the Light Switch”. Genevieve kept calling David Biello “the talent”. http://www.beyondthelightswitch.com/
I was taking pictures of my nephew's daughter the day the news crew showed up from Detroit PBS.
So, when we got out of the pickup, I asked the guys which one of them was the talent. Erik laughed and said he guessed he was, but they don’t use that term in the Netherlands. https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=135639477940
Dennis (or Tyce?) thought Patten may have been Putten, after a town in the Netherlands. He said “Van” means of or from. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_(Dutch)
A beautiful day, but sad because we learned that our cousin Mark had a massive stroke two days before. He passed away two days after the reunion. What a nice man, and only 49 years old. We will miss him so much.
But two days later, at the Macnab family reunion at Highland Hills Ranch http://www.highlandhillsranch.com/, I learned that Kevin’s ancestors on his great grandparent’s other side were actually from Petten, on the west coast of Holland.
Highland Hills Ranch
I started Googling all the places I went on my Amsterdam layovers: Hoorn, Edam, Gouda, Zaanstad,etc. The last time I was there it was summer and hot. A pilot friend of mine was going to be there too, and he wanted to go to the beach. So, I agreed, but my flight was late due to weather and I ended up meeting him for dinner instead. It turns out he goes to a nude beach! (Zandvoort) I told him there is no way anyone needs to see me nude at almost fifty years old! Thank goodness my flight was delayed.
So, this morning I was writing about Netherlands on my other blog, Getting There is Half the Fun. I was trying to find the nude beach to remember how to spell it for this blog, and it is just north of Petten. Then I got a popup of gay porn. That was thrilling. Not. And one for Viagra. And it just kept coming. So “Mac Defend” popped up, saying I had 73 viruses. Yikes. Like an idiot I used it to clean up my computer. It was a Trojan, and boy did it get into my system. Then I tried to My phone rang and it was Credit Card Services reporting unusual activity on my Visa. After canceling my card, they suggested I call Apple.
I got a great guy named Lawrence who helped me straighten out my computer. We searched my computer and threw away all kinds of downloads, but I was still getting popups. He said I should be using Safari as my search engine, not Firefox. Firefox is fine for PCs, but Safari is better at warning you when you shouldn’t be somewhere using a Mac. Good to know. I had to trash my Firefox to get rid of the trojans, change all my information, etc. What a hassle.
I asked him about Macs versus PCs, because I thought Macs didn’t get viruses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse_(computing)
He said PCs can get infected just by opening an email or something innocuous. But you actually have to download something on a Mac to get a trojan, and that only approved download sites should be used, like Apple and Amazon.
Then he sent me an email saying to stay away from trojans and nude beaches!! Yeah, good idea. And stay away from MacDefend and MacShield – at least the versions I was trying to download from unapproved sites were malware.
Remembering my French, Mal means BAD!!!!!!
Go to my other blog for more on Amsterdam and adventures!
Remember your Greek history??? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Trojan Horse is a tale from the Trojan War, as told in Virgil‘s Latin epic poem The Aeneid, also by Dionysius, Apollodorus and Quintus of Smyrna. The events in this story from the Bronze Age took place after Homer‘s Iliad, and before his Odyssey. It was the stratagem that allowed the Greeks finally to enter the city of Troy and end the conflict.
In one version, after a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greeks constructed a huge wooden horse, and hid a select force of 30 men inside. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy. That night the Greek force crept out of the horse and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army, which had sailed back under cover of night. The Greek army entered and destroyed the city of Troy, decisively ending the war.
In the Greek tradition, the horse is called Δούρειος Ἵππος, Doúreios Híppos, the “Wooden Horse”, in the Homeric Ionic dialect. Metaphorically a “Trojan Horse” has come to mean any trick or stratagem that causes a target to invite a foe into a securely protected bastion or space. It is also associated with“malware” computer programmes presented as useful or harmless to induce the user to install and run them.
Road closed due to four more broken poles. So much for Wasco Electric and Sherman County maintenance...where does all that wind tower money go?
