Abigail:Nabby::Erin:Nerry? (on John Adams, Boston accents and computer illiteracy)
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"Erin, I'm gonna send you something [email?] and I want you to save it. But not in yah sys-dum -- like in the ahh-kives or somethin'. It's eatin' up a lot of my email's memory. It's like 9 megs?"
Email received:
Erin:
can you please save this in the archives so if I need it I can get it latter.
Dad
In other news, I just finished watching John Adams (the miniseries). Though I found the series to be quite moving, John Adams will forever be played in my mind by Mr. Feeny. I feel like the series got a bit meta at times (John Adams really thought about his legacy that much? Really? And chastised people because they would remember history poorly?), but I guess that's difficult to avoid. "I [leave the country] because I love you" struck a chord with me (and I understand why Charles became an alcoholic). I love how Abigail was written and portrayed: exactly as the feminist she was. Is it wrong that I would probably prefer the miniseries to be about her instead?
I didn't really learn too much -- apparently growing up close to Boston means you learn a lot of revolutionary history, though it is a bit of hero worship at times. People don't know that John Adams defended the British soldiers implicated in the Boston Massacre? The vibe I got from the "making of" featurette gave me the impression that a lot of the information put forth in the miniseries was news to most Americans. It's also weird to watch the series while you're also in the middle of rereading A People's History of the United States; is John Adams a champion for human rights or just a rich asshole? The answer's probably somewhere in the middle.
What I gained from watching the series was a whole slew of new fears: surgery without anesthesia (amputation! mastectomy!), inoculation somewhere where it is not possible to just quietly inject a weakened strain of whatever sickness it-is-into my body, smallpox, Alexander Hamilton, becoming a vagrant alcoholic, the abbreviation of the name Abigail to "Nabby" (what? why? how?), having a coughing fit while I'm trying to obtain a great deal of money from another country's government officials, and being a total square while people talk about me in a language I don't understand.
As a sidenote, I don't understand why everyone makes Sam Adams out to be such a huge patriot -- as he apparently argued for the Riot Act, which effectively suspended Habeas Corpus and directly contradicted every word in the 1st Amendment (other than the religion part). I like to assume that this is why People's Repubik does not serve Sam Adams beer.
"Erin, I'm gonna send you something [email?] and I want you to save it. But not in yah sys-dum -- like in the ahh-kives or somethin'. It's eatin' up a lot of my email's memory. It's like 9 megs?"
Email received:
Erin:
can you please save this in the archives so if I need it I can get it latter.
Dad
In other news, I just finished watching John Adams (the miniseries). Though I found the series to be quite moving, John Adams will forever be played in my mind by Mr. Feeny. I feel like the series got a bit meta at times (John Adams really thought about his legacy that much? Really? And chastised people because they would remember history poorly?), but I guess that's difficult to avoid. "I [leave the country] because I love you" struck a chord with me (and I understand why Charles became an alcoholic). I love how Abigail was written and portrayed: exactly as the feminist she was. Is it wrong that I would probably prefer the miniseries to be about her instead?
I didn't really learn too much -- apparently growing up close to Boston means you learn a lot of revolutionary history, though it is a bit of hero worship at times. People don't know that John Adams defended the British soldiers implicated in the Boston Massacre? The vibe I got from the "making of" featurette gave me the impression that a lot of the information put forth in the miniseries was news to most Americans. It's also weird to watch the series while you're also in the middle of rereading A People's History of the United States; is John Adams a champion for human rights or just a rich asshole? The answer's probably somewhere in the middle.
What I gained from watching the series was a whole slew of new fears: surgery without anesthesia (amputation! mastectomy!), inoculation somewhere where it is not possible to just quietly inject a weakened strain of whatever sickness it-is-into my body, smallpox, Alexander Hamilton, becoming a vagrant alcoholic, the abbreviation of the name Abigail to "Nabby" (what? why? how?), having a coughing fit while I'm trying to obtain a great deal of money from another country's government officials, and being a total square while people talk about me in a language I don't understand.
As a sidenote, I don't understand why everyone makes Sam Adams out to be such a huge patriot -- as he apparently argued for the Riot Act, which effectively suspended Habeas Corpus and directly contradicted every word in the 1st Amendment (other than the religion part). I like to assume that this is why People's Repubik does not serve Sam Adams beer.
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