On 12/04/2017 02:35 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I have told people this is too complicated for me to explain ... because I don't understand it well enough to explain it. My wife doesn't appreciate when I explain in too much detail when I do know it so I try to adjust explanations to the person's background and temperament. I'm not always successful as sometimes my sarcasm gets the best of me and I say the perfect thing at exactly the wrong time.
I do try to supply some answer when I have an idea, a guess when I can make a guess (making it clear that it's a guess) and I've started saying that I have no idea when I have no idea.
The most important thing (especially for our museum docents) is that we always * try * to explain and never look down on guests. Hopefully we get it mostly accurate, too.
I wrote a book (as did Even) and I have a friend who likes to bust me about it. So I tend to joke about it a bit (it's really hard work). I had a joke I used to use on bike rides I lead: Any idiot can write a book just look at Snooki from the Jersey Shore. The joke failed every time because many of my riders had no idea what a Snooki was and they tended to be PhDs from the local Universities. Each with a book. So now I've learned, I'm not that smarter than Snooki. ;-) -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies