Help requested to trace a recent post
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Help requested to trace a recent post
I've been out of the loop, sort of, and am now trying to trace a web site whose URL I'm guessing must have been obtained through Eileen's Lounge.
The URL was a site "Earth at night" sort of thing.
If any of you can recognize/remember the post I'd be grateful.
But please don't lose sleep over it - it's possible that It wasn't gleaned from The Lounge, but from some other source.
Only, The Lounge is my most fruitful source of links to things wonderful and technological.
Thanks
Chris
This is a PrtScr snapshot I saved to my hard drive on 13th April, just over a week ago, and I've checked likely posts as far back as April 1st.The URL was a site "Earth at night" sort of thing.
If any of you can recognize/remember the post I'd be grateful.
But please don't lose sleep over it - it's possible that It wasn't gleaned from The Lounge, but from some other source.
Only, The Lounge is my most fruitful source of links to things wonderful and technological.
Thanks
Chris
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
It doesn't look familiar...
A google image search doesn't turn up a likely candidate either.
A google image search doesn't turn up a likely candidate either.
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
Hi ChrisChrisGreaves wrote:I've been out of the loop, sort of, and am now trying to trace a web site whose URL I'm guessing must have been obtained through Eileen's Lounge.This is a PrtScr snapshot I saved to my hard drive on 13th April, just over a week ago, and I've checked likely posts as far back as April 1st.
The URL was a site "Earth at night" sort of thing.
If any of you can recognize/remember the post I'd be grateful.
But please don't lose sleep over it - it's possible that It wasn't gleaned from The Lounge, but from some other source.
Only, The Lounge is my most fruitful source of links to things wonderful and technological.
Thanks
Chris
Anything here
Cheers
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
How about this: Not in Eileen's...but it is "Canadian" and in April
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
Thanks Rudi. I believe this is it.Rudi wrote:How about this: Not in Eileen's...but it is "Canadian" and in April
As usual I am curious: what was your search strategy?
Cheers chris
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
thanks steve. I think this was the original source!steveh wrote:Hi ChrisChrisGreaves wrote:I've been out of the loop, sort of, and am now trying to trace a web site whose URL I'm guessing must have been obtained through Eileen's Lounge.This is a PrtScr snapshot I saved to my hard drive on 13th April, just over a week ago, and I've checked likely posts as far back as April 1st.
The URL was a site "Earth at night" sort of thing.
If any of you can recognize/remember the post I'd be grateful.
But please don't lose sleep over it - it's possible that It wasn't gleaned from The Lounge, but from some other source.
Only, The Lounge is my most fruitful source of links to things wonderful and technological.
Thanks
Chris
Anything here
Cheers
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
Thanks Hans. Im not surprised google didnt work. My image was a prtscr i took myself, almost certainly unseen by google. Cheers chrisHansV wrote:It doesn't look familiar...
A google image search doesn't turn up a likely candidate either.
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
I used Google and started searching for posts in Eileen's (using parameter: site:EileensLounge.com) to see if I could locate any posts with references to earth night lights? There were a number of hits, but nothing really meaningful, so I removed the site: parameter and reverted to an image search via Google...ChrisGreaves wrote:As usual I am curious: what was your search strategy?
Probably a bit of luck involved, but I started with a search on your image, like this...
After that I added some descriptive text "earth night lights" and changed the time filter to "This Year".
This lead to the Huffington post as indicated in the image below. I thought the result was interesting so I posted it.
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Rudi
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
Hi Rudi, and apologies for taking so long.Rudi wrote:I used Google and started searching for posts...
I can almost duplicate your efforts, but not quite.
The Good news: I have now joined the rest of the human race and have actually used Google Image Search!
The Bad news: I can't obtain the context-sensistive menu you display, not, at least, when i right-click on my image in the post at the start of this thread.
I am Firefox 50.0, so probably lagging behind. Again.
I saved my image to disk, did a stand-alone Google Image Search by uploading the image file, and came up with two NASA links, which would probably have gotten me to my goal in the end.
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
The context menu search is available in the Chrome browser (and if Google is the default search engine).
For more details about this, see the thread starting here.
If you are interested in a similar feature for FF, see Skitterbug's post in the same thread here.
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Rudi
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
Ah!Rudi wrote:The context menu search is available in the Chrome browser (and if Google is the default search engine).
Thanks Rudi.
So I am somewhat isolated once again from the mainstream of search technology (sigh!)
Thanks Rudi... see Skitterbug's post in the same thread here.
So I am somewhat isolated once again (attached image) from the mainstream of search technology (sigh!)
Cheers
Chris
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
I learned how to use google image search looking up dead ancestors (is there any other kind?) and it's fun to see how my grandmother resembles Attila the Hun
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
Why yes, always, of course!garbsmj wrote:... looking up dead ancestors (is there any other kind?) ...
As Richard Dawkins points out in River Out of Eden, and here I paraphrase:
You and I and every living thing that crawls or flies on the face of earth or in its waters have one thing in common. Not one of our ancestors died in infancy (my italics).
By definition, our ancestors were alive at our creation, and chances are that they remained alive during the first part of our lifetime.
We would not exist, nor would we have survived, without them being alive.
Right?
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
I'll send my grandpa right over Chris. He's kinda moldy but yes, still good for a doorstop.
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
Then he and I will get on just FINE!garbsmj wrote:I'll send my grandpa right over Chris. He's kinda mouldy but yes, still good for a doorstop.
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
I think that you might be thinking of your pre-decessors who, again by definition, have pre-deceased you, that is, died before you, and since you are currently alive (and well I hope!), by definition your pre-decessors must be dead.garbsmj wrote:.. dead ancestors (is there any other kind?) ...
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
Yes, there are and they will complain until they meet their deceased family members!looking up dead ancestors (is there any other kind?)
I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living
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Re: Help requested to trace a recent post
So take it fron Dave, our resident Genealogy Pro.DaveA wrote:Yes, there are and they will complain until they meet their deceased family members!looking up dead ancestors (is there any other kind?)
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