Dave Ambrose

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Congratulations! That's a great way to buy a house. We had the very good fortune to buy the house we were renting, and it's worked out very well for us.

I don't remember making this new year resolution but I've been on a bit of a concert binge this year. Saw Anoushka Shankar late March, Deep Sea Diver on April 10, and the Jordi Savall ensemble (15th and 16th century music) on the 15th. This has been an outlandish amount of fun. At least I'm not in a musical rut. There are still two more in the pipeline too. I don't recall seeing this particular addiction in the DSM either.

When you log in, there should be a "Forgot Password" link in the login dialog. That will get you a reset email sent to the email address we have for you. We run into problems when people change their email addresses and don't update their info in the forum. We can fix that my merging the two accounts, and updating the original one with the correct email address.

You should be able to download it now. We normally don't allow downloading, but are running a short experiment.

This is completely unlike previous issues. But, I think we're in trouble when Canada Post is beating out the USPS for deliveries.

My canary copy arrived today. Roughly 2-1/2 weeks later than usual.

There seem to be more delivery problems than we typically have with a mailed out issue. My canary issue hasn't arrived yet and it's usually here within 2 weeks of mail-out. As an aside, I'm having a lot more delivery problems than usual from the USPS, so something systemic is going on. We're trying to ascertain what. The Postmaster General recently resigned, effective immediately and I suspect they're related.

I was given this Wright Flyer 1 kit. This is the longest box in my stash and the next one up in my queue. Biggest box is a 1/72 scale XB-70 Valkyrie.

The Kenner Hydrodynamic Building set was one of my favorite toys. My dad was a chemical engineer so there might have been some undue influence. I never could build a decent oil refinery with it. 🙂

Please PM me and we'll get the accounts straightened out.

They are supposed to be reworking their model selection. Round 2 announced a distribution deal with Michael's a couple months ago. They probably have to switch paint suppliers, but I don't know who they're switching to. But something should be in the works.

Regarding drag and drop for photos -- That is likely a separate problem. I normally use Chrome on Windows 10/11, and the drag-n-drop is working on that browser. It's also working on Firefox. I will try Safari on Mac later today.

I just removed the limits, and things should go back to our previous behavior. Let me know if you encounter any problems.

I completely misinterpreted that question. I was thinking it was my personal limit. Let me try answering again. If you use the drag and drop feature to upload your pictures, you will get a message when you try to upload a file that's either individually too big, or collectively makes the post too big.

It gets ugly depending on circumstances. Generally speaking, I use facts to refute whatever nonsense is being presented to me as reality. 🙂

My apologies. I screwed up and didn't set some values correctly. I think it's fixed now. I'm sure you'll let me know if it isn't. 🙂 Shamefacedly yours, Dave

We are starting to get tight on server disk space. I've limited the size of individual attachments (pictures and videos) to 10MB. This should be plenty big for most any picture, and I don't think more than a few users will notice a change. Please let me know if you have problems posting pictures.

Thanks! That confirms my hypothesis.

Going to a concert tonight. We scored some awesome seats to see Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar. Old people may remember him. 🙂

Congratulations! He's a big fellow.

Colors, fonts, and sizes are determined by the forum's theme. Right now, we're using the default theme that comes with the forum software. It's not ideal, but it's what we had to do at the time. We're getting a new and major upgrade some time this year. I'll take a look at what's available, and make some decisions about themes then. Thanks for bringing this up. I know what to look for, and maybe we can figure out some solutions before the new software goes live.

Looks like we're getting more AI engines scraping our site. They don't play well, and can bog down the server causing slow response for the humans using the forums.

She would make a spectacular artificial reef. The aircraft carrier, Oriskany, is now an artificial reef. Don't know how popular she is, but I'd like to dive her. As for environmental impact, they are good, so long as they get properly prepared. The extra iron in the water encourages plankton, which is the base of the marine food chain. Things just work up from there. Prep will be complicated as doorways will need to be welded shut to keep divers out. Wreck penetration requires special equipment and training. It is not a casual diving activity. But, stupid people sometimes try it anyway and earn their Darwin Awards.

Interesting idea. We do have our dealer list on the main website. Another very useful list would be the model car clubs. The challenge with these lists is maintaining them. We don't have the personnel available right now. but it's definitely in our future plans.