Dave Ambrose

Yes, all but one of the editorial team will be there. I, for one, will be in idea collection mode.

Model Cars Magazine is going to the final GSL contest in Salt Lake City. Gregg, myself, and a lot of the magazine staff will be there. We're going to be there taking pictures, talking to people, and generally enjoying the show. We'll also have a Friday evening hospitality suite. If you are there, please stop by and say hello. We don't get to see you all nearly often enough in real life. Who else is coming, and what are you bringing?

I hope you have a full and speedy recovery.

Steve, Very sorry to hear about your cat. She's a beauty It's inordinately difficult to lose our little friends.

A ton if interesting cars in that place. Spotted a '62 MGA, an Avanti, and an MG Magnette. There was a TR8 next to the Ferrari. Hopefully, not to much of it rubbed off on the Ferrari.

I don't know that I have a theme, other than celebrating a mild case of ADD when it comes to subjects. Generally speaking, I like things that I like the creative aspect though, and have lately been imagining some good color schemes for some of the models in my stash. I will definitely need to up my paint game. That should be fun. I keep a notebook of sorts in Evernote that keeps me from losing good ideas.

I would have someone capable (NOT GEEKSQUAD!!!) run diagnostics on it. It sounds like the video adapter is going bad. You can work around that by adding a cheap video card, but you want to know what's wrong first.

Spring finally showed up this weekend. It normally makes an appearance in mid February. The BBQ roared to life and we now have a lot of leftover meat. Our resident psychic sees tacos in our future.

Ah, you must not be a Start Trek - Next Generation fan. The Borg (short for cyborg) are a mixed biological/machine species that's also a fearsome, intractable enemy. When they encounter a new sentient species, they assimilate them into a highly connected collective. Sort of like teenagers on social media without the need for smartphones. Their signature concept is "Resistance (to assimilation) is futile. Here's the executive summary:

Welcome to the Borg collective. Resistance is futile.

I'm thinking they do this for two reasons -- The logic required for things like wipers and lights is much cheaper as software The amount of copper in the wiring is reduced. Copper has been especially expensive lately.

We've had an unusually large number of delivery problems with Sweden and Finland. We don't know why. Send me a PM if it hasn't gotten there by next week, and we'll send you a replacement.

They'll be available from our resellers, or from us if we're at a show. At this point, we aren't directly filling back issue orders.

I don't miss the old days at all. I especially don't miss punch cards. They did have one virtue. Folded in half, they fit beautifully in a shirt pocket. I used my remaining supply for grocery lists. Now we have a white board, and I take a picture with my phone. I went into computing because I wanted to compute orbits. It was a very interesting time to be in computing. My freshman year and sophomore years at Cal were all done with punched cards. Junior year, we had teletypes connected to a Unix timeshare system. Late that year, we all switched to CRT terminals. Software has proven far more durable than the hardware. I had the interesting challenge of beta testing vi my senior year. I still use that editor.

Unfortunately, you missed the 218 cut-off. Your first issue will be 219.

If you're running Chrome, see if there isn't some janky extension installed. This is a popular method for popping those things up. You should also clear your cache regardless of browser.

Be sure to create an event in the calendar. More people will see it.

I fixed it.

Here’s a quick shot of the contents page.

This is awesome. How do you do your anodization?

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I used to be on a committee that wrote the ISO standards for computer graphics. The goal of these standards was to be so complete and precise that two different people could write two different implementations, and have them be 100% compatible. This is a great goal for nuts, bolts, and screws. You can't do it in a useful time frame for anything as complex as a software system. So, we have assumptions and minor incompatibilities.

Issue 218 is in the mail and should be arriving soon!