Dave Ambrose

The inclined launchers on the foredeck look like Hedgehogs. These are an anti submarine weapon. That would mesh nicely with the depth charges. I would visit my local fly fishing shop and ask for some leader. It comes in several sizes. It will be smaller than the stuff you find at your regular fishing shop.

It's a timeout, and not something like an error 500? Have you tried clearing your browser cache? If not, please try that. PM me your system info; browser, OS, internet provider. and if you're using anything like a VPN. Thanks, Dave Ambrose

Thanks, Bill. This is very useful information. I'm surprised that pasting from Word works as well as it seems to. Unless something has changed, Microsoft Word adds all kinds of formatting information to text that's copy/pasted from Word into anything else. There's actually a special paste button to accomplish that cleanly. I don't have it enabled, but maybe I should add it to the desktop editor? But, finding an editor that will preserve the formatting information would be useful. I could then make a public Dropbox folder to give people a place to save the information. I will look into that. Getting knocked out of the site completely is a new one to me, but as they say on Laugh In, veeery interesting.....That suggests a new line of inquiry. What exactly do you mean with you say knocked out. Do you get an error message of any kind? As for my IT people, I am my IT people. I haven't been diagnosed with either schizophrenia, or multiple personality disorder, so it's just me.

Thank you. I'm hoping to have the forum software upgrade done before the end of the year. Unfortunately, it's somewhat dependent on my recovery. My energy will disappear at unpredictable times, and I won't work on the server under those conditions. It's too easy to make catastrophic mistakes.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to post them here.

Its a problem in the forum software. I will be fixing it in the next couple of months.

As some have noticed, the board has been rough around the edges for a while. I apologize for the delays in getting things fixed. I’ve been fighting a major medical issue since May, and after surgery a few weeks ago, am finally on the road to recovery. We have a bunch of things to fix. Some of them are under the hood, and some will be all too visible. We’ve had significant growth in our user base, and performance has sometimes been slow. It will take us a while to fully remedy this situation, but I think you’ll like the final result. Initially, I’ll address some server issues that are affecting our page load times. Anyone dying for the gory details should send me a PM. If anyone out there knows a lot about mySQL, please send me a PM. This is going to take more than a few maintenance sessions. I'll try to keep them short and off hours, but that won't always be possible. Please bear with me. There will be another major forum software update. There are bug fixes, security updates, and updates for European data privacy requirements that we need to implement. The way the board works will change. I will do my best to minimize the changes, but I can't make any guarantees. I don't have all the details yet, but will announce what I know before I make the update. I have not forgotten about the 404 problem. Hopefully, this release will alleviate that, but I'm not counting on it. I am beginning to believe that the problem has something to do with the content of the posting though.

I ran into the same problem yesterday. I wonder if it's related to copying and pasting content? I'll have to test that. The URL was fine.

It pains me to be deleting some of these albums. There was a lot of interesting stuff. If you still have some of your old photos, please put them in the gallery.

We've started the process of cleaning up the photo galleries. We lost most of the pictures in a hack attack a few years ago. Sadly, they aren't on any of our backups. Now it turns out the empty photo albums are affecting our search results. This has other undesirable side effects, so we need to clean this up as quickly as we can. For the next few days, the other moderators and myself will be going through and deleting empty albums. The albums with pictures will stay. In the meantime, please feel free to put photos there. It's working just fine.

I'm having a hard time reconciling the bat shaped door handle with the longhorns on the radiator. But I gotta say, this was good for a laugh.

This comes from the way the site handles certain kinds of web requests. It's on my list of things to fix. In the meantime, you're fine. We don't store confidential data, and don't specifically need in-transit encryption, per se. But, the browsers have gotten more picky. It does help with security by authenticating that you're getting information from the right site. That's much more important to a bank than here tho.

Don't come to my house. We have horses nearby, and consequently lots of flying insects. Tarantulas are also indigenous. We get lots of spiders. I leave the hunting spiders alone, even if they're in the house. They're eliminating annoying pests. I just wish they had a bigger appetite for ants.* Various orb weavers in the back yard, and lots of funnel webs. My son comes home from 6th grade science class, and asks if he can have a tarantula for a pet. The science teacher's has had babies. Indulgent parent that I am, I said yes. That spider lasted 10 years before dying of old age. * Southern California is one large, Argentine ant colony.

I’m hoping to at least come and look.

Locking this at the request of the original poster.

The price, $3400, is a little eye watering. That’s a hard number to work with, even if you’re running a small custom printing operation.

A lot of Facebook screening is automated. It doesn’t always work right. There is a way to request a human review. You should try that.

You want to invest in the bakery next to the dispensary. We had some controversy here when an enterprising Girl Scout set up a table near a dispensary.

Ah, paint drama. I think we could all contribute if someone started a thread. Glad you were able to recover.

We are coming up on Halloween.

Very cool. You’ll have to suspend it in your display case.

I’m so sorry you’re going through this. We love our children more than anything else in this world. You’ll find a way through. Prayers for both you and your son. Take care of yourself and don’t forget you have friends here when you need them.

Love that car.

Villify me if you want, but I think it’s very cool.

I find the Vallejo washes work well. I suspect India ink with some minute amount of dish soap would work well too.