Quote Originally Posted by normalbill View Post
wow. this is highly social for me, but i was notified that there was an answer to my first post. it seems to me that if someone [in this case, Ken] takes the time and makes the effort to respond, then i should as well. thank you for the reply, Ken.
You're very welcome. Glad to have you here.

in answer to what you wrote: i have already encountered some interesting tools and hope to encounter more with the passage of time. to those whose ideas i intend to use/rip off/blatantly plagiarize/etc.: thank you ever so much. it is so nice to hang around people smarter than one's self. kind of like playing chess. if you want to get *really* good, then play with someone that you cannot beat. promise: do that long enough and you will get good.
Couldn't agree more. I strongly believe that we all have something to learn from each other and that each individual, from the newest builder to the most experienced, has seen and learned something of value for himself and the rest of us, if only he can identify and communicate it. Blatantly plagiarize to your heart's content!

as to the signal to noise ratio: that is good. i have been around since the internet was 4 computers that all belonged to the government. [long time] i remember all too well sending some email and immediately calling the person long distance to see if they got it. consequently, i have seen lots of signal and **LOTS** of noise. in my paltry opinion, the internet is the finest tool ever made for communication. i literally have the world at my fingertips. sadly, i also have some other crap at them as well. like it or not, this is the way of the human. it ain't gonna change. one eventually learns to develop a filter of sorts to screen the trash out. or one flips clean out.
Agree 100%. I, too, have been around online for a long, long time - though not as long as some! I've been playing with computers since the '70s and have had an email address since the mid-'80s (on BitNet). I can also remember calling someone to see if they received my email. Though my internal filters are intact and probably still growing, I doubt you'll need yours around here.

as to tools: yes. i have built some. however, the pictures, or most of them, are on 3.5" floppy discs. i am presently at a laptop computer that accepts compact discs. i suppose you can see how this might be a problem.
You might want to get those images off the floppies before the magnetic media degrades. Now that I mention it, I need to do the same thing with some papers I wrote about 25 years ago!

p. s. duh. i see up there there is a button to insert an image. stand back. i am gonna try this:
the pictures are probably way too big.
Pictures are fine. Good job!!

this is a tapping arm i built 2 or 3 months ago, a la John Stevenson in old blighty and some other folks.
We'll get that added to our database (and your builder page) directly - thanks for sharing!

Regards,
Ken