Recent content by ERD50

It can be a tough job, but someone's gotta do it! :)

Or at a young age! Why not? :)

I think you missed two of the best and simplest, low cost options (below). I know from experience that both/either of these can help. Our newer thermostat had the option to run the fan 20 minutes of every hour, rather than continuous. That was enough to help even the temp between...

I also missed the aurora here in N IL, and then heard about viewing the solar activity with the eclipse glasses, and I forgot! Your photos are very interesting. That process of stacking the photos to reduce the noise is also done by the GPS system with its digital signals. If that wasn't done...

I really love some of his films, others having me scratching my head, wondering what all the fuss is about. Psycho is just fantastic (IMO), and though I don't recall if I liked this one overall, the dream sequence in "Spellbound", co-written with Salvador Dali, was, I thought, just amazing for...

Try going to "Latest Activity" under "What's New". That gives a snippet of the most recent post, and clicking on the thread title takes to that recent post. At least for me.

What does that mean exactly? Are you painting the members here with a broad brush of being stuck in the past and against any/all changes? This new forum software has some great new features* (OP marking, the "@" notifications, 'Like' buttons, and some others, and probably lots more for the...

Having some money in Roth can be a good thing if you have a large expense in one year. If you pulled that from trad IRA, you could be pushed into a higher bracket.

Yes, I wish people would just post the post link, rather than the link to the 'page'. But I understand (well, sort of - if people found 100 pages too slow to load, they had the option to change it). At any rate, if keeping it at 25 is it, then I just need to adapt. Is the other option possible...

That only does a little for me (FireFox on Linux). For example, I have my window opened to ~ 20" on a 24" monitor, and that sidebar takes up 4 3/4", or 5 1/4" when I click that. That's ~ 25% of the active window width for info I can get elsewhere, I don't need it taking up space on every thread.

Is there a way to show/hide the right column? It takes up a lot of space, and scrolling is already an issue with the way vertical space is used. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 <<<< for ref, even a one line post will take as much vert space as a 9 line post, plus the header.

I just noticed, the "quote" command is buried under the vertical "..." - that's something that is used often, can it be placed at the top level (like "img", "link", etc)? Oh, "underline " is burried also, but that has the cntrl-u shortcut, so not so bad.

I had the old forum set to 100 posts per page and most recent post at the top. Can I set this forum to that option? That avoids a lot of scrolling/paging for me. And it seems that now, if I return to thread I've read, it take me to post#1, whereas the old forum took me to the last post I read?

That's an excellent point. So much of the 'news' is editorialized, sometimes subtly (maybe the most dangerous?), sometimes not subtle at all. Yes, editorials are for the editorial page. Then I can read it with that in mind. -ERD50

Sorry, no. You haven't followed the conversation. No one can sing a song exactly the same, and being months apart, just makes the point even further (not that it had to be made, enough is enough). As I said earlier, and Fil explains - he is looking at the vocal "under a microscope". It simply...