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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...

Now there ya' go! Hot Tuna! I have the vinyl - might just put this on the turntable tonight. -ERD50

Yep, it's not uncommon. I need to hear/see what was actually said, not what the news tells me was said. I actually am at the point that I tell people, if you aren't going to make the effort to dig in and find the actual source info and decide for yourselves, you should just ignore what the news...

It's not that I don't want to be informed, or am not interested. It's just that it's near impossible to be informed. I'm not worried about AI. I worry less about the source of info than I do the accuracy of the info. In either case, I find I need to validate it myself. That doesn't change with...

Unfortunately, I haven't found that it helps much to "watch a variety of stations to get a more balanced view." IME, it's almost all the same stuff repeated, or misrepresentation on both sides. The only thing that works for me, as I mentioned earlier, is to dig in and find the unedited source...

I'm pretty much in the same boat as OP. A few years back, I really dug into some topics, and when I could find the actual, unedited source information, I found it was worse than I thought. Not just laziness or ineptitude, there seemed to be a purpose to their outright lies of what happened...

And while I know that song so well, I still just had to click on that link this AM. Man, as soon as that acoustic guitar strumming starts, a smile comes to my face. That song is just pure joy, and when I hear that intro, it infuses me with the memory of all that is to come. Then you get Chuck...

The Rolling Stones also covered Wolf's "Little Red Rooster". And the band took it's name from a Muddy Water's song. -ERD50

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/dickey-betts-dead-allman-brothers-guitarist-1235975041/ He wrote two of my favs from that band, "Jessica" and "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed". 80 YO. -ERD50

I downloaded it, and it might be useful in some cases. But Bluetooth headsets just have too much delay for me to tolerate. It was especially bad when I'm talking, I hear my own voice naturally, then like an echo, I hear myself a fraction of a second later (and not a little, it's ~ 1/10 to...

I watch a lot of his videos, but I wish he'd be more concise. He could have simulated all that with a few measurements, and got a good idea how long the car could power those loads. He really drags it out. I wish he would have tested the statement he made near the end. He said the car was not...

Sounds good. I'm on a few different forums and they all seem to have their good and not-so-good points, UI-wise. Specifically: Sounds good. Very handy - thanks! Makes sense, the 'Thanks' was pretty limited. The 'like' feature works really well on a technical forum I visit, because it...

I thought that was intentional, part of the 'joke' - leave it, it's golden! Kinda like that old joke "1st prize is an all expenses paid trip to New Jersey! 2nd prize is two all expenses paid trips to New Jersey!" Apologies to any fans of NJ - it's a JOKE! -ERD50

well, here's the Ukulele Blues, which might explain that! While this is goofy, Martin Mull actually was a pretty solid player, I saw him once on his "Martin Mull & His Fabulous Furniture In Your Living Room" Tour. -ERD50

I find it ironic that I first learned of the Blues through the British Invasion artists as a young teen. They were thousands of miles away, bringing this music back to us - and here I was, growing up outside Chicago, and visiting the city often as we had relatives there, and I was just a few...