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But aren't you applying the science of NOW to the far future, Dirk? Perhaps by 4017 some new processes would be fairly simple. You have a 'black box' the size of, say, an 18-wheeler with an input chute. You drop the air car into it and the box hums, slurps, crunches, lets off condensation in the form of simple steam, a buzzer sounds and several bins along the side of the box receive ingots of whatever metals are in an air car. You don't have to explain it, it just is.

Call it the Stanislawsky Car Rendering Asunder Process (SCRAP).

~Tom

I didn't know there was another one either. I'll stick with this one.

~Tom

For whose of you who might be interested, and can get Turner Classic movies (TCM), the movie "Now Voyager" is on at 8PM (Eastern time).

~Tom

Sol:

Strange things are definitely afoot here. If I am at any other site, or doing anything else on my computer, my keyboard is just fine. But, on this site, there are periods of time that some keys (they seem to occur at random) will fail. I hit them, but nothing shows up. Just doing this post, the "v', "c", Enter, and "e'" keys failed on me. If I highlight the text I've already done and copy it. I can refresh the page, paste back, and all the keys are back working just fine. Sooner or later, another few keys begin to fail.

Is the site editor at fault? Are you filtering for special keys or something?

~Tom

When I do that, the wife gets on my case. But, I have done it. What happens is that the spaces between the letters seem to get smaller and make words harder to separate. Here on this web site, I have to zoom in quite a ways to read all the tiny fonts, this forum included. Doing that, in itself, isn't too bad, except it reformats the text to some extent.

My lousy eyesight is limited to a distance of about 24 inches. I can pass my driver's license exam without my glasses. The 'far vision' section on my trifocals is plain glass.

~Tom

Me neither. I've always used two, but on another site I got dinged for it. Now I'm conflicted as to which to use. Maybe and and a half?

~Tom

That really sounds like a very intense series of reading/reviewing/re-reading/re-reviewing to infinity and beyond. I have quite a few other authors (not of this group) that I review also, add to that writing and editing my own works and getting them posted (for another review/edit/repost cycle).

That seems like a long session at the computer almost every day just to keep all the plates balanced on the sticks. If the wife and I go out to do a bit of shopping, or take a weekend trip somewhere, then the whole schedule is shot up. Neither of us take our computers with us on trips. Period. So that would put me quite a bit behind in my duties to the group.

Are there any provisions for things like that?

~Tom

To add to your request, Max, how about making it mandatory to write something in the Bio box - even if it is just "Let me get used to the site before I tell all". When I go to the 'New Members' pics and click on them, I like to see right away something other than just "This person has not...."

~Tom

My bio page says a lot about me; all the broad strokes of who I am and were I'm coming from, but within this group I intend to expand on by experiences with Man Above.  If anything, they may be a little unusual to some.  I had my first walk with Him in 1970 while home on leave one summer.  I had just finished my fourth Vietnam tour and was pretty burned out. When I accepted my brother's invitation to meet a few of his friends at a small encampment in the Colorado Rockies, I had no idea how fulfilling it would be.

The group consisted mostly of Lakota's who were gathering to initiate several members with the rites of passage.  They were practicing Shamanists.  I listened to their tales of wonder, participated in several preliminary rites, and began to recover from my brushes with war.  That started my journey into the light.

I am rough around the edges, as only military upbringing can make you. But by the same token, my boundaries have been world-wide. My father was in the Air Force, and I enlisted in the Navy when I was 20 in 1962. Except for my marriage 52 years ago, I have rarely been inside a church. However, I have returned to those same Rockies many times to renew and rejuvenate myself. I've completed two vision quests, with attendant fasts and sweat lodges. Surrounding myself with the the beauties of nature is all the church I need.

Before too long, I plan on posting a three-part story of my happy journey into the light provided by Man Above.

~Tom

Yeah, I guess I did.  I just thought that maybe the right-hand drop-down menu might include 'mark unread' along with 'view message' and 'delete'.  It could come in handy at times.

~Tom

I add my thanks also, Sol.  Wonderful work.  I can let my offline list languish now.

~Tom

Thanks, Karen. My situation is a bit different.  I didn't set mine up.  I was a 'new site' Beta tester and Sol presented me with a subscription for my help.  One thing I really hope is that I don't have to use some sort of auto-withdrawl from my account because I will NOT allow that of any site.  Too much chance for mistakes. I had to quit my local gym when they wanted me to just give them my account number so they could suck out a monthly bill.  Don't like that at all.

~Tom