Recent content by Tars Tarkas

Take any encounter with a bear seriously, but my experience is that they are much more likely to ignore me or ease off in another direction. With very rare exceptions (speaking mostly of the Great Smokey Mountains) the animals are at least as wary of us as we are of them. The park rangers talk...

Knock on wood - the ads seem to be gone! Or is it just me? I hope it's not temporary. I get the idea that there's overhead to run a forum like this but the recent ads were about as annoying and cheap click-baitish as possible! TT

Seems like slow motion suicide for the forum. I'm not leaving yet but I'm already enjoying it a lot less TT

I just looked it up, and he died worth $3.5 million, which sounds like chump change now, but was real money in 1980. He was still working for KFC when I met him in about 1975, and didn't seem at all sad to me. For comparison, John Wayne, who died around the same time, was worth $6.85 million...

I got to meet Col.Harland Sanders. TT

So, to be clear, did you end up a mile higher than you started, or did you go up and down a thousand 5.6 foot hills? TT

But he's probably loyal to T.

In order to sell more Cybertrucks, Elon made a design change.

This from The Huffpost: “Let’s be clear: Taylor Swift isn’t any less powerful, beautiful or relevant because a president said something petty. If anything, it says more about his fragility than her status. Let’s hold adults to adult standards — especially when they’re speaking to the world,”...

I don't think there's a whole lot of practical difference in the viewing quality on a computer screen or phone between 2000 kb or 100 kb but under 1 mb is the general recommendation for forums, I think. A page with 20 or 30 2 mb pics can take a while to load and use a lot of storage, which...

It is hard to argue with that advice. I know that's what I would do. TT

From Wikipedia: The Catalina Casino gets its name from the Spanish term casino, meaning a "gathering place" or establishment used for social interactions and sometimes shows and dances. Contrary to the common English usage of the word casino, this has never been a facility for gambling.

Really. I haven't gone looking for it but I seem to recall having seen a similar pic of Branson with young women without the bikinis. Could have been edited, I suppose. Wouldn't have taken a lot of effort. TT

Um, maybe. I suppose. But how many is a matter of opinion. Based simply on observation, my opinion is you post about 95% more pictures than needed, or than anyone else, whichever standard you want to use. I could probably post about 16 pictures and screenshots to illustrate my point, but I'm...