Setec Astronomy
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And still unavailable to order online for those of us that live in NJ.
Confessions of an Old Forum Member by Captain Obvious
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wannafbody
wannafbody
It's kind of disappointing that Zaino hasn't introduced any new products in years.
Accumulator:
You and myself are "tenured detailers". My intent of the above post is how "different" times are today in procuring "good" (well, common and well-know brand names or those trying to become as much) detailing products that are now available over-the-counter at many big-box stores.
Printed magazines are becoming extinct and non-existent, or more precisely irrelevant, with the advent of the now ubiquitous mobile smart phone.
Personally, I still like magazines just like I like printed newspapers and printed catalogs of the mechanical design world components, BUT that's what I grew up on to read for information and use for work, and that, too is "old school".
I guess I am too "backward looking" rather than being "forward looking", and like I said in by post to begin this thread topic that in my much younger days, I hated and despised those "veteran" engineering associates at my work place who were (much) older than me when they said "I remember when it was done this way..." in comparing the drawing board to what was then new technology of the Computer-Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) terminal world. This was especially true when the main frame system crashed or the CADD terminal was very slow to respond to command inputs, which was "occasionally" because the main frame was shared by all company departments and if IT needed to get "more computing power" to the Accounting Department to complete payroll in a timely fashion, engineering lost out and we were slow, which did not sit well with older (and everybody else, including me) engineering personnel who now had to do their design and drafting work on CADD. Now, being older, I say that very phrase myself: "I remember when it was done this way back in the day...."
One other "observation", though, I have noticed is how many young people know little of the history or background of their own family or of the affairs and government proceedings of this country or the world and its effect it has on their own personal health or what is happening in this county and the world today, respectively. In my hypocrisy, I was JUST like that when I was their age!
Cliche as it may be, "History repeats itself" and I am living proof of that.
You and myself are "tenured detailers". My intent of the above post is how "different" times are today in procuring "good" (well, common and well-know brand names or those trying to become as much) detailing products that are now available over-the-counter at many big-box stores.
Printed magazines are becoming extinct and non-existent, or more precisely irrelevant, with the advent of the now ubiquitous mobile smart phone.
Personally, I still like magazines just like I like printed newspapers and printed catalogs of the mechanical design world components, BUT that's what I grew up on to read for information and use for work, and that, too is "old school".
I guess I am too "backward looking" rather than being "forward looking", and like I said in by post to begin this thread topic that in my much younger days, I hated and despised those "veteran" engineering associates at my work place who were (much) older than me when they said "I remember when it was done this way..." in comparing the drawing board to what was then new technology of the Computer-Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) terminal world. This was especially true when the main frame system crashed or the CADD terminal was very slow to respond to command inputs, which was "occasionally" because the main frame was shared by all company departments and if IT needed to get "more computing power" to the Accounting Department to complete payroll in a timely fashion, engineering lost out and we were slow, which did not sit well with older (and everybody else, including me) engineering personnel who now had to do their design and drafting work on CADD. Now, being older, I say that very phrase myself: "I remember when it was done this way back in the day...."
One other "observation", though, I have noticed is how many young people know little of the history or background of their own family or of the affairs and government proceedings of this country or the world and its effect it has on their own personal health or what is happening in this county and the world today, respectively. In my hypocrisy, I was JUST like that when I was their age!
Cliche as it may be, "History repeats itself" and I am living proof of that.
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Setec Astronomy
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Do you mean at another forum? I don't think here or AGO have any administrators anymore, so no new members. Although someone seems to be clearing the spam at AGO, not sure if they have admin privileges, Gearhead clears the spam here, but I don't think he can approve new members.
No, on here. I’m Brrr on AGO and I made that account on here just for easier log in purposes. It’s still waiting for an admin to approve the account. One sec I’ll do a screen grab
as you can see, I’ve been waiting on an approval to join since Dec 29th from an admin. So that would be a reason why new people aren’t really joining. Unless it’s just a one off instance for me.
Setec Astronomy
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As I said, as far as I know there are no administrators here, I'm not sure what they are doing at AGO. Gearhead is the Mod here, but he doesn't have full admin privileges, from what he's told me.
PoisonTheWell
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We don’t get anything cool here.
