Austin Light Utility Car - 10 HP Tilly

[BarleyBop]

Are you serious? I've got tons of image files (not JPEGs, though) ten times or more that size, not to mention InDesign files of a couple hundred megabytes The 2.7 MB I mentioned above is not unusual for photos taken by a modern phone or tablet, never mind a DSLR camera.

Ha! I was comparing the relative image size of two of the photos I posted; I know, file size has just gotten silly! I worked in UI and Graphic design for 35 years; you wanna talk file size?

Then again, file size is pretty much irrelevant (and changes with every generation of tech), its the quality of the content you and I are interested in, and the beautiful handiwork of our forum mates!

 

[OldManModeller]

So, @BarleyBop post images of his excellent build and this gets into image definition with @Jakko . Are we too serious now?

Let it go. We are all in this to share and learn.

Most of you are better modelers than I but I love the forum as a positive outlet.

Can we keep it that way. Not a question.

 

[BarleyBop]

No worries @OldManModeller, what you are witnessing is the failure of modern asynchronous communication: were we in the same real room, we could have a laugh about it all over a beer, and learn something too!

 

[Jakko]

Are we too serious now?

This is called topic drift and is inherit in Internet communications except on forums that actively try to stamp it out. Those are generally poor or even awful places to be posting in.

Let it go. We are all in this to share and learn.

You say that as if I wasn't explaining things you didn't know yet We're not arguing, we're talking about things in a normal manner. It just happens to not be what the topic started out about.

the failure of modern asynchronous communication

Basically, yes. Because we're typing things hours or even apart but all the previous parts of the conversation are still there for all to see, the drift is much more obvious (and to some people, irritating) than if we were sitting around a table talking about the same thing. Part of the problem is that as a regular user, you can create a new thread but you can't split an existing one into two separate ones for the old and the new (drifted) topic.