Feeling guilty and embarrassed

I'll be glad to help you. I'm not sure if you can post from Shutterfly. If you post a link to your Shutterfly page, make sure it is set to public, I will take a look at it.

My personal choice is Flickr, less ads than Photobucket, but either works. . I know I can help you from either of these storage sites.

Turbo, it is OK to add pics to ads. As a matter of fact I personally find it beneficial when I'm on my phone or don't have time to click a link. And sometimes I see the pic and know I'm not interested in seeing more.

Duplicate pics cause clutter. Multiple threads with duplicate pics are unnecessary and usually get deleted. Also, when people quote and leave the pics in the quote, especially multiple pics, it clutters the thread. You can quote and then delete the pic before you hit post, leaving just the text or a single pic related to the quote.

Wish we had those strings on the TV antenna. We had to go outside and turn the pole when I was a kid Of course, we only had one channel until later when we moved and had three.

Okay, so, that was easy....

My method is kindof a shortcut if you will...

I have a PC laptop, and a photobucket account...I started out with photobucket back when the old Shasta forum was still up and running.  I got a lesson then on how to post photos without actually owning them, and then the board crashed and burned from being filled with too many image photos for the allowed storage.  The lesson came in really handy.  (The lesson behind the board crashing and burning was the reason for all this off-site storage and extra steps.  If not for this option, this board would someday crash as well, or cost to use it, which nobody really wants.)

The off site hosting is really not all that complicated since there are so many choices to use for your photos.  It also makes it easier to share them on other sites too, or through email links to family members or friends...It helped me a lot, as I used to send reference photos that would often be too large for email servers to handle.  Filling up and shutting down a friend's inbox in three emails is not good.

My shortcut involves the Firefox browser itself, and since I am not familiar with Chrome, IE-million-and-one, or Mac (or Tandy) browsers, I am not sure you can or can't do this with them also.  On the hosting site, get the full-sized image that you want to post. Right-clicking on the image brings up a menu, which includes an option to "Copy Image Location", select this.  Then, on the "Advanced" reply form, select the "Insert Image" icon,


paste to the pop-up box, then click "Insert Image".  This inserts the code into the reply and automatically displays the image.  You can continue with adding text, or use this procedure again to add more images.  Click on the "Create Post" button, and viola! You too are a modern computer genius!  (or a shlub like me pretending to know what you are doing...)

Well I guess I can top most of you on the antenna stories. When I was little we didn't have a TV station in southwest Ohio. Then we got this little box with a set of rabbit ears that you could put aluminum foil on and move it around to get one station then two, then an outside antenna that could get five stations. Next thing they came up with these things called UHF channels but they took a special box that set on top of the TV so we got one right away. TV was great it was black and white with a lot of "snow". If I hurried home from school and finished my home work I could watch the test pattern a few minutes before the broadcast day started. Then on weekends I got to watch them sign off the air and play the National Anthem at 10:00 PM. If I remember right they broadcast six hours a day, then they extended it to include the eleven o'clock news before signing off. The rest is history.

And today, even Bruce Springsteen's song "57 Channels and Nothing On" is outdated...!