Eric Aitala

Your email for the Voting site is a gmail.com address... if you still have access to that, please use https://voting.ipmsusa3.org/user/password to reset your password. Eric

Let me check Eric

You can do the survey and vote for the Executive board at: https://voting.ipmsusa3.org/ Instructions are here: https://voting.ipmsusa3.org/content/activate-your-account Eric

Oooo, embedding Tweets is niiice... E

For anyone interested, Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame will be doing a one day build of the 2001: A Space Odyssey EVA Pod from Moebius Models for the tested.com website... It should be good. Eric

I have no idea. Every device I have used sees the correct dates. Eric

I see this on the Forum landing page...

I don't see that date anywhere. Eric

Hi Folks, Is anyone interested in becoming the new Gallery Admin for IPMS? If so, please let me know. Thanks, Eric

Contact the Region 4 RC, Paul Helfrich at paulhelfrich@yahoo.com and he might be able to help. E

For information on when Chapter meetings happen, see https://calendar.ipmsusa3.org/chapter-meetings [I think I will roll this out officially now...] E

That is just an email from the site that something was posted in that section... which come from the admin account... You're probably 'following' that section which is why you get the email.. The posts have been removed and the user blocked. Eric

I've split the Topic. Original is still at: Eric

I've split the topic.. the Judging posts are here >> https://forum.ipmsusa3.org/topic/20447-re-judging-was-haters-group/

This type of attitude is pretty common... it runs along the lines of "To justify what I like, I have to hate/insult/denigrate what you like." As an example, "I like Star Wars, but Star Trek sucks." and by implication, so do you. This is pretty difficult to counteract as trying to address it head on only solidifies their opinions. The thing to do (and I may not get this quite right) is to find out the what, where, why and how the other person likes Star Wars, without getting sidetracked into anything involving Star Trek. If they try to go negative, steer it back towards their positive feelings/thoughts about Star Wars. Do not at anytime talk about your opinions of either Star Trek or Star Wars. Only focus on them and their thoughts and feelings. If they persist in going negative, you'll probably get no where and will need to move on. But if you can get them to open up and get some actual, positive reasons for liking Star Wars, at some point you may be able to say, "Oh I see why you like it. Those are many of the very same reasons I like Star Trek, but I can appreciate that Star Wars is something you really seem to enjoy." Let them be happy about enjoying Star Wars on its own and realize that fact. Perhaps then they'd understand your appreciation of Star Trek. Now this is not an easy thing to do - and the fact that I even wrote this out would confuse the heck out of some of my friends, but so be it... Anyway.... I may add on to this later, but I need some sleep. Eric