Heads up about an Interview of Garry J. Smith (me )

[GarryJSmith]

Hi Good People,

Just thought I would let my mates at SOH know that an interview of yours-truly is now available at FlightSim.com

Don't normally recommend a visit to another site, however, http://www.FlightSim.com have on their front page a link to an interview of Garry J. Smith - me

This is a fairly comprehensive burst about who and what I am and why I do what I do for Flight Simming.

If you want to spend a few moments getting the gist of my background and experiences then pop on over to FlightSim.com and check it out.

Sorry for the Brag - but some interesting reading I think

Regards

Garry

[zswobbie1]

Garry, with what you & Ed have given to our hobby, you can brag as much as you like..

[txnetcop]

Great interview Garry and well deserved!
Ted

[HorusJ]

A great interview Garry! I really appreciate what you have done/doing for our FS9 community.

[Mick]

Very interesting! Downright fascinating, even.

I was especially interested to see that you work on a WinXP confuter and still use PSP7. I was unable to obtain a new XP rig when I had to replace my old one, or else I would still be running XP too. As far as I'm concerned, all the later Windows versions have been major steps in the wrong direction.

I also use PSP7 quite a lot. I was given PSP10 for free, checked it out on my previous confuter and didn't even bother to install it on the current one. I also use MS Paint a lot - and I made a version that runs in XP mode, so it's not the new, complex, clunky version that comes with recent Windows versions. I agree with you that old tools don't lose their value or utility.

The tech industry brags about "innovation," but it's nothing more than what the auto industry used to call "planned obsolescence." New is hardly ever better; mostly it's just different, and frequently not as good as what it replaced. I once challenged a computer professional to tell me one single thing that I could do (and might actually want to do) on my Windows7pro rig that I couldn't do just as easily on my first confuter, which ran Win98, and he couldn't come up with one. Not one!

I was poked in the eye by your comment that you've had hardly any e-mails saying Thank You for all you've done. Guilty! So let me take this opportunity to say THANK YOU!


I could count on my thumbs the e-mails I ever received thanking me for my paint jobs - nowhere near as many as you've made, of course - but I've had many expressions of gratitude and appreciation here in this forum. The people whose opinions I care about are almost all here, as are most of those who've shared their work with me, and who I want to share mine with.

Since my return to active participation in the hobby I've released my stuff exclusively here at SOH with one exception. I put my Kaman HH-43 paints up on the site where the model was released so the modeler, who is new at digital modeling, might see them. I did that because he didn't put contact information in his ReadMe and I wanted to let him know that I liked his model. While I've been unconscionably lax about saying "thanks" to established developers, I have sent e-mails to new modelers and painters to encourage them to stick with it.

But I digress. Mostly I just wanted to say that I enjoyed reading the interview and getting to know you a bit better, and to finally say Thank You.

[GarryJSmith]

Thanks Good People for your kind words - appreciated.

Concur with your input Mick - not necessarily is new actually better

Also concur that the environment within SOH is much more friendly than most other environments.

Glad you all enjoyed the "interview" - and I was impressed with Flightsim.com in publishing my critiques as well as my other ramblings


Regards

Garry

[Scale Dail]

Garry,
I fly the Tri-Motors, and Vega's with your projects paint's almost every time I fire up my XP, FS9!

[GarryJSmith]

That's good to hear mate - there are quiet a few pretty good liveries for those aircraft at the Ford Tri-Motor Project Site.