TMOliver

Location: Central Texas
Experience: Long enough to have learned the rules, but not quite long enough not to trad on the edge of them.

What is FlyerTalk to you?

Informative, educational, eye-opening, and a substantial spectrum within which to trade experience, knowledge and expectaions.

What has to change on FlyerTalk?

Now and again, we would be better not to take ourselves 9and each other) quite so seriously. He (or she) unable to occasionally laugh at his/her own face in the mirror is substantially unqualified to criticize or to laugh at the foibles and opinions of others.

What do you like best about FlyerTalk?

The amazing breadth of every day experience available to every reader, and the opportunity for every poster to reveal his/her knowledge or lack of it to others.

State a platform motto or goals for FlyerTalk for the future.

That we each begin to comprehend that the opinions of others often have less to do with ideology or political partisanship than with perspective. Viewing the world from Waco, new York, Paris, Mumbai, Shanghai and Toronto are likely to produce entirely disparate outlooks, even among folks of similar national origin or ethnicity.

Name your three favorite forums and why.

Omni, Travel Buzz, and Dining....

As with a quick skim of the Sunday NYT, I'm able to take the pulse, hear the heartbeat and messure the blood pressure of a good cross section of FTers.