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Arbour rolled onto his stomach, tilting his head back in the sexiest pose. He shook his hair loose, letting his flaccid, white-gray mane flop against his cheek like a greasy pancake. I wanted, right then, to f**k him right through the mattress. He was so goddamn cute in that red velvet smoking jacket and the leather thong. "f**k me through the mattress, JP. F**k me right through the goddamn mattress". Jesus, the little bitch just can't get enough. Well, things are different, this time. I've got the pencil today. "No, Mark. No, there are better things waiting for you. Would you like a drink to get started?" "Do you have any of that sweet punch with the orange soda, rasberry vodka, and pop rocks? I really like those!" As I turned to make him the fizzy equivalent of a pink taffeta dress - I mean jeez, the guy clearly has issues, here - the doorbell rang. I moved to open the door, just as she came through under her own steam. "Where is that little bitch Arbour? I'm gonna peg God!" Brenda exclaimed, dropping her bible on the table. "And then we'll be doing some reading, won't we?"

No, what I said was exactly what I meant: You may not see yourself as a homophobe, but you are expressing a homophobic point of view, whether you mean to or not. That's all.

TetRefine, with all due respect, your opinion of yourself may not be homophobic, but your words here certainly reveals a level of homophobia. You might not feel it, but you sure do know how to express it. Edit: removed an unnecessary reference to other posts

Keep an eye on him, maybe let him know you've got some awareness of his past, and leave it at that. Man's done his time.

1978 my dad connected us to the mainframe at GM using a phone modem (probably 100 baud, I'd bet) and I played Adventure for hours. That was the start of my IT career. In 1979 my dad got an Atari 800 (I still have it) and in 1981 I got a modem for it. I was connecting to some Atari BBS systems and ran one for a while for a couple of years. In 1985 I connected to Quantum Q-Link (the forerunner of AOL -I had to dig around in wikipedia for the names haha) for the first time and when they offered it for PCs (PC-Link) I was on that for a while, and that's also when I got my first Mac. I took a break from online stuff for a while, and then in 1992 I came back, and was around when AOL opened up USENET (eternal september). I was a host in AOL's gay forum, the GLCF, when it transitioned to onQ, and left before it basically died/turned into gay.com. I've been online,almost continuously, since about 1996, running and participating in lots of online sites. edit: dates)

I like the headfirst series for people getting up to speed: Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML Don't know what your platform is, but I have been using Wordpress as a content management system for client sites and they love it - very easy to customize with CSS and themes, super simple to build a site and turn it over to somebody else to manage. Head First Wordpress Head First PHP & MySQL Your focus on learning should be heavy on CSS. What IDE are you going to use? You can get Microsoft's for free, and you've always got old reliable Adobe Dreamweaver. You should get a book on your IDE as well.

Troll alert...

Yeah I'm leaving the US as soon as I'm no longer encumbered here by family obligations. I've started the process of emigrating to Ireland and also to Australia. I have a feeling it's going to be a lot worse here before it gets better. Plus, the more distance I can get between me and "its friday" the better.

Good luck man, you're a good egg have fun at vassar try not to hurt yourself

I've been using it for a few months, it works well but occasionally forgets what is supposed to ring where. My favorite feature- its voicemail service is working instead of my cell/home voice mail, and it emails me these HI LARIOUS transcriptions - they're really bad - and a link to a playback button so I can play back voice mails from anywhere. People don't know where the hell I am, and I never know what number they called, it's great for those stealth occasions when you don't want to know what the f**k is going on.

I'm out. I don't care who knows and I don't care what people think. I don't look gay and I don't come across as gay. And if I tell people, and anyone has a problem with it, we'll dance. I have no problem with putting an asshole in their place.

Oh bull. Being the alpha male is all about confidence, being sure in your decisions, not swaying from your principles, treating others with respect and leading by example. Also, a big dick.

The solution is clear. Put them all down.

Nope don't have a problem with HIV status, be safe, get tested and don't implicitly trust that someone knows their status or is telling the truth. You can have a very satisfying sex life with an HIV+ person, you just adapt to your circumstances and have fun in non traditional ways. Frotting can be awesome, as are toys and nonnoodly appendages. HIV can be devastating to those that believe they must be abstinent because they have it. I'm not going to deny my partner any enjoyment I can give just because we have to play safe.

At least it's not angry birds...

Heh, I know the guy that invented that, I've sat in the cars and seen them work (and helped edit/publish the video after it was shot). They're prototype cars, obviously. The guy that invented it is the narrator. The video was shot all over Metro Detroit- the driveway you see is Meadowbrook Hall, one of the big auto baron mansions. He doesn't go into all the structure/framework that's around the door, but a car door is a key part of the frame, so this car has a floor structure that's not like a stock vehicle at all. Anyway the guy is a genius about car safety - you should see some of the stuff he's invented having to do with airbags. The inside of the car is a little weird, there are no door panels or armrests because of the way the door retracts, just a leather/vinyl sheet. So you don't really know what to do with your elbow

1. Screw it, I'm using a chip clip. It's all fun and games until chips go everywhere from "practicing". 2. Everyone knows the best way to open a bottle is to saber it. 3. I have no opinion on blowing eggs except well, blowing eggs.

Trevor's mom's brain has been implanted into the yacht's nav systems SHE'S THE KOOKABURRA

Welcome to the walled garden...

HE MUST BE A HACKER i'll get my coat

I find that you can never learn too much about colonial barrelmaki.....zzzzz

(in the voice of Johnny from Airplane): Where did you get that CSS? It's AWFUL. And that FOOTER. And those FONTS. JEEZ! I would like to see more gradients and drop shadows, rounded corners, and fancy ajaxy things that happen when you click on things randomly. And more rollovers. I would also like it when I uprep a story if a trumpet would sound on the recipient's computer. And a downrep would result in a 10 volt shock on my own keyboard (or a 5 point downvote to my own rep - this can be a user settable option). If you wanna neg something, it should mean something, right? Thank you. I would have embedded the video better but I suck

I don't care a bit about chapter length or the amount of time between chapters...set your own pace.

Well, I love CJ's writing, and I'm surprised LTMP hasn't been published somewhere, it's that good. I think Circumnavigation could be that good, too. But I sense that CJ has a a certain...reticence in advancing this story very much in each chapter, and part of that could be chapter length - there's only so much you can write in each chapter when the postings happen every week - along with all the research and backstory that has to be developed along the way. It's a lot of work, it has to be. And I think there's a certain amount of poking at people in the forum about cliffhangers. So some are deliberate to develop tension, as CJ says above - and some of it is sheer glee at being able to keep the joke running. I mean, there's a meme on reddit.com about Gabe Newell, the founder of Valve, who makes the game Half Life. Half Life 3 is in production and has been for years. Gabe Newell is a heavy guy. Anytime anyone mentions Gabe's weight on reddit, someone responds with "well, there's another month added to the release date". And Gabe has been known to chime in, all in fun, and agree that yep, that one added TWO months. Or whatever. All this aside, the only criticism I have about Circumnavigation is its pace. It doesn't seem that the story advances very much when you read it as posted every week. So the solution I've arrived at is to only read it once a month and catch up. I just did that, so now I'll stay away for a month and come back at the end of February and catch up again. It's a great story, I don't care how many chapters it has. Thanks for writing it!

I don't have so much trouble with how sites track me and where I go online as much as I do with facebook's practices of hiding what they're tracking. Although I use an ad blocker and my real name and location aren't easy to locate without some pretty aggressive detective work. I use a proxy to browse the internet when appropriate and keep a clean browser history. I do have a facebook page but it's so locked down with browser add ons to suppress its activity that I doubt they're getting anything from me other than what links I'm clicking on facebook and nothing else. I think that if a website wants my information so they can sell it to someone else, they should pay ME for it, not the other way around. It's MINE. So I advocate for a system where I get paid for visiting facebook.