Jay

Happy Birthday James !!

This goes back to 2001 but it could be Discovering Gregory http://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/highschool/discovering-gregory/ by Rick Beck. You can also find it at http://iomfats.org/storyshelf/hosted/beck/ as "Discovering Love" posted in 2008.

So I started to read For the Love on GA Stories and found that chapters 2 and 3 are empty. I'll read them from the old site and you can add this to your to do list.

I was just about to start reading the novels when I realized that Let the Music Play and Changing Lanes are not in GA Stories. Will they be moved?

You can find it on nifty here

I use a tool called Calibre to manage my (non-DRM) ebooks. It is available for windows, mac, and linux and has the ability to convert formats and store multiple formats of the same book. It also allows me to manage the (again non-DRM) content of my nook. It supports many different ebook readers and formats. If you're interested in ebooks at all you should check it out.

mine too

maybe you should just mail her a copy of this blog.

It's like my iPhone only bigger and the only thing I could use a bigger iPhone for is possibly as an e-reader. On the other hand the Notion Ink Adam looks interesting. I'm just hoping it's not too pricy

I haven't read the whole article yet but thought folks here would be interested. here is the first paragraph. and here is a link.

Poughkeepsie is a long way from LA - in more ways than distance.

Oh it was believe me but they were crazy times. He was about to be impeached and would probably have been convicted. I remember spending hours watching the house impeachment hearings on TV. Richard Nixon was the first person I ever voted for for president (you had to be 21 then) and because of him I could never bring myself to vote for another member of his party for president.

You could also try Open Office. It's free and you can get it at openoffice.org.

The Boomerang Kid by Jay Quinn in my stack of next to read I have In Ashes lie by Marie Brennan and What We Remember by Michael thomas Ford.

It airs here on BBC America starting Monday July 20 for 5 days. I've waited this long I think I can wait another week.

Opera has been my primary browser since Netscape 4.7. I use it on linux, OSX and XP. Firefox is my backup for the now rare site that Opera has a problem with.

Chapter 37 is up.

Not likely - at least not before 2012. Here is a quote from the NY Times article today:

Happy Birthday Duncan! Have a great day.

Welcome back! It's great to hear from you.

Emailed to me today New Government Seal: Official Announcement: The federal government today announced that it is changing its emblem from an Eagle to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the government's political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you're actually being screwed! Damn, it just doesn't get more accurate than that.

I've never been a fan of short stories. They always seem to leave me with a feeling that there should be more. But I had to give this one a shot because I'm really a fan of Duncan's work. I have to say this was brilliant and as John said above it felt complete. Great work Duncan.

From an email that I received today. Subject: Fw: GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.) Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy). Your new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect: ----------------------- 1. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour,' 'favour,' 'labour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix '-ize' will be replaced by the suffix '-ise.' Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up 'vocabulary'). ------------------------ 2. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ''like' and 'you know' is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as U.S. English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter 'u'' and the elimination of '-ize.' ------------------- 3. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday. ----------------- 4. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not quite ready to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can't sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you're not ready to shoot grouse. ---------------------- 5. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public. ---------------------- 6. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour. -------------------- 7. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it. ------------------- 8. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar. ------------------- 9. The cold, tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also acceptable, as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of the British Commonwealth - see what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion. --------------------- 10. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater. --------------------- 11. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies). --------------------- 12. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries. -------------------- 13. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad. ----------------- 14. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776). --------------- 15. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season. God Save the Queen!

When I was in software support we called it the bleeding edge. No thanks, I'm with James. Wait for V 2.0.