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This post is relevant to my interests and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Your straight boy may not be so straight. He may also just be really curious. Eh, do him. What harm? Have a good xmas, don't let the Christians make you sin (do it for yourself) and Steve still owns a lot of Apple, left testicle notwithstanding.

I use a nook and my iphone. I really like the nook for the e-ink, the price was right, and I really, really don't like proprietary formats or DRM on ebooks (otherwise I'd probably have gone with a kindle. I like the smaller form factor of the nook and kindle over the ipad -I borrowed one for a couple of weeks and found that the ipad seems, to me, to be just exactly the wrong size for holding it in one hand and reading. I can hold my nook in one hand and read comfortably. I'm very interested in seeing the new crop of devices.

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I'll be watching it. Its been a good treatment of the subject. it will be interesting to see what happens since Walter Eglee left the writing staff. It seems the whole writing process for the second season is in flux, with rumors that the writers got fired (not true) and maybe they're going to use freelancers and maybe not. Whatever. It'll be good.

Sure they bought drinks. The legal limit was 1.0, and that's 2 or 3 drinks. Why go nuts?

Who said I drank at the bar? That's for amateurs. Also, it was seventeen years ago.

I used to be a bar hound. I'd club at the drop of a hat. I'd walk in and check out the people there, see if I wanted to get to know anyone. It'd go something like this: - I prefer a younger guy to an older guy. So that would eliminate about half the people in the bar from even being looked at. That's + - 5 years of my own age (less when I was younger) - I don't like tall people either. So, another 15 % or so. - Dark skin? Turn on. Too dark? Turn off. Too light? Bleah. Another 25% gone. - Heavy? By like, even a few pounds? GTFO. - HAIRY? G.T.F.O. my god, eww. - Dancing? I don't dance. So go away. By the end of the night, I'd be down to, uh, me. Which was boring, so I'd get mad and leave (nobody said it made sense). When I was 30, a guy moved into the house I was renting and we hit it off as friends. Within a year, we were a couple. He was younger than me by about 6 years, carried a few pounds more than he should have, hairy, and not the sharpest tool in the shed. Funny, funny guy. I had a tiny, tiny physical attraction to him, but not much. It was enough, because I truly wanted to make him happy, and make his eyes roll back in his head. We lasted about 5 years, and are still friends today (I'm his crack whore and he's my Cleveland bitch). Looks are important, but being shallow is even more important, because it will leave you staring at your empty passenger seat on the way home from the bar. It's all in what you want.

Exercise is HUGE. Give back. Stay busy. Kill zombies.

You people don't get too kinky, do ya? Fisting is best done with crisco. And that's all I'll say about THAT.

Well, addiction specialists will tell you that when a behavior has a detrimental affect on you and those around you, and you do nothing about it, that's an addictive behavior. That's a pretty wide stance to take. I choose to narrow that down to "if what you are doing is screwing up your life or other people's lives, you might want to take a look at what you're doing." Mark's characters, in general, exhibit (I think) three different reasons for their sexual behavior (which are by far the common ones for any person): pleasure, comfort-seeking, and, most disturbingly, anger/revenge. Using sex for comfort-seeking is considered an addictive behavior. Using sex to get back at someone is generally seen as dysfunctional, but not part of an addiction, just pretty messed up. And sex for pleasure's sake is a given, I think (if it's not pleasurable, you're doing it wrong). Does this mean that Mark's characters are messed up? Sure. Does it make them role models? No. Should the CAP series be held up as a model for a way to live a healthy life? Oh god no. But it's a damn good read, yes?

Here's where I bow out, conclude I don't understand many things around me, and wish everyone a good day.

They don't prevent crazy either NEVER STICK IT IN CRAZY I was pretty busy in my 20's and 30's. Enjoyed myself quite a bit. I see nothing wrong with it, it's a lifestyle thing. There's a lot of sex in the CAP series. That's for my enjoyment, it's not a real world, and hey, it's quite fun to read.

Who says Ali's boat stayed to the north? Atlantis can only sail downwind. Ali didn't anchor and was adrift with no engines. Their courses parallel each other with Algol being 50 miles east of Atlantis, which is how far Ali got before the engines seized.

From back in the 16th century, that part of the Netherlands which is now part of Germany - my surname is Dutch. From a bit later, through the Puritans, English. From a lot later, the late 1800's/early 1900's, a good soaking in Ireland, and finally, to round things off, a mild bit of more Irish.

I may be completely obtuse about this, and I'm not by any means a great sailor, but I've done it before. I know a bit about reading a chart and I've been playing around on Google Earth and passageweather a bit. I think he's going back after Ali. There's no alternative, I don't think. Atlantis is making between 2 and 4 knots a day depending on weight and wind (Trevor's little fit of despair didn't help, he was moving pretty slow there for a couple of days). Ali's engines died about 50 miles east of Agalega, and you've made no mention that he is using sea anchors (he's pretty stupid. He'd need to hold his position while they fixed the engine, right?) So, Ali has maybe drifted down roughly the same course, to the east of Atlantis' course. He'll be side-on to the wind and may be making about the same speed. The timing doesn't make a lot of sense, the mechanic on Algol says the remaining engine could be running, badly, in a week, and at this point, they attacked Atlantis eleven days earlier. So I'm not sure what to say about that other than with the wind patterns, it's possible that Trevor can take a stab at where the Algol would be if she'd drifted along with Atlantis. Just my two cents...

Port Christmas or bust!

Thank you James. That hit home. There is this time of the morning, after you've gone out and had a good 1 or 2 day jag on coke or crack. I once saw it called "the gray" on a website somewhere. It's that time of the morning when the sun is just starting to rise, it's near the horizon but not over it, and the sky is turning from dark to gray. The dope's gone, there's no booze, everyone's crashed or crashing, and you're alone with yourself. It's the time of the morning that you realize, again, that you've done it, again. Your nose is really baked, and sore, your gums hurt. If you've been smoking it, you're hacking up bloody phlegm. You're just kind of dazed, coming down hard, and you know that you've spent the money/broke a trust/played/cheated/screwed someone over, especially yourself. You tell yourself, in the gray, that this is f**ked up and you have to stop doing this shit, but you won't (and you know it but tell yourself that anyway). You'll figure out how to make it up to everybody. You'll find a way to make this stop. It's just total despair. I never want to see the gray again. It's been a long time since I've seen it, but all I have to remember is sitting on that couch, stem in hand, staring at the wall and looking around for crumbs and trying to get one more hit somewhere, to know I never have to do that again. I'm glad you won't either.

Boy needs to get his head clear and look around for another epirb.

Just try not to do it in the mall and stuff.

I gotta agree with Billy, the authors are far more crushable. Er...

JP as fallen leader? The only person obtuse enough to treat JP that way is Brad, because he sometimes can't see past his own alpha dog issues. I don't think Claire, Stefan or anyone else would put up with anyone treating JP like that, which is what would have to happen. Brad could find himself on the outs more than JP, I'd think.

Ares is in Australia, Trevor's mom is alive and married to a hot dude with a hot son of his own for Trev, Lisa pops out some kids and Joel gets bald fat and happy, Dirk and Jim get a couple of gigs as Carol Channing and Ethel Merman, and they all live happily ever after? Also there is a terrible canal accident.

Clean. Also, mold on a towel just means I'm applying substances that strengthen my immune system.

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