Hoskins

Are you talking about efiction or hosted authors? I don't think you can do it with hosted authors. In efiction, you need to be logged in and reading the story. Right above the review box, there should be an "options" dropdown, it's in there.

I resolve not to resolve anything, but to leave many things unresolved. I shall be resolute in my endeavour.

I don't think you have to feel guilty about defriending the profile. You are not defriending your deceased friend, you are defriending a FB profile that no longer has any link to him. FB has a process called "memorializing" that basically locks the profile down so people that knew the owner could see it, but no one else can find it in a search, and it freezes it as a memorial, it can't be updated. Not sure how you could get FB to do this if you're not directly related to the deceased, though. It's pretty creepy behavior, for sure.

(this is also the end track of the movie "Mysterious Skin") Robert Miles - Fable (Dream Version) and I love the dulcimer. Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny - , The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Mason Williams - Classical Gas - there's a nerd fight on Youtube, it shows as Eric Clapton, but it's not) Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells - bong hit anyone? Here's part 2.

Mark, Thanks for the stories! And Merry Christmas to you and yours!

10 years: Having moved my company out of Michigan and hired some people to run it better than I can, I'll be travelling a lot and reaping some of the rewards I will deserve for working my ass off for the last 25 years. It would be GREAT if I could do this legally, but if not, hey, I can embezzle my own money. 15 years: Hopefully out of jail, reduced sentence, etc. I will make millions in my first year back as a productive member of society (because the dollar will be worth about .0001 cents by then). 20 years: Finally living the dream: A cabin in the mountains! It will be fully stocked with ammo, food, water and other gear I'll need to protect my tribe of hunter/gatherer/warriors from the marauding bands of outlaw ex-government employees. And the zombies, of course.

Also, Comic Sans should be wiped from the face of the earth.

<nerd fit> The style sheet on Mark's GA website sets the font as a "serif" font and it picks the font you see based on its availability, like this: font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; So, if you have Georgia, you get the Georgia font, if you don't have Georgia but do have Times New Roman that's what you'll see, and if you are one of the cool kids on a Mac or Linux you'll get Times. If you don't have any of those, it falls back to any serif font you have on your system. If you read the stories on Mark's yahoo group, the same thing happens but it's all "sans-serif" fonts. For whatever reason. </nerd fit> <font fag fit> The most beautifully made sans-serif font EVER is Helvetica. There are no substitutes, except MAYBE Futura. Verdana was designed by MICROSOFT (!!!!) for display, not print. It looks terrible when its printed. The most beautifully made serif font is Times. Not Times New Roman, TIMES. The original newspaper body font. Times New Roman is to Times what cheap knockoff Walmart lingerie is to Victoria Secret lace teddies. I may have said too much </font fag fit> Oh, and great chapter! Except for all the sickness and stuff.

Where does it come from? 1. Body shame. Boys and younger men today are ashamed of their bodies, sometimes because of their looks or build, sometimes just because they don't think they live up to an imaginary ideal standard. This hit its peak in the 90's with clothes that are so baggy you can't tell ANYTHING about the person wearing them. And now, skinny jeans, which look good on about 1% of the people that wear them, are exaggerating that ideal even further. A corollary to this is helicopter parenting to prevent "discomfort" for Junior. I told my parents I didn't want to take showers in gym (in 1976 or something) and I basically got told to grow a pair (I was working on it but a really late bloomer) and ignore anyone who bugged me. End of discussion. I took showers. Two days ago, my sister got into a big tizzy with her kids school, because her daughter didn't want to swim, she's "heavy" and doesn't want to wear a suit. She got excused from gym. Not just swimming, but all gym for the rest of the year. Which of course, is not the answer for a kid that's not physically fit to begin with. 2. Modern media imposing fear of pedophilia/rape/molestation on kids, so much so that the mere idea of an older person (and I'm not talking about "creepy old man" like me) looking at a younger person - for whatever reason - is considered a threat. Better hide your junk or someone might jump you... 3. The perception that boys getting undressed in front of each other might suddenly flip orientations and start kissing passionately..oh, wait, sorry, that's just my imagination. 4. The consistent swing to the right - morally, I mean - that the country has been taking for the last 20 years. We're becoming prudes because of a religious drive to move the country back to "family values" - homo is wrong, gay marriage is wrong, etc. - and being naked in the company of others is somehow wrong, as well. /grump

Hey folks, they had condoms in the 1700's. They were animal membrane, usually lambskin. From here, the Scientific American. But weren't we talking about the late 90s?

45 and 46 are two great chapters. I can feel Matt's frustration and his hope. I think you've described the way a patient feels - mostly accepting of the situation, while watching everyone else freak out - pretty well. And I sure feel for Wade and the rest of the family, watching Matt go through all this. It was also good to see Wade channel his frustration into the game, and a nice break for us to get out of the hospital room for a while. Even readers need a break. I'm thinking Hep C + bad kidney function + who the hell knows what else, I sure hope the cure isn't worse than the disease... I can't wait for Stef to show up, that will be interesting. Well done, Mark!

Three words: Norton Internet Security. Yeck. That's some bad software. Get a little antivirus program and be done with it. Also, two more words: System Restore. It's in your Help and Support menu. If a software install goes bad, use System Restore to roll back to before the Bad Things happened. Glad you're back on line tho! Where's your livejournal?

Those curtains are DEFINITELY gay. I'm not sure about the swords, though. Are those VIDEOCASSETTES on that media rack? Where are your eight tracks? And just what kind of dentistry are you performing with that lamp? Nice office James. I just redid my workspace, I know how satisfying it is. You must be really happy to have all the flood stuff taken care of now.

I'm going to have to ask you to move your desk? Down to the storage area? Yeah, thanks. And have you got those TPS reports for me? Thanks.

There needs to be a purpose for stretching one's resolutions and plumping up the shorter one so its a little bigger than the longer one?

this is UNACCEPTABLE. Please go back and revise CAP to make it 54 chapters. Just shorten em up a bit, add a couple, yeah. By the way I'm gonna need you to come in this weekend, get caught up on those TPS reports, kay? Thanks.

There is NO DOUBT this is a strong contender. RPGs, jeeps BOOM

Well, it IS possible to hold off on READING the stories and therefore tracking the stories better. Isn't it?

Gravy. Preferably chicken. If they don't have that, then ham, onion, pepperoni, mushrooms. No dead fish, please.

Happy Birthday Benji!

You Don't Bring Me Flowers - Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand. That song makes me cry every time I hear it. Man does that song SUCK.

Hello, Alek, nice to see you here!

I went with Be Rad for the best and A Summer Love for the least. I deleted the vote where 1968 was the least after re-reading it. Be Rad is closest to my own experience - I graduated high school in 1981. A Summer Love just didn't have the spark, I think it was a bit rushed. I didn't like 1968 because of the content. But just because I don't like what happens in a story doesn't mean it doesn't have merit, and it is a very good story that stands on its own very well.

"Shit." apparently I was sitting on my dads lap and kind of fell off. He said "shit!" and then I said "shit!" in pretty much the same tone of voice.