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Happy birthday! Always nice to give yourself the gift of adventure.

I'm at a loss for words.

I KNOW! My mother went to the bathroom and rinsed her mouth. Mind you, that was 45 years ago and I still remember it.

My parents and I visited Holland, MI once. It is a pretty town but my mother ordered a pastrami sandwich and they served it on white bread with mayo. IMO, that kind of food could drive one to drink in excess.

I wonder what Ardis Krainik would think? We could call the Opera Forum "Ardis's Place - a Pavarotti-FreeZone" in her honor.

Thanks. He was still in my RM buddylist, so when he popped up in Phoenix the other day my ears pricked up. After looking at the other pics I remembered him.

Before taking a break in late 2018 is advertised as GradStudent. There are three threads about him, which you can read here, here, and here. I hired him twice. PM for details.

That feels a bit more BDSM-ish, doncha think?

True story: When the teller system at my employer was upgraded from DOS to a Java front-end (in 2004) people complained about how long the application took to load when they started it up. Complaint, complaint, complaint. So, one of the developers animated the logo that displays during startup. Despite it taking longer to load, users reported the system was dramatically faster than before.

Welcome back, good sir! Can't believe it has been nine years.

I second that!! I saw him back in 2016 and still remembering what a great time we had. Great guy.

I'm part of a throuple and, if anything, the pandemic brought us closer together. In fact, Linus has become quite the lap kitty. Sometimes, both he and Lucien get up on my lap at the same time!

Would it be fair to say that they are in denial/ashamed at their indigenous heritage? Actually, the term was originally used to describe the Hispanos of New Mexico. It began to be used broadly in the 1970's and then the US Census adopted the term in the 1980 Census. It sounds like the people in New Mexico and Mexico who insist they are Spanish feel some sort of shame associated with having indigenous peoples and or Africans in their family trees.

When I look at where my industry is going and my areas of expertise I foresee more than ten years of rewarding and challenging work ahead of me. However, I see myself as being "done" in roughly ten years at which point I will retire.

Hey [uSER=8020]@Just Sayin'[/uSER] I haven't, but some friends used to camp there, I think. They never quite told me the name of the place (they are ADHD, like with a diagnosis and everything) but based on their description this is the place. Looks like a place I have to check out.

I haven't seen his OF content but his vid for LegendMen was rather a snoozefest.

Different Parker Logan. The rentmasseur guy is 6'7 while the rent.men guy is 5'8.

He smells more fishy than Tuna Harbor on a hot day.

@pitman's sounds more fun.

Thanks for confirming. The use of old pics is one of te reasons I was hesitant to hire him when visiting SF.

The idea of a steering committee has been discussed in several threads and posts, but @stevenkesslar posted a succinct summary of its purpose in his post to the "Forum Ownership" thread. After @Orin asked whether anyone was tracking the various people who offered to help with the site, @JoeMendoza asked for volunteers in this post. When that post got buried, I posted the call for five or six volunteers in a distinct thread (this one) that got pinned to The Lounge. After reading and re-reading all of the above, I'm truly puzzled how was understood as more than a dozen people and a potential second career. Doing the math, I see six or seven people. Maybe I am missing something. PS: The "READ ME..." thread pinned to the lounge is worth, well, reading. Had a non-owner not stepped in Monday when the site crashed we would not have been posting Tuesday, Wednesday, or today. Or tomorrow. Or Saturday...

Good to hear. I hired him years ago when he lived in San Diego and he was a lot of fun and a very nice guy. Interested in hearing what your encounter is like.

Not to mention the cost of psychotherapy to cure his delusions of grandeur.