Charlie

Short answer: They were created by the original owner of this site, the late and much lamented Hooboy, in 1999.

Experiences.

Gar1eth, what you are feeling is normal, not pathological. Memento mori. You are grieving for a loss which also reminds you of your own mortality. It is something we all must learn to live with, without stifling our own enjoyment of life.

I just received an email on my yahoo email saying it was from "YAHOO SECURITY," saying possible illegal activity had been seen on my email account, referencing "Eastern Russia." It gave a phone number to call, so I did, and got a woman with an eastern European accent telling me to perform certain movements, which I did. When I realized it was moving toward the possibility of a remote takeover of my computer to "investigate," I immediately stopped the process and ended the phone call. The email has disappeared from my inbox. Is this some new scam?

IKEA is labyrinthine in the sense that the design leads you through every department to get to checkout, unless you watch carefully for the "shortcuts." Of course, it makes for clever marketing--I don't know how often I have stopped to look at some product I had never thought about shopping for.

I am sorry to have to report that Lurkerspeaks, who was a poster here for about ten years, has died unexpectedly. I have few details at this time.

IKEA is more labyrinthine than any bathhouse I have ever patronized.

I work in Chrome, but do most other things in Firefox.

The Vegas photo was an insult to my level of geographical sophistication:cool:

Sploshing? Canning? Good grief!

Mine came back in a different spot in the upper right of the page, but the different icon confused me at first.

I didn't try to install it. I opened my Firefox browser, and the old one was gone, and the new one was in its place. At first I panicked, because I couldn't find my old bookmarks, but I finally did, except that opening them takes one more step than it used to. However, everything does seem to be much faster.

Giovanni's Room in Philadelphia is still there, but it is no longer a real gay bookstore. Now is is a used bookstore with a gay section.

I never try anything when it is first introduced. I wait for the posters here to be the ones to test the waters and tell us how cold or hot they are.

I felt sure it was a park, but I forgot about Buen Retiro, which I have been to.

Dubrovnik?

One of the problems with recycling is that the market for some recycled materials has declined, making the process less economically attractive.

PS Waste Disposal does an electronics recycling pick-up twice per year, but you can drop off your electronic waste at their office at any time, and I always do.

Duh? Are you serious? (Well, of course I don't really know, but they certainly were a couple.)

It is much easier to recycle when the city provides each house with a portable container and picks up once per week along with the other trash containers.

Yes, indeed.

I recycle the things that our waste disposal company tells me to recycle (paper, glass, plastic, etc.)

I couldn't begin to list all the things I have bought since the first IKEA stores appeared in this country, from packets of sauce for the Swedish meatballs to chairs, beds, dressers, tv stands, CD towers, and at least 80 linear feet of 6'6" high bookcases (we have a lot of books). Everything isn't of the highest quality, but I have never bought anything that didn't fulfill its function and last for as long as I needed it; as I sit here and look around me, I can see seven pieces of furniture in this room alone that came from IKEA stores in Pennsylvania and California, including one low bookcase I bought for a former bedroom twenty years ago. [A quick walk-through of the house turns up 38 individual pieces of furniture that came from IKEA.] Most of the things I put together myself, including the bookcases, which would have cost a fortune if I had bought them assembled at a furniture store. BTW, if one is driving on the 10 between Palm Springs and LA, the IKEA at the exit in West Covina is a convenient place to stop to use the bathrooms, since California Interstate rest stops are often closed. And if you are looking for a different kind of fast food than McD et al., , the cafeteria there has the meatballs and other interesting choices.

Likewise for Ryan Harrison, who has a sexy voice. His brother Christian is also cute.

Grigor Dimitrov is certainly one of the prettiest faces on the ATP tour--no wonder Sharapova kept him as her boytoy for awhile. Kyle Edmund is also very cute if you like the pale blond English-type.