Charlie

As I understand it, DNA analysis can only tell you how your DNA matches up with the majority of people who live in a certain geographical region of the world today. That may be helpful if you are trying to find out where your ancestors may have lived at one time, but it is not much to go on.

So many problems arise in this discussion from the failure to distinguish among three different categories: ethnicity, nationality and geography. Then it gets more confused by the overlapping names. China, for example, is a nation, but not all Chinese (nationality) are Chinese (ethnicity), and not all Chinese (ethnicity) are Chinese (nationality). East Asia and South Asia are places (geography) that contain people of numerous nationalities and ethnicities. "America" is a place (geography), but many people think of it solely as a nationality (United States of America). "Indian" can be thought of as a description of a person from India (nationality) or a representative of a particular religious group (Hindu), but in America it is frequently used to describe the natives who were living in North and South America when Europeans arrived (ethnicity and geography). Trying to make valid generalizations about individuals on the basis of membership in such confusing groupings is pretty difficult.

I thought at first it referred to the number of deviled eggs you have brought to the PS Weekends.

And may you have many more!

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.