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Did the author get this right? Have you felt this in a foreign city that seems to have charms your hometown does not? "I waited on a park bench under the shades of some trees in the nearby Blahtpark, just a harmless-looking tourist taking in the sights and sounds and smells, savoring the sense of loneliness and freedom that comes from solitary sojourns in strange lands, where all the everyday things seem subtly wondrous and different and new, where there's no one to please or disappoint or explain to, or where the traveler finds himself suspended between the beguilement of the comforts he left behind, and the allure of an imaginary future he senses but knows he can never really have."

What? They are not both in English?

Lookin was kind enough to help me realize that I did indeed have an ethernet port. It just wasn't yellow. The Netgear cord is bright yellow and inserts into a bright yellow plug, so I thought these things were all color coordinated. My wireless router from TW is also my modem, so if I unhook the router, I also unhook the modem, and then have no internet access. I first need to return the box to TW, get my modem back...no, I didn't say my mojo....and then start all over again. My new router will have a password that Roku can recognize, and we will have better range too. All will end well!

I still wonder what the title of this thread is supposed to say: Rick Perry's Gay Partners Come Out Of The Woodwork Who came out to speak on Rick, I mean, really came out names, dates, places? What specific gay acts occurred and were revealed by these people? What woodwork did they come from? Did they stay out or return to hiding? Why were they hiding? Are they making themselves available to the press for follow-up interviews? And, finally, is the sum and substance of what these woodwork-free individuals have to say enough to conclusively determine that Perry is gay? And, if so, why is he till in the race?

Shameless is on Sunday nights at 10 on Showtime, not that I have seen it yet. Here is a Wikipedia link with lots of info on the show: OZ Loves This Show

In today's adventure,I returned to Best Buy, where I easily found my salesman. He then tried to sell me an ethernet card with a port on it. Well, I do remember buying ethernet cards for the computers. So he said I had all I wanted. ( Turns out I was wrong about not having an ethernet port. It just isn't yellow.) But what about the computer I want to send the signal to? The router box has nothing to attach to the computer so it can receive the signal. So, he sold me that, sent me home, telling me it wasn't rocket science, but if I couldn't hook it up, their Geek Squad would. The new router has no place to afix the cable cord, which the current router does. So now I realize, or think I do, that when Time Warner brought its router here, that their box is a modem and router combo, or so it seems, because if I return this box to TW, I have no modem to connect the router to. Isn't the modem the thing that TW gives you to hook up to our computer so that you can get their internet? I remember a little brown box. Well, I don't have that anymore. So, I called the geek Squad to come help. They said that I had to come into the store to hire them. I said, you mean a third trip to the store? If I have to do that, I will simply return everything we bought and hire someone else do do the job. Lookin, I was not making the mistakes you mentioned. I did erase the marks and did not enter into the Google search bar. Nor did I choke the chickens. I appreciate all of the advice, but it does seem that I cannot get this ship righted. Meantime, the neighbor whose unsecured router we snuck on last night wised up. It's now secured!

Thanks, Lookin. it has actually gotten more complicated now. Since I have reset the router, it has no password other than the so-called default password that doesn't work. I am unable to log in and change it, since the 3 addresses provided me by SMC do not work. I want to get rid of the Time Warner router anyway. The Netgear router I bought yesterday cost $80. The TW router costs $10- per month! I have probably already paid over $200 for it, yet don't even own it! So, the plan is to get a router that does not require an ethernet port, enter a brand new password, see if Roku will accept that password, and, if so, then I am in business. The David Ignatius book was one of those "couldn't put it down" kind. I stayed up to midnight to finish it. Even 15 years later it is timely.

Your coterie of journalist friends apparently had nothing to share with the author of the book referred to in gawker. It is just trash in terms of evidence that Perry is gay.

Kids, kids, this is a fantasy. Of course I know he is going to jail. But suppose the movie wants to do the scene were he commits a burglary while naked. Now which actor would you prefer for that role? I am going to go with Stark Sands. I saw him in Bonnie & Clyde when it played in La Jolla, and he had no problem showing his ass every night!

No, actually. I set it all aside and am reading a book- A Firing Offense, by David Ignatius, 1997. But the bf is using his computer, not with the Time Warner wireless, nor with the SMC temporary password, which didn't work. He is using a neighbor's unsecured connection.

A young man known as the Barefoot Bandit has pleaded guilty in Island County, Washington, "to a string of burglaries and identity thefts carried out during a two-year crime spree...earned his unusual moniker after going on an alleged burglary spree targeting planes, boats and luxury cars in the US and Canada. He was said to have committed some of the crimes without shoes on -- and sometimes nude -- once leaving behind 39 chalk footprints and the word "C'ya!" Harris-Moore gained infamy after allegedly teaching himself to fly, then stealing four aircraft, as well as cars, boats, bikes and cash in a spree across Washington, Idaho, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana." After evading authorities for 2 years, he was arrested when a plane he had stolen crashed in the Bahamas. Seeing the pic of the young man made me think that he was an adventurous guy who might get a movie out of this...wait a minute! He might? No, indeed. He has a 1.3 million contract for a movie on his life. I hope he plays himself. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/barefoot_bandit_pleads_guilty_in_GTVzJfc9MA6YrtQgoVYyvN#ixzz1gkI6AGb4 A better article in the LA Times: My favorite bandit Why am I not surprised? Dustin Lance Black, who won an Academy Award for ‘Milk’, is working on the screenplay and has met with Harris-Moore in prison. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2075254/Colton-Harris-Moore-Barefoot-Bandit-jailed-year-crime-spree-states.html#ixzz1gkOFxaMS (The Daily Mail article is pretty good too.)

Oh, how you kid me. I did contact Time Warner by chat. He dumped so many confusing instructions on me that I might as well have been trying to build a space craft to the moon. One thing that was clear was that he seemed to think I needed to change my password to my desktop, even though I was quite specific it was their router. I finally gave up. So far the whole thing has been a mess. I did notice today at Costco that the Roku I got from Amazon at $89.99 was $84.00 there, AND included the HDMI cable that I had to buy separately. So, since my Roku would not recognize my Time Warner router password, and since I don't want to pay $10 a month for the router, I went to Best Buy where the salesman sold me a Netgear Router that he said had extended range. Whether it was good enough I would not know until I tried it, but he said to hold off on the range extender until I found out. SO, I take it home, unbox it, and immediately see that it only has an ethernet cord to connect it to the modem. It has no part that was to be connected to the computer I wanted the router to send the signal to. Well, my computer does not have an ethernet port, so the new router was worthless to me. I went up to Costco, which thankfully is not far, and looked at the computers they sell, none of which have an ethernet port. I did notice that they sell a router, just one, which also requires an ethernet port. It was $10 more than the Netgear one I bought. When I went to CNET to see the reviews on it, they weren't good. So, FourAces, I went to the SMC site, reset the router as they ordered. Then, to enter a new password, I have to log into the router. SMC provides my choice of 3 addresses to do so: How do I Login to the Router? Open a new browser window and in the address bar type in 'http://192.168.2.1' or 'http://192.168.2.1:80' or 'http://192.168.2.1:88' and press enter. You guessed it. Not one of those addresses worked for me. They do allow a default password, but that is only when you have not already chosen and entered a password. So, so far I have nothing from my Roku and am looking at spending more.

The news today reveals that of that $107 a month I was paying for cable tv, about $100 a year of it went to sports programming that I never watch. What I did watch was baseball, and to get Extra Innings, the channel that allows for the most games, I paid $189 a year separately. The article comments on how more people are dropping cable tv in tight economic times. You'd think cable channels would be paying attention, but all they offered me was yet another bundle of channels that I wouldn't watch. We have the roku box, but in order to connect it to our wi-fi,it needs the password. Well, we have tried every which way to enter the password, but it never takes. So, so far, no roku,.

"...every single journalist I know who works in Texas ..." And how many would that be? how does a guy who lives in France get to know these journalists living in Texas? I don't know any.

Hmmm, I have ridden on an elevator with Connie Chung, and then Yoko Ono. I have crossed the street standing next to Nick Lachey and then Kevin Bacon. I have walked the sidewalk next to Al Sharpton and before that B.D. Wong. Of course, I've seen untold celebrities on various stages, in passing on the street (Ricky Martin, Lauren Bacall, Eric Stoltz, Fran Drescher, Eric McCormack) and in stores, restaurants and clubs. I rarely say anything to them, but Kevin Bacon saw me recognize him and gave me such a hateful look so as to keep me from speaking to him. And, a friend of mine had an affair with one of the great rock legends. A long affair, well, six months, which must be an eternity for the rock star. This legend was not openly gay. And no, I can't say. Who would I like to speak with? Brad Pitt, Johnnie Depp, Mario Lopez...well, you get the picture.

Remember how excited we were to take up the Challenge so long ago? If not, take a look at this thread. Even though we may have record numbers online here, they are mostly lurkers, not posters. At times, MER seems quite quiet-too quiet. It would be nice to see people post with more regularity, hehe, and post more often. We don't want the same avatars all of the time, do we? So let's give folks a response and encourage the guys with few posts or who do not post often to keep coming back. Let's encourage lurkers to start talking. Lurking would be more fun if more posts went up, right lurkers? So do your part! With the holidays upon us, people will have other obligations, and we want to keep the forum going too. So, a special effort may be needed. But MER is worth it, is it not? PS: Keenan-Smith, I see you are online now. Let's hear from you!

Gary Busey has endorsed Newt. Who cares who Gary Busey supports?

You guys can be hard crowd! No one got a laugh from these?

One of the advantages of a community forum- someone has gone forth ahead of you to shine the way!

It probably takes a poker player to deal with Best Buy to get a deal.

Well, that does indicate a certain mentality, one I hate to see gays endorse.

...national parks. At least, that's what the bold "head"line says at nydailynews.com: Marijuana growers killing national forests and parks, U.S. Forest Service says "The outlaw reefer growers seek out national parkland for their hidden weed farms because the forests are incredibly vast, security is incredibly light and conditions are ripe for growing, the website Live Science reported." “The most disgusting aspect of it is the pollution,” (a researcher) said. “They just pour chemicals like nobody’s business ... and they get washed into streams that flow through national parks.” Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/marijuana-growers-killing-national-forests-parks-u-s-forest-service-article-1.990527#ixzz1gNwuzyKm (The moral of the story? Insist that the Mexican cartels only grow the stuff in Mexico!)

Very nice report. Thanks so much. You may have changed the focus of the forum!

Thanks, Lookin. I actually did wonder on that. Then I went to Amazon, and where Best Buy's cheapest HDMI cable was $24.95, Amazon had one as low as $2.42. I ended up buying their $6.50 one, as well as their Roku which was $10 cheaper than Best Buy. I don't know why they call the place Best Buy.

And with the video you can watch him all you want...in action!