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I don't use RSS feeds myself, but I notice the Safari browser bar gives me the option to click on 'RSS' for many of the sites I visit, including this one. Here's an article that describes how they work. It mentions folders, so it looks like it should be pretty straightforward to organize them the way you wish. Hope it helps.

I needed to take care of a few things around the house.

Good idea! Where's the splash page?

Freely given, with knobs on. First to admit I'm a political naif, so I'm not aware just when we began the tradition of running our wackos for office. There's Tail-Gunner Joe McCarthy, of course, and probably a host of state and local officials, but when did the loonies first begin campaigning for national office? Perot was the first to get my attention, but it must have begun before that. Who started the custom?

You may well be right. I thought most of it was out there too, but VF did bring lots of it together in one place. Kind of like Popular Psychology running a feature on the Festrunk brothers. Wild and crazy? Or Political Timber? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Bad as our homegrown prudes are, they're a pale imitation of the wackos in Iran, where a woman may be stoned to death this week for adultery. Lawyer says Iranian woman could be stoned soon It never ceases to amaze me what we are capable of in the name of 'religion'. I can't imagine a just God willing to be in the same room with these monsters.

I've learned the key is entering the water with grace and precision.

Imagine a universe chock-full of Ralph Woods lookalikes, sensual South American sauna boys, and romantic Asian twinks lusting for an evening of theater in the company of a worldly guide; a place where seasoned men of the desert are treated like royalty, and where your money is no good at all. It's worth noting that Stephen Hawking rarely leaves his wheelchair, let alone boards a plane or rocket ship; yet he has given us all a view of worlds we may one day see for ourselves. This very afternoon, with any luck.

Good advice, as always. Thank you. I've also considered booking a hotel for a few nights, hiring a guide for a couple of afternoons, and looking for a weekly or monthly rental while I'm on the ground. That may be best left for my second visit, but there's something appealing about finding accommodations as a local would do. A local who enjoys going to the saunas a lot.

I've never been to Brazil, so please take this with a grain of salt; however, I'm thinking I'll try to find an apartment when I do finally take the plunge. Like you, I'd want to stay for several weeks, and $500 a week would be in the ballpark for me. I've been able to find listings on the internet in that range, so am remaining optimistic. The listings I've seen mention that guests are allowed; however, there won't be anyone to check visitor ID's. I figure I'd do my playing in the saunas, and not invite anyone back until I started getting the lay of the land. So to speak.

The frame rate was standardized at 24 frames-per-second in 1926, when sound was introduced. Prior to that, films were shot at frame rates as slow as 16 frames-per-second. That's why old silent films often look fast and jerky when run at the higher speed. (Probably also why silent-era porn films are so hard to come by, so to speak. )

The 12-hour / 24-hour problem seems to have gone away, but the 10-digit number issue remains, even after clearing the cache. At least now, I can replicate it. If I enter the forum's Main Category page, the date and time for the most recent post in Lucky's Place is Today, 9:41PM. If I enter Lucky's Place and then return to the Main Category page, the Today, 9:41PM has been replaced by 1283748089, which I assume is the 'timestamp' value. If I go back to the site's Home Page, and re-enter the forum's Main Category page, everything's hunky-dory again, and the most recent post in Lucky's Place once again shows Today, 9:41PM. I'm using Safari on a Mac and, since I haven't heard anyone else mention the issue, it may be unique to my setup. Again, I'm not complaining. It won't bother me if it never gets fixed. But if it gives one of those hot Russian programmers another hour's work, you won't hear me complaining about that either. PS: Today, 9:41PM is the date and time when I'm logged in. When I'm logged out, the date and time is Today, 11:41PM. However, in either case, the 'timestamp' value remains constant at 1283748089. Which would make sense, if 'timestamp' is some constant numeric value from which local dates and times are calculated.

Sounds like Blumenthal doesn't want to give up his primary prey. He's probably got a whole game plan built around running Craigslist to ground, and they just disappeared down the rabbit hole. Now he needs to find another rabbit. If Newmark really is thumbing his nose at the censors, good for him. Somebody had to do it.

Alongside the few minor tics, I'm finding several goodies that I'm sure to like, once I get the hang. I've been able to format text in the message composition box without having to insert any code, and any pictures show up in the box too. As do smileys! Who knows what little gems remained to be discovered?

I never watched much porn, but Kevin Dean would definitely be on my Desert Island DVD. Funny, like Ralph Woods, he's also a French-speaking Canadian. Ooh-la-la!

From what I can gather, Craigslist isn't your ordinary website, your ordinary business, or your ordinary anything. Although it ranks 7th in page views in the U. S., and 33rd worldwide, its corporate headquarters is still in the founder's apartment in San Francisco's Sunset District. According to Wikipedia, the CEO told Wall Street analysts that the company "has little interest in maximizing profit, instead it prefers to help users find cars, apartments, jobs, and dates." Although eBay snagged a 25% ownership from one of the original investors, they're not presently calling the shots, and Craigslist is still operating according to the founder's original user-oriented cooperative vision. There's no advertising at all, most listings are free, and much of the money that does flow into the company flows right out again to support community grassroots organizations. I'm sure Craig Newmark could be a billionaire any time he decides to abandon his roots and play footsie with Wall Street, or sell out to someone who will. But he hasn't yet, and my personal hope is that he won't. Until he does, I think you'll find the company doing the unexpected. If Newmark finds the Attorneys General too much of a nuisance, I expect he'll roll out of their way and let somebody else put up with the aggravation. It always amazes me how freeing it can be to be motivated by something other than money.

Same here. Except it sometimes shifts back to a 12 hour AM/PM clock, and it seems to toggle between the two when I log in or out. And sometimes on the main forum page, both date and time are replaced by a 10-digit code. Clearly a spanner has been tossed into the works. PS: It's kind of fun trying to figure out the pattern, so no need to fix it on my account. Plenty of time for that when the programmers return from their dachas next week.

Thank you, axiom2001, for your added thoughts. I was speaking with a friend who lived in Brazil, and mentioned that I'd like to visit Curitiba. She asked why, and I mentioned some of the things that appealed to me from TotallyOz's post. She agreed with everything he said, and added the fact that there was a strong European influence, as you have also mentioned. I didn't ask her specifically if all the men were goodlooking in Curitiba, but she did say that, in general, Brazilian people are very attractive. Even the not-so-attractive ones, if that makes sense. In general, I've usually found people with mixed ethnic backgrounds to be very attractive. Don't know if you recall Bruno Gaucho with his brown eyes and blond hair, but I thought he was a real doll. I didn't ask where he came from, but I believe 'gaucho' is a term for someone from the south of Brazil. I've often wondered if there were any more like him at home! Anyway, thanks for strengthening my resolve to one day travel to that area and see for myself!

So, fellahs, I love a good game of paintball as much as the next guy. But it would be really embarrassing to see this thread closed down, especially since TY was kind enough to open it up for some additional thoughts on a question I asked in another thread that also got closed down. Maybe there's something about the subject matter itself that's just too hot for civil discourse, so I think I'd better withdraw the question. I do appreciate the answers I got so far, and they've given me lots to think about over the evening bowl. I think enlightenment is close at hand. If anyone feels like sending a PM with any additional thoughts, I'd be much obliged. PS: Just saw Caeron's response, and it's an idea that has occurred to me as well. Added to Charlie's thought that the folks who do it aren't likely to share - or maybe even know - why they do it helps me understand why figuring this out has been so hard. Thanks again, guys!

I am so glad I'm not the jealous type!

Since it's the Jersey Shore, maybe the poll is open only to our East Coast members? Doesn't seem fair to me. I'd hate to have to get dressed up and go on all those marches again, but I will!