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I tried to read Herb Vonnegut's new novel, but didn't like it. Dale Brown's new novel is atrocious. Currently I am reading Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin. On my library hold list, I have Portrait of a spy Carte blanche : the new James Bond novel Buried prey : Harlan Coben A drop of the hard stuff : by Matthew Scudder Betrayal of trust : a J.P. Beaumont novel Robert Ludlum's The Bourne dominion Before I go to sleep : a novel Trader of secrets : a Paul Madriani novel I am always interested in suggestions. I love spy novels, don't read much non-fiction or romance novels!

Fo shizzle!

Now, now. He won a contest fair and square.

The pic released is this:

Some ten years ago a young computer repair guy told me that the wave of the future was to store stuff elsewhere besides your computer, and that we would soon only need small, portable computers. I thought he was nuts. Cute, though.

Adam Smith last logged in on March 11th. I know he loves living in New York, but whoever thought it could take him away from his beloved MER, you know, the place that gave him $1500 for winning a posting contest. (I am relying on my memory here.) We seem to be hitting the summer doldrums again, but every once in a while there is a post from someone who hasn't posted in a while, or there is a post from a newcomer who never returns. My suggestion is that when we see either of those, we should make a point of either welcoming them back, or welcoming them period. Let them know that we appreciate their presence here and hope they will make it a regular thing. I hope Adam is having fun in NYC, but sometimes I worry that he took the wrong subway and can't find his way back to his computer!

Thanks, Lookin and Steven for explaining, or trying to, cloud computing. Some companies that had used Amazon's cloud computing came to regret it when their data was not available to them when they wanted it. I also learned what the RSA token is. It's a device that generates a number that allows you to enter a computer network. The number is different each time you enter, thus more secure. Citibank, for example, has 50,000 of the devices for their employees to use to access the in-house system. So you can see why they want it to be secure, but apparently RSA waited some time before revealing the insecurity of its devices, thus pissing off the companies that thought they were secure. Now on to E-books. I dread the day when the inevitable will come and I can no longer pick up a traditional book to read. Yet the trend is clear. Current E-books leave a lot to be desired, especially if you take NY Times tech columnist David Pogue's word for it. Today he reviews 2 new readers, each an advance over what is currently available. He begins his column thus: "We think we’re so modern. We think we’re hot stuff, with our touch-screen tablets, video cellphones and Internet movie downloads. But mark my words: we’re in the Paleozoic era of consumer technology. Our grandchildren will listen to our technology tales — spotty cellphone coverage, 24-hour movie viewing windows, three-hour battery life — and burst out laughing the minute they’re out of earshot. Take e-book readers, like the Kindle and its rivals. “Come on, Grandma. You really couldn’t read Kindle books on a Nook, or vice versa? What a dumb system!” “Tell us again why you couldn’t read Harry Potter books on e-readers?” “Grandpa, what do you mean ‘monochrome?’ ” This week, though, e-book readers just took their first slimy steps out of the primordial soup." He then goes on to review the new Kobo and "All-New NOOK." In is review, he mentions that there is a cheaper reader available, but you have to allow ads to appear on it. I cannot imagine buying that. Here is his review if you are interested: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/technology/personaltech/09pogue.html?ref=personaltech

Long gone are the days when I couldn't figure out what www meant. But all the time I read stuff in the papers that I have no idea what it is. Cloud computing? Um, is that's using God's computer? Or just computing in an airplane? Now I learn that RSA Security's SecurID Device has been compromised. But I have no idea what that is. (On the other hand, it seems all things computer can be hacked.) Truthfully, I have no idea why someone with a laptop would also need an Ipad. And don't even get me started on computer games that millions of people play online. Why? Do you play them? And Twitter. I know no one who tweets. I know no one who would want to keep up hourly with my random thoughts tweeted onto their computers. Do you tweet? Who reads your tweets? And what am I to make of Nintendo's new hand-held screen with HI-Def when I have never even played a Nintendo game? It's easier than ever to feel like a dinosaur.

A Delaware pediatrician waived a jury trial rather than have them see the evidence against him, and his case is now in the hands of a judge. Previously, his patients were in his hands- that is, until they weren't: Detective Scott Garland testified how he and other forensic analysts uncovered more than 13 hours of videotape the defendant made of sex crimes against 86 victims, whose average age was 3. The tapes date from December 1998 to Dec. 13, 2009, just days before Mr. Bradley was arrested. Mr. Garland said some videos showed Mr. Bradley with his hands wrapped tightly around the heads of young children, violently forcing them to perform oral sex on him. When Mr. Bradley was finished with such assaults, the detective testified, he would pick up the young victims by the head and throw them several feet through the air onto a couch. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/us/08brfs-PEDIATRICIAN_BRF.html?_r=1&ref=us

The new Terence Malick movie The Tree of Life is only showing in the cities that are important to the country right now, so I haven't seen it. I did see an article wondering if it were too boring to sit through. Has anyone here seen it? Would it not be worth seeing just to gaze longingly at Brad Pitt?

But if you are going to continue your escorting career, I'd suggest you do somethng about that green skin tone!

If we analyzed all the posts a person makes, no doubt we each make some stinkers. It's the overall attitude that I look for, and my points about hitoallusa are mine only. We read the stuff that interests us and ignore that which doesn't. There is no one size fits all.

Yes, the review is at the former Hooboy site. I think dated May 30 or around there. NY Tomcat will make a fine escort if half of this review is accurate!

Perhaps I did not state clearly enough- I don't plan to stop posting here, but nor will I rejoin Daddy's site. As CharliePS points out, the site is doing fine without me. And, as I pointed out, there are so many new member names there that I would hardly feel it is the same site I left. Very few of our friends are indispensable to our lives, all the more reason to value those who make your life better. MER is now my online playground. There is no reason to make a move.

About a year ago, the omipotent Daddy of Daddy's reviews suspended me from his site for one year. He did me a big favor in doing so. I am here to tell you that I have every intention of remaining a poster at MER. You guys took me in when I needed a place to stay, and I appreciate it. I think I was truly hooked on posting there, and often got involved in a fight or two. At MER, I enjoy the smaller group, and the friendlier atmosphere/ I like many of the posters there, and, if you truly want to be read, that is the place to go. There are so may new names that I cannot begin to guess who they are. M<any of the guys to whom I felt an affection also post there no more. So, I think I will stay here and fight the little battles that we do. Sure, I would like a larger readership, but MER is close and we can argue till lights out and still remain friends. Getting to know the posters here has been a treat. So, give yourselves a pat on the back. The administrators of the sites also have quite different personalities. Oz is very laid back, and easy to get along with. Daddy is too, but he does, as I , have a shorter fuse. MER does yet match the quality and quantity of Daddy's. I m doing what I can to make it an interesting place as are many others. I pretty much like everyone here, so why go backwards?

I noticed that hitoallusa logged in while I was away this past week, but did not post. His exile is a self-imposed one, as I know of no one who does not want him posting. Logging in indicates to me that he is still following the site and has interest in it. Everyone should feel free to post. Most of us want what we post to be read by others, and therein lies the rub. You have to post things that others want to read or otherwise post things that advance the thread. But sometimes we just post out of frustration, or an attempt at humor. Even then, we want the post read. Hitoallusa, his greatness I am told, posts a lot. He also compliments a lot. To me, compliments lose meaning when they are handed out so freely. I do not need to be told everyday how sweet I am. That's not why I am here. To start your post out by saying that you are not interested in the topic also makes one wonder why you are posting on that topic. Prolific a poster as I am, I do not comment on the majority of threads. But that's me. If you want me to read your posts, then you might give some thought to what I say. If not, ignore it all. The bottom line is that I am one person, you are one person, and we have equal right to post here. So, decide what kind of poster you want to be. If you think you might want to shift your image a bit, then do so. But basically just be yourself and leave it to others to read your stuff or not. But you don't need to hang out on the sidelines feeling unwelcome here. You are welcome here.

The NY Times takes a look at the strength of the case and possible trial tactics: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/nyregion/the-strauss-kahn-case-sizing-up-a-legal-clashs-many-facets.html?pagewanted=1&hpw I continue to be amazed that an immigrant maid could be taken so seriously that the powerful head of the IMF would be taken off a plane and arrested solely on her word. America sometimes impresses. Now let's hope that she is telling the truth, or that justice prevails, or something like that.

Another great article is this first person story in the NY Times today: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/opinion/05trautwein.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

Well, I was gone for most of the week, but imagine my surprise today to see a review on the other site of occasional poster here NY Tomcat. I had no idea he was a Rentboy! And to think I knew him when, back in the day, he was just coming out. So does this mean he has come a long way, or does it mean he has gone off the rails?

Also in today's LA Times is an op-ed article by a man I met many years ago, Fenton Johnson. He discusses safe sex, barebacking, and sex in our society: Thirty years ago, on June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control published a notice of a strange illness affecting five Los Angeles gay men, two of whom died before the report could be published. The illness soon acquired the designation AIDS, along with a burden of fear and misinformation that it has never quite shaken. The decades of terror and rage and sacrifice and nobility that followed have been chronicled elsewhere, but for the sake of those living with HIV as well as the millions dead worldwide, let us honor those activists who defied silence and hostility and the law to insist that we take action. Because of those in-your-face activists — many dead before they saw the results of their courage — we know that HIV existed decades before its discovery, and that its spread can be prevented through simple, cheap measures, most notably condoms. Because of those activists we are able, if not to cure the disease, at least to manage it. Because of those activists, patients gained a greater voice in their care decisions. Because of those activists, I am alive and so, perhaps, are many of you. Continue reading: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-johnson-aids-20110605,0,4195576.story

Another article, this in today's LA Times, takes a look at 30 years of AIDS: http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-aids-at-30-20110605,0,2300265.story (I haven't even started today's NY Times...)

The LA Times lists all the local homicides, along with a convenient map showing the location where the body was found. Most of the deaths are young black or Latino men. http://projects.latimes.com/homicide-report/ But, the Times is also vigilant in listing the deaths of local men fighting for their country in our overseas wars for freedom. Would a young black or Latino man be more likely to die at home, or at war? I'll bet the odds are even. Sad as well are the guys who come home severely maimed. In this collection of 8 photos showing guys being rehabilitated, such as it is, only one appears to be white: http://framework.latimes.com/2011/06/03/caring-for-grievously-wounded-troops/ Seeing pictures like this brings home the fact that these guys serve in Afghanistan to support a morally corrupt government in a country which has never been subdued by a foreign power. Why are we wasting these lives, these bodies? It may ultimately be a political question, and then of course it would be in the politics forum, where no one would likely see it anyway. I think that's the way the government wants it. So, kudos to the LA Times. If you read this far, then consider this other headline in today's Times: Robert Gates predicts 'modest' U.S. troop reduction next month in Afghanistan. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghanistan-gates-20110605,0,3678193.story

Truth be told, I drove to San Diego yesterday. In the daytime, I wear RX sunglasses anyway, but at night I wore the glasses. I went to a play at the Old Globe, and even though a small theater in the round, I still put my glasses on. There was a really cute guy sitting on the other side of the theater and I wanted to see him!

I grew up around circumcized cocks and was so surprised when I saw my first uncut one. I thought it looked like a little sausage in a bun. Uncut cocks take a lot more maintenance to keep clean. The dirty ones stink as bad as any pussy can. One of my grossest experiences was a Mexican beach hustler proudly showing off his cheese and wanting me to eat it. Yuck!