7/4

I've heard that you should wipe the hard drive (reformat) before upgrading. I never had to, I just buy a new machine.

I haven't used my laptop in months.

Did you check the expiration date?? I've never had one die. The machine goes first.

That's why I had to quote it!

I'll quote: The NY Post: and... and sadly....

Gay lovers go out on limb By DEREK ROSE and BILL HUTCHINSON DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS A teen and his transgender partner romp in Central Park tree. Two lovers, naked as jaybirds and apparently as crazy as looneybirds, climbed a tree in Central Park yesterday - and put on a bizarre four-hour show that drew cops and hundreds of gawkers. In a shocking new twist on the birds and the bees, a 17-year-old boy and a 32-year-old preoperative transsexual offered an X-rated sex spectacle - refusing cops' pleas to leave their unlikely love nest 50 feet above the Chess and Checkers House. The standoff ended at 8:30 p.m., when the duo voluntarily came down and embraced as onlookers cheered. They were then taken away for psychiatric observation. "We don't get this back home," said tourist Elise Gaillard, 21, of Adelaide, Australia. "Crazy Americans." Earlier, the teen told cops that his parents did not approve of his relationship with his newly bosomy pal. "I want my mother and my psychologist," he yelled. When police began scaling the leafy larch tree, the couple climbed higher. "You think I won't jump?" the transgender tree-hugger screamed at cops, who rushed two cherrypickers to the scene and put a huge airbag around the base of the towering larch. At one point, the older of the couple broke off a branch and threatened to throw it at cops, before demanding a vanilla diet Pepsi. When police handed up a regular old diet Pepsi, the 32-year-old hurled the can to the ground, screamed, "Vanilla!" and declared, "What I say goes!" The couple also shouted complaints about the portrayal of transgender people in the media, and called for an apology on national TV. "I think they were just mentally distraught, fed up with how people were treating them," said Detective Steven Elter, who climbed up the tree to talk to the couple. "We just tried to talk to them and make them feel comfortable." The incident came just days after two Canadian women took a swim - fully clothed - in the Central Park reservoir. Yesterday's surreal antics prompted tourists like Louise Sharp, 24, of Scotland to change their sightseeing plans. "We were going to go to the Empire State Building, but we thought we'd stay here instead," Sharp said. With Kerry Burke Originally published on April 23, 2004

What a way to celebrate Earth Day!

Hell, it isn't like this happens everyday around here!

NY Times Couple Takes Protest Up Tree in Central Park By COLIN MOYNIHAN and SABRINA TAVERNISE Published: April 23, 2004 Two people took off most of their clothes and climbed to the top of a tree in Central Park yesterday, drawing hundreds of onlookers and keeping dozens of police officers and rescue workers busy for four hours. The couple, one clad in a thong and the other in boxer shorts, climbed up 35 feet into a pine tree, just north of the Wollman Rink, at about 4:20 p.m. The two people, identified by the police as a 32-year-old man with feminine breasts and a 17-year-old boy, shouted threats at rescue workers and drank soft drinks. They also had oral sex, witnesses told the police. The authorities did not know why they decided to climb the tree. A firefighter at the park said that the two, whose names the police did not release, had told rescue workers they were in a relationship that was not acceptable to the family of one of them. Several other rescue workers said the men told them that they were upset over how they had been depicted in a newspaper article. "I want to talk to my mother," the 32-year-old man shouted at one point. When a police officer made a motion toward him, he quickly scampered higher up the tree. "Don't come any closer," he yelled, and then threatened to jump. At one point a police officer handed him a dark shirt, which he put on. He then dropped his underwear, which the officer caught, and tore several branches from the tree and brandished them before dropping them. Three hours into the standoff, an officer handed the 32-year-old man a can of soda. He flung it to the ground and shouted: "This is a Coke. I wanted vanilla Diet Pepsi." Throughout the standoff, the teenager remained silent. It was dark by the time rescue workers finally persuaded the two to descend a ladder. Inspector William Callahan said the two people were taken to New York Weill Cornell Center for psychiatric evaluation, and charges were pending. Onlookers in the park were transfixed. A woman visiting from Geneva said she watched for two hours. "I live in Switzerland, which is uneventful," said Katerina Usvitsky, 23, a graphic designer. "Things like this don't happen there."

work, work and then some more work. maybe some gtr. along the way.

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Arkestra

Yes, I'm am just a lowly Groove Merchant and someday...yes...someday I'll be a Funkateer. Someday...

Congrats RDK! And AB became a Funkateer by passing 3000. Uh, right?

Feel free to contribute...anything.

I hope there's no cherry trees in S. Ca!

I think so, I didn't post that much today. My count should drop off as the evening wears on.

Are you deserving of the 2nd Orgy? Naw, I cheated. B) Yeah, I just caught that! Like George Washington, I cannot tell a lie and I have wooden teeth. : Who's your dentist?

Are you deserving of the 2nd Orgy? Naw, I cheated. B) Yeah, I just caught that!

I could see this coming....

Sigh... Always a bridesmaid and never a bride.

I like that one!

Although Orgy has a nice zing to it.

Other thoughts for a name for tyhe award: The Organ, The Orgasm...