Internet Un-Safe Sex, Everquest Bloggers, and a good friend

Internet Provides Easy Access to Unsafe Sex - Star Tribune – Variety (January 19, 2003)
I was eating a nice thin slice of hamburger meat on a tiny bun at McDonalds and ran into this Variety section of the newspaper. The headline itself caught my eye and as I read, I just had to laugh and cringe.
”Are you looking to hook up now?” the man writes to a potential partner. Within minutes, the two have traded details of favorite sexual exploits, swapped photographs and promised to meet that day… “It’s like playing Russian roulette,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity, “I got the bullet.” (He had gotten Aids from a similar encounter two years ago)

Is it just me or is this crazy? WTH is this guy and any of the other guys thinking as they “troll” the messageboards? It’s not the age of free love anymore! I found the article in a shorter version on the web and will post it for your reading enjoyment.

I have to retract my last post, as I heard from I’ve Been Josh Too Long and Rowanstaff’s Realm , I was using serious tongue in cheek when I posted about EQ. I love the idea of new races and the game expanding, but I don’t have the time anymore! (/pout) I agree with Josh that it is a total soul stealer, I began playing in August 1999 and didn’t quit until this last semester. Between playing 10+hours a day, all weekends and so much frustration of idiots in the game I had to leave. Now, my in-game husband takes care of my 58 ‘chanter and rogue. They are too high upkeep! I can see that if someone doesn’t know much about EQ, they won’t understand enough of the language that is being used in Jeremy’s blog. This is another problem that some bloggers can run into – language differences. I have a strong belief that we should have chat-lingo as another language, it is very different from spoken English.

P.S. Joshua, I’ll promise to call you the full name from now on if you insist. Sounds touchy to me. ;-)

Rowanstaff has a lot of interesting things to say and the pictures make me jealous. I had wanted to start posting my own also, but Blogger doesn’t support that kind of insolence. So, I just messed with their template to my OWN liking, so there. To use geocities for picture links is an embarrassment, but heck, I gotta use what I have.
Quote from Rowanstaff “She plays Everquest. Her site gets an 11 out of 10 just for telling world about the superior lifeforms of Guk.” Yeah, I r0x0r. hehe

Walk Away Renee will always be on my favorite’s list and I am very curious as to her daily routines and I believe she will have the same sort of blog as TraceJen , unless reading our blog books make her change her mind. I don’t compare the personalities, but I can see the same wit that I have seen Jen use as the author of TraceJen. A blog I think Renee would be very interested in is Raising Hell . I stumbled onto this blog and have enjoyed the community comments about raising kids and the problems parents keep running into. It seems to be mostly made up of women.