Nascent Engineer

Whoa, dude! WTF kind of bird is THAT? On your avatar.... is it a bat or something?

There was a young lad of Boston Who drove around in a tiny Austin He had room for his ass And plenty of gas But his balls hung out And he lost 'em.

I am logged in, and I am looking through the Forum, and I notice that Rick has posted a message with a list of "attached pictures." When I click on the hyperlink for a picture file, I get a new window with the error message telling me I am not authorized to view the files and inviting me to log in again with the form, but there is no form and I'm already logged in. I use Wndows Internet Explorer. I really don't want to change browsers just to look at these pictures, but I would like to see them. Any thoughts? Thanks Skip

FANTASTIC! Thanks so much for this reply. Once I saw the title, all the things fell into place. My brothers and I were thinking of going to Washington for the day over winter break, and I was looking for the MARC train schedules (the local non-Amtrak services we have here) and somehow got this story! I can't believe I didn't remember the chain of events. Thanks again! Skip

Cole, I still think your story On the High Plains of Wyoming is one of the best ever. I've re-read it twice and it still makes the hair on the nape of my neck tickle. Skip

Hey readers, I could use some help. Back in December while I was on winter break from college, I stumbled upon an erotic gay story, began reading, was called away from the computer for an extended time and forgot to bookmark the site. I know, doofus. Here's the plot line up to the place I stopped reading.... An older man is in touch with an old friend who is in the high-tech industry, specifically the creation of androids... artificial intellegence... robots... and the friend gets him to "test" an android boy. They apparently programed the droid to "believe" his parents had been killed in some disaster (can't remember how) and that the guy was his uncle. A relationship developes between the boy and his "uncle" and it goes on from there.... I'm not usually interested in inter-generational themes, but this particular story was very well written, and I thought the plot had possibilities. While reading the first few installments I could only think about Haley Joel Osmet in Spielberg's "A.I." I have tried searching for the story with various combinations of words, and haven't been lucky. Time is limited this semester, and other things are pressing, so I'm hoping one reader might have read the same story and can offer some help. Many thanks! Skip