New Story,

[elfs]

Well, someone anonymously pointed out to me that Nudes Defending a Staircase hadn't been posted automatically as I'd expected. I'd made a mistake with the version control system and the wrong index, without the entry for that story, had wound up in the autoposter. Sorry about that.

Comments

[wanderer42.livejournal.com]

It seems that Earth is still a dangerous place. "The more things change, the more they stay the same." Like Shardik's remark about the Jews and Muslims still at loggerheads over a patch of 'holy' ground.

A good story. I liked the descriptions of New York after Earth had become a museum.

500 Internal Server Error

[norikos-author.livejournal.com]

Is what I get for any of the entries...

Re: 500 Internal Server Error

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Huh. You must have been using a non-Gecko browser. I found a bug in the HTML2.0 handler that would cause that, and I've installed a new version
with a fix.

If you get this again, let me know. A work-around, to force other browsers to run the HTML3.2 handler, is to insert mozilla into the URL, e.g.:

http://www.drizzle.com/~elf/journals/mozilla/index.html

Re: 500 Internal Server Error

[norikos-author.livejournal.com]

Yup, using links. It works now, and I'll keep the work-around in mind.

BTW, are you aware that the link to the by-date index doesn't show up under links/lynx?

[vik_thor]

Quick question: is there a zip file w/ all the Journal enteries available somewhere?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Sadly, no. I'm thinking about making them available on a CD sometime.

CD??

[(Anonymous)]

I've been downloading your work since the early 90's; archiving it in my own PC because I never thought the site you created would exist. I would _LOVE_ to have a CD (other than the one I burned to keep the backup about two years ago...). Even though, as soon as you burn it, it will be obsolete - you'll have another tale in the queue :)

Joshua Sasmor

Grumbles from the Grave?

[(Anonymous)]

A battle with big firepower and no clothes. This story was very "Glory Road", don't you think, Elf? Uncle Robert would be proud.

Liked it lots. Keep 'em coming.

Re: Grumbles from the Grave?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I've never read Glory Road.

Thanks!

Umpire State Building

[(Anonymous)]

Minor nit, the Empire State Building is 1931 not 1913

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

In the sex scene, the word you want is "palate", not "palette".

Great Story.....

[(Anonymous)]

I just read it…..

3 grade devils past, some don’t dare to drive, if they don’t have 4 wheeled drive. The beauty is beyond words….I love hiking the trails and riding my horse along the side. I love feeling the wind on the top of the horns. There’s private water falls, but at times during the rainy season, the slow steady streams become rushing rivers, that we all have to act fast to conquer and stand fast.

I love the city, but it’s just too crowed no room to breath or just let your hair down and just be you.

The story reminds me how beautiful the country is without danger or threats. The only danger with in rural remote places, is nature it self. You don’t have to lock your door or worry about muggers or thieves. All you really need to worry about is critters that don’t have homes or after your own family pets, it’s a different ball game.

I love it!

Devils Past in Palisades, Next door to Ephrata and Wenatchee.

Once was flying pegasus

Androids and the 'ick' factor

[datapacrat.livejournal.com]

It seems Shardik can't catch a break - the Journal Entries transmitted to our timeline have a significant number of people trying to kill him. Ah well; as a fictional character, he should be used to it by now.

My own feelings regarding the android are still muddled. I've started using 'The Two Laws' (from another adult story set, the John Carter chronicles by Lazlo Zalezac, http://storiesonline.net/library/author.php?name=Lazlo_Zalezac&type=uni&univ=19#u19 ) as a rule-of-thumb ethics guide: "Do no harm", and "Protect the weak from the strong". It's fairly obvious that sexually molesting children violates both... but simply feeling attraction? Or taking out such urges on non-sentient childform androids? (Or, possibly, even adult-AI-sentient ones?) Despite over a decade of being exposed to every perversion on the internet I could find, despite the lack of harm involved, this particular item still hits my 'ick' button, much like it did Shardik's. I hadn't realized exactly where the limits of what taboos I had left might be; this entry has gotten me to examine them more closely.