Comment #50 on this article is quite funny: Polygamy works both ways. There are people who believe women should have more than one husband. The woman choses whom she wants to marry and when, or if, she wants to have sexual relations (or children) whith any of her husbands. The husbands purpose is to provide for and take care of the wife, financially and otherwise. The husbands also share in household chores, cooking, and child care. One man often can not fulfill all the requirements and having multiple husbands ensures all the wife's needs are met and in the case of the death of a husband there must be another husband already in the household to take over the responsiblities. The basic belief behind this is that men are only physically superior to women. The reason they are physically superior is to enable them work and care for a women efficiently, not so they can intimitate, control, and take advantage of women as has happened throughout history. In many species, women dominate and select their male partners, "Queen Bee" for example, although some species have been corrupted. This was God's intention and the laws of nature prove this. Women mature faster, have better self control, and higher intelligence. Men are just stronger. Men must be strictly guided by a woman because of their lack of self control, immaturity, and perverted tendancies. If a man is given the freedom to explore his preverted caveman-like sexual tendencies, such as giving him multiple wifes, corruption, abuse, rape, and molestation will result as it has in Colorado City. Men simply can not handle this type of freedom and power. My wife thought that funny - men can't control themselves and need women to tell them what to do. Also the bit about women being smarter and how men should be serving women. [Edit: My wife mentions that she does not AGREE with the statement, just that she is amused by it.]

Federal money

Ok, so we just got our federal money yesterday. And now I get to stretch it as far as I can: 2 new tires on the car (badly needed), new dryer (badly needed), new couch, new clothes, cabling to move the cable modem to a Isaac-inaccessible place (he's already unplugged them once for us), Mother's Day present. Oh, and I had to use part of it to help pay for the property tax, so we can't do all of this at once. I just paid for the tires - $250 with alignment, and then ~$450 for the dryer, and then we have to wait for a few paychecks to 'pay back' for the property tax so that we can get the couch and the other stuff. We were hoping to get a new desk, but I don't think we'll be able to do that this year - I'll have to just reinforce her current desk. Why can't I have a magic dollar tree in my patio? I would happily water it daily.

GMail style extension

This is a cool GMail style using the Firefox extension 'Styles'. Really I'm posting this so that I can load it at home and show my wife.

Lost the beard

So, I was freestyling with my beard trimmer, and accidentally removed a 1" by 2" (2.5cm x 5cm) section right in the middle of my left cheek. Oops! And sadly it was rather noticable. So, I went ahead and removed the remainder of the beard. Picture online. So, I'm now shaving for the next couple of weeks while I decide if I want to regrow it now or wait until autumn. And the really funny thing is that the userpic I'm using I had cropped and uploaded that morning. It's one of my better pictures with a beard (my beard doesn't like to fully grow, as you can see I really can't grow a goatee as the mustache doesn't really connect well with the lower beard).

iPhone so easy

The iPhone is so easy, my 2 year old figured out how to unlock it!

IPv6

I love playing with IPv6. If you don't know what that is, skip this entry. :) I got a free tunnel (two, actually, one for at work and playing with vpns and cross-site stuff) from Freenet6/Hexago. I set it up at home and work so that each IPv6 endpoint can route, so my wife's laptop (MacOSX with IPv6 pre-enabled) can ping my Mac at work, using my work laptop and a test server at work being the IPv6 routers. Mind, no real firewall is setup at this point - I need to get that setup. But still, is very very cool - I can now play with a real network and get familiar enough so that when IPv6 gets used for production I'll already know what I'm doing. Not to mention that now I can access my computers at work directly and not need to setup silly NAT forwarding.

To get into OpenFirmware when Cmd-Opt-O-F isn't working (like, say, you're using a USB PC keyboard): Open Terminal Type sudo nvram auto-boot?=false and give it your user password. Reboot. OpenFirmware will not auto-boot into OSX. To undo, do the same but put true instead of false.