Tonight seems to be LGBT night on TV

I watched Dateline on NBC (which I normally avoid like the plague) because they did a story on Gwen Araujo. Now I'm watching Cold Case on CBS and they're doing a fatal gay bashing.

Weird gay marriage argument

Someone on a mailing list I'm on pointed us at an article that provides some "rational" arguments against gay marriage.

Before any of you blow up, it uses the same arguments against all marriages....

good grief! Computer madness

I'm checking out a Compaq Presario that Lin & Kermit were given by a friend of theirs.

The more I look into it, the more amazed I am. To start with it steals video RAM for the onboard video from the system RAM. So the 256 Meg system only has 248 meg available.

Next, it came with Windows XP pre-installed. And 248 meg is just a *bit* on the lean side for that.

I finally figured out how to open it uop, and I was amazed to disvoer that though it has 3 PCI slots and 1 AGP slot, you can only *use* 2 of the PCI slots, because there's no slot cut in the case for the third slot, thus, any card that has a "back" won't fit, and ones that don't would be hanging loose. And it's not like there isn't room on the case for the third slot.

Then I started looking for menory online. And found that one of the *major* memory companies doesn't even list this model. And it's *not* that old (the manual has a copyright date of 2001).

Sheesh.

Too silly.

For all those who had to suffer thru parochial school. And you too Doug. They *do* resemble penguins, after all...

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