Same-sex weddings start with union of elderly San Francisco couple (SFGate) - the slideshow is so worth it.

Questions and quotes for the Christian protestors follow… (it should be noted that I am a Christian also, but I do not agree that same-sex weddings are bad, nor do I agree that good people go to hell for following other religious/non-religious practices that are not necessarily Christian)

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The movers are still here, moving our stuff in, but the DSL and VOIP are up and running.

I’ve got the AC on full blast and the front door is wide open.

I have to make with a wireless connection to my attic (for the video game consoles) and also make good on my plan to make a public Wireless Access Point happen.

But the infrastructure is already there.

This is a great read (from crayonbeam), which she didn’t comment much about, but which I see as a treasury of examples of privilege and entitlement, examined and unexamined, and it’s in the framework of gender, so it may be easier to take in than the scary jungles of race-related issues.

Har.

Actually, it’s just time for our local intertubes to “go dark”.

I have been speaking portentiously all morning. I think it’s another stress symptom.

Anyhow, since the movers come tomorrow, I’m going to pack up all the associated Internet-connecting and Internet-connected devices today. The long-neglected “land line”, which is actually VOIP, so not really a “hard line” anymore anyway, will probably get enabled sometime tomorrow, or possibly later.

If you have our cell numbers, you can reach us there, and our intertubes in the new house should also get enabled sometime tomorrow.

My various gaming consoles may take a little longer to get attached. I’ll have to run cable or buy wireless equipment to get those bastards hooked up again.

Let me get to the second part first.

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So my sweetie’s Powerbook G4 is having some performance and operation problems, and I just thought I’d take this opportunity to talk about what the symptoms appear to be and what what our action plan is to get it back into operation.

Updated to make certain decision-points a little clearer.

Updated 2 with alterations suggested by ckd, some wording corrections and some price estimates.

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Of course I’ll also update the metapost.

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