Gay Marriage

A local TV station has a poll. "Should gay couples be allowed to marry?"
So far the stats are running close, 43% say "yes, no reason gay people should be stopped from marrying", 39% say no, homosexuality is wrong", and 14% say "I have nothing against homosexuality per se, but marriage should be defined as being between one man and one woman".

Argh. What the f, that last one makes so sense at all.

Anyway, vote if you want. They probably only have it until 6 pm EST or whenever they do the newscast.

Also if people think my icon is too spoilery, please slap me down for using it. It doesn't seem too too spoilery to me, and only a whole lot GIP-ish. ;-)

Laptop problem finally solved

So for a long time we couldn't figure out why our laptop kept going to sleep spontaneously. We thought there was a backlight problem, a monitor short problem, something like that. Mind you, all the software settings made sure that it should not go to sleep -- energy saver set to 'never', screensaver off, etc.

But after the poor lappy spending several weeks at CompUSA, they finally discovered that two cables for the dvd player had shorts in them that were putting the machine into "safe, low power mode".

Argh!

But we are supposed to get it back today, so YAY!