I haven’t posted in a while, so I think an update is in order. First, I bought a house at 920 14th St. in Boone, Iowa! Kelly and I have named it Prairie Sage Cohousing Community, and we are looking for renters/members. Here’s the entry on the Intentional Communities directory. This is exciting, even though I don’t have the HF gear set up yet (or maybe ever). I’m thinking a 40m magnetic loop antenna would be a good addition given my lot size and the proximity to sources of electrical noise.

Kelly is looking for work, so if you have any leads please let me know and I will pass your message along to her. I’m also considering looking for a better job (or something to supplement my current income), so if you are looking for a techie who likes to learn new technology, email me and we’ll talk.

Also, for those who knew our orange tabby Scotty, he passed away Monday (January 25th). He wasn’t doing too well the last few weeks. We only got to know him since he adopted us last August when we lived on S. Hyland, but he was the sweetest kitty and we tried to give him the best life we could, and his last few months were spent with people who loved him and cared for him very much. We miss you, Scotty.

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Poop onna stick

Does this not look like poop on a stick, in a condom? I hope we're not selling this....

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The site is back online after moving servers to the new house. Now going to bed.

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This is too cool not to post:

H/T to Shakesville.

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Just hunkering down, waiting for Iowa Death Storm 2009 here at N0NRO World Headquarters.

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OK, that title sounds a little harsh, but you need to study your foes in order to defeat them. You can check out the anti-gay marriage opposition in Iowa at luviowa.com. (You’ll have to cut & paste that into your address bar…I’m not giving them any link love.) They are a part of the Iowa Family Policy Center (Google it…no linky love here, either).

Their goal is to amend the Iowa Constitution to define marriage as one man, one woman, which is bad for the LGBTQQ folks, but also hurts us polys, too. In Iowa, amending the Constitution is a long and difficult process (as it should be). Essentially, any amendment needs to be voted through two consecutive legislative sessions and then voted on by the people. So yeah, it’s not easy to change.

My beef with all these referendums is that civil rights should not be left up to a vote. Honestly, as a people, if we had that choice to make we would still practice legalized racial segregation, which make no more sense than discrimination against the LGBT crowd.

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NPR is running a poll about the tiff going on between Fox News and the White House. Here’s how it’s running now:

The White House on this one; Fox News isn’t “fair and balanced.” 53% (80,494 votes)

People were siding with Fox News, but I think the minions from Pharyngula (h/t to PZ, btw) helped crash it somewhat already.

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…and they’re encouraging everyone and his/her/its dog to get the beta right now. This would explain why I can’t get my security updates right now, dammit…

Looking at that feature list, though, I look forward to Upstart and kernel 2.6.31, and a new architecture for the Intel video drivers.

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That way, we will all spell as badly as these teabaggers:

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It be Talk Like a Pirate Day!

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