The more I hear about feminism the happier I am that I married the woman I did. She's definitely not a feminist. Gotta love her.

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Steering the topic on to something a bit happier, today, I figured out why one of our web servers would randomly seem to take ages to load a page.

localhost is an evil hostname for me now. Nginx REALLY LOVES IPv6. Our servers don't have IPv6 enabled, and yet...

Whatever Nginx uses for getting the IP address of localhost, it seems hardcoded and will attempt to connect to [::1] even when IPv6 is disabled, even with the resolver line set to not allow IPv6.

What I see happening is that Nginx attempts [::1], waits for the timeout, then try 127.0.0.1.

To fix it, I just replaced localhost with 127.0.0.1 and it works.

@Neil: Does your wife work in the medical field? Her clothing reminds me of what I see a lot of nurses wearing.

Do the forums have moderators that can unlock or delete threads?

Who are the moderators? How many of them are there?

, I'm guessing they are not active members.

I feel like a little kid whose dad just returned from a yearlong business trip into the Congo, whenever Matthew drops in like that.

Stick that analogy in your cap and fluff it.

I'm Wide Awake In America baby.

I for one want pics of the long hair. When I was about 19 I stopped cutting my hair out of self-consciousness and insecurity. I think I went about a year and it got to about my neck or shoulder I think before I got it cut. There's a least one picture in existence of this look, but I don't have a copy. I kind of liked it, but it did eventually get annoying having hair in my face. Of course, in those days I also had baggy jeans barely hanging on. The good old days. Now I'm an old man. I wear a belt and my hair is thinning. I rather like the bald thing, but it's a lot of work to maintain at my age. Maybe eventually it'll be automatic. In the meantime, my finacée doesn't really like it when I shave so I usually let my hair grow for a month or two before I shave it again. Still between wearing baseball caps now and shaving my head regularly my hair is definitely thinning. If you like having hair you might want to avoid the hats, and consider not shaving your head. Personally I'm most confident when my head is shaved. And it's one less thing to worry about making "presentable" when I leave my apartment.

Oops. Accidental double post.

Ha, I've actually had women tell me they're jealous of my hair. I sometimes tease my sister by telling her I have prettier hair than she does.

That would certainly be the most utilitarian use of it. The only organization that I know of that makes wigs out of donated hair is Locks of Love. They are only done through salons though, as far as I know. I'm sure you can see how that'd be a problem.

Maybe so. Some old people are just bitter and judgmental for no apparent reason. Then again, so are a lot of people in general.

I'm trying to follow that mentality.

According to the Web site you can send it to them. You pull it into a pony tail and wrap both ends with an elastic or something. Then cut it off. It needs to be wrapped up like that for that organization to use it, but there are probably other organizations that do it. If you wanted to go that route you could pretty much do it yourself. Wrap it, cut most of it off, and then shave the rest.

As a little aside, if you decide to take an actual razor to your head to get closer be very careful. It hurts like hell if you cut yourself, and you will cut yourself. It's worth taking your time. Otherwise, it's pretty harmless (I think).