True that, that's an honorable cause you have there man.I have about 1.5 btc, just to experiment with, However until their are bitcoin ATM on the Street, or Star bucks or another retailer accepts them, the USD is my go-to. Mining bitcoins seems abit of a waste of cycles, as the reward may never come. I would rather sell the extra cycles to host HTTP servers, or Seti@home or searching for the cure to cancer, stuff like that, a more charitable front rather than profitable. but it is still an interesting concept.
I'm just wasting time with these coins I think, but you never know. It's not that I'm really losing anything, except time and electricity, I can live with that.