What an amusing phrase. Perhaps most amusing is to try to think of novel circumstances where it might be used. It is again too late for me to really be very sensible. I'm mentally exhausted -- this week I've both started classes (and done requisite studying), and, as the programming at work has been interesting, I've worked more than the normal ~40 hours. Still, it's a good kind of tiredness. This has been a week lived well. First, some news:

PostgreSQL replication stuff released under BSD license. This is very very cool. This is interesting Actually, let's talk about that. In summary, the U.S. is providing web proxies to Iran/China allowing them to get around government mandated, ISP-implemented blocklists. Hmm. Well, on the content-neutral ground, it'd certainly rather rude -- imagine if China were to set up boards that would be used for drug dealers to deal drugs here (temporarily ignoring that China's tougher on drugs than the U.S.). It is directly, and blatantly acting against a major aspect of the involved nations' domestic policy. I suspect, but am not absolutely certain, that the U.S. would have something more than harsh words for a country which so openly meddled. Now, let's let content back in. I think it's a good thing that such proxies exist, and I'd be happy to host one, provided that I could keep the traffic sane. However, if I were an Irani, I wouldn't use it. It'd be really easy for Iran to keep logs of everywhere people went, and later on, analyze them to see if they were using the American proxy. Anyone who did would be put under surveillance or similar. All they'd do is configure the ISPs to do transparent proxying, unify requests down to domainname, and it'd probably be possible to do without excessive hardware purchases. There are ways around that, but they involve strange client-side modifications, or tunneling. One thing about the internet, and computers in general, is that, unless you are very clever, you need to give up any notion of privacy, especially with data that travels over public networks. Well, not all notions. What you have left is 'private enough' -- 'good enough' privacy that most people won't be able to pierce it. However, the geeks and the spooks will always know more than you want them to.

Question for philosophers -- what problems in philosophy do you think are essentially based on misguided foundations? Are there entire subfields that you discount?

I really can't stay awake much longer -- my eyes are closing on their own. To cap up, this amuses me a lot, I had lunch with a friend -- good conversation at an Indian place I haven't been to before. While waiting, I ran into my Cog Psych prof. Neat. I realize that I want to visit some of my old professors at OSU. I ate too much for lunch, and didn't need a dinner. I spent the evening at home, reading and playing around. I was thinking about heading out to Coffee Tree, but thunder discouraged me. Now I'm completely beat and ready to collapse.

Heh heh... o/~ Till I collapse, I'm gonna rap ... o/~

Oh, yeh, tomorrow I'm probably going to see a movie, visit a park, and get some reading done. Maybe I'll take care of my homework for tuesday, and I might go get a new swimsuit so I can swim in the morning again. It should be a nice, relaxing day. I'm not sure, I'll need to check my calendar on my laptop, but there might be something else I need to do tomorrow. *shrug*