Should We Talk About the Government?

Hi Hi ... Hi Hi.

Just took the dogs for a walk at 6 in the morning... and it's only 91 degrees. I couldn't bring myself to go to pickup yesterday, my elbow was still sore (feels better today, thanksforasking) and the computothermometer read 117 (!!) at 5:00. I seriously doubt we would have had more than 6 people there anyways, and to drive 20+ miles to play box and die of heat exhaustion is just... well, let's just say you're welcome mother earth.

The plan for today, written here to hold me to it - do some serious damage on Wimsatt's Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality. It's general claim is that reductionism introduces biases into our thinking and that we need to reconceive our understanding of the world as being a heuristic enterprise, not one that pins down TRUTH; i.e., every method of learning about the world is going to have built in strengths and weaknesses, biases and focuses that give you a limited glimpse. Interesting and promising so far; hopefully by the end of the day I'll have conquered it.

Beck and I finished season 2 of Burn Notice last night, a glitzy, Miami-boobed-up spy version of MacGyver, which sits entirely in the "entertaining" portion of the entertainment spectrum. There are funny, cool characters, a reasonable over-arching plot, and plenty of action and bad-assness, but we'd be the first to admit that it's a ridiculous, dumb show. Ah, well; we finished Season 4.0 of Battlestar Galactica and are just waiting for the final season 4.5 to come out; in the meantime, I think we are entitled to our goofy pleasures. Plus, the characters, while somewhat static and one dimensional, are FUNNY, and you can't pass up listening to Ash* crack wise on a nightly basis. We missed finishing season 2 in time to catch the first ep of season 3 on Hulu, so we may be forced to buy an ep or two if we're too impatient to wait for the DVDs...

* - Shop Smart - S-Mart.

Got froyo (I am so hip, yo) with D & C and D's parents on Friday - good times, but by far the craziest news of the night was that D's parents unexpectedly put an offer on a house right around the corner from all of us. Dan's ability to not crack Everybody Loves Raymond jokes in this circumstance impressed. I don't think they'll be coming down for a few years, but when the reality show starts filming in 2012, remember that the seeds were laid here.

Alright, work-time. Here goes. YEAH!