Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Oh shoot! This would've been the best

I had this dream last night, or maybe during naptime today. But it was awesome. I was going to put it here, because it was a great idea.


But all I remember is a Fallout 3 styled combat knife and I was hiding it... I was walking through a building or campus, or both I can't remember. But I was hiding it in my left sleeve. It was difficult to get it through the elevator, but I went up some floors and stowed it somewhere. I looked pretty wicked in black, but that's really all I remember. It was a pretty sweet dream.


But now I can't remember. I remember thinking, in the dream, "This'll make a great post!" but even my dreaming self wouldn't remember.


Oh well. Maybe I'll have more stealthy and violent dreams tonight (read: tomorrow morning). But probably not.




Moral of the story: dream journals are actually really nifty. I need to start doing that again.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

The faults of iPrism II

I know everyone and their mother has problems with internet filters, and all other kinds of filters, like coffee filters (which are gross) and lint filters in the dryer (also gross, but thankfully not all wet and soggy, unless you're doing it terribly wrong). This isn't necessarily a complaint against the filter, but its description for why it's blocking things. Which is actually kinda the same thing.

Okay.



Anyways, whilst surfing around and being blocked a lot, some of the blocked categories were just ridiculous. Here they are, for your ocular pleasure!




Art/culture
So not only is art being censored and banned, but so is culture in general. Which, technically, is like... the entire internet.


Corporate Marketing
I hate adverts as much as the next guy, but there's really no need to block a website for trying to get in the public eye. Might as well block, like... the entire internet then. Again.


Radio stations
Wait... what? How is that... just... what?


Health
Okay, so now iPrism is trying to kill us, great.


Professional services
Unless that's a euphemism, there's really no need to block that.


Games
Not nasty games, not pornographic or violent games. Just games. Stop playing them.


Specialized shopping
Also a euphemism...? Or maybe tall fat people just can't shop for pants that will actually fit.


Discussion forums
And we're not allowed to even talk? Sheesh. Pretty soon they'll just knock out all forms of digital media on the internet.


Digital media
Okay.