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I'm home :) Made it here safely, and everything's fine. I've been sleeping a lot today.

Small tidbits of information:

- MC Paul Barman is apparently coming to Tallahassee. If you're in the area and you like the idea of skinny Jewish guys rapping about left-wing politics and the experiences of the intelligent and disillusioned in the modern-day educational system, using phrases like "trickle-down ergonomics" and spitting rhymes like "I've got a very goth towel. A terrycloth cowl. And when I wear it, I'm a hairy moth owl" ... then come on down with Brett (zip4096) and myself. It'll be groovy :) Thursday at the Beta Bar.

- I'm leaving for Houston in a coupla hours. I'll be back Tuesday-late-night-ish.

- Grandmaster Tim (neuroticmonk) says that hackmode will be back online tomorrow-ish. Rock on with your bad self, Tiznim!

- Tallahassee is beautiful, and the grass is greener here.

- I'm putting together, as my father would term it, a big-ass list of things to do over the summer. It's going to be beautiful :) Come to think of it, a lot of these things have been mentioned in earlier posts.

- I may or may not suddenly show up in Europe this summer, hopefully about when Esther is going to be showing up in Spain.

- I should sleep in the Very Near Future.

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Eh. I couldn't sleep -- I spent most of the day sleeping anyway.

I just hung around trying to pass out, drumming on my stomach, worrying about really important stuff like the future of copyright law and how evil the RIAA is. Take a look at that recent Slashdot article. They're planning some really nasty (eh, really mostly just childish) stuff, essentially DOS-ing people's boxen and distributing trojans and generally making themselves a pain. I decided that I found Madonna upsetting and envisioned a world where music circulates freely like software and artists (many more of them, with fewer nationally famous superstars) get paid by people who want to support them, and it's easy to do this (Apple's got a really good idea... the future of music sales might look like that), and the big record labels don't exist anymore because we don't need them as music distribution channels because transfers happen online...

Something's clearly going down... our whole idea of intellectual property is breaking, and something's going to change dramatically in the Near Future. We just can't have monolithic corporate entities suing college students and buying off senators who try to send people to jail for moving music online -- that's the way things are going to be. Information wants to be free. As Stallman is fond of pointing out, if I cook some spaghetti, and I give some to you, then I have less spaghetti, but if I write a program and make you a copy, I still have the program, and there's only more wealth. I didn't lose anything. I also haven't said anything original or thoughtful in this entire post.

Ebooks, too... there are some small-minded, evil-seeming people in that part of the world.

Any thoughts on this? What do you guys think about music and intellectual property and Duminda (or Moshe, for that matter, if you happen to know Moshe) getting a cease 'n' desist?

I should get on the road pretty soon...