re: Jargon
The thing that I have stuck with the longest is Software, and thats just because it pays the best and is always hard-but-not-insanely-difficult.
Probably for the best. Philosophy rarely pays very well, a complaint that has been made by philosophers for about four thousand years.
Speaking of ancient philosophers, a collected trade paperback of Sam Keith and William Messner-Loebs' comic "Epicurus the Sage" is now available. Highly recommended!
BTW: did you keep a link to the thread in which we wandered in to Copernicus, Newton, Heidegger and Ayn Rand? That was one worth saving, and I didn't unfortunately.
The root post of the thread you are talking about is here. Already languishing on Page 4. How time flies...