Oh yeah. Happy New Year.

Vague personal crisis, part innumerable. Blah, whatever. Even writing this makes me feel cliched and trite. Read something else.

Two words: Momoko Kikuchi

First signs of a cold experienced today. The fight commences post-haste.

Dinner with Steve and Tom and Sarah at The House of Prime Rib this evening was enjoyable. I had thought earlier in the day of not going, but since I ended up being at work later than planned anyway...

Insane eternally unfinished hack docket growth pattern continues with Yet Another Project, this one having to do with the malevolence that is XML and related markup language madness.

Each day I strive to automate more of my repetitive job functions into XEmacs macros and code. It's working pretty well thus far.

Following John Wiseman's lead, I'm posting witty snippets from comp.lang.lisp in lieu of "real content", if only because it's what I'm reading right now.

Amusing words from Vlad S. about increasing Common Lisp popularity:

That, or we can plaster RPG's headshot on a t-shirt, with the cool ALU logo, and the caption "You are an idiot", or maybe "Strong typing is for weak minds" (this one he actually said - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/feyerabend-project/message/252), and go to a Java convention. He's pretty old and has a decent-size beard =]. (No offense to Mr. Gabriel intended - I deeply admire and respect him, and share many of his views on Lisp vs. other languages)

"The first rule of the ALU is you do not talk about the ALU"

Quote of the Day: "I'm attracted to LED's like housewives are attracted to TV's." --jrb