Hi. The holiday season is officially over, but the Christmas tree will probably stay up for another few weeks at least. Stephen gets all romantic about Christmas trees. I spent New Year's weekend doing a whole lot of nothing, just staying up late surfing the Internet then waking up the next day at noon. My life isn't as exciting as it used to be. Last night I went to a Sebastian show, which I haven't done in months, maybe even a year. It made me feel interesting again.

So I guess when my mind gets restless like this, it starts to think of its own ways to amuse itself. I've been trying to think of a way to describe the "language" of vulgar insults using context-free grammars. Even though Ben says it's too hard to describe natural language this way, I think it's possible to do it with a small subset of language. So far, my definition would be able to generate the phrase "ass-guzzling bastard-eater," so as you can see, I still have some work to do...!

P.S.--Harold and Kumar came out on DVD yesterday. I advise you all to watch it!