March 08, 2003

Sleep
Now! In convenient pill form! Never feel tired again! Except that this is an actual drug that seems to prevent the mental effects of sleep deprivation, although it probably turns you into the Joker after prolonged use.

I realize that maybe I can find a different supplier. I log onto the Internet to see if I can get modafinil on the sly. I find it cheap at the Discount Mexican Pharmacy. I feel delighted and relieved. Then I feel terrified that I am delighted and relieved. "Discount Mexican Pharmacy"?!
Link from Boing Boing, which I read often enough that it should really go in the sidebar.
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Lisp
So the big project for this weekend is to try to cram more of the Lisp programming language into my brain. It's got the sort of syntax where instead of typing 2 + 2 you have to type (+ 2 2), but it lets you write programs that do cool stuff like shove + and two 2's into a list and then, since such a list is represented as (+ 2 2), evaluate the code that it just wrote, which people in artificial intelligence think is pretty cool; easier to get programs writing programs...

Why don't I have a life, again?
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