Seems to be a Latitude type of day...

I'm a computer geek. For all my dreams of getting a PhD in Music Theory, I'm still a computer geek. One mention of RSS from the Dude and I'm off reading about syndication and XML/XLS/XHTML/whatever for an afternoon and thinking "damn! I gotta get me some of that!" It's gotta be a sign when you look back fondly upon times where you were wrestling with browser compatibility issues in JavaScript, messing around with SQLServer parameters through a windows control panel, or hitting the key sequence for another buggy build of your project.

Along those same lines of Nostalgia, I visited Latitude on my roadtrip out to Santa Barbara back in September (we stopped in Silicon Valley for a bit). I said hi to some of the folks there and had a chat with Ted, VP of operations. Ted was (is) a Brown alumn and was our (me and al) extra-CS connection to Latitude originally. We were also recruited by Ted in the beginning. When I went to chat with him this time, he threw out the possiblity of my working for Latitude again, even if just for the summer, and now I'm really considering it. I want to take the next half a year and get back in CS gear. Start getting familiar with all the new standards and ways of doing things (.NET still makes me think of spiders...). Maybe tackle a couple of small projects for fun. I'm such a nerd.

But after all, I am a music theorist. I need to do some work in the area of the theory of music. But with all these CSish plans, what am I going to do with music? Fear not, I have come up with a theory, a law, a rule, as it were, that will revolutionize music and I will no doubt live off the fruits of this divine inspiration for the next half a year at least (with no need for additional work!). And this great idea of mine is:
Metallica Kicks Ass

Don't any of you steal this idea or anything...

Damn it...I want to switch to movable type...