Past the point of no return

I'm sitting here watching the film version of Phantom and wondering how they hired the guy to play the Phantom. Heather and I saw this in NYC just a few months ago, I've played it probably fifty times, and even the first time I saw it in Toronto in 199X (can't remember the specific year) had a better Phantom by far. This guy just pushes way too hard. At any rate, despite the hype, I love this show.

Can anyone tell my why so many programmers avoid thinking in LISP or PROLOG? I got in this discussion today with a project manager who who made fun of the power and expressiveness of these languages. I don't get it. I suppose it is just that money talks and, since it is possible to do much of this type of work in Java or C#, clients won't pay for something that they have to think about. I don't know. I just know that there is a lot of power in there and all it takes is some real thinking to free it.

Tomorrow morning I've got to play a kiddie concert at some middle school and I've not even taken the time to look up the address. Better get crackin'.