An Iota of Random

I am just about certain the world is going to stop rotating on it's axis, revolving around the Sun, and spin off into space in the very near future. Why am I so certain? The girl likes a car, and a good one at that. The new Subaru WRX, of all things. I hadn't seen the sedan model of the WRX until yesterday. The old model didn't do anything for me, but the new one is not bad. And she likes it, which, corresponding to me liking a car, happens once in a blue moon. And I like it, which is pretty much a major statistical anomaly, and may cause some strange event that could end creation in its entirety. Remember the Babel Fish? It's like that...

And then there's compilers. I dig 'em. But they're a pain in the keister, too. A book about ANTLR was just reviewed on Slashdot, and I'm curious. The reviewer goes on to say that the book talks about compilers in general, and so I'd like to see what best practices could allow me to avoid shooting myself in a foot again and damaging my remaining nine toes. I'm a fan of PLY just because I like Python (see half of the cartoons on XKCD for why). PLY takes Lex and Yacc, two of the more popular tools available for compiler-type people, and gives them the flexibility of Python. I'm pretty sure that, using these together, my computer might be able to figure out how to spout wings and fly all by itself in a line or two.

OK, off to vegitate...