"He listens to Irish folk music, which I don't even recognize as a category..."

If you stroke a cat, it will purr; and, as inevitably, if you praise a man, a sweet expression of delight will appear on his face...
    -- Schopenhauer

It's interesting how just a little bit of validation from other people makes me feel better. Humans are really funny...

(but on the other hand -- interesting research this semester; we're going to do something machine-learning-ish to features extracted from music to come up with intelligent playlists that you don't have to make yourself... and I finally tracked down that Ron character, who'd seemed confused and flustered a few days ago, and I've got the OK to start working on his automatic textbook-diagram-reasoning-dealie... so MS project for me, yay.)

Maybe one day I'll stop yammering about school :)