I'll take the old you for the old me if you throw in the dolphin thing.
If by 'dolphin thing' you mean one of those statue things with two dolphins in a circle pattern that rotates back and forth (clockwise and counterclockwise, I mean) when you pushed it one way or the other that you could find in any novelty store/gift shop, it is interesting you say that because my roommate sophomore year had a bong that I called 'dolphin thing' because the middle was shaped reminiscent of one of those, so it is eerily suiting to the original topic of the thread. (Woohoo! 88-word sentence score! (They should make a scrabble board where the tiles are words, and you get points for how long the sentence, rather than word, is. (Also, nested parens are awesome...awesome to the max.)))
Oooh, or they could make a super scrabble game where the tiles are still letters, but included are spaces and punctuation, and you must make sentences. It's a generalization similar to 3-d chess in that it adds another level on top of the game.
I used to agree with you, but then I took AI. I have met Satan, and he speaks in LISP.
-dan
That's awesome. Did you do any category theory? Some LISP classes do. One of the branches of math I'm trying to get to the forefront of is topos theory, which is logic refashioned in terms of categories. It is awesome. I'm also trying to come up with a a final definition of n-categories. An n-category is the set of maps between (n - 1)-categories and the (n-1)-categories. For instance, a 2-category is the set of arrows between regular categories...so badass