David Steuber dot Com

The UnBlog: An island of conformity in a sea of quirks.

I have a wish list on Amazon under my email address: david at david-steuber dot com.

• Lisp: Most of my Lisp hacking ramblings are contained in this section of the site. I enjoy hacking in Common Lisp and this is where I do most of my writing about it.
• snippets: A collection of random musings on various topics. Many of my musings are Lisp related but I hope to write about pretty much anything that comes to mind.
• fractal-movie: My first fractal movie, made when this site was truly barren. It was easier to use the old background color than to try and make new graphics. I've also got another fractal movie called Xeno's Xoom. Xeno's Xoom is under the Lisp category because all the frames were computed with a Lisp program.
• 2006 Honda 599 Hornet (CB600F): I've added a new section to my site for the new toy I have recently purchased.
• Incomplete ramblings about my entry into the Netflix Prize contest.

This is a vanity web site. Most people call them blogs these days. I hate the term blog. I'm not terribly fond of the term web log either. Still, this site is where I muse to myself in public for my own amusement and shameful self promotion.

Currently what you will find here is stuff about Common Lisp (which I just call Lisp). I've done some fractal art using Lisp and I've done OS X Carbon programming using Lisp. Lisp is a programming language that I enjoy immensely and wish I met earlier in life. I've also got experience with C, C++, Perl, and even a little Java. Of all these languages, I like Lisp the best.

This site is not about converting people to Lisp. There is enough advocacy out there as it is. People who are programmers will either "get" Lisp and be happy or they will remain miserable, unenlightened creatures.

When it comes to communicating, I am a big believer in standards. XHTML 1.0 and CSS are standards. I do my level best to conform to these standards. If some browsers are buggy and do not conform (such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer which completely breaks with this site (IE 7 seems to have fixed those bugs)), I won't bend over backwards to work around their bugs. I am not ashamed of being self righteous about that. Bugs don't get fixed if people keep working around them.

The three boxes of democracy are:

• The Soap Box
• The Ballot Box
• The Cartridge Box