Spent the last few days of 2003 mostly engrossed in Dan Brown's novels. Saw a recommendation or two on Slashdot, coincided with seeing a copy of "Angels and Demons" at a second hand bookstore, bought it. Interesting stuff. Days later, I saw Da Vinci code.. couldnt resist.
Another research student here is interested in Asterix ! :) neat. He also happens to have some comics that I havent read yet, so had yet more reading to do.. all of which leaves me with a little less time than I would have liked to present "20 definitive papers on natural language processing"... due sometime next week (yikes)
Hmm,maybe I should make a new years resolution about my work ethic (and attention span, at that)
