Q&A with Dan for the new century. Last century's Q&A with Dan can be found here.

Q: Do you have a guestbook?
A: YES!

Q: I heard you got a new apartment. What's you new address?
A: Yeah, I have a lovely apartment (its lovely ok. perhaps even loverly). Its address should be on my bio page.

Q: Now that you index page is fancy, what are you going to do?
A: I don't know. . . Probably wait until a fancy webpage is a status symbol. . . . Then I'll be really popular. . . should be anytime now. . . yup.

Q: Are They Might Be Giants satanists?
A: No. . . No, They Might Be Giants are not satanists, they're not posing as some easy listening Nazi rock band trying to lure intellectuals into believing what they already know to be true.

Q: what does LTD stand for?
A: I don't know, but my guess would be "Lost Titanic Deamons."

Q: What were you doing for the turn of the Century?
A: Sitting at my parent's house. I had some strawberry stuff.

Q: Weren't you afraid the world was going to end?
A: No! we all know the world is going to end December 23, 2012, silly.

Q: Computer Science and Philosophy, thats kind of a strange combination isn't it?
A: No.

Q: Eeek! The complier says that "Pattern" is an undeclared identifier, even though #include "Pattern.h" is obviously listed at the top of the file. What can I do?
A: Try remming the #include line and replace it with class Pattern;. it worked for me.

Q: You know, I've been reading you Questions and Answers and they seem pretty irrelavent. Is there any chance you actually give any useful information or insights into your life?
A: Ohh. Thats a good question. Where do you come up with these?

Q: So, Dan, what are you plans for the future? What are your hopes and dreams?
A: My plans for the future is to do some reading on the internet, perhaps do some homework, then go to bed. I hope to have doughnut holes and Dr. Pepper for breakfast tomorrow, and my dreams. . . my dreams tend to be pretty odd, but I think my most memerable recent dream had something to do with Zeke Dasho (swoon) and turning in a group programing project that we hadn't started.

Q: <sigh> No, I meant long term plans like where do you see youself in 5 years.
A: Oh, that kind of future. . . well, I'll probably have graduated by then (I'm making no garuentees), So I doubt I'll be in Eau Claire. And assuming I pass my current Computer Science class, I'll probably have a CS degree. Therefore, its a safe guess to say that I'll be working in the computer industry. (And just for the record, that is probably the most direct answer you'll get out of me, so don't push it).

Q: What is your favorate TMBG song?
A: Whistling in the Dark.

Q: Is True Knowledge possible?
A: You know, I was thinking about that, but then I lost my train of thought. And it was one of those strange situations when you lost your train of thought because you were thinking of something more interesting, but you didn't want persue it because you were afraid you'd lose your train of thought, but by that time you'd already lost your train of thought. So you try to think about the interesting thing you were thinking about that made you lose you train of thought in the first place, but now thats gone too, and all you can think about is the phrase "train of thought" and you can't quite figure out why thought would be a train, and not a more practical vehicle. And all you can think of is the time your friend lost her train of thought and asked you to look into her eyes to see if you could see the train derail. Which is strange because you don't have many memories of that friend, but rather more of an association to a group which brings back a rush of memories that makes you question what kind of sadistic society we live in that could create every teenager's personal hell named "highschool." And so here you are thinking about Highschool, when you were supposed to be thinking about Knowledge. Those two things are often connected grammatically, but certianly seem diametrically opposed. But now you've managed to remember that it was Knowledge you were previously pondering, but now it seems a silly question asked by people with too much time one there hands.
Has that ever happened to you?