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From now on it'll be fifty push-ups each morning.  Fifty pull-ups.  
There'll be no more pills.  There'll be no more bad food.  No more 
destroyers of my body.  From now on it'll be total organization.  
Every muscle must be tight.

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Tentative thesis topic, 9/19/94:

Design "Kung-fu Jack", a simulated human fighter parameterized 
by the martial arts styles he has studied and "how good" his 
virutal kung-fu is (some heuristics will probably be used here).  
The model of intelligence will be primarily reactive, and Kung-fu 
Jack will be able to make decisions and take actions based on natural 
language inputs like "Jack-Xiang killed your brother." or "Jack-Li's
kung-fu is pretty good, but his fighting sticks are no match for
your double knives."  I intend to use the methods described in the
1994 SIGGRAPH GestureJack paper to create bizarre gestures (see
Kung-fu Action Theatre, Sunday) to serve as accompaniment for 
out-of-sync dubbed speech fragments such as "We'll see," "Well, 
you'd better beat it," "Huh," "Well alright then," or virtually
any combination of the above.

Initial proof of concept will consist of a virtual battle between
Kung-fu Jack and a snearing SuperNinja.  The costs will be defrayed
by broadcasting the event in real time over Pay-Per-View.

When I am done I also intend to create tenuous connections between
my work and as many of the following things as possible:
chaos, fractals, multimedia, virtual reality, neural nets, wavelets, 
cyberanything, and large quantities of crisp new fifty dollar bills.
In order to reach this final goal I intend to use the time-proven
technique of picking word fragments from the source list of items, 
smushing them together into compound words, running those words 
through a random capitalization filter and using the results in 
publications.  Look out for my upcoming paper,

"Virtual MultiWaveNets -- a catch phrase-oriented publication paradigm"

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Organize my own political party, take over the U.S. Congress, and pass
a law ruling all legal documents "obscene".  The drafting or possession
of such documents will be punishable by fines of up to $200,000 and 
prison sentences of up to 2 years.

Or maybe I'll just poll a representative sample of elderly white American
males to find out their views on child-rearing and acceptable standards 
of conduct.  And then do whatever they think is best.

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