The first time I went to Cambridge to visit MIT (and was incidentally first getting into Lisp), I noticed the Massachusetts slogan on the automotive license pla

The first time I went to Cambridge to visit MIT (and was incidentally first getting into Lisp), I noticed the Massachusetts slogan on the automotive license plates: "Spirit of America". This, of course, made me think of the Beach Boys song "Spirit of America," which includes the lines: Once as a jet it played in the stars But now on the ground it's the king of our cars and thus I now have this interesting and seemingly permanent cognitive mapping in my mind between Massachusetts, the Beach Boys, MIT, Lisp, and "car". Lisp without car, to me, would just be awful... but for reasons that likely don't apply to anyone else on the planet. :-)