In episode 10 of The Talk Show, John Gruber hits the nail on the head, but this time it isn't apple related. He's getting caught up on Lost and has gotten to the second season and has the same reaction I had... not as good as the first season.

Speaking of John Gruber, he posted an link to D/Objective-C bindings on the Linked List today. I was introduced to D several months ago by a friend and was always interested in implementing something written in it but didn't really have a itch that Ruby or Objective-C couldn't scratch. Now it seems like I can have my cake and eat it too because Michel Fortin has released D/Objective-C bindings. Looks excellent: this means you can write Mac apps in D with full access to the libraries and APIs you'd typically be required to use Objective-C to access.

For those not in the know, D is an language similar to C which adds a full object oriented framework, C++/Java/C#-esque syntax, closures, namespaces, and garbage collection among other things. One of the best parts of the language is that it compiles down into a binary object which can be called by C libraries. D could potentially replace Objective-C as the Ruby of the compiled-language world.