entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones

flapsy wrote elsewhere:

It is a nonsense-words test on which you are supposed to be able to get 100% by "knowing some of the pitfalls of test construction".

[I have a multiple-times-forwarded copy, which several forwards ago includes mention that "I got this test from Joseph Kruskal (Bell Labs), who got it from Clyde Kruskal (NYU Courant Institute), who got it from Jerome Berkowitz (Courant Institute). Unfortunately, Prof. Berkowitz is currently out of town, so I cannot trace its origin any farther back." And btw that's dated 1981.]

Dubious formatting is not mine.

The Iron Man 2 Dr Pepper limited edition cans feature Tony "Iron Man" Stark and Ivan "Whiplash" Vanko on the regular Dr Pepper cans, and Pepper Potts and the Black Widow on the Diet Dr Pepper cans.

There's a new production being put on for a musical based on the Patty Hearst kidnapping by the SLA.  It's called "Symbionista!"

I normally don't get too wrapped up in an album's track order; i can tell what albums are well constructed, which tracks hang well together in the order in which they were released, and which albums are a bit of a hodge-podge but ultimately aren't hindered by their track order.  I listen to my music library on shuffle, anyway, so i can go from Ministry to Beethoven to Juan Luis Guerra 440 to Robert Fripp and i don't really so much as blink.

However, i feel very strongly about the fact that the track order of the first four tracks on The Arcade Fire's Neon Bible is completely backwards.  The album should start off with "Intervention" in order to have, with "My Body Is a Cage", two big pipe organ songs bookending the album.  Then the pacing quiets with "Neon Bible", picks up again with "Keep the Car Running", then slows again with "Black Mirror".  The rest of the album flows quite nicely, but the first four songs as released are simply awkward.  Go on, give it a listen and tell me i'm wrong.

This lyric from Sarah McLachlan's "Do What You Have to Do" has bugged me since i first heard it:

What ravages of spirit
conjured this temptuous rage?

I must note that i picked up the 'you insensitive clod' option from ewx, although it seems that senji has also used it.

A Yes on 8 sign has appeared on our neighbors' lawn.  My first reaction was to try to get a hold of a No on 8 sign and put it on our lawn.  Note that we like our neighbors and that, despite being really Jesusy, they're not pushy in the least about it beyond offering to pray for us in our endeavors (like when i mentioned i was going for a job interview) and wishing that God bless us, which fifteen years ago would have had me seething, but now i don't mind at all because i'm not that much of an asshole anymore.

The way things are going, it looks like Ecuador will have same-sex marriage before the US will.  Who saw that coming?