memes

Five Underappreciated Tom Petty Songs

1. “Cabin Down Below” — from Wildflowers
2. “Change the Locks” — from She’s the One
3. “Billy the Kid” — from Echo
4. “the last dj” — from The Last DJ
5. “Southern Accents” — from Southern Accents

Here’s another silly music meme. This one’s from A Small Victory. Take all the songs in iTunes (or your music player of choice), alphabetize ‘em, and tell the first song of each letter. Yes, it’s lame. Yes, it’s fun. I got more than 26 because I couldn’t resist including numerals and non-alphanumeric characters. And I also win the dork award because I had to take the time to give you an appropriate link to find the songs on your own.

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Gee, I haven’t been involved in a meme in quite some time, and I’m currently nursing a wicked sinus infection and suffering from post-Sith syndrome, but I’ll play along. It’s a music meme, and everyone knows I’m a sucker for both. I should note that my copy of iTunes has 6811 songs, some 500+ of which were puchased via the iTunes music store in the 18 months since I got my first iPod. (The other 6300 or so are ripped from my own personal CD collection.) Anyone who thinks mp3s are the death-knell of the music industry is a moron. I should also note that I ripped all of the original soundtrack anthology about two weeks ago and have been listening to almost nothing else lately.

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Once again I am probably several months behind on this one, but everyone knows I’m a sucker for a good meme. And it’s not my fault, I swear! I’ve just been working triple-time for the last few months. Anyway …
Here is my “blog family tree” from BlogTree.com. Look at all those siblings I have! Now, I know I have at least five other children … c’mon kiddies. Gimme some cred.

This is quite funny. From Robyn came the idea to do a Google search on “David is“.
Here are the top ten eleven things David is, according to Google:

1. David is … the devil.
2. David is … burning.
3. David is … triumphant over Goliath.
4. David is … currently a hot property in the character actor business.
5. David is … science editor for Parade Magazine, and writes the column “Science on Parade.”
6. David is … currently hard at work, creating another sonic universe for Ascension, Karim Hussain’s upcoming feature film.
7. David is … kind to Mephibosheth.
8. David is … the symbol most commonly associated with Judaism today.
9. David is … presently on secondment to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he is Director of the Information Technology Office.
10. David is … a big WWF and WCW fan and enjoys the company of Kevin Nash.
11. David is … considered by peers to be the world’s leading authority on raw food nutrition.

Well, I haven’t jumped on one of these bandwagons in a while. Here is my Friday Five, all about television:

1. What’s your favorite TV show and why?
   Not including football? I’d say Law & Order or Law & Order: SVU. Law & Order: CI is decent, but I’ve only caught it once. I just started watching L&O a month or so ago and it’s excellent. There are a decade or so of re-runs that are all “new to me”, so I dig it. I don’t mean to sound like one of the herd, but I’ll add that West Wing, The Sopranos, and Six Feet Under are all absolutely incredible.
2. Who is your favorite television star?
   … <blinks> … I don’t really know. I used to think George Clooney was cool on ER. Does that count?
3. What was your favorite TV show as a child?
   I’d guess SuperFriends, G.I. Joe, or anything with Wile E. Coyote.
4. What show do you think should have been cancelled by now?
   I’m amazed that ER and Friends are still alive, but I don’t think either should have been canceled. Frasier, though. That would be my choice. I just don’t think it’s funny any more.
5. What new show do you hope escapes the axe this season?
   I really can’t say. I don’t think I watch any “new” shows.

I think I have reached nerdvana. From UnBlinking:

“Greeble’s Heisenwhack Principle
What to call a self-immolating Googlewhack (one that ceases to be unique after Google spiders a site where the whack is reported)? Kudos to Ray Greeble for coining the excellent term “Heisenwhack.” He based the term loosely on the jargon entry for HeisenBUG.
Paralleling Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, clearly the observer (of a Googlewhack) alters the reality being observed (of a Googlewhack). Heisenberg himself might observe (…get it?), or perhaps Bohr would note, one benefit to web surfers: when measuring Heisenwhack Phenomena, timelines may be expressed in hours or days, rather than femtoseconds or attoseconds.
As a verb, one may ‘Heisenwhack’ a unique result by displaying it for Google to find (thereby spawning a second result). The noun ‘Heisenwhack’ refers to the page or citation that causes such dilution.
The Heisenwhack Compensator … is easy to use. To find pages that contain your word pair, while excluding other pages that mention this topic, add ‘-googlewhack’ to your query. Google will exclude pages containing that ’subtracted’ term from your results.”

If it’s possible to fall head-over-heels in love with a meme, I’ve done it.

Googlewhacking: The Search for The One

It took me a few tries. I’ll admit I sat staring at the screen for a bit. Google found thousands and thousands of what I considered to be incredibly strange juxtapositions.

• esoteric amplitude? 2,250 hits
• escalator mustard? 766 hits
• amphibian euthanasia? 680 hits
• angina astrophysics? 147 hits
• tumescence draconian? 15 hits

Until … finally …
I present you with my personal Googlewhack:
kleptomaniac ovulating! 1 hit!
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B7 d++ t+ k+ s u f i o x e++ l+ c–
Yeah, I’m a sucker for a meme, that’s for sure.

Is it true? Yes! It’s the return of the Featurette Guide! The expanded, revised, and updated Blogger Featurette Guide™©! Check out all the groovy-cool things your fellow bloggers have done over the years.
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Did you ever say, “I’m thirsty!” and have someone respond, “Hey! I’m Friday! Let’s go to Saturday and have a Sunday!”
Man. I always thought that was so freaking lame.
But.
What really drives me nuts is that since I was like … ten? eleven? … any time I hear someone say, “I’m hungry!” it makes me think, “I’m Thursday! Let’s go to Friday and have a Saturday!”

And that just doesn’t make any sense.

I have to agree with Caterina: I’m not happy at all with the results of my art test.

I just took a verbalIQ test that I found at leuschke.org. My overall score was a depressingly low 87%.
I did well in the Reading Comprehension and Anagrams sections. I had never seen an Anagrams section on a standardized test. It’s an interesting concept, although I think it’s really just another form of a vocabulary test and not really useful in gauging how well a person might solve anagrams. How often are you presented with anagram problems at work? In life? Unless I’m playing a game I don’t think I’m ever faced with one. And does anyone like the Analogy sections on standardized tests? They’re terrible. Even when I see the quote-unquote correct answers I am usually aggravated by what the test designers have considered analogically equivalent.
If you want to see them, the full results of my test are located in the extended text of this entry. How did you do?
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Flywheel.org’s Random Title and Name Generator indicates that I should refer to myself as Chairman of The Association for the Promotion of Women’s Prison Movies, David Vincent Gagne. It’s a bit much for a business card, but I like it.