LJ Daily Answers: 22 February 2010

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"Been keeping up with the Kevin Smith story by any chance?" - jhirat_dai

The most impressive of coincidences, actually.

1. What is the acronym for the computer file system architecture now widely used on many computer systems and most memory cards?

"If the Internet is any indicator, it's WTF!!??" - phrench_phried, lots42, wiredwizard

"Goddamnedharddrivecrashedanderasedallofmygoddamnedfiles!" - blindgeoff

"Dongle. (Don't look at me like this, I'm only using a computer, I don't have to know how all the pretty lights and shiny wires work, do I?)" - germankitty

"CRAP (Computer Recovery Action Program)" - drbear

"FUBAR" - akiyasan, elbiesee

"WOPR" - squeegibo, deza, i_calql8

"SPECTRE" - quasar360

"HAL 2000" - sharnjilraedan, tears_of_nienna

"Aft -- wait, what's the difference between acronyms and anagrams again?" - spiralgirl1

"I was going to go with NTFS, unless of course you're in my house, in which case it's ext4, but I thought that flash cards were still FAT32 to guarantee compatibility. Curiouser and curiouser!" - wint3rhart

(Well, ok, NTFS is used much more nowadays. FAT32 still hangs around looking forlorn a lot, though. -CV)

"FAT: Honey, does this file system make me look FAT?
NTFS: Yes, but you can convert. We can work this out.
FAT: Not with an NTFS like you, it won't. I'm going to see other FAT file systems. But only FAT32s. The rest can burn in hell." - sushimustwrite

"FAT, File Access Thingy" - many_from_one

"PHAT32, giiiiiiiiiirlbot!" - mandydax

"Pet peeve: calling it a FAT table. That'd make it a file allocation table table. The only guy allowed to do something like that is the guy who made the periodic table table." - slave_to_anime

"IAMNOTFATIAMJUSTBIGBONED32" - ejia_arath03

Correct Answer: FAT (file allocation table)



2. What is a term for a rich political donor, or any affluent person who is perceived to have profited from the labor of others?

"Old Rich White Man" - ignis_mcgruff

(Now that's just downright biased. Some of them are middle-aged. -CV)

"Halliburton" - seekingferret, canuckdesz

"Republican" - blindgeoff, neumeindil, many_from_one, deza
"Democrat" - bassnote

"The IRS" - angelprojekt

"Bernie Madoff" - thefannishwaldo

"Daddy Warbucks" - rhiannonjk

"William J. LePetomane, who helped convert the state hospital into the William J. LePetomane Memorial Gambling Casino for the Insane" - i_calql8

(+1, Blazing Saddles. This will be a tremendous step in the treatment of the insane gambler. -CV)

"Not nice. Robber Baron. Captain of Industry. Pirate of the Accounting Seas." - vorquellyn
"Capitalist pig-dog? Robber baron? The Man? We have a selection here." - hylarn

"Those same guys who get bonuses, even though 'The economy is too bad to give raises'" - bloodyjohnvane

"" - sifrid, mathnerd

(That fat kitty needs to share some of his mad cash. -AL)

"There's a restaurant near here named Phat Cat. It serves gyros and fries. It's awful. And the name makes me die inside whenever I eat there." - chezmax

"" - mandydax

"A fat cat. A fat cat eating a rat. A fat cat eating a rat sat in the hat by the bureaucrat taking a... coffee break." - slave_to_anime

Correct Answer: Fat cat



3. What was the code name for the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan near the end of World War II?

"I could make this funny, but I don't want to go to hell." - puredeadthingy and three other sensitive souls

(That is most compassionate of you. For reference, the following people are going to hell:)

"Big Boy...or was that the hamburger joint...." - ignis_mcgruff

"... --- ..." - seekingferret

(That might have been just afterwards. -CV)

"I see 'Nagasaki' and all I hear is 'Sake' and that makes me go 'Mmm..sake.'" - ifeedformula

"SAYONARA" - undonebeauty

"Boom De Yada" - drbear

(You might go to hell twice for that. -CV)

"This is going to hurt you more than it hurts us" - akiyasan

"Operation Dumbo Drop" - chershey

"'Operation Meesa Go Boom'" - many_from_one

(-1, Jar Jar speak. In fact, -2. -CV)

"The btomic aomb. Frankly, pretty surprised that it worked." - yayworthy

"Bomb, James Bomb." - mandydax

(If the British ever nuke someone, you can bet they'll be using that moniker. -CV)

"If you believe Southwest this week, it's Kevin Smith." - thefannishwaldo

"" - frequencyshift

"The fag man" - angelprojekt

(+1, Boondock Saints. -CV)

"I can only think of the H-bomb in an episode of Lost named Jughead which makes me think of the actual bomb the Pentagon lost. 'Um has anyone seen my bomb? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?'" - sgt_siler

"The flying purple people eater" - phrench_phried

(I don't think they painted it purple beforehand. -CV)

"Seriously, USA? You make such a beautiful boom, and you give it as lame a code name as 'Fat Man'? At least we Germans had cool code names, like 'Aktion T4'." - mathnerd

"Fat Man, although I hear the Japanese have a very different name for him. The English translation can't be said near an open flame." - elbiesee

"NANANANANANANANA FATMAN!" - quasar360, mark_laura

Correct Answer: Fat Man



4. Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle frequently, in his films, portrayed a character by which name?

"You said Conk. heeee!" - 7tree_hugger

(...quoi? -CV)

"Dom Delouise" - seferin

"Sting" - wiredwizard

"Shaft" - squeegibo

"Victor, because his initials were RCA." - drbear, akiyasan, thefannishwaldo, deza, frequencyshift

"Roscoe P Coltrain!" - canuckdesz, drunken_hedghog, mandydax, tweeti

"Didn't Martin Lawrence play him in some movie recently?" - spiralgirl1

"Fatty, who had many wacky adventures with his sidekicks Blunt, Bud, and Weedy, and his true love, Mary Jane. The stories usually ended with everyone sitting down for a nice big slice of pie." - laughingacademy

"I don't know why someone with that name would play someone with some other name. 'Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle' is almost as awesome a name as 'Rufus Xavier Sarsparilla' or 'Tatanya Positronic Banana'." - rikchik

"See, when I think of a fatty Arbuckle, I think Garfield. Roscoe was just ahead of his time." - slave_to_anime and many others
"I thought it was his cat that had the weight issues..." - blindgeoff

(The cat was a metaphor. -CV)

"You mean Fatty Arbuckle's name was Roscoe Conkling? Seriously?" - bloodyjohnvane

(Serious mod is serious. -CV)

"Wait, I thought Fatty Arbuckle was the character. I'm confused." - vayshti

(Nope, the character was just "Fatty". Arbuckle was the actor's real name. Eventually "Fatty" became a nickname, much to his chagrin. -CV)

"Fatty. He was going to be the eighth dwarf." - many_from_one

Correct Answer: "Fatty"



5. What is the title of Orson Scott Card’s short story about Martin Barth and his many clones?

"Martin Martin Martin Martin Martin Martin" - yayworthy
"Me, Myself, Myself, Myself, Myself, Myself, Myself, and I." - slave_to_anime
"Me, Myself, and IIIIIIIIIII" - canuckdesz

"Am I Martin?" - neumeindil

"WE ARE THE CLONES OF BARTH. RESISTENCE IS FUTILE. WE WILL ASSIMILATE YOUR BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL UNIQUENESS INTO OUR OWN." - ifeedformula

"Rosebud?? Wait that was Orson Welles...Well, he was a bigger fella too...so this answer works." - tweeti

"Ender's Transmogrification Game" - wint3rhart

""Someday I Will Out Myself as a Homophobic Separatist Nutjob, and You Will Never Be Able to Enjoy Ender's Game Ever Again." - laughingacademy

"Oh god, that one. That creeped me out. Never mind 'Kingsmeat' or 'A Thousand Deaths' or whatever it was called. Dying over and over again or being chopped up piece by piece and fed to aliens have nothing on 'sometimes he felt like his body would become the whole world.' Still, it had nothing on 'Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory' for sheer grossness or the one with the holy colostomy bag for weirdness. I think if half OSC's short stories were titled 'My Subconscious Is Messing With Me' and the other half were 'I'm Messing With My Audience' it'd be far more accurate. And the butterflies. Oh the butterflies." - vorquellyn

(Now I want to read more OSC. -AL)
(But OSC is a board member for the National Organization for Marriage, so I won't. -AL)
(Bummer. -AL)

"Fat Farm, but not fat-free farm, or 'from fat, flee!', all of which would make more sense." - etumukutenyak

"The story that made subsistence farming creepy. Thank you, OSC." - katiebgood

Correct Answer: Fat Farm



6. Give us a physical description of yourself.

"Most people don't see past the big purple wheelchair." - deza

(.....if I had to use a wheelchair, I would definitely want a purple one. Is it decorated?! -AL)
(Perhaps if you put twin chainguns on the sides, people would pay more attention. -CV)

"Smoking sexy in canvas straitjacket, yo." - mathnerd

"My passport says no distinguishing remarks features. I'll go with that." - 7tree_hugger

"I am a stealth weirdo: I wear polos and khakis without irony, have no piercings or tattoos, and try not to leave the house without a collar, but have always hung out with the long-haired trenchcoated dorks." - squeegibo

"Why? You putting up a Wanted Poster? What'd I do this time?" - thefannishwaldo

"(All units in percent by mass): Oxygen 65; Carbon 18; Hydrogen 10; Nitrogen 3; Calcium 1.5; Phosphorus 1.2; Potassium 0.2; Sulfur 0.2; Chlorine 0.2; Sodium 0.1; Magnesium 0.05; Iron 2.3g (in women); Cobalt, Copper, Zinc, Iodine- < 0.05 each; Selenium, Fluorine- < 0.01 each" - neumeindil

(Unexpected Geek of the Week is unexpected! The formula for neumeindil is -1. Just -1. -AL&CV)

"The most important part of my description is that I can lick my eyebrows. Ladies, form an orderly line to the left. No pushing, there's plenty of Pikey to go around for everyone." - thepikey

(I believe that YouTube was invented just to prove statements like this one. -AL)

"I am a tiny nerd." - quasar360

"Blonde, pale-skinned, a touch too much of the codemonkey-like-mountain-dew-and-fritos about the hips and thighs." - wint3rhart

"I happen to have a heavenly body. Sort of like Neptune or Jupiter." - ejia_arath03

"I score a 9.5 on the scale of hotness." - b_hulsmans

(It's a scale of 1 to 20. -AL)
(I KID. -AL)
(She is kidding. It's a percentage. -CV)

"I'm kinda skinny actually. Long red hair, glasses, otherwise nondescript." - rikchik
"I have red hair, a red beard, red freckles... I'm an explosion of orange." - seekingferret

(+1, redheads. -AL)

"Bigger than a breadbox, smaller than an elephant" - seferin

"In real life, or according to my MySpace?" - puredeadthingy

"I'm not fat. It's all this fur. It makes me look poofy." - phrench_phried

(+1, Ice Age. -AL)

"I'm Goldilocks; not too hot, not too cold. Not too fat, not too thin. Not too old, not too young...yeah, code for dull." - vayshti

"Would look great in a burka" - drunken_hedghog

"I maintain a consistent teddy bear shape." - drbear

"I'm a mathematician. So beard, and some sort of mismatching clothes. And chalk on every piece of clothing I own." - sharnjilraedan

"You could say I look like Claudia Schiffer: We're both 5'11", come from the same region of Germany, are blue-eyed blondes, speak fluent English and Karl Lagerfeld thinks we're too fat. That's like being twins, right?" - germankitty

"Like Richard Hammond, but younger and less fit. And black." - packbat

(To me, that adds up to "not much like Richard Hammond at all". -AL)

"I'll save us the tedium of my typing a thousand words, and give LL some fanservice:
" - etcet

(+1 for being the only Quizling who submitted a photo. -AL)
(*wolf whistle SQUEEEE throw dollar bills at screen* - LL)



And that's it for this phat and phresh quiz, yo.

Thanks for playing, everyone; stay cool and stay in school. New quiz coming tomorrow; new month coming next week. That's crazy talk!

Rock On!

AL&CV&LL

Comments

[ntlespino.livejournal.com]

neumeindil You aren't transmuting humans now are you? >.>

(I'd put my FullMetal Alchemist icon here, if I could find the damn thing)

[germankitty]

Yay, double quotage!

But now I have a question for drbear (who said "I maintain a consistent teddy bear shape"): Are you squishy, too?

Because if yes, then ♥♥♥♥♥ atcha!

[vayshti.livejournal.com]

I thought the same thing.

Is this where I say "NOT UR MOM"?

the last 5 chapters have slayed me.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Thank god for my ego getting a little love, because I was un-fucking funny last week.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Real wings sold separately. Children get your parents' permission before ordering.

[ifeedformula.livejournal.com]

Double quotage? For ME? Awww..you shouldn't have.

[ifeedformula.livejournal.com]

*drools over his wing tatts and wishing she was brave enough to get a tatt of her own*

[ntlespino.livejournal.com]

Should we start preparing for the ifeedformula versus lovellama ladder Hell-in-a-Cell match, with etcet on the top shelf?

[kohikari.livejournal.com]

So glad I'm not the only one who had a flashback to that episode/chapter.

(What does it say about me that I checked my reaction specifically because she was measuring in mass percentage instead of grams?)

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Double quotage, thanks to stoner silent humor and LDS*-inspired SF!

* Not LSD...though on second thought, that might explain a few things.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

And yet we did! Are we not just the most awesomest people you never met?

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Double quotage, including being the only surviving redhead! Awesome names FTW!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Sure, LDS might be wackjobs, but thanks to the movie "Orgazmo", I no longer take anything they say seriously, because in my mind they're all porn stars now.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Redhead Thunderdome!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Quizling Deathmatch, with manflesh as the prize!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Depends on which teddy bear. He could be a Gund, which is kinda cute, or he could be Teddy Ruxpin, who is kinda creepy. Tough call.

[blindgeoff.livejournal.com]

Sacred Feces!! 3 and a groupthink?!

[love2loveher.livejournal.com]

So we are to believe that you are actually that picture? Because I thought this was the internets, where we find awesomely hot pictures and pretend we are those people.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Well, you don't have to take my word for it, but I've got both that shot (as "after" or at least "in progress" versus the substantially-less-buff version from 2004 at my blog, http://digitaldiscipline.wordpress.com - check the "progress and vanity" tab).

The ink was done by the incredibly talented trid in 2001. It took a bit over six hours, over two sessions (middle bits: ~90 min, bony bits: ~5 hr). The rest is "body by beer and doritos... no, wait, replace that with picking up heavy crap, and missing beer like crazy."

[etcet.livejournal.com]

You must be this tall to ride the ride.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Note to self: bathe. ;-)

[lizwinlove.livejournal.com]

I fully maintain that 33% of the reason I read at four years old was my Teddy Ruxpin, and that has served me well over the years. I don't think he's creepy at all!

[many-from-one.livejournal.com]

Four! And -2. But Four! Wahoosa!

""Like Richard Hammond, but younger and less fit. And black." - packbat"

Is that Top Gear Richard Hammond or retail expert Richard Hammond?

[mathsnerd]

Wheee, 3 quotes AND I only got up half an hour after the alarm, rather than an hour! This is going to be a good Monday.




Or, you know, I just used up my karma for the week, and the rest of today and the next four days are going to hand my ass to me on a platter. *sighs*

[germankitty]

I only deal in fluffy, cuddly teddies. Steiff, anyone?

(But here's an à propos picture: )